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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 ...
About 30 security agents showed up just after midnight, breaking down the door to an apartment in the town of Daraya near the Syrian capital of Damascus. They grabbed a 24-year-old university student and drove off. That was a year ago. The young man, ...
The twins were 7, shy and scared. Talking was tough, and describing what had happened to them was nearly impossible. So the prosecutor preparing them to testify against their father, who they said had molested them, borrowed a dog named Jeeter. “It was a ...
There was a time, not so long ago, when anyone with a proper education spoke French. Diplomacy and business were conducted in French. Knowledge was spread in French. Travelers made their way in French and, of course, lovers traded sweet nothings in French. Viewed ...
President Barack Obama’s professed ignorance of the targeting of conservatives by one government agency and his support of tracking journalists’ sources by another highlight one of the great paradoxes of his presidency: Sometimes he uses his office as aggressively as anyone who’s held it; ...
The hunt for an HIV vaccine has gobbled up $8 billion in the past decade, and the failure of the most recent efficacy trial has delivered yet another setback to 26 years of efforts. With the next attempts expected to be years away, top ...
Angered over Syrian President Bashar Assad’s brutal repression of peaceful protests in Syria two years ago, Paris closed its embassy in Damascus, virtually cutting off the lifeline to the capital’s once-thriving French school. But tenacious parents and staffers, driven by their love for French ...
The hordes are rising. A cicada invasion is imminent in the United States, with millions of the large cricketlike insects beginning to emerge from the earth after 17 years lying in wait. The first of the bugs that are expected to blanket the U.S. ...
The embarrassing arrest of a suspected CIA officer in Moscow is the latest reminder that, even after the Cold War, the U.S. and Russia are engaged in an espionage battle with secret tactics, spying devices and training that sometimes isn’t enough to avoid being ...
Chastened by the experience of Afghanistan, where hundreds of Saudi Arabians fought before returning to sow terror at home, the kingdom is now battling to avoid similar blowback from the conflict in Syria, analysts say. In recent months, Saudi officials have issued increasingly stern ...
Raha Muharraq, a 25-year-old Saudi woman, on Saturday reached the summit of Mount Everest in a first for the conservative Muslim kingdom, where women’s sports are severely restricted, her father said. Hassan Muharraq said that Raha, a graduate of the University of Sharjah in ...
Connecticut chef Bun Lai is already known for his Mexican grasshopper dish and his fried rice with mealworms and crickets. But he might soon also be recognized as the cicada chef. Lai, owner of Miya’s Sushi, told the New Haven Register that he plans ...
An elderly driver plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Saturday parade in a small Virginia mountain town, and investigators are looking into whether he suffered a medical emergency before the accident. About 50 to 60 people suffered injuries ranging from critical to ...