Film / Reviews Feb 17, 2022
‘The Takatsu River’: A homey hometown drama
by James Hadfield
Yoshinari Nishikori offers a relatively upbeat take on a well-worn story of a rural Japanese community in decline.
Editorials Jan 23, 2009
Traffic accidents in Japan claimed 5,155 lives in 2008, down 589 from the previous year and marking the eighth straight year of decline. The number of annual traffic deaths is now about 30 percent of the record set in 1970 when 16,765 people died. ...