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Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 15, 2013
Auschwitz boss' daughter lives secret life in U.S.
Brigitte Hoss lives quietly on a leafy side street in Northern Virginia. She is retired now, having worked in a Washington fashion salon for more than 30 years. She recently was diagnosed with cancer and spends much of her days dealing with the medical consequences.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Sep 7, 2013
What's the real story behind 'Emperor'?
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Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 2, 2013
TV figure David Frost, of Nixon apology fame, dies at 74
Sir David Frost, the veteran broadcaster who famously drew a grudging post-Watergate apology out of former President Richard Nixon, died Saturday aboard a cruise ship sailing from England to the Mediterranean. He was 74.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Sep 1, 2013
Poison gas viewed as uniquely horrible
After the guns of World War I fell silent, the world's nations convened in Geneva to outlaw for the first time an entire class of weapons. Barely 1 percent of the war's battlefield deaths had come from toxic chemicals, yet these had evoked greater horror than the blast wounds, shrapnel and bullets that...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 29, 2013
Japan misunderstood history comments, Ban says
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday that Japan misunderstood the comments he made earlier this week about its need to have a "correct view of history."
JAPAN / History
Aug 29, 2013
Yokohama recalls texts describing 1923 'massacre' of Koreans
The stir caused by a textbook's descriptions of the mass lynching of Koreans following the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake prompts Yokohama's board of education to order schools to collect the books from students.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 27, 2013
Ban shouldn't hit Abe's views: Suga
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga rebuffs criticism by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon over Japan's revisionist views of its wartime history.
EDITORIALS
Aug 27, 2013
Improving relations with Russia
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Vladimir Putin will meet on the fringe of the Group of 20 leaders summit next week in Saint Petersburg to discuss mutual trust.
JAPAN
Aug 21, 2013
Texts alleging forced observance of anthem, flag axed
A Japanese history textbook that takes a critical look at the national anthem and flag controversy has been dropped for use at public high schools in Kanagawa Prefecture starting next school year at the prefectural board of education's request.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2013
Leprosarium 'prison' dig site opens
The health ministry began work Tuesday at a leprosarium to excavate what was once the only "prison" for rebellious Hansen's disease patients brought in from facilities nationwide, as part of efforts to create a replica of the abusive jail for public viewing next year.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Aug 3, 2013
Where's the love? Japanese feel unhappy, unloved and pessimistic
The results of a Pew Opinion survey released in July 2013 found that the public mood in Japan is improving but remains "mostly one of dissatisfaction." However, that dissatisfaction is 10 percent lower than the level registered in 2007 during Shinzo Abe's first spell as premier.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 29, 2013
Political stunt in Korea game angers Japan
Japan has lodged a protest with the East Asian Football Federation demanding an investigation into a politically charged banner that was displayed at the East Asian Cup finale against South Korea on Sunday.
JAPAN / History
Jul 23, 2013
Taiwan government to use new wording for Japanese colonial period
Taiwan's Executive Yuan, or Cabinet, instructed all government agencies Monday to begin calling the 50-year Japanese colonial rule of the island as the "Japanese occupation period" in official documents.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jul 6, 2013
Challenging our notion of currency
When an American explorer named William Henry Furness III arrived on the remote Pacific island of Yap at the start of the last century, he found a scarcely touched place that made his previous destination of Borneo look almost developed.
JAPAN
Jul 4, 2013
Abe aside, war apology stands: Suga
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga on Thursday reaffirmed that the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe upholds the position set out by the 1995 apology issued by then-Prime Minister Tomiichii Murayama, which admits that Japan waged wars of aggression.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 2, 2013
Suga urges continued dialogue with S. Korea
With no foreseeable prospect of a summit between its leaders, Japan and South Korea must continue to hold talks to address mutually significant issues, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga says.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 2, 2013
African-American woman traces ancestry to family of Thomas Jefferson
Reisha Raney's role in Friday night's Daughters of the American Revolution ceremony for the military was minor. She carried Virginia's flag in a procession that walked down a carpeted aisle at Constitution Hall.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jun 30, 2013
Charting U.S. decline, without anger
One of the odd things about American news programs is how little American news they feature. Typhoons and hurricanes, crazies and lone gunmen, Barack Obama staging a press conference, 10 seconds about the Middle East, a famous actor doing something scandalous, back to the weather: All this giddy fragmentation...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 12, 2013
Scholar finds archive details of '48 war criminal hangings
An academic has found a copy of an official U.S. military document detailing the procedures to be followed at the 1948 execution of seven Japanese convicted as Class-A war criminals by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
WORLD
May 18, 2013
Before tea party scandal, IRS harassed gay groups
Before there was the tea party, there was Big Mama Rag, Inc.
America wasn’t made for walking, and it’s killing them
A 2010 study found that U.S. adults averaged 5,117 steps daily and that this was lower than the averages found in similar studies in Switzerland, western Australia and Japan.
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.
Saudi crown prince seeks soft power in game hub Japan
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman welcomes Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, last July.
Japan survey finds 30% of student interns experience sexual harassment
The proportion of recent graduates in Japan who have worked as interns have experienced sexual harassment during their internship was 30.1%, according to a labor ministry survey, up 4.6 percentage points from the previous survey in fiscal 2020.
Nippon Steel boosts efforts to woo U.S. Steel workers and politicians
Nippon Steel, Japan’s top steelmaker, is sending Vice Chairman and Executive Vice President Takahiro Mori to Pittsburgh next week where he’ll meet with local staff and elected officials.
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.
Local theater in Japan is more than a hobby — it’s a community
Japan Times contributor Laura Pollacco (front right) was offered the role of one of her all-time favorite heroines, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Bennet, in the Tokyo International Players’ production of “Pride and Prejudice.”
Can AI-generated inventions be patented? A Tokyo court says no.
The Tokyo court's ruling comes amid ongoing debates on how to regulate generative AI and is part of a transnational class action lawsuit.
Massimo Bottura: 'The Japanese let ingredients express themselves'
Italian chef and restaurateur Massimo Bottura is increasingly focusing on passing on his knowledge to chefs such as Antonio Iacoviello.
Unraveling the Japanese prose of Yukio Mishima
Author Yukio Mishima accepts the Arts Festival Award in the drama category at the 20th Arts Festival Award Ceremony on Jan. 22, 1966.

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