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Silvio Berlusconi has failed in his attempt to topple the Italian government, leaving him weaker than ever and zapping the aura of invincibility that has surrounded him for two decades as he faces the possible loss of his Senate seat and a ban from ...
Hatsudai has a lot going for it. This quiet low-rise residential neighborhood just minutes west of Shinjuku boasts a friendly traditional shōtengai (shopping street) and a lively annual Awa Odori dance festival. Now add to that a really outstanding restaurant. Anis opened in early ...
International events undermine Japan's democracy. Shame on the International Olympic Committee for being a party to it.
In the glitzy and gossipy world of Japanese celebrity, hardly a week goes by without revelations being made about — or made by — Ichikawa Ebizo XI. For years, the charismatic young star of the kabuki world has never long been out of the ...
Reigning champion Kei Nishikori made quick work of Feliciano Lopez, walloping the Spaniard in a straight-sets victory Thursday to reach the quarterfinals of the Rakuten Japan Open. The world No. 13 Nishikori needed little over an hour to put away Lopez, 7-6 (7-4), 6-0 ...
Tamami Watanabe was 7 when her father died in 1945 in the Philippines while fighting for Japan, and her memories of him are fading. As a child, Watanabe could remember her father’s face clearly and the clothes he wore. But now when she tries ...
South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Thursday urged Japanese politicians to show “brave leadership” in resolving issues still lingering from Japan’s 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. “I urge Japanese politicians to show brave leadership in healing wounds of the past, and that’s ...
Three Cabinet ministers went to war-related Yasukuni Shrine on Thursday to mark the 68th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II, while Prime Minister Shinzo Abe instead made a ritual offering in an apparent effort to avoid more diplomatic friction with China and ...
he only thing that Japan's modern reactionaries regret about World War II is defeat. Cabinet ministers show support for this idea when they visit Yasukuni Shrine.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will make a ritual offering of a sacred tree branch for Yasukuni Shine on the anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, instead of visiting the controversial venue.
Keiji Furuya, state minister for the North Korea abductee issue, may visit war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Thursday to mark the 68th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II, a government official said Saturday. In addition to Furuya, who also chairs the ...
The other night at my local sushi bar conversation turned to Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso’s comments about constitutional revision — specifically, his suggestion there is something to be learned from the way the Nazis revised the Weimar Constitution in 1933. The person next ...
Two Cabinet ministers on Thursday refused to rule out the possibility that they might visit war-linked Yasukuni Shrine on Aug. 15 — the 68th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II. After Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said earlier this week he would not ...
The Chinese Foreign Ministry expressed opposition Tuesday to possible visits by members of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet to Yasukuni Shrine on Aug. 15, the anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II. “China will never accept it,” the ministry said in a statement, ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, it hurts the victims of the Imperial Japanese military's war of terror that ministers of your government and members of parliament continue to visit Yasukuni Shrine.
The results of a Pew Opinion survey released in July 2013 found that the public mood in Japan is improving but remains “mostly one of dissatisfaction.” However, that dissatisfaction is 10 percent lower than the level registered in 2007 during Shinzo Abe’s first spell ...
Tensions in East Asia would rise if Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits Yasukuni Shrine on Aug. 15, the 68th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in the war, according to a U.S. government report. A visit by Abe or members of his Cabinet to the Shinto ...