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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 ...
Montana Sen. Max Baucus, one of the most influential congressional figures of his era, announced his intention Tuesday to retire, a move that could produce sweeping changes in the political and legislative landscape over the next two years. The announcement could mark the beginning ...
The White House’s decision to interrogate the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing without first warning him of his rights has sparked criticism from both sides of the political spectrum about the best way to prosecute terrorism cases. Justice Department officials have said their ...
By killing gun reform, the U.S. Senate did more than deal a painfully personal defeat to Barack Obama — it raised questions about the still-ambitious president’s entire second-term agenda. So far, Obama’s thumping November election win has produced little of legislative substance, other than ...
Advocates of stricter gun laws vowed Thursday to be louder and more passionate in the weeks and months ahead than gun-rights activists, who helped quash proposals to reduce gun violence this week that were widely popular among the public. Working with a committed White ...
Amid the initial elation from immigration advocates over a new proposal to overhaul U.S. border control laws was a sense of unease over the 844-page bill's core provision: a path to citizenship for immigrants living in the country illegally.
The Senate’s rejection of a bipartisan bill to expand background checks for gun purchases reveals the difference in power between public opinion and a united minority.
After reviewing 27,000 pages of documents from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Republicans and Democrats came to different conclusions about the agency’s ability to prevent one of the worst public health crises in American history. Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce ...
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers laid out an immigration reform proposal Tuesday that would provide a path to citizenship for millions of people who are in the country illegally. The most ambitious immigration reform in a quarter century has been a key focus ...
Millions of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. should be allowed to earn their citizenship because deporting them isn’t realistic, Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio said Sunday. Rubio, who has emerged as a leading supporter of revamping U.S. immigration laws, spoke on all five nationwide ...
As the U.S. Senate prepares to begin debate this week on the biggest gun-control bill in nearly two decades, the gun rights lobby and its Senate allies are working on a series of amendments that have the potential to do the opposite — loosening ...
Senators strike a compromise that could expand U.S. background checks to all commercial firearms sales, which may result in the most ambitious change to gun laws since 1994.
Prospects for a bipartisan deal to expand federal background checks for gun purchases are improving with the emergence of fresh Republican support, according to top Senate aides. The possibility that after weeks of stalled negotiations senators might be on the cusp of a breakthrough ...