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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 ...
A Twitter account run by the Crime Prevention Section of the Metropolitan Police Department is proving popular for the officers’ personal comments and had attracted more than 48,000 followers as of Monday. The section opened the account on the free microblogging service last November ...
Take all the comments expressed on Twitter, crunch them with an analytics program and you can get a sense of the mood of a city, state or country. U.S. researchers say they have come up with such a tool, called a “hedonometer,” which is ...
The Associated Press, one of the world’s largest news agencies, said a hacking attack Tuesday caused it to send out an erroneous Twitter post that sent markets down 1 percent in a matter of seconds. The false information about explosions at the White House ...
Outrage over Google’s decision to pull the plug on Reader flooded the Internet on Thursday as lovers of the RSS service for tracking website updates lobbied to keep it alive. A “Keep Google Reader Running” petition at change.org had racked up more than 70,000 ...
The Fire and Disaster Management Agency plans this summer to test a disaster warning system using Internet-based social-networking services, drawing lessons from the March 2011 catastrophe when telephone services were cut and the emergency number did not function, agency officials said Tuesday. The system, ...
The instant messaging app Line is already dominating the lives of young smartphone users in Japan and has spread rapidly elsewhere in the world, but its developer is eyeing even more aggressive growth. Unlike global giants like Facebook and Twitter, the nascent social networking ...
Twitter on Monday added Instagram-style smartphone photo sharing features after the Facebook-owned service made it impossible for Internet users to integrate its images into tweets. “Starting today, you’ll be able to edit and refine photos, right from Twitter,” the globally popular one-to-many messaging service ...