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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, ...
When speaking of Japanese art, people use words such as wabi and sabi, words that speak of a delicate sensibility and an ephemeral existence. Viewing the retrospective show of painter Toko Shinoda, the first word that comes to mind is "power."
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 ...
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department does not plan to pursue criminal charges against the publishing house Kodansha Ltd. over a controversial photo book on Tomomi Kasai, a member of all-girl idol group AKB48. According to investigative sources Tuesday and Kodansha, the Tokyo police have ...
Reported cases of child pornography hit a record high 1,596 in 2012, up 9.7 percent from the previous year, the National Police Agency says.
Small, volcanic, with a proud Viking heritage and run by an openly gay prime minister, Iceland is now considering becoming the first democracy in the Western world to try to ban online pornography. A nationwide consultation has found wide support for the move from ...
The U.S. Federal District Court in Riverside, California, has sentenced a Japanese man to 17 years in prison and lifetime supervised release for conspiracy to advertise child pornography on the Internet, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Futoshi Tachino, 32, pleaded guilty after being arrested ...
Police cracked a record 649 child pornography cases involving 310 underage victims in the first half of this year, the National Police Agency said Thursday. The number of victims rose by 14.4 percent, while the number of busts increased 9.1 percent. The police arrested ...
The government announced countermeasures Tuesday against child pornography, including a step to block access to indecent images of children on the Internet. At a ministerial meeting on fighting crime, the government said Internet service providers would be required to block access to images if ...
A government working group approved on Monday a plan to get Internet service providers to block access to child pornography images as soon as they are found, without waiting for site operators to grant requests to delete them, officials said. The approval came at ...
The Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly is deliberating stronger regulations on sexual images of minors in “manga” comic books, animation and video games. If the revised ordinance is passed, publishers will have to exercise greater restraint on content with sexual depictions of characters that people can ...
The Metropolitan Police Department on Friday asked five companies and one individual that administer seven Web sites to delete child pornography-related data from the sites, which introduce and rank Internet child pornography, police said. This is the second such request after the first one ...
UNICEF on Thursday called on Tokyo to take steps to ban child pornography to prevent children from falling victim to sexual exploitation. While the group welcomed a decision by a working group of nine ministries and agencies to cut off access to child porn ...
A working group of nine ministries and agencies has reached agreement that Internet access to child pornography sites should be blocked as soon as they are discovered, rather than waiting for site operators to comply with requests to take them down, officials said Thursday. ...
Some Japanese women who in their childhood were victims of pornography have written about their fears and anguish in being betrayed by adults they had trusted, and in imagining that lewd images of themselves as young children could be still circulating on the Internet. ...