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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 ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was briefed Tuesday by Isao Iijima on his recent visit to North Korea as the government steps up efforts to resolve Pyongyang’s abductions of Japanese citizens. “I think the prime minister will put (his belief) into action with unwavering resolve,” ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday he is ready to promote talks with North Korea to resolve the abduction issue after Pyongyang blew the lid off of what was supposed to be a secret trip by one of his closest advisers. “I hope I ...
An adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held talks Wednesday in Pyongyang with a senior official of North Korea’s ruling party, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency reported. Details of the meeting between Isao Iijima and Kim Yong Il, a secretary of the ...
Tokyo authorized and is in charge of the surprise trip to Pyongyang by special adviser Isao Iijima, a senior government official indicated Wednesday, while Cabinet members all remained tight-lipped in public amid speculation the government hopes to resume direct talks with North Korea to ...
Shorty needed a ride home. She got confused sometimes, the result of some undefined mental condition, and wasn’t always sure where she’d wandered. Her family knew this about Michelle “Shorty” Knight, all 139 cm of her, and that’s why they worried. She got in ...
Authorities file rape and kidnapping charges against a U.S. man after three women missing for about a decade were found alive at his home.
The Internet exploded with virtual cheers Tuesday for the colorful U.S. dishwasher who helped three young women flee a decade in captivity. Videos of Charles Ramsey telling reporters how he helped Amanda Berry escape went viral on YouTube, as did a not-safe-for-work recording of ...
Cleveland police are facing questions for the second time in four years about their handling of missing-person cases after finding three women in a rundown house.
Family members of Japanese abducted by North Korea called Thursday in Washington for international cooperation to quickly resolve the issue. The symposium was the first of its kind hosted by the Japanese government in the United States. Shigeo Iizuka, a brother of abduction victim ...
Japan will ask the U.N. this month to set up a panel to investigate North Korea over the abduction issue and other human rights violations.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, known for his hardline stance toward North Korea, vowed Friday to settle the long-stalled abduction issue in his meeting with kin of those kidnapped by Pyongyang’s agents in the 1970s and 1980s. “I am determined to resolve the issue,” Abe ...