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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 ...
Chinese authorities have launched an investigation into a powerful economic planning official accused by a prominent journalist of corruption, the latest high-level target of the new leadership’s antigraft drive. The Communist Party’s disciplinary agency said in a one-sentence statement on its website that Liu ...
Three Chinese maritime surveillance ships entered Japanese territorial waters Monday near the Senkaku Islands, the Japan Coast Guard said. In a separate incident near the area, an unidentified submarine was spotted by a P-3C Maritime Self-Defense Force patrol aircraft sailing in Japan’s contiguous zone ...
A transsexual woman in Hong Kong won a groundbreaking court appeal Monday allowing her to marry her boyfriend and forcing the government to rewrite the city’s marriage laws. The woman, in her 30s, known in the Court of Final Appeal as “W” under anonymity ...
The new bird flu outbreak in China hasn't spread to Japan yet, but Tokyo must stay on guard, the head of the influenza countermeasures panel warns.
The poisoning of a college student 18 years ago recently re-emerged as a hot topic in China, but censors soon squelched politically sensitive online discussions over whether the culprit may have eluded punishment because of her Communist Party connections. Chinese looking for justice found ...
The strong Australian dollar gave an “unprecedented whack” to tax revenue the government needed to return the nation’s budget to surplus, Treasurer Wayne Swan said Sunday. Spending on disability payments and a program to improve schools are the “big-ticket items” in the budget to ...
Doing what many brave young Chinese did, Yang Jingtao left his home as a teen to fight the invading Japanese in World War II. The problem was that he fought while wearing the uniform of the Chinese Nationalist Army, condemning him to be shunned ...
The government has lodged “a strong protest” against a commentary published by a Chinese state-run newspaper that questioned the legitimacy of Japan’s ownership of Okinawa, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Thursday. “If that is the position of the Chinese government, it’s totally unacceptable ...
Buildings constructed during Japan’s occupation of Manchukuo, a puppet state set up in China, have received official protection from Beijing, state media reported Thursday. The move to preserve the buildings followed calls by Chinese netizens to demolish structures left by invaders from the 1931-45 ...
Two scholars from an official Chinese research center suggest re-examining the ownership of the Japanese island chain that includes Okinawa, adding to tensions over the Senkaku territorial dispute.
The Bank of China ends all dealings with a key North Korean bank in what appears to be the strongest public Chinese response yet to Pyongyang's willingness to push ahead with its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
Opposition parties submitted a resolution to the Diet on Tuesday to remove a senior ruling lawmaker as chairwoman of the Upper House Environment Committee because she extended a visit to China in April without their consensus, leading the committee to cancel a session. The ...