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Jun Hongo
Jun Hongo graduated from Boston University and joined The Japan Times in 2006. He covers a wide range of domestic news, including politics and business. He is an avid Red Sox fan.
For Jun Hongo's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 8, 2007
Will entry checks cross the line?
Despite government claims it is necessary to counter terrorism, a new immigration procedure obliging most foreigners to be fingerprinted and photographed upon entry to Japan has come under fire as an unwarranted invasion of privacy.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 8, 2007
Slipshod architect Aneha loses appeal, faces prison
The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court-imposed five-year prison sentence and ¥1.8 million fine for architect Hidetsugu Aneha for fabricating building safety data and committing perjury.
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2007
Recidivism rate reached an all-time high in 2006
Despite an overall decline in reported crimes nationwide, those committed by repeat offenders reached a record high in 2006, according to a Justice Ministry white paper released Tuesday.
JAPAN
Nov 3, 2007
Nanjing survivor wins ¥4 million in libel suit
," the court said. Xia welcomed the ruling, telling reporters that Higashinakano "lied and spread wrongful information" in his publication. "Higashinakano is an insolent man," she said after the ruling.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 30, 2007
Hatoyama in hot water over 'al-Qaida connection'
Justice Minister Kunio Hatoyama found himself in hot water Monday after telling reporters that he has an acquaintance who was a friend of an al-Qaida terrorist involved in the October 2002 bombing in Bali, Indonesia.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2007
Blind adventurer refuses to accept limits
Blind adventurer Miles Hilton-Barber has climbed both Mount Kilimanjaro and Mont Blanc, completed an 11-day marathon across China and crossed Qatar's desert on foot without any sleep — all within the last seven years.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2007
Teachers angry and insecure over future
Thrown suddenly out of work, language teachers with Nova Corp. in Tokyo were quick to react to their employer's move Friday to file for court protection from creditors.
Reference / Special Presentations / WITNESS TO WAR
Oct 24, 2007
Vivisectionist recalls his day of reckoning
Eleventh in a series
JAPAN
Oct 23, 2007
Fugitive gets 15 years for killing partner
would die," they stated, adding that Maeda bore great responsibility for "using pseudonyms for two years to remain at large and rebuffing the advice of friends to turn herself in."
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 20, 2007
Repeat offender sentenced to 14 years for confining and abusing four females
A 26-year-old man who, as a repeat offender, confined and sexually abused four women between 2003 and 2004 was sentenced to 14 years in prison Friday by the Tokyo District Court.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 17, 2007
Groping economist gets four-month prison term
The Tokyo District Court sentenced well-known economist Kazuhide Uekusa to four months in prison Tuesday for groping a high school girl on a train — his third conviction for an indecent act.
JAPAN
Oct 11, 2007
Murderer-for-insurance gets 25 years, DVD confession or no
The Tokyo District Court sentenced a man to 25 years in prison for murder Wednesday in a case that drew national attention for allowing a recorded interrogation to be used as evidence for the first time.
JAPAN
Oct 11, 2007
Death penalty foes hit Hatoyama over accountability snub
Opponents to capital punishment took issue Wednesday with Justice Minister Kunio Hatoyama's recent remarks suggesting a system should be established whereby he did not personally have to sign execution orders, saying he was trying to dodge accountability and also lacked regard for human rights.
Japan Times
Reference / Special Presentations / WITNESS TO WAR
Oct 5, 2007
Veteran navy officer keeps an open mind
As the public still debates the Imperial navy's activities during the war, many veteran sailors say that at the time, at least, they saw their objective as liberating Asia from Western colonial rule.
JAPAN
Sep 21, 2007
Mob leaders found liable for botched hit
The Tokyo District Court on Thursday ordered the two top executives of Japan's second-biggest crime syndicate, including its "Godfather" and three hit men, to pay a combined ¥59 million in damages to the family of a South Korean student killed in a botched revenge shooting in 2001.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 20, 2007
Ishihara's new right-hand man settles in
All eyes were on Naoki Inose as his new career as a politician got into full swing Wednesday with the opening of the first session of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Sep 18, 2007
Typhoons more predictable but still deadly
Most years, the typhoon season peaks in September, as illustrated by the recent Typhoon No. 9, called Fitow, which killed two, and Typhoon No. 11, also known as Nari, which approached Okinawa last week.
JAPAN
Sep 8, 2007
South Koreans testify against Yasukuni's inclusion of their kin
A group of South Koreans testified in court Friday in a bid to have their relatives' names struck from Yasukuni Shrine's list of war dead, saying the inclusion is "shameful and a disgrace."
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 4, 2007
Media ignoring mercury-tainted dolphin meat: assemblyman
The Japanese media's lack of condemnation is the principal reason mercury-tainted dolphin meat continues to be consumed, including in school lunches, a local assembly member from Wakayama Prefecture said Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 4, 2007
Hatoyama a hawk on death penalty, illegal immigrants
." A close friend to LDP Secretary General Taro Aso, Hatoyama promised not only to "become a good justice minister" but also support Abe and his Cabinet in the wake of the LDP-New Komeito ruling bloc's loss of its majority in the July Upper House election.
Japanese stripper bids to have her porn movies taken off internet
Plaintiff Miyuki Ariga (left) speaks at a news conference along with her lawyer, Yoshitomo Morohashi, after filing a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.
Yen’s fragility raises specter of a new currency war in Asia
Suspected intervention to drag the yen off a 34-year low against the dollar is already seen as unlikely to have a lasting effect if Japan continues alone.
Online booking for Mount Fuji climb to open on May 20
Visitors climb the slopes of Mount Fuji, Japan's highest peak at 3,776 meters. From May 20, climbers will have access to a new online booking system for Mount Fuji's most popular Yoshida trail in Yamanashi Prefecture.
In Japan, 68,000 people over 65 projected to die alone at home this year
As Japan grapples with its population's rapid aging, supporting people who live and age alone is looming larger on the policy agenda.
Ex-METI bureaucrat given 10-year sentence for drugging and raping women
The Tokyo District Court on Monday sentenced a former industry ministry bureaucrat to 10 years in prison for drugging six women with sleeping pills and then raping or groping them in 2022.
Ishin struggles to set itself apart from other parties
Nippon Ishin no Kai Secretary-General Fumitake Fujita (right) speaks beside Yui Kanazawa, the party's candidate in the Tokyo 15th district by-election on April 28. Nippon Ishin lost in this by-election as well as another in Nagasaki held on the same day.
In a rare event, the Northern Lights show up in Hokkaido
The Northern Lights in Nayoro, Hokkaido, on Saturday
Is black the new green for Japan’s flagging tea farmers?
George Guttridge-Smith brews tea at Kyoto Obubu Tea Farm in Wazuka, Kyoto Prefecture, where he serves as head of international development.
Japan's logistics firms seek partnerships to cope with driver shortage
Japan Post CEO Tetsuya Senda (right) and his Seino Transportation counterpart Satoshi Takahashi announce their companies' agreement on joint long-haul truck operations, in Tokyo on Thursday.
How the discovery of a giant sword in Nara offers clues into ancient Japan
Archaeologists say a 1,600-year-old wooden coffin at the Tomio Maruyama tumulus in the city of Nara was kept in good condition probably because it was protected by a layer of clay and copper ions that had seeped out of the mirrors that were buried together.

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