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JAPAN

Aug 12, 2016

Washington prodded Boeing to help Japan probe deadly '85 JAL crash: former U.S. official

A U.S. attorney who was with the Justice Department at the time of the deadly 1985 Japan Airlines crash in Gunma Prefecture has said Washington pressured Boeing Co. to cooperate with Japan's investigation, rejecting suspicions across the Pacific that Washington sought to protect the plane maker.

JAPAN

Dec 18, 2015

New York archive sheds new light on iconic Japanese disease researcher Hideyo Noguchi

In a two-story stone mansion in a quiet neighborhood of the Hudson River Valley, the Rockefeller Archive Center holds a little-known trove of historical documents related to Japanese national figure Hideyo Noguchi (1876-1928), the Nobel-nominated bacteriologist whose portrait is on the thousand-yen bill.

Japan Times

JAPAN / Politics

Nov 3, 2015

San Francisco Japanese-Americans ask why city needs a 'comfort women' memorial

San Francisco lawmakers voted in September to set up a "comfort women" memorial, becoming the first major U.S. city to plan such a tribute to the women and girls forced to provide sex for soldiers of the Imperial Japanese military.

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JAPAN / History

Aug 11, 2015

U.S. leaked crucial Boeing repair flaw that led to 1985 JAL jet crash: ex-officials

The U.S. government divulged to an influential American newspaper crucial information on improper repair work on a plane carried out by Boeing Co., suggesting it was the presumable cause of the 1985 crash of a Japan Airlines jet, after sensing reluctance by Japanese authorities to release the data, former U.S. officials have told Kyodo News.

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JAPAN / History

Jun 11, 2015

Manhattan Project engineer says Nagasaki bombing was overly hasty

An engineer recruited to work on the Manhattan Project says he opposed the use of nuclear weapons on civilian targets and believes the United States "could have waited" before A-bombing Nagasaki, given that the Japanese government was in turmoil from the destruction of Hiroshima and the war might have ended without the second city's destruction.

JAPAN

Aug 29, 2007

As next G8 host, Japan expected to broker post-Kyoto emissions accord

Japan, which will host the Group of Eight summit in 2008, should be in a lead position to bridge differences among countries in attempts to reach a broad agreement on climate change, the top climate official at the United Nations said. "I think that G8 presidency represents an important opportunity to reach agreement within the G8 on that long-term goal and to hopefully, also within the G8 framework, define the intermediate steps that need to be taken," Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, said in a recent telephone interview from his office in Germany.

From easily navigable train stations to the helpfulness of its municipal staff, Tokyo has earned high praise for its commitment to accessibility for disabled travelers.

[Rebroadcast] Japan is doing better on accessibility than you may think

Historically, kabuki was considered the entertainment of the merchant and peasant classes, a far cry from how it is regarded today.

For Japan's oldest kabuki theater, the show must go on

By Lance Henderstein

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

Leading Japan’s sustainability from Tokyo

Leading Japan’s sustainability from Tokyo

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