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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 ...
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto says he doesn't believe the tens of thousands of women rounded up to provide sex for Japanese soldiers during the war did so unwillingly.
Osaka Mayor and Nippon Ishin no Kai coleader Toru Hashimoto defends his remarks on Japan’s wartime sex slave system and hits media outlets for running misleading reports.
A South Korean woman who was forced to provide sex for Imperial Japanese soldiers during the war has flown to Hiroshima to criticize Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto for defending Japan’s use of military brothels. “He makes obscene remarks because he doesn’t understand the pain” ...
Since news broke that Osaka maverick politician Toru Hashimoto said Japan's wartime sex slave system was necessary and U.S. soldiers in Okinawa should use more prostitutes, the question is why did he say this?
International condemnation of Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto's comment that the wartime sex slavery system was necessary continues, with the U.S. calling his remarks outrageous and offensive.
Two U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday urged Japan to distance itself clearly from an outspoken politician who said the “comfort women” forced to provide sex during the war were a military necessity. In comments that prompted outrage in South Korea and China, Osaka Mayor Toru ...
The New York State Assembly has passed a resolution honoring a “comfort women” memorial erected last year, saying it “serves as a reminder of the crime against humanity committed” by the Imperial Japanese military. The nonbinding measure, similar to one passed by the New ...
Osaka politician Toru Hashimoto refuses to retract his remarks justifying the use of "comfort woman" during the war and the need for legal brothels in Okinawa for U.S. service members.
The backlash against Osaka political maverick Toru Hashimoto escalates over his remarks justifying Japan's wartime sex slave system and his suggestion that U.S. soldiers in Okinawa use more prostitutes.
China on Tuesday denounced Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto’s remarks that the “comfort women” were necessary for Japanese soldiers during the war. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters the conscription of the comfort women, using the Japanese euphemism for the girls and women ...
The U.S. Congressional Research Service has noted that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s comments and actions on historical issues “have raised concern that Tokyo could upset regional relations in ways that hurt U.S. interests.” In a report dated May 1, the research arm of Congress ...
Former Prime Minister Murayama reveals that senior Chinese officials recently told him they are eager to peacefully resolve the Senkakus dispute and are "not seeking hegemony."