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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
Sep 15, 2006
Abe, LDP sued over history text approval
A group of people Thursday filed a lawsuit against Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe and the Liberal Democratic Party with the Tokyo District Court, claiming they broke the law by intervening in the approval process for a revisionist history text.
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JAPAN
Sep 12, 2006
Imperial imposters get 26 months
The Tokyo District Court on Monday sentenced a man and a woman to 26 months in prison for staging a fraudulent wedding reception in which they pretended to be members of the Imperial family and bilked guests out of 12 million yen in cash and a painting.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 8, 2006
Widowed mother reflects on life post-9/11
Five years after the death of her husband Yoichi, Harumi Sugiyama, 41, still wears her wedding ring and dreams about him at night.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 8, 2006
Kimura admits window-dressing but denies fraud in building safety scandal
Former Kimura Construction Co. President Moriyoshi Kimura, a key figure in the building safety scandal, pleaded not guilty Thursday to fraud for allegedly selling a building he knew did not meet earthquake-resistance standards, but admitted to window-dressing.
JAPAN
Sep 7, 2006
Aneha enters guilty plea over buildings
Hidetsugu Aneha, the architect accused of fabricating earthquake-resistance data for dozens of buildings nationwide, pleaded guilty Wednesday to several charges, including falsifying structural-calculation documents.
JAPAN
Sep 2, 2006
Many pairs fancy sex selection over nature's course
As Princess Kiko prepares to have her third child, the nation is focused on whether the Imperial family will have its first male born in 41 years.
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2006
Tokyo beats Fukuoka in bid to host '16 Games
congratulates Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara after the JOC announced Wednesday that the capital, and not Fukuoka, will be the nation's candidate city to vie to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. SATOKO KAWASAKI PHOTO
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2006
Sandstorm drop belies west China desertification
is a problem that needs to be treated," Diallo told reporters. "If it is not treated, it spreads." The adverse effects of desertification in western China have been visible in Japan. Sandstorms that carry the Gobi desert's "kousa" yellow sand eastward increased substantially since 2000.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 21, 2006
U.S. veteran turns up old Okinawa photographs
Sixty-one years ago, Cosmo Vitale walked over the mountains dividing an island near Okinawa and ran into Japanese prisoners of war on the other side.
JAPAN
Aug 19, 2006
Aum sarin maker's death penalty upheld
," Tsuchiya's lawyers claimed in their concluding statement. But Shiraki dismissed that argument, saying Tsuchiya surely was aware that the chemicals he was synthesizing would be used to kill.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 16, 2006
Koizumi visit quick but so is protest outcry
what he did," said Eun Sik Kim, deputy director of the committee. Taiwan Aboriginal, a group of Taiwanese who marched with the Korean group, were even more vocal.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 16, 2006
Tax hike gets people to stub out for good
Miho Shimada has seen the difference 1 yen can make.
JAPAN
Aug 15, 2006
Paraguay envoy looks back on emigration plan that worked
, now the Japan International Cooperation Agency, played a key role in assisting the emigrants to Paraguay and improving their lives, providing them with agricultural knowhow. Hospitals and schools were built with aid from Japan, while JICA experts collaborated to improve soybean strains and advised farmers to experiment in no-tillage cultivation.
JAPAN
Aug 10, 2006
CPAs in Kanebo fraud avoid prison
The Tokyo District Court handed suspended prison terms Wednesday to three certified public accountants for conspiring to falsify Kanebo Ltd.'s earnings in fiscal 2001 and 2002 to cover up a 160 billion yen capital deficit.
JAPAN
Aug 8, 2006
Ex-Kimura exec denies falsifying financial data
Akira Shinozuka, former head of the Tokyo branch of Kimura Construction Co. and a key figure in the building safety scandal centered on disgraced architect Hidetsugu Aneha, pleaded not guilty Monday to falsifying financial documents in 2004 to win public construction contracts.
JAPAN
Aug 1, 2006
Key defense bid-rigger gets 1 1/2 years
The Tokyo District Court found three former officials of the Defense Facilities Administration Agency guilty Monday of bid-rigging, including on construction assignments at U.S. bases in Japan, and sentenced the key player to prison.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 27, 2006
Teens' A-bomb film draws big response
Like any 14-year-old, Stephen Sotor is a big fan of video games and carries his PlayStation Portable everywhere he goes.
JAPAN
Jul 21, 2006
Pair get 13 years for fatal '05 beating of homeless man
The Tokyo District Court sentenced two men Thursday to 13 years in prison for beating a homeless man to death at a park in Tokyo's Sumida Ward last July.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 20, 2006
Korean-Japanese bridges the gap for movie crew
Born in 1978 as a third-generation Korean in Japan, Chung Ji Hye used to hesitate about revealing her family background to her friends.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 15, 2006
Britain to get new Japanese studies center in September
Efforts by Japan experts in Britain to boost Japanese studies in the country will bear fruit this September with the opening of the National Institute of Japanese Studies in the new White Rose East Asia Center.
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
Raising kids in Japan as a single parent? It takes a village.
Making things work as a foreign, single mother in Japan isn't easy, but these tips and tricks can help you through the hardest parts.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
In Japan, regional revitalization fails to halt population decline
Sakiyama elementary school in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, in March .Over the past decade, the government has directed efforts toward policies designed to give young people incentives to base themselves in rural areas.
Putin’s war will soon reach Russians’ tax bills
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting in St. Petersburg on Friday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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