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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, ...
When speaking of Japanese art, people use words such as wabi and sabi, words that speak of a delicate sensibility and an ephemeral existence. Viewing the retrospective currently being hosted at the Musee Tomo in Tokyo’s central Toranomon district in celebration of the 100th ...
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 ...
The death toll from last month’s collapse of a building housing garment factories in Bangladesh has passed 700, police said Tuesday, as survivors of the country’s worst-ever industrial disaster protested for compensation. The police control room overseeing the recovery operation said the toll reached ...
A raging California wildfire nearly doubled in size Friday, although firefighters said they gained more control over it and allowed the state’s scenic coastal highway to reopen. The Springs Fire near Malibu, around 65 km west of Los Angeles, grew to 7,300 hectares from ...
A British couple were found guilty Tuesday of killing six of their children in a blaze started deliberately at their family home. Mick Philpott 56, and his 32-year-old wife, Mairead, were convicted at Nottingham Crown Court in central England of manslaughter in the house ...
Greater effort will be made to recall a humidifier model manufactured by TDK Corp. that is suspected of causing a fatal fire, government sources said Monday. The Consumer Affairs Agency is cooperating with other government agencies to accelerate such efforts, they said. The major ...
Police in Brazil arrest four suspects Monday after a nightclub fire kills 231, leaves dozens more clinging to life, and force officials to defend readiness for the Olympics and the World Cup.
Sydney As Australian firefighters battled worsening conditions to douse some 100 blazes on Friday, local residents who fled for their lives faced the trauma of returning to see whether they still had a home standing. After two days of cooler weather, heat and high ...