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IZUMI

Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 30, 2017
Abe aide pushed for Kake approval in meetings, ex-bureaucrat says
A close aide to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last year urged the then-top education ministry bureaucrat to push forward the procedure for the opening of a veterinary medicine school, the bureaucrat said Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 24, 2017
U.N. disarmament head gives first briefing on Syria chemical weapons
Izumi Nakamitsu, the United Nations' new head of disarmament, gave her first briefing to the 15-member Security Council on Tuesday, focusing on the latest developments on chemical weapons in Syria.
JAPAN
May 9, 2017
Hiroshima mayor wants U.N. chief to attend nuclear disarmament conference in August
Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui has called on U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres to take part in a peace conference to be held in Nagasaki in August.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 5, 2017
New U.N. disarmament chief Nakamitsu backs proposal for global nuclear weapons ban
Izumi Nakamitsu, the new U.N. undersecretary-general and high representative for disarmament affairs, has said that she will throw her full support behind negotiations to ban nuclear weapons.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 30, 2017
Nakamitsu named U.N. high representative for disarmament affairs
Tokyo native Izumi Nakamitsu joined the U.N. in 1989 and has been assistant secretary-general and assistant administrator at the U.N. Development Program's Crisis Response Unit since 2014.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Dec 23, 2016
Olympic champions Kawai, Dosho capture national titles
Rio Olympic gold medalists Risako Kawai and Sara Dosho wrapped up the year on a high note by winning their respective weight class at the All-Japan Wrestling Championships Friday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Dec 10, 2016
Defining J-horror: The terror of deep time
The horror genre is not typically thought of as a "slow" genre. In fact, horror films today often feel like stimulus-response tests where shocking events happen suddenly and without warning. However, Japanese horror directors take up another tradition, one where events unfold gradually. A case point is the director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, whose films "Cure" (1997) and "Pulse" (2001) have become J-horror classics. In them, everything happens slowly, as in a dream or a trance state. His characters are prey to the gradual and inevitable unfolding of strange events that will forever lay beyond the scope of their comprehension. The result is hypnotic: it's as if the horror is stretched out and experienced in slow-motion.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 2, 2016
Nakamitsu named Ban's special U.N. adviser on mass refugee, migrant movements
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon announced Tuesday his appointment of Japan's Izumi Nakamitsu as special adviser on follow-up to a recent summit on addressing large movements of refugees and migrants.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 25, 2016
LDP-backed candidate Wada wins seat in Hokkaido by-election
Yoshiaki Wada, the Liberal Democratic Party-backed candidate, secured a seat in a Hokkaido by-election Sunday in what is seen as giving a boost to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's party in the upcoming Upper House election, after defeating the Democratic Party's candidate in a close race.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jun 28, 2015
Rap gets a new delivery from a wave of female artists
Hip-hop is a major force on the American music charts, but its presence has been less prominent in Japan. Elements of the wider culture have found their way into teenage wardrobes and pop-video dance routines, but even Japanese rappers admit they have a hard time grabbing the attention of new fans.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS / OLYMPIC NOTEBOOK
Apr 4, 2015
Olympic channel set to innovate, inspire
The evolution of Olympic TV coverage mirrors technological changes that have transformed broadcast media — and society — over the past 50-plus years.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
Jan 24, 2015
The Ink Dark Moon
No other period in Japan's literary history was as dominated by women as the Heian Period (794-1185). Most Japanophiles know names such as Sei Shonagon ("The Pillow Book") or Murasaki Shikibu ("The Tale of Genji") for their contributions to the world of literature, but Izumi Shikibu (Shikibu is a title, not a name) and Ono no Komachi should be added to that list.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 2, 2014
Architect building 'infrastructure-free' homes for poor Kenyans
A Japanese architect is promoting construction of "infrastructure-free" homes for people in a Nairobi slum.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Nov 26, 2014
Life's the star in new 'Constellations'
As the third play in its series titled Drama for Two — The Power of Dialogue, the New National Theatre, Tokyo, is set to stage acclaimed English playwright Nick Payne's two-hander quantum love story "Constellations" for a three-week run from Dec. 3.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 21, 2014
'Izumi Kato: Soft Vinyl Sculptures'
As someone who liked to play with plastic Ultraman superhero and Kaiju monster toys as a child, Izumi Kato has been long familiar with soft vinyl, and since 2010, the artist has been using it to create sculptures.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Feb 10, 2013
Winging along to marvel at Izumi's wintering cranes
My eyes have been carefully trained on the barren fields outside Izumi Crane Park Museum for at least 20 minutes, but I've yet to spot any of the locality's most famous feathered friends.
EDITORIALS
Nov 29, 2011
Welfare recipients hit new high
The health and welfare ministry announced on Nov. 9 that the number of people on welfare receiving livelihood assistance known as seikatsu hogo (literally livelihood protection) reached 2,050,495 nationwide as of July 2011, topping the monthly average record of 2,046,646 marked in fiscal 1951, when Japan was in the midst of postwar social and economic confusion. Behind this is an increase in the number of elderly people and prolonging economic stagnation.
EDITORIALS
Nov 5, 2011
SDF principle in South Sudan
The government on Tuesday announced a plan to send several hundred Ground Self-Defense Force engineers to South Sudan next year as part of a U.N. peacekeeping operation. The GSDF has started procuring materials and equipment for its mission in South Sudan, which became Africa's 54th independent country in July, seceding from Sudan after many years of civil war. It is hoped that the GSDF will contribute to the improvement of infrastructure, which the country badly needs.
'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.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
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 vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
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.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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