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SEALS

Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 22, 2023
In Quebec, seal hunters want public to see practice in new light
Hunters hope to rehabilitate the image of the hunt, with the support of fishers who are worried about dwindling fish stocks.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Mar 17, 2022
Seals help Japanese researchers collect data under Antarctic ice
The seals were equipped with a head-mounted conductivity, temperature and depth sensor between March and November 2017, allowing scientists to collect observation data.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 13, 2018
Grit, daring and terror — how Thailand's cave boys were rescued, protected 'like eggs'
Two days after 12 boys and their soccer coach disappeared inside a cave complex in Thailand's mountainous north, a team of Thai Royal Navy SEALs headed before sunrise into the pitch-black maze of muddy passages to find them.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 6, 2018
Rescuers weigh 'alternative' routes to save 13 trapped in Thai cave
Rescuers in Thailand are trying to find alternative ways to rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped inside a cave complex for 13 days, as teams brace for heavy rain which could further delay the operation.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Apr 1, 2017
Lypa's art speaks of life 'out on the land' in the Arctic
On the wide wooden sill of the large window in my living room here in Kurohime, Nagano Prefecture, sits a soapstone carving of a gyrfalcon by one of Canada's most famous Inuit artists, Lypa Pitsiulak.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 9, 2016
Japan's oldest harbor seal dies in Hokkaido
Japan's oldest harbor seal has died in Hokkaido at the estimated age of 46, or over 100 years old in human terms, the operator of Otaru Aquarium said Monday.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Oct 3, 2015
Sled dogs in an age of climate change
When I first went to the Canadian Arctic in 1958, sled dogs were a part of life for the indigenous Inuit and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and part of the scenery and the soundscape for everyone in those frigid far-northern reaches.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 28, 2014
Praise for killer exposes Americans as barbarians
In praising the killing of Osama bin Laden, Americans are celebrating summary execution.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 19, 2013
Okhotsk seal puts in at Odawara
A baby spotted, or largha, seal of the type that mainly inhabits the Sea of Okhotsk has been showing up recently along the coast of Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, causing local residents to nickname the animal "Oda-chan."
COMMENTARY / Japan / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Feb 25, 2013
Endless effects of 'pacification' wars
Unnecessary U.S. wars in the Middle East have unintended consequences at home just as Japan's war against China still casts its shadows to this day.

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Historically, kabuki was considered the entertainment of the merchant and peasant classes, a far cry from how it is regarded today.
For Japan's oldest kabuki theater, the show must go on