Tag - hearing

 
 

HEARING

Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 27, 2015
Unified elections help diversify representation in Tokyo
Liberal Democratic Party-backed candidates lose three of five key mayoral races in the final wave of unified elections as voter turnout sinks to another record low.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 3, 2015
Summoned investigators fail to appear at New Orleans hearing for millionaire murder suspect Durst
Robert Durst, the real estate scion awaiting extradition to California to face a murder charge, will remain jailed in Louisiana after investigators his attorneys wanted to question did not appear at a court hearing on Thursday.
JAPAN
Dec 5, 2014
Advocate urges U.N. to tap disabled when prepping for disasters
Akiko Fukuda, secretary-general of the World Federation of the Deafblind, pressed the international community at the United Nations this week to include the perspectives of the disabled when devising disaster-preparedness plans.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 29, 2014
Silence is golden for volleyballer after 3/11
Namiko Yanagawa, who lost her hearing at age 1, led the women's national volleyball team for the deaf and hard-of-hearing until last year, and is well-versed in the challenges the sport poses to those with hearing difficulties.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2014
'Deaf' composer Samuragochi says he's sorry for deceiving
A month after the shocking revelation by his ghostwriter, the supposedly "deaf" composer Mamoru Samuragochi apologized Friday for deceiving people with his lies.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 7, 2014
Hiroshima will take back award given to native son Samuragochi
In the wake of the revelation that native son Mamoru Samuragochi did not compose musical scores for which he was credited, the city of Hiroshima has decided to take back an award it gave to him in 2008.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 6, 2014
Samuragochi's ghostwriter speaks
The man who ghostwrote works credited to “deaf” composer Mamoru Samuragochi for the past 18 years stepped forward Thursday as his “partner in crime.”
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 21, 2014
Deaf woman helps hearing-impaired 'break out of shell'
A beauty pageant contestant, model and aspiring entrepreneur — who happens to be deaf — recently organized a fashion show to offer hearing-impaired people an outlet to express themselves.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 13, 2013
Deaf bartender raises game to thrive in Ginza
Dai Igarashi is a bartender in Tokyo's glitzy Ginza entertainment district, attending to customers like any barkeep but with one difference — he is totally deaf.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 10, 2013
Filmmaker captures the 3/11 stress of Tohoku's deaf
Nobuko Kikuchi, a 72-year-old resident of Iwanuma, Miyagi Prefecture, couldn't hear the emergency sirens that followed the 9.0-magnitude earthquake that struck on March 11, 2011.

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Historically, kabuki was considered the entertainment of the merchant and peasant classes, a far cry from how it is regarded today.
For Japan's oldest kabuki theater, the show must go on