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Keiji Hirano
For Keiji Hirano's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
JAPAN
Feb 25, 2010
Otaru museum to feature art by local condemned in Teigin Incident
An art exhibition featuring watercolors by the late Sadamichi Hirasawa, who was sentenced to death over a 1948 mass-poisoning case known as the Teigin Incident, will open Saturday at the Otaru City Museum of Art in Hokkaido.
JAPAN
Feb 19, 2010
Proving a secret that is no longer a secret to preserve democracy
For the plaintiffs, it has been a long struggle to set the record straight and to ensure democracy prevails.
JAPAN
Dec 12, 2009
Academic ability, poverty, dropouts all linked, high school study says
SAITAMA — High schools with less academic prestige are likely to attract more students from poor families and suffer a greater degree of dropouts unless educational and economic steps are taken to reverse the trend, according to research conducted by a former high school teacher.
JAPAN
Dec 2, 2009
Archives detail '49 miscarriage of justice
, a professor emeritus at Fukushima University, poses in front of the school's Matsukawa case archives. Below: Makoto Suzuki, a defendant in the case first sentenced to death and then acquitted, is interviewed in November. KYODO PHOTO
JAPAN
Nov 9, 2009
Symposium highlights unresolved issues of Minamata disease sufferers
The problems facing people suffering from fetal Minamata disease remain unresolved more than 50 years after the mercury-poisoning disorder was officially detected in 1956, a researcher of the disease said Sunday.
JAPAN
Oct 17, 2009
Photo album chronicles daily lives of Ainu living in Tokyo
A record of the daily lives of Ainu living in the Tokyo metropolitan area has been published as a photo collection.
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JAPAN
Aug 3, 2009
Execution of a noted jailhouse writer commemorated
Hundreds of people gathered on the 12th anniversary of Norio Nagayama's execution, a man hanged for killing four people when he was a teenager.
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JAPAN
Jul 8, 2009
Public right to know vs. secret pact
Fumitomo Fujita was excited when major newspapers protested the April 1972 arrest of a reporter who stood accused of soliciting a Foreign Ministry secretary for classified documents on Japan-U.S. talks over the reversion of Okinawa.
JAPAN
Jun 10, 2009
Ainu still lead underprivileged lives, survey finds
Many Ainu lead underprivileged lives, with their income and university advancement rate remaining low, according to a survey by the Hokkaido University Center for Ainu & Indigenous Studies and the Ainu Association of Hokkaido.
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JAPAN
Jun 6, 2009
Cleared con fights for taped interrogations
Hiroshi Yanagihara claims he was subjected to harsh interrogations while in custody in connection with rapes and attempted rapes he knew nothing about in Himi, Toyama Prefecture in 2002, pressured to confess and then sent up.
JAPAN
May 20, 2009
Book chronicles lives of death-row inmates
The previously secret lives and unheard voices of people on death row have been published by a group opposed to capital punishment at a time when members of the public may soon be required to give the death penalty under the lay judge system.
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JAPAN
Apr 22, 2009
NGOs report efforts to motivate G8 in Hokkaido
Nongovernmental organizations have issued a report on their efforts to press their cases to the leaders of the Group of Eight nations when they held their summit last July at Hokkaido's Lake Toya resort.
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JAPAN
Apr 3, 2009
Killer's letters apt social study, 40 years on
KASHIWA, Chiba Pref. (Kyodo) When Satoshi Kamata heard about a 25-year-old temporary worker going on a stabbing spree in Tokyo's Akihabara district last June, he was transported back to the late 1960s.
JAPAN
Mar 12, 2009
Single-mother households badly hit by slump
The economic slump has severely hit single-mother households because many of these women work as nonregular employees, the Japan Federation of Bar Associations reported at a recent symposium.
JAPAN
Jan 29, 2009
Legal system defect makes presumed innocence a joke: gallows foe
It's easy to wrongfully charge innocent people under the legal system because the principle of presumed innocence is a mere slogan, according to a prominent campaigner against the death penalty.
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JAPAN
Jan 8, 2009
'Terakoya' schools' literacy drive in 20th year
The National Federation of UNESCO Associations in Japan has marked the 20th anniversary this year of its launch of "terakoya" schools to promote literacy and vocational education in developing countries around the world.
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JAPAN
Dec 27, 2008
Widow's film delves into impact of Agent Orange
When her American husband, Greg Davis, succumbed to liver cancer in May 2003 at the age of 54, Masako Sakata was seized with suspicion his death was caused by Agent Orange, which he had been exposed to in Vietnam during his three years of military service through 1970.
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JAPAN
Nov 7, 2008
Booklet lists Ainu rights in U.N. declaration
A booklet detailing the rights granted to the Ainu by the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has been published by a nongovernmental organization.
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JAPAN
Nov 6, 2008
More Minamata cases uncovered
There are many unrecognized Minamata disease patients who suffered prenatal exposure to mercury, and it is necessary to conduct a fact-finding survey to identify them, medical experts and the patients themselves told a Tokyo symposium.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 31, 2008
'Sayama case' taken to U.N. panel
SAYAMA, Saitama Pref. — Kazuo Ishikawa has been living under restrictions of one sort or another for the last 4 1/2 decades.
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.
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.
Kishida defends planned rule to revoke foreigners' residency
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a meeting of the Lower House Judicial Affairs Committee on Wednesday.
Japan concerned over U.S. officials' remarks on atomic bombings
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham speaks to reporters during a news conference in Washington on Thursday.
Was Onosato's defeat of Terunofuji an era-defining bout?
Onosato (right) defeats Terunofuji at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on May 12. While nothing in sumo is guaranteed, it seems almost inevitable that Onosato is destined for the top of the sport's pyramid.
New Taiwan president to set tone for ties with China at inauguration
Taiwan President-elect Lai Ching-te arrives at the CyberSec 2024 Exhibition in Taipei on Wednesday.
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 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.
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.

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