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Farmers in the city of Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, have begun planting rice in a district once designated a no-go zone because of radioactive fallout ejected by the disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
Recently I was asked to write a blurb for a new liquid plant-nutrient. As soon as I saw the name of the product, 早根早起 （Hayane Hayaoki), I smiled at this example of linguistic creativity.
Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only ...
Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday night with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune “Only Teardrops,” despite tough competition from spectacular stage shows by performers from Azerbaijan and Ukraine. Juries and television viewers across Europe awarded the barefoot, ...
One team’s quest for a first title has ended. The other team’s fight will continue next season. The Yokohama B-Corsairs outplayed the Rizing Fukuoka in Sunday’s bj-league championship game, controlling the tempo for larger stretches and making enough timely baskets to fill an instructional ...
Public support for the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has weakened but remains strong at 70.9 percent, compared with 72.1 percent last month, a Kyodo News survey said Sunday. It was the fourth time the Cabinet’s rating has topped 70 percent in the monthly poll since Abe’s Liberal Democratic ...
The parents of a dead boy who had Down syndrome have sued an obstetrician in Hokkaido who mistakenly diagnosed an ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday he is ready to promote talks with North Korea to resolve the abduction issue ...
Audiences at the Cannes Film Festival give a warm reception to director Hirokazu Koreeda's drama about two families caught up in a baby swap.
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto says he doesn't believe the tens of thousands of women rounded up to provide sex for Japanese soldiers during the war did so unwillingly.
A book on the man who killed eight children at an Osaka school in 2004 will challenge the Personal Information Protection Law by publishing his psychiatric report.
Farmers in the city of Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, have begun planting rice in a district once designated a no-go zone because of radioactive fallout ejected by the disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
Two high schools won awards Saturday for their efforts at the Global Classrooms International Model U.N. Conference, which assembled nearly 2,500 students from 23 countries to discuss global issues in a simulation of real U.N. sessions, the organizer said. Nada High School in Hyogo ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to make a three-day visit to Myanmar next Friday in a bid to strengthen bilateral ties, a government source said Saturday. Abe, who will be accompanied by top executives from more than 30 Japanese companies, is expected to hold ...
Osaka Mayor and Nippon Ishin no Kai coleader Toru Hashimoto defends his remarks on Japan’s wartime sex slave system and hits media outlets for running misleading reports.
The United States will allow exports of domestically produced liquefied natural gas to Japan and other countries to which it is not bound by free-trade agreements.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 jolted the Tohoku region and surrounding areas Saturday afternoon, the Meteorological Agency said. No tsunami warning was issued. On the Japanese seismic scale to 7, the 2:48 p.m. quake, which originated off Fukushima Prefecture at a ...
A cartoonist has acquired nine unpublished comic strip sheets created by the late artist Osamu Tezuka, who gained fame for his “Astro Boy” and “Black Jack” series. The sheets were created for four works, including “Metropolis” and “Yubijin” (“Man with a Tail”), which were ...
The government is keeping mum on a secret visit to North Korea by one of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s advisers after Pyongyang revealed it to the United States and South Korea. We “can’t reasonably explain” the visit because it was supposed to be kept ...
100 YEARS AGO Wednesday, May 14, 1913 Illuminations reap a tidy profit for city Tokyo city has withdrawn the illuminations at Hibiya which it made for the benefit of the admirers of the park’s azaleas. The plan proved very successful, greatly benefitting the city ...