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A sit-in by visa violators and their families entered its second day Tuesday in front of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau with protesters seeking government good will. The action at the bureau in Minato Ward is being organized by the Asian People’s Friendship Society, ...
Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Takashi Miike's blood-soaked vengeance tale, one of two Japanese films being shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, draws the biggest boos so far, with critics savaging it as overacted and cliched.
Have you ever given your best effort while striving to achieve something but felt like what you were doing was futile? That’s the feeling I’m getting about Tokyo’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics. With just over three months to go until the IOC ...
Alex Morgan snatched a second-half equalizer to deny women’s world champion Japan another ego-boosting win over the United States in a 1-1 draw in the opening game of the three-nation Kirin Challenge Cup exhibition tournament on Sunday. Defender Yukari Kinga prodded Japan into a ...
Women’s world soccer champion Japan will face the United States and Brazil in upcoming London Olympic warmups without the services of talismanic midfielder Homare Sawa. Coach Norio Sasaki on Thursday named a 23-woman squad for the three-nation Kirin Challenge Cup but was forced to ...
Leandro Domingues lived up to his billing as reigning J. League Player of the Year with a five-star performance Sunday, but Hiroyuki Taniguchi stole the show with a dramatic late equalizer as Yokohama F. Marinos held champions Kashiwa Reysol 3-3 in a gripping season ...
Japan coach Alberto Zaccheroni is ready to give Bolton Wanderers’ on-loan teenage winger Ryo Miyaichi his first outing on the international stage after calling him up for Wednesday’s World Cup qualifier at home to Uzbekistan. The 19-year-old Miyaichi, who scored in his first start ...
Jungo Fujimoto and Tomoaki Makino both opened their national team accounts as Japan warmed up for next week’s World Cup qualifier against Uzbekistan with a 3-1 win over Iceland in their first game of 2012 on Friday night. With both Japan and Iceland fielding ...
Homare Sawa, the 2011 Women’s World Cup Golden Ball and Golden Boot winner, was named FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year on a historic night for Japanese soccer Monday. Norio Sasaki, who guided Nadeshiko Japan to an astonishing first ever World Cup triumph ...
Grief-stricken Mao Asada rode a Christmas Day wave of emotion to come from behind and capture the women’s title at the national championships Sunday, securing a berth at the world championships in Nice, France, in March in the process. Courageously competing here in Osaka ...
Former world champion Daisuke Takahashi insists his error-littered performance in Saturday’s free skate has not dampened his Christmas cheer, and says it has only made him even more fired up to come back with a bang in his next competition. Takahashi landed a quad ...
Skating just over two weeks after the death of her mother, former two-time world champion Mao Asada put together a courageous Christmas Eve performance to place second after the women’s short program at the national championships. Mao, appearing in her first competition since her ...
Daisuke Takahashi pumped his fists wildly in the air and then gave himself an emphatic round of applause. Boy did he deserve it. Takahashi nailed a quad toeloop-triple toeloop that has eluded him for so long in a dazzling performance, taking a commanding lead ...
Former two-time world champion Mao Asada has vowed to pull out all the stops in what is set to be a highly emotional return to the rink at the national championships getting under way on Friday. The 21-year-old has made the brave decision to ...
Daisuke Takahashi has admitted the high-octane quadruple jump is the key missing ingredient he needs to narrow the widening chasm that separates him from Canadian Patrick Chan. After slumping to fifth place after the short program, Olympic bronze medalist and 2010 world champion Takahashi ...