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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 ...
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s chief of staff stepped down Sunday over an expenses scandal that also has forced the resignation of a conservative senator. Nigel Wright announced his resignation following revelations that he gave a $90,000 gift to a senator to help repay improper ...
The former head of Hong Kong’s anticorruption agency attended an inquiry Saturday by legislators over alleged lavish spending and misuse of public money. Timothy Tong, the former commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, allegedly overspent on business meals and gifts, treating mainland Chinese ...
Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, ...
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 ...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai confirmed Monday that his office has received money from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency over the past decade, with wads of cash reportedly handed over in suitcases and backpacks. Karzai thanked the U.S. spy agency for what he said was ...
The son of former Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade was set to discover Wednesday whether he is to be charged following his arrest after a probe into his vast fortune, which is valued at nearly $1.5 billion. Karim Wade, who held a number of Cabinet ...
The wealthiest member of France’s Socialist government, French people learned Monday, is Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who inherited a $7.8 million fortune from his family’s trade in art and antiques. But Michele Delaunay, minister for the aged, also disclosed a comfortable stash: $7 million, ...
The former naval chief of Guinea-Bissau was ordered detained in New York on Friday following his arrest on charges that he was part of an international cocaine trafficking plot, officials said. A spokesman for the Manhattan federal prosecutor’s office said Jose Americo Bubo Na ...
A Spanish judge named King Juan Carlos’ daughter Princess Cristina as a suspect in a corruption case on Wednesday, dealing a spectacular blow to the prestige of the royal family. The decision, the first time a direct relation of the king has been called ...
Former French Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac was charged Tuesday in a tax fraud probe after he admitted having a foreign bank account, dealing a fresh blow to President Francois Hollande’s embattled government. Critics were quick to pounce on the scandal, demanding to know if ...
The trial of a Vietnamese fish farmer who became a folk hero after using homemade shotguns to resist eviction began Tuesday, with scores of people defying a heavy police presence to show their support. Hundreds of police shut down the roads near Haiphong’s People’s ...
License plates have become the latest casualty in the highly publicized anticorruption campaign of China’s new leaders. First the lavish government banquets were cut, then government officials’ red-carpet receptions. Now the target is military plates — long coveted items among government officials, allowing their ...