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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 ...
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga leaps into damage control mode after the LDP's policy chief says President Shinzo Abe disagrees with the findings of the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal.
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 ...
The U.S. Congressional Research Service has noted that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s comments and actions on historical issues “have raised concern that Tokyo could upset regional relations in ways that hurt U.S. interests.” In a report dated May 1, the research arm of Congress ...
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the dismissal of a discrimination lawsuit against the government that demanded an apology and damages over the U.S. firebombing of Tokyo, which claimed tens of thousands of lives in 1945, the top court said Thursday. The five-justice first ...
Anti-Semitism is high among teenagers in the Polish capital, according to an opinion survey conducted in the runup to Friday’s 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The poll of students from 20 high schools in the city, published Tuesday, found that 44 percent ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday visited Iwoto Island and pledged to speed up the recovery of the remains of Imperial Japanese Army soldiers killed in the Battle of Iwojima, in a pilgrimage intended to mark a break from the postwar period. “We have ...
Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima will not attend a government-sponsored ceremony to celebrate the 61st anniversary of the country’s restoration of sovereignty after its defeat in World War II, officials said Wednesday. Instead, Okinawa Vice Gov. Kurayoshi Takara will be sent to the ceremony set ...
Tears roll down Heitaro Matsumoto’s face as the 72-year-old businessman talks of an uncle who died on Guam as a Japanese soldier in the hopeless final weeks of World War II. The remains of Goro Matsumoto, in his mid-20s at the time of his ...
Behind the counter, amid the Mussolini clocks, swastika badges, fascist recipe books and busts of Hitler, Benizzi Ferrini has hung a T-shirt featuring the face of Paolo Di Canio. “When Paolo gave his salute on the pitch it was a gesture from the heart, ...
Martyl Langsdorf, the artist who designed the Doomsday Clock, dies in Illinois at the age of 96.
Allied prosecutors probed the delay in delivering U.S. President Roosevelt's letter to Emperor Hirohito on the eve of war, apparently to establish that the foreign minister was to blame for failing to stop the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The battle had raged for four days, and would continue for 31 more, a marathon of sand and heat and unrelenting death. But at that moment there was an order from the brass: Get a bigger flag up there. The small American flag fluttering ...