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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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda has followed the lead of his U.S. and European counterparts in swinging from incremental moves to unprecedented stimulus.
As the North Korean crisis heats up, lawmakers in the United States are asking themselves — how far is too far?
In the middle of an escalating military crisis on the Korean Peninsula, North Korea’s appointment this week of an economic reformer as its new premier struck a discordant, and possibly optimistic note. The promotion of Pak Pong Ju, 74, is notable not only for ...
Two years after a repressive junta ceded power, Myanmar is grappling with a surge in religious extremism that experts trace to anti-Muslim “provocateurs,” including radical Buddhist monks. At least 43 people have been killed while mosques, schools and Muslim homes have been destroyed over ...
U.S. officials and independent experts say North Korea appears to have taken unusual steps to conceal details about the nuclear weapon it tested last month, fueling suspicions that its scientists shifted to a bomb design that uses highly enriched uranium as the core.
The United States has quietly taken on the huge task of trying to organize regional ballistic missile defense networks, not only among NATO countries, but also in East Asia and the Middle East. The United States is “leading from in front” on meeting possible ...
The suspicious attack that killed 26 people in northern Syria last week exposed the difficulty of determining whether the Syrian regime has resorted to using chemical weapons, as well as the lingering uncertainty over how President Barack Obama would respond if what he has ...
Ten years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the searing memory of what became a deeply unpopular war has made Washington reluctant to use even limited force in Syria or Iran. After launching a war to oust President Saddam Hussein, the United States faces ...
“Abenomics” looks ready to bloom just in time for spring, given the Diet’s approval Friday of Haruhiko Kuroda as the next governor of the Bank of Japan. As head of the central bank, Kuroda, currently president of the Asian Development Bank, will have vast ...
Far from having been a handicap, Uhuru Kenyatta’s indictment for crimes against humanity galvanized his supporters, giving the already formidable machinery of his coalition the edge, analysts said. Kenyatta, 51, was proclaimed president Saturday after an outright win in the first round with 50.07% ...
The Communist Party of China will appoint Wang Yi, a former ambassador to Japan who heads the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, China’s Cabinet, as foreign minister, an apparent sign of willingness by the leadership to improve relations with Japan, according to ...
Concerned about Egypt’s political instability and the U.S. budget crunch, a growing number of American lawmakers are challenging the wisdom of providing $1.3 billion a year in military aid to Cairo, arguing that the policy is overdue for a wholesale review. Lawmakers say that ...