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Natsume Watanabe
For Natsume Watanabe's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 11, 2018
After sexual assault, one young Japanese woman hopes to achieve change for all — including 'comfort women'
A damaging personal experience with sexual assault has led one young Japanese woman to examine her country's past.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 1, 2017
In Japan, 'freestyle funerals' give mourners a chance to celebrate life
While Japan is by and large a secular society, the majority of funerals conducted in the country are Buddhist ceremonies. In most cases, the memorials are practiced more out of social custom rather than any overt religious belief.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 18, 2016
Japanese and North Korean students forge bonds in rare meeting but remain apart over nuclear weapons
A group of Japanese college students made a rare visit to Pyongyang in late August — just before North Korea conducted its fifth nuclear test on Sept. 9 — for talks on war and peace with local students.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Apr 4, 2016
Creative types drawn to work in mountain village's idyllic space
In a mountainous village in western Japan's Nara Prefecture, there is a unique old building that attracts young creative types from all over Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2014
Grade school for Zainichi Koreans in Osaka struggling to survive
An elementary school for Zainichi Korean children in Ikuno Ward, Osaka, is struggling to survive in the absence of public financial support.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2013
Kids take artful approach to peace-building
Despite the troubled relations between their countries, children in Japan and North Korea are joining hands again to promote peace using drawings.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 16, 2013
Fukui museum unearths Japan's dinosaur roots
"It's a dinosaur backbone!" One February morning, around 30 researchers and workers hammered away at an excavation site in the middle of sugar cane fields stretching beyond the horizon in Suranaree, about 260 km northeast of Bangkok.
Japan’s young workers head abroad as huge wage gap persists
The departure hall at Haneda Airport in Tokyo. Now with inflation at its strongest in decades, Japanese are starting to realize that years of static wages leave many of them budgeting each month before their next pay check.
Akebono's human side eclipsed his incredible sumo achievements
The heights Akebono reached in sumo helped pave the way for future foreign-born yokozuna Asashoryu and Hakuho.
EVs head for junkyard as mechanic shortage inflates repair costs
An AA patrol for electric vehicles in Birmingham, England. Fewer than 10% of the U.K.’s 236,000 auto mechanics are qualified to work directly on EV batteries or their cases, according to the Institute of the Motor Industry.
Japan strongly condemns Iranian attack on Israel as 'escalation'
Missiles are showcased in a parade marking Iran's National Army Day in Tehran on April 18, 2023.
Death-row inmates' lawsuit targeting same-day notifications of executions dismissed
Two plaintiffs filed a lawsuit with Osaka District Court in hopes of sparking a wider discussion on the rights of death row prisoners.
For Modi, the Indian election is less about winning and more about by how much
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses supporters during an election campaign rally in Pushkar, India, on April 6, ahead of the country's upcoming general election starting Friday.
Akebono's human side eclipsed his incredible sumo achievements
The heights Akebono reached in sumo helped pave the way for future foreign-born yokozuna Asashoryu and Hakuho.
Ohtani’s dizzying three weeks end in exoneration by authorities
Los Angeles Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani during a spring training game on March 12.
How ‘winged’ gyōza took flight from a Tokyo suburb
The creator of "hanetsuki gyōza" is Isao Yagi, and his restaurant, Nihao, can be found right on the border of Tokyo and Kawasaki in Ota Ward.
How Ippei Mizuhara allegedly wired millions from Shohei Ohtani’s account
Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani and his interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, in December at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California

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