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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 ...
First in a series Imagine yourself in a Japanese city in 2020. As you walk down the street, chances are that every other car you see is a hybrid or powered by electricity. Solar panels on rooftops are common, and homes are equipped with ...
26th in a series Before and during the war, Japanese believed the Emperor was a living god. They also believed they were fighting for him and dying on the battlefield was honorable. Christians were often the targets of discrimination during the era of Emperor ...
Former actress and singer Noriko Sakai was sentenced Monday to a suspended 18-month prison term for possessing and using illegal drugs in July and August. The Tokyo District Court gave a three-year suspended term to the 38-year-old Sakai, who had gone into hiding for ...
Former actor and singer Manabu Oshio was sentenced Monday to a suspended 18-month prison term by the Tokyo District Court for using the illegal synthetic drug MDMA in August in an apartment where a woman was found dead. Although a suspended term is common ...
Prosecutors demanded an 18-month prison term Monday for actress Noriko Sakai for possessing and using illegal drugs in July and August, charges for which she has pleaded guilty. “I have caused so much trouble against society and so many people around me because of ...
Prosecutors demanded an 18-month prison term Friday for actor and singer Manabu Oshio, who pleaded guilty to using the illegal synthetic drug MDMA in August. Oshio, 31, admitted at the Tokyo District Court to taking the illegal drugs, also known as Ecstacy, on Aug. ...
Prosecutors on Wednesday demanded a two-year prison term for actress Noriko Sakai’s husband Yuichi Takaso, who has admitted possessing and using illegal stimulants and implicated her as well. At the Tokyo District Court, where people lined up for tickets to the court session, the ...
A Chinese visa overstayer was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday at the Tokyo District Court by a group of lay and professional judges for robbery resulting in injury at a convenience store in 2001. Prosecutors had demanded a seven-year prison term, while ...
A lay judge candidate who was a victim of the 1995 sarin attack in Tokyo is urging the judicial system to give candidates an opportunity to serve at a different courthouse if they have traumatic memories associated with a certain court. Hiromi Aiba, 43, ...
Environment Minister Sakihito Ozawa said Sunday that Japan’s new goal for cutting greenhouse gas emissions will put the country in a strong position at international negotiations on climate change. But details of how the government will achieve the ambitious goal of reducing emissions by ...
Bowing to international pressure, the Tokyo International Film Festival announced Wednesday it will screen the controversial award-winning American documentary about the annual dolphin hunt in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, at the nine-day event in October. The decision to screen “The Cove,” which has already soured ...
If you spot a festival or sporting event taking place in your neighborhood, chances are it was organized by the local neighborhood association. Most places in Japan have a neighborhood association — often known as “chonaikai” or “jichikai” — where residents join in and ...