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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 ...
The Sagawa Art Museum in Moriyama, Shiga Prefecture, is hosting an exhibition of sculptor Churyo Sato through June 24. Sato, who died last year at age 98, was a diligent artist, working from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. for 70 years. Admission is ¥1,000 ...
Hilton Osaka hosting big model train diorama The Hilton Osaka hotel is showcasing model trains running on a large diorama until Jan. 8. The “Hilton Christmas Train” diorama is in the first-floor lobby and is supported by local companies and groups. A slice of ...
Kyoto holds lecture on postwar Japanese war films The Kansai Modern Japan Group will host a lecture Thursday on the depiction of war in postwar Japanese cinema in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto. The group is an interdisciplinary platform for scholars who are either based in ...
If you’re a Japanese student interested in studying at a foreign university, it might be best to start preparing early. On July 26 and 27, the U.S., Australian and Canadian embassies in Tokyo -together with the British Council and L’Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo (Tokyo ...
“Let me read you a picture book in Dutch,” said Rudie Filon, the Dutch counselor of the Delegation of the European Union to Japan as he began reading the popular picture book “Jip and Janneke” in Dutch. Children and their parents’ eyes lit up, ...
People often get to know about another country’s culture through its cuisine -where the ingredients come from, how the dishes are cooked and how the dishes originated. During the Golden Week holiday, that’s exactly how nearly 50 people in Tokyo got to know more ...
The 52nd floor of the Roppongi Hills complex in downtown Tokyo was filled Saturday night with a high-spirited, energetic atmosphere as people gathered for a charity event to raise donations for survivors of the quake- and tsunami-ravaged Tohoku region. More than 200 people gathered ...
“Goseicho arigato gozaimashita” (thank you for listening), a regular way of ending a speech, echoed in the meeting room after each foreign speaker gave their presentations and received a big round of applause from the audience. Diplomats from 13 countries — including two ambassadors ...
Minato International Association, which arranges activities and programs mainly for foreign residents in Minato Ward, Tokyo, offers a unique program in which Japanese volunteers give foreigners individual Japanese conversation lessons. According to Masahiro Otomo, managing director of MIA, the program was launched a decade ...
Some 50 nikkei gathered with foreigners and native Japanese on Oct. 16 and 17 to discuss how to run Nikkei Youth Network, an organization that supports young people of Japanese descent worldwide. The participants represented a fraction of the estimated 3 million nikkei worldwide ...
A total of 35 junior high school students from nine countries, including India, Malaysia and Hungary visited schools in Kanagawa and Niigata prefectures last month as part of an exchange program to promote cultural understanding. The exchange program was organized by the Hakuho Foundation, ...
About 350 people gathered for a charity event last week in Tokyo to raise funds to support victims of Pakistan’s devastating floods this summer. Tokyo Helps, a volunteer group founded by people from various countries, raised ¥3.4 million in the Wednesday night event held ...