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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 ...
At first glance, it may be hard to imagine that the children singing and jumping around at a gymnasium at Tokyo International School in Minato Ward have been separated from their parents and live in children’s homes. About 60 children — aged between 6 ...
If you’re a Japanese student interested in studying at a foreign university, it might be best to start preparing early. On July 26 and 27, the U.S., Australian and Canadian embassies in Tokyo -together with the British Council and L’Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo (Tokyo ...
One does not have to travel to another country to get to know its people and culture. Summer festivals being organized by embassies of several nations and other groups in Tokyo in the coming weeks can offer that taste of life abroad. For years, ...
Lena Lindahl has for the past two decades produced environment-related events in Japan in an effort to apply her home country Sweden’s notion of sustainable society here. And she believes the key is education to encourage children to develop and express opinions about issues ...
Kim and Junko Knudsen’s house is full of American primitive country decor they brought back from their honeymoon in the U.S. South. The couple love country music, too, and plan to live in the United States or Canada in the near future. Kim, 41, ...
Among the numerous nongovernmental and nonprofit organizations that delivered basic necessities like food and clothes to tsunami-devastated areas in the Tohoku region, the NPO Bikes for Japan did its part by delivering refurbished bicycles to survivors living in shelters. Bicycle repairman Daiki Mochizuki from ...
Freelance travel writer Beth Reiber knows Tokyo inside out — maybe much more than most Tokyoites. Reiber, who lives in Lawrence, Kansas, wrote the Tokyo version of the Frommer’s guidebooks — one of the best-selling series of guide books published in the United States ...
American poet Arthur Binard is alert to the world around him. His interests range from trees and insects to bicycles, kotatsu (heater tables) and nuclear energy. Binard writes poems in Japanese — which is not his mother tongue — as well as in English, ...
“Let me read you a picture book in Dutch,” said Rudie Filon, the Dutch counselor of the Delegation of the European Union to Japan as he began reading the popular picture book “Jip and Janneke” in Dutch. Children and their parents’ eyes lit up, ...
Alessandro Gerevini, an Italian writer and translator who has lived and worked in Japan for 16 years, believes that Japanese and Italian cultures have a lot in common. Gerevini notes that, for example, the idea of family and the unique culture of food are ...
Right after the earthquake hit northeast Japan on March 11, the small Pacific coastal town of Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, was almost wiped out by the massive tsunami. Hundreds of its residents were killed, while many of the survivors lost family members, their houses and ...
People often get to know about another country’s culture through its cuisine -where the ingredients come from, how the dishes are cooked and how the dishes originated. During the Golden Week holiday, that’s exactly how nearly 50 people in Tokyo got to know more ...