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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 ...
Guatemala’s top court overturned the genocide conviction of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt and ordered Monday that his trial be restarted, throwing into disarray proceedings that had been hailed as historic for delivering the first such guilty verdict for a Latin American leader. Constitutional ...
Held a virtual prisoner by the Bolsheviks months before his execution, Russia’s last czar Nicholas II pasted informal snapshots of his family into an album that has now come to light in a Russian provincial museum. The photographs, most of which have never been ...
Before there was the tea party, there was Big Mama Rag, Inc. It was a radical feminist collective in the 1970s, and it devoted itself to lectures, seminars, a free library and a newspaper, the Big Mama Rag. The group applied for nonprofit status ...
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 ...
The South Korean ambassador to Japan slams Toru Hashimoto for his remarks justifying Japan's wartime sex slave system, saying the Osaka mayor lacks historical knowledge and regard for the rights of women.
A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize’s largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project, authorities said Monday. The head of the Belize Institute of Archaeology, Jaime Awe, said the destruction at the Nohmul complex ...
On the very day John F. Kennedy died, a cottage industry was born. Fifty years and hundreds of millions of dollars later, it’s still thriving. Its product? The “truth” about the president’s assassination. “By the evening of November 22, 1963, I found myself being ...
A Guatemalan court convicts former dictator Efrain Rios Montt on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, sentencing him to 80 years in prison, the first such sentence ever handed down against a former Latin American leader.
Doing what many brave young Chinese did, Yang Jingtao left his home as a teen to fight the invading Japanese in World War II. The problem was that he fought while wearing the uniform of the Chinese Nationalist Army, condemning him to be shunned ...
Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of political activist Malcolm X, died in Mexico City after a violent dispute in a bar, Mexican authorities said Friday. He was 28. City prosecutors are probing the attack that sent Shabazz to a nearby hospital where he died Thursday of ...
Laura Montoya, the first Colombian to be elevated to sainthood by the Roman Catholic Church, was generally considered crazy by the urban society she abandoned in 1914 when she moved to the jungle to minister to indigenous people, a longtime follower says. “It was ...
Historians and doctors have debated for decades over what medical complications caused the death of legendary Confederate fighter Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, felled by friendly fire during the Civil War. Shot three times while returning from scouting enemy lines in the Virginia wilderness, Jackson ...