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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 ...
Three years ago, a grim warning from the panel of scientists advising the United Nations on climate change caught the attention of policymakers in Asia. In one of several long reports, the panel said that glaciers in the Himalayan mountain chain between India and ...
The Pacific Sandpiper, a specially built cargo ship with safety features far in excess of those found on conventional vessels, left Britain’s Barrow port bound for Japan the other day. The security surrounding its departure on Jan. 21 indicates that something out of the ...
SINGAPORE — Recent startups hardly provide much evidence of the vaunted “renaissance” in civilian nuclear power that promises reliable supplies of electricity without the pollution and greenhouse gas emissions associated with fossil fuels, especially coal. Only two new nuclear plants began operation last year, ...
SINGAPORE — For a long time, energy-hungry Asia has watched in frustration as Russia, currently the world’s biggest producer of both oil and natural gas, sent nearly all its exports to former Soviet bloc partners and Europe, leaving Asian consumers increasingly dependent on imports ...
SINGAPORE — Does 2010 mark the start of a new era in road transport as electricity increasingly takes over from petrol and diesel engines as the source of power for vehicles? Some signs point this way in the United States, Europe and Asia, where ...
SINGAPORE — Will the world’s leading powers act in a more united way on Iran’s nuclear program than they have so far over climate change? The answer will become clearer in the next few weeks. It is a key test of U.S. policy to ...
SINGAPORE — Asia is leading the world economy out of recession. The region’s most populous nations — China, India and Indonesia — appear to doing particularly well, setting the pace for renewed growth in Northeast Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia. Yet amid the ...
SINGAPORE — Where does Southeast Asia rank in greenhouse-gas emissions, a key focal point of the international climate change negotiations? The short answer is that the region is an important source of worldwide emissions, mainly from deforestation. And it is expected to become a ...
SINGAPORE — Nearly everyone is familiar with budgets. Households keep them. So do companies and national governments. But what about the carbon budget that measures the health of our climate system? Just as accountants check financial budgets, an international team of scientists is attempting ...
International trade has been an engine of growth for many Asian countries, enabling them to create jobs and raise living standards faster than in countries elsewhere in the world that were unready to take advantage of surging trade opportunities. In pragmatic Asia, a nation’s ...
Asia’s rebound from the global economic slump is cheering the world with its promise of more growth, jobs and trade. But the revival is bad news for the environment because it is largely driven by a production and transport system addicted to fossil fuels, ...
SINGAPORE — Can Asia leverage its growing weight in the global economy into a more influential leadership role in the world? This will be tested soon. Prospects are more promising than before. Many of the intra-Asian tensions that bedeviled community-building efforts in recent years ...