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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 ...
Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said Wednesday it will continue the production and shipment halt of its Outlander plug-in hybrid electric vehicle because it has yet to pinpoint the cause of the apparent short-circuiting of at least one of the model’s lithium-ion batteries. In March an ...
Four elderly women died and another woman and a man remained unconscious Saturday after a fire broke out the evening before at a Nagasaki nursing home for patients suffering from dementia, police said. They were among 12 people aged between 56 and 95 who ...
The former head of a nursing home in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, was found guilty Friday by the Maebashi District Court over a 2009 blaze that killed 10 residents, on the grounds that he should have foreseen the risk of a fire because he knew ...
Australians braced Monday for what officials warned could be the worst fire danger day ever seen, as police searched for some 100 people still missing in ravaged island state of Tasmania. Prime Minister Julia Gillard urged Australians to be vigilant in the coming days, ...
Three Americans and a South Korean man were among six people who died Friday when a fire razed a small hotel near a former U.S. naval base in the Philippines, police said. Six bodies, also including those of two women, were recovered after a ...