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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 ...
A few days ago, a little-known Swedish scientist with a career devoted to studying lethal warfare agents paid a quiet visit to London. He was there to examine evidence that British officials believe shows that Syrian forces used chemical weapons against their own people. ...
New questions emerge over the source of the soil and other samples from Syria that supposedly tested positive for the nerve agent sarin.
Much as it struggled to understand the weapons capabilities of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq over the years, the United States is now bedeviled by a growing body of evidence that suggests Syrians have been exposed to chemical weapons at least twice. Far from clear, however, ...
A senior Israeli military official says it is "quite clear" Syria has used chemical agents, which U.S. President Barack Obama has called a "red line" Damascus cannot cross.
A senior Israeli military official says it is "quite clear" Syria has used chemical agents, which U.S. President Barack Obama has called a "red line" Damascus cannot cross.
Senior Israeli military officials asserted Tuesday that forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad have used chemical weapons against the country’s civilians, saying their evidence — including photographs of victims foaming at the mouth — made them “nearly 100 percent” certain. It was the ...
Britain and France have informed the United Nations that there is credible evidence that Syria’s government has used chemical weapons on more than one occasion since December, according to senior diplomats and officials briefed on the accounts. In letters to U.N. Secretary General Ban ...
Western nations have "hard evidence" that chemical weapons have been used at least once in the Syrian war but a U.N. investigation team is now unlikely to get into the country, diplomats say.
Myanmar on Thursday denied accusations it used chemical weapons while shelling ethnic minority rebels in an escalating conflict in the northern state of Kachin. “Our military never uses chemical weapons and we have no intention to use them at all. I think the (Kachin ...