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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 ...
An ancient statue of Mars has lost its fake penis and his counterpart Venus her hands, reversing the cosmetic changes ordered by former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a newspaper reported Wednesday. In 2010, Berlusconi decided the two marble statues adorning the official residence ...
The Language Council of Sweden said Tuesday it had removed the word “ungoogleable” from its 2012 list of new words because it refused to give in to the U.S. company’s demands to include the word Google in the definition. The list of new words ...
Prince William’s pregnant wife, Catherine, was given a badge to help expectant mothers get a seat on the London Underground when she accompanied Queen Elizabeth II on a visit Wednesday to mark the train network’s 150th anniversary. The queen, who was fulfilling her first ...
A man dressed as Batman walked into a British police station in the middle of the night and handed them a crime suspect. “I’ve caught this one for you!” he told officers, before vanishing into the darkness. Police in West Yorkshire, northern England, are ...
An Air India pilot faces the wrath of his bosses after appearing in a YouTube video rapping about bad pay, aging female flight attendants and canceled flights. Titled “Air India Rap,” the homemade track starts with the pilot putting on his uniform before the ...
A group of medical specialists has provided an answer to a dilemma that has faced flyers since the Wright brothers took to the air in 1903 — is it OK to fart midflight? The experts’ recommendation is an emphatic yes to airline passengers — ...
A kiss lasting nearly 2½ days has propelled a Thai couple to a new record for the world’s longest smooch. Hospital security guard Ekkachai Tiranarat, 44, and 33-year-old housewife Laksana locked lips for 58 hours, 35 minutes and 58 seconds, smashing last year’s record ...
Russian explorers claimed a record Wednesday in diving to the bottom of a remote lake at the coldest time of the year, but said they could not find its most famed inhabitant, a mythical Loch Ness-style monster. The team dived to the bottom of ...
Women in Paris can finally wear trousers without fear of criminal prosecution after the government said a more than 200-year-old ban no longer has any legal effect. Minister of Women’s Rights Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, , said that the ban, imposed in 1800, is incompatible with ...
Recycling entrepreneur Tom Szaky is stubbing out the world’s cigarette problem — one butt at a time. The 30-year-old who dropped out of Princeton University to start his innovative firm, TerraCycle, in Trenton, New Jersey, says there is no such thing as trash, even ...
Spring is around the corner, according to America’s most celebrated groundhog. In an annual ritual with early roots in German folklore, a Pennsylvania groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil was interpreted Saturday as predicting an early end to winter. According to his handlers at the ceremony ...
Eighty years after Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, a novel that imagines his return to modern-day Berlin has become a best-seller in Germany, though a comedy about the Fuehrer is not to everyone’s taste. Instead of committing suicide in his bunker on April 30, ...