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Visa violators continue sit-in at Immigration

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Visa violators continue sit-in at Immigration

by Tomohiro Osaki

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, ...

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  • Lower House OKs bill to give voting rights to wards
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Why China's developmental state says no to liberalism

by Pankaj Mishra

Modern history is the story of how liberal democracy, originating in Britain and America, spread around the world. This may sound like an absurd fantasy. In actuality, this Whiggish narrative of progress underpins most newspaper editorials, political commentary and speeches in the West, and ...

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  • Recovery only benefiting a few
  • Clock is running out for some key Asian reformers
  • Window on China's defense policy
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A fortunate life among hot springs

People | WORDS TO LIVE BY

A fortunate life among hot springs

by Judit Kawaguchi

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 ...

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Fear and incarceration, from Kampala to Nagoya

Issues | THE FOREIGN ELEMENT

Fear and incarceration, from Kampala to Nagoya

by Stephen Carr

“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, ...

  • Ambivalent Japan turns on its 'insular' youth
  • Precedent backs (nearly) equal pay for equal work
  • Yokohama: What do you think of the prime minister's 'Abenomic' strategy so far?
  • Taking care of an aging smartphone — until the end
  • Tokyo: What do you make of Gov. Naoki Inose's comments about Muslims and Istanbul's Olympic bid?
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Power and mastery of the blank space — Toko Shinoda

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Power and mastery of the blank space — Toko Shinoda

by Jerri Donovan

When speaking of Japanese art, people use words such as wabi and sabi, words that speak of a delicate sensibility and an ephemeral existence. Viewing the retrospective currently being hosted at the Musee Tomo in Tokyo’s central Toranomon district in celebration of the 100th ...

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Flawed strategy, mistakes jeopardizing Tokyo's bid to host 2020 Olympics

Sports | SPORTS SCOPE

Flawed strategy, mistakes jeopardizing Tokyo's bid to host 2020 Olympics

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 ...

  • Stranger than fiction: Ryukyu fires Toyama after setting wins record
  • Mourinho out at Real Madrid
  • Injuries gave marathon runner Noguchi valuable lessons about training
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Hidetoshi Masunaga: making revolution through the Constitution

People | CLOSE-UP Feb 3, 2013

Hidetoshi Masunaga: making revolution through the Constitution

by Tomoko Otake

On Dec. 14, 2012, two days before the Lower House election in which the Democratic Party of Japan headed by Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda was eclipsed as the conservative Liberal Democratic Party swept back to power in a landslide, a one-page advert with a ...

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