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Seana K. Magee
For Seana K. Magee's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2010
American grads head to Nagasaki to document A-bomb survivors, kin
NEW YORK — Two recent college graduates are traveling to Nagasaki to interview atomic-bomb survivors and their relatives for a documentary they will produce about peace activism.
JAPAN
May 25, 2010
Harpsichordist takes on nukes with global peace concerts
NEW YORK — Harpsichordist Yasuko Mitsui has promised to keep organizing concerts around the globe through her foundation until the world has gotten rid of nuclear weapons
JAPAN
May 10, 2010
Now the time to ban nukes: Nobel laureate
NEW YORK — Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams says a window of opportunity is now open to push U.N. officials to begin work on a new comprehensive treaty to ban nuclear weapons, but the opportunity shouldn't be squandered.
JAPAN
Apr 2, 2010
Film on double hibakusha in works
NEW YORK — A 20-minute trailer for a film about Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who survived the atomic bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki and died in January, was shown during the recent New York Peace Film Festival.
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2010
Artist shares culture of paper-cutting in U.S.
NEW YORK — Armed only with an art knife, Shu Kubo over the last few months has single-handedly built up a fan base after battling blizzards and floods to introduce thousands of Americans to the intricate art of paper-cutting.
JAPAN
Mar 24, 2010
Brown sees next caper as hit here
EXETER, N.H. — American author Dan Brown believes Japanese readers will be sucked in by his latest novel, "The Lost Symbol," because it is a mystery that delves into the secret world of Freemasons.
JAPAN
Mar 20, 2010
Instability in 1960s made secret pacts with U.S. necessary: expert
NEW YORK — The tacit agreements between Japan and the United States concerning U.S. nuclear-armed vessels visiting Japanese ports were necessary in the 1960s due to the unstable political climate at the time, according to a leading American expert on Japan.
JAPAN
Feb 23, 2010
'Rakugo' storyteller wows U.N. staffers with imaginative comedy
NEW YORK — Thrilling more than 200 diplomats and other U.N. staff, Katsura Koharudanji III took his traditional comic storytelling to new heights last week by becoming the first "rakugo" comic story teller to perform at U.N. headquarters.
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JAPAN
Dec 26, 2009
Japanese choir heartens patients
ENGLEWOOD, N.J. — Decked out in Santa hats, reindeer headbands or other seasonal garb, an all-Japanese troupe of singers recently made its annual pilgrimage to New Jersey, where they spread holiday spirit to patients, their families and staff at a hospital in their largest turnout ever.
JAPAN
Nov 5, 2009
Music-thanatology can soothe the dying
my most vulnerable part of my heart." While her professional focus is on promoting ways of better teaching palliative and hospice care to health care professionals, Imaishi hopes to share her knowledge in her home country.
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JAPAN
Oct 15, 2009
Kyoto's old town houses added to World Monuments Fund list
NEW YORK — The World Monuments Fund earlier this month announced Kyoto's traditional town houses, called "machiya," were added to 92 other sites that are at risk of disappearing in 47 countries.
JAPAN
Sep 22, 2009
Environmentalists looking to Hatoyama for leadership
NEW YORK (Kyodo) If Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama makes good on his promise to cut Japan's greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020 and send a strong message to a U.N. climate change summit this week, Tokyo has a chance of playing a leading role as a catalyst for change, according to an official of the World Wide Fund for Nature.
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JAPAN
Aug 6, 2009
Manhattan Project relic may be spared
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — Bill Wilcox, a former nuclear scientist, is committed to saving a slice of history that links Oak Ridge to Japan through enriched uranium that was once produced here for the atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima in 1945.
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JAPAN
May 21, 2009
Hiraoka calls for nuke-free zones
NEW YORK — As Hideo Hiraoka pushes to persuade leaders at the United Nations to advocate a nuclear-free Northeast Asia, he still remembers his first encounter with nuclear devastation at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum decades ago.
JAPAN
May 7, 2009
Hiroshima, Nagasaki mayors back Obama's nuclear-free commitment
NEW YORK — The mayors of Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki supported U.S. President Barack Obama's recent commitment to eliminate nuclear weapons in their respective speeches Tuesday to a session of the preparatory committee of the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference.
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BUSINESS
Feb 14, 2009
7-Eleven to expand in N. America
Despite a dramatic downturn in the economy, plans are in place to expand the number of 7-Eleven stores throughout the North American market with an eye to utilizing some successful formulas that have worked in Japan.
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JAPAN
Jun 12, 2008
Documentary captures Valentine's love affair with Japanese baseball
Outspoken Bobby Valentine, who manages the Chiba Lotte Marines, promotes Japanese baseball internationally and encourages players not to defect to the U.S. major leagues in a new TV documentary that recently aired in the U.S.
JAPAN
Dec 6, 2007
Pianists prove disability no barrier to playing
Thirteen pianists with disabilities from seven countries held a concert Monday at the United Nations to coincide with the annual observance of the International Day of Disabled Persons. The performers from Japan, Malaysia, France, South Korea, the United States, Spain and Portugal ranged in age from elementary school students to adults and played selections from standard classics to popular hits.
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JAPAN
Nov 15, 2007
Kawagoe takes taste of Little Edo to the Big Apple
The Japanese consul general recently threw open the doors of his grand European-style home here to showcase Kawagoe, the famous castle town in Saitama Prefecture.
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JAPAN
Oct 19, 2007
Freed man slams executions of innocent
Sakae Menda, a man freed from death row more than 24 years ago, called on member states Tuesday at the United Nations to step up efforts to achieve a global abolishment of capital punishment.
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.
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
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.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Air China to buy 100 locally made C919 jets in $11 billion deal
A Comac C919 during an aerial display at the Singapore Airshow at Changi Exhibition Centre in Singapore in February
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.
Tokyo's Koto Ward by-election a race unlike any other
Natsumi Sakai, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan’s candidate and one of four female candidates running in the by-election, touts her experience as a cancer survivor and midwife as having prepared her to tackle issues that women currently face.
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.
Top U.S. and China diplomats talk tough amid warnings of new ‘downward spiral’
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Friday

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