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The head of an official inquiry into the deadly collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said the building’s owner was the “main culprit” for the disaster because he violated construction codes. The cave-in of the eight-story Rana Plaza outside the capital last month killed ...
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
“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, ...
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the “best birthday party ever” when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, ...
As far as debuts go, Shohei Otani's delivered. The celebrated rookie pitched fairly well on Thursday night, and though he finished outside the decision, he left the mound with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters well within striking distance of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
Britain’s largest Japanese garden, which fell into neglect after World War II, has been restored to its former glory and opened to the public earlier this month for the first time in the postwar period. The 28,300-sq.-meter plot lies in the extensive grounds of ...
The often marginalized homeless people of Japan and Britain now have a “voice,” thanks to a new exhibition that has just opened in London. “Pavement Blossom” is the work of artist Geoff Read, who is exhibiting 100 of his drawings of Japanese and British ...
U.S. intelligence officials were so concerned about Japan’s “infiltration” of Muslim countries during World War II, they proposed urgent countermeasures, formerly secret government documents show. The Office of Strategic Services (forerunner to the Central Intelligence Agency) said Japan had successfully implemented a policy of ...
It has long been assumed that, while people may speak different languages across the globe, when it comes to depicting concepts via gestures, the actions used are universal. New research by a Japanese academic using Japanese and English speakers, however, has cast doubt on ...
Ambitious plans to create a Japanese center in London have been unveiled. The development is planned for West London, which already has a sizable Japanese community. Britain has the largest population of Japanese residents of any European country and has the third-largest Japanese community ...
Former soldiers and prisoners of war, academics, scholars and ordinary members of the public have set up a unique organization in Britain designed to examine the country’s encounter with Japan in World War II. The history study group hopes to encourage schools in both ...