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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 strong Australian dollar gave an “unprecedented whack” to tax revenue the government needed to return the nation’s budget to surplus, Treasurer Wayne Swan said Sunday. Spending on disability payments and a program to improve schools are the “big-ticket items” in the budget to ...
Defying the danger of militant attacks, Pakistanis streamed to the polls Saturday for a historic vote pitting a former cricket star against a two-time prime minister and an unpopular incumbent. But bombings that killed at least ten people and wounded dozens more underlined the ...
Bomb blasts tore through two campaign events Tuesday in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 18 people, authorities said, as attacks ahead of Saturday’s national election continued against liberal politicians. About 100 people have been killed since April in violence against candidates and party supporters, ...
It was hardly the look of the victorious. Wearing a bright blue shirt and a grim expression, Prime Minister Najib Razak appeared before the media on Monday to somberly acknowledge that his coalition had won general elections for the 13th time in a row. ...
North Korea said Sunday that it would not invite any leading U.S. figure to seek the release of a jailed American and that he would not become a “bargaining chip” in any political negotiations. “Some media of the U.S. said that the DPRK (North ...
Malaysia’s bitter political rivals launched a last-ditch campaign sprint Saturday on the eve of the first elections in the country’s history in which the long-ruling regime faces possible defeat. Prime Minister Najib Razak and opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim barnstormed through their home regions, where ...
When Malaysian voters cast ballots in Sunday’s general election, it will be the first time in the country’s history that they do so without knowing the eventual winner. The ruling coalition headed by the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) is among the world’s longest-serving ...
South Korean prosecutors raid the country's spy agency as part of a probe into allegations that it meddled in the December presidential election.
The most popular politician in Pakistan’s largest party won’t be staging any rallies or participating in debates as May’s historic national election nears. The reason: She’s dead. Yet Benazir Bhutto, assassinated more than five years ago, is still the standard bearer of the Pakistan ...
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Saturday kicked off their campaigns for May 5 elections that are likely to be the country’s closest ever. The two rivals joined hundreds of parliamentary candidates across the nation in submitting nomination papers ...
How provocative has the United States been to North Korea? For almost two months, the U.S. and South Korea have had more than 200,000 ground troops, tanks, helicopters, fighter bombers, strategic bombers, submarines and destroyers exercising close to the demilitarized zone (DMZ) and a ...
A former Australian minister behind last month’s failed coup against Prime Minister Julia Gillard accused her of being divisive and media-driven in an interview Saturday, reviving tensions within the ruling Labor Party. Former Arts Minister Simon Crean, a veteran and former leader of the ...