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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 ...
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In early November, Sea Shepherd launched its ninth and most aggressive attempt to halt Japan’s annual Antarctic whaling expedition, but for the first time, the controversial conservation group is sending four ships and planning to intercept the whalers near Japanese waters. Sea Shepherd leader ...
A marathon is a grueling challenge for most runners, but Kyoko Tashiro was beaming as she crossed the finish line in the Los Angeles Marathon, her first-ever race. “The last 12 km were really hard but I had decided I would finish with a ...
Pearl Harbor survivor James Dewitt was among more than 5,000 people who observed a moment of silence at 7:55 a.m. Wednesday. It was exactly 70 years after the beginning of the military strike by Imperial Japanese forces on Pearl Harbor. And it was 70 ...
Nob Shimokochi still remembers the hardship he suffered as a Japanese-American during World War II. “We used to say the Pledge of Allegiance in camp. ‘With liberty and justice for all,’ we said, and that irritated me like a pebble in my shoe. “I ...
“Have you ever been called a racist name?” Mustafah Hawari, 17, asks Yuka Ogino, 23, a Japanese-American coordinator at the Bridging Communities Program. “Yes, I have,” she tells Hawari and the small group of students sitting on the floor at a mosque in Anaheim, ...
LOS ANGELES — As Japanese companies ready themselves to bid on California’s high-speed rail project this year, one man is asking them to pause and remember the past. Lester Tenney, 90, is using the occasion to renew his call for an apology from Japanese ...
LOS ANGELES — Performing for audiences composed of both committed kabuki fans and the merely curious, the Zenshinza Theater Company, one of Japan’s oldest troupes, broke new ground recently with a series of shows on the U.S. West Coast. Taking the stage at the ...
LOS ANGELES — He’s jolly, brings joy to children around the world, and is busiest in December. But in lieu of a red coat, he wears a happi coat and sports a “hachimaki” headband where Santa’s hat would be. If there is a strong ...
In October 1999, 19 Chinese trainees came to the Takefu city office pleading for help. In their first year in Japan as interns, the women had been promised ¥50,000 a month, but scraped by on ¥10,000. The next year, as technical trainees, they should ...
Young kids running amok, dancing crazily, jumping on adults’ backs demanding piggyback rides. For many English teachers, these are occupational hazards. For Mike Maher-King, moments like this are the best part of his life in Japan. For the children, who are growing up in ...
Trippple Nippples deal in terminally infectious party music, electropop infused with punk attitude and new-wave frivolity. They also do a nice line in chaos. “The moment when someone who has been watching us with their jaw on the floor goes nuts and starts dancing ...
On July 3, Daikanyama Unit celebrates its sixth anniversary with German electronic music patriarchs Cluster, internationally known space-rockers Boris and minimal techno mainstay Fumiya Tanaka. Contemporaries of Kraftwerk, Cluster (Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius) were at the forefront of the German experimental scene of ...