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The head of an official inquiry into the deadly collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said the building’s owner was the “main culprit” for the disaster because he violated construction codes. The cave-in of the eight-story Rana Plaza outside the capital last month killed ...
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
“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, ...
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the “best birthday party ever” when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, ...
As far as debuts go, Shohei Otani's delivered. The celebrated rookie pitched fairly well on Thursday night, and though he finished outside the decision, he left the mound with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters well within striking distance of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
Sea Shepherd has filed a suit against the crew of the whaling ship Nisshin Maru, alleging piracy and attempted manslaughter following a clash with two of the environmental group’s vessels in the Antarctic Ocean last month, their lawyers said. “We hereby lodge a suit ...
The Sea Shepherd antiwhaling fleet docked in Australia on Wednesday, claiming victory over Japan as the activist group urged Canberra to grant fugitive founder Paul Watson safe passage into the country. The ships Steve Irwin, Bob Barker and Sam Simon returned from a bitter ...
Japan's whaling fleet has left the Antarctic Ocean whale sanctuary and appears to be heading home following its smallest catch on record, the Sea Shepherd environmental group says.
A U.S. appeals court has labeled militant conservationist group Sea Shepherd as pirates and cleared the way for Japanese whalers to pursue legal action against them. “You don’t need a peg leg or an eye patch” to be a pirate, declared Alex Kozinski, chief ...
The government has called on the Netherlands to take effective action to prevent the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society from interfering with Japanese whaling ships, fisheries minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said Tuesday. The move came after a Dutch-registered Sea Shepherd vessel approached unusually close last Friday ...
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a plea from the Sea Shepherd antiwhaling group to end restrictions on its movements, following Japanese allegations that its activists had violated orders to stay away. Sea Shepherd, which disrupts Japan’s contentious whaling missions in the Southern Ocean, ...