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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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Shinzo Abe’s return to the post of prime minister has fueled speculation his stimulus policies will extend the yen’s biggest drop since 2005. Domestic companies and the best currency forecasters aren’t so sure. The yen is down 9.9 percent this year and on Wednesday ...
Japan should issue more bonds to help boost the economy instead of attempting tax hikes, which might stifle a recovery, said Eisuke Sakakibara, a former Finance Ministry official. “The government shouldn’t raise taxes when economic conditions are bad,” Sakakibara, now a professor at Aoyama ...
A Hawaiian theme park that has propped up the economy of a rural town in Fukushima Prefecture for 45 years was forced to shut down after the March 11 disasters, but a little less than a year later the hula girls have returned. Spa ...
Finance Minister Jun Azumi’s efforts to weaken the yen are being foiled, in part, by U.S. Treasurys. Finance Ministry data released Tuesday showed Japan conducted an unannounced intervention worth ¥1.02 trillion during the first four days of November, as part of ¥14.3 trillion worth ...