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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 ...
President Barack Obama on Sunday summoned the graduates of historically black Morehouse College to “transform the way we think about manhood,” urging the young men to avoid the temptation to make excuses and to take responsibility for their families and their communities. Delivering a ...
Colin Greening wore six stitches on his left cheek, and a wide smile, after Ottawa’s double overtime playoff victory against Pittsburgh. Greening ended the longest game of this year’s postseason with a backhander off a rebound 7:39 into the second OT, and the Senators’ ...
The Japanese soccer calendar could be due for a huge shakeup in 2014, with the Emperor’s Cup final being moved to December and the J. League possibly going back to the two-stage system it abandoned nine years ago. The Japan Football Association decided on ...
Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) has expelled House of Representatives lawmaker Shingo Nishimura for making disparaging public remarks about the South Korean people, party Secretary General Ichiro Matsui said Monday. The rightwinger had offered to leave the party after telling fellow lawmakers ...
Japan is considering resuming talks with India on bilateral cooperation in nuclear energy, the government’s top spokesman said Monday. “We have judged it sensible to negotiate an accord with India on nuclear cooperation,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ...
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s chief of staff stepped down Sunday over an expenses scandal that also has forced the resignation of a conservative senator. Nigel Wright announced his resignation following revelations that he gave a $90,000 gift to a senator to help repay improper ...
KDDI Corp. said Monday it will begin selling four new smartphones this summer, including the HTC J One, the Japanese version of an internationally renowned model by Taiwanese maker HTC Corp. featuring enhanced sound. Buyers who sign a two-year contract can get the HTC ...
The military that ran Myanmar for decades will continue to play a major role in the country, the former general who has presided over the transformation of a nation that only three years ago was considered one of the world’s most repressive said Sunday. ...
Tense engineers have their eyes peeled on complex color-coded diagrams on a wall-sized screen that makes their control room look like the inside of a spaceship. They work with a power system that would have seemed equally futuristic not so long ago. It is ...
A top White House adviser insisted Sunday that President Barack Obama learned that the federal tax collection agency had targeted conservative groups only “when it came out in the news,” but Republicans continued to press the administration for answers. The Obama administration has also ...
Yahoo Inc.’s board has approved a $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr Inc., a service that hosts 108 million blogs, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing unidentified sources familiar with the matter. Tumblr will continue to operate as an independent business and a deal was ...
Miguel Cabrera’s first two home runs of the game put Detroit in control. His third wasn’t enough to rally the Tigers to a win. David Murphy put Texas ahead for good with a three-run home run just over the wall in right field in ...