For Jun Shimazaki's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
A fundraising project aimed at planting 1,000 cherry trees across parks in Britain — meant as a symbol of bilateral friendship — is about to begin. The project has been organized by Japanese individuals and companies in both countries who hope initially to plant between ...
“Hip-hop in Palestine?” the director of the 2008 film “Slingshots Hip Hop” recalls saying to herself when she first learned from a U.S. radio program in 2001 that there was a Palestinian hip-hop group called DAM.
For anyone with a yen to help out financially strapped Algerian nomads, now's your chance. Alissa Descotes-Toyosaki, a Japanese-French writer and interpreter living in Paris, is offering a "camel owner plan," through which purchasers lend their beasts to Tuareg nomad camel handlers in southern Algeria. She ...
