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MASSACRE

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 8, 2017
Japan has much to teach America about guns
Owning a gun in Japan is not viewed as a freedom equalizer. It's seen as a social disruption to the smooth and peaceful rhythm of daily life.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 3, 2017
Family 'bewildered' as Vegas massacre gunman was believed settling into quiet rural retirement
At first glance, it seemed Stephen Paddock, 64, was set for a quiet life in a desert retirement community where he bought a new home in 2015. From there it was only an hour's drive to Las Vegas — where he would embark on the worst mass shooting in recent U.S. history.
WORLD
Oct 3, 2017
In info void before smoke cleared in Vegas bloodbath, fake news quick to flood social media
As law enforcement and news organizations raced to piece together what happened during the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history Sunday night in Las Vegas, web denizens less wedded to the truth rushed in to provide details of their own — which quickly went viral.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 3, 2017
Apa hotels won't remove books that deny 1937 Rape of Nanking for Olympics
The leader of the Apa hotel chain says his books denying the Rape of Nanking took place will not be removed from guest rooms for the Olympics.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
May 6, 2017
Escalating threats to secularism in Bangladesh
Islamists have ignited contemporary identity wars in Bangladesh because they can't abide secularism, with hard-line clerics inciting violence to overturn constitutional principles and the rule of law.
JAPAN
Apr 20, 2017
UNESCO may weigh opposing views on Memory of the World submissions in light of Japan's ire
UNESCO should take into account opposing views in its heritage registration process in light of criticism leveled by Japan about its inscription of China's "Documents of Nanjing Massacre" in the Memory of the World project, a report issued by its advisory committee says.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Feb 17, 2017
Contentious plea deal as man admits buying rifles used in San Bernardino massacre
In a plea deal criticized by the father of a victim, a California man pleaded guilty Thursday to providing the high-powered rifles used to kill 14 people in the San Bernardino terror attack.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Feb 15, 2017
Bangladesh police gun down militant linked to cafe massacre, slaying of Japanese
Bangladesh police on Tuesday shot dead a suspected militant commander and a close aide of the mastermind of the cafe attack last year that killed 22 people, mostly foreigners, a police official said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 14, 2017
Apa under fire again, this time for anti-Semitic remarks
The Apa Group finds itself once again facing international criticism, this time for anti-Semitic comments made in a magazine distributed to hotels it owns and runs in Canada.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 7, 2017
South Korea athletes not to stay in APA hotel during Asian Winter Games
South Korea's top sports body announced Tuesday that its athletes will not stay at the Apa Hotel & Resort in Sapporo during the Asian Winter Games that begin in Hokkaido later this month.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 6, 2017
Protesters march in Tokyo against Apa Hotel chief's Nanking Massacre denial books
About 200 protesters marched through the streets of Tokyo's Shinjuku district on Sunday carrying banners to protest a hotel chain under fire for books its president wrote denying that the Nanking Massacre in wartime China ever happened.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 1, 2017
South Korea joins China, asks Asian Games organizer to change hotel over Nanking Massacre denial book
South Korea has joined China in asking the organizer of the Asian Winter Games to change the hotel for its athletes due to a controversial history book placed in its guest rooms, the organizer said Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 31, 2017
Chinese athletes won't be staying at Apa Hotel in Sapporo over massacre book
The organizing committee for the upcoming Asian Winter Games will change the lodgings for Chinese athletes from the Apa Hotel in Sapporo, where copies of a book denying the 1937 Nanking Massacre are placed in guest rooms, a committee source said Tuesday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jan 28, 2017
Sino-Japanese propaganda wars are heating up
Both Japan and China are wielding history like a cudgel to bash the other and assert a sanctimonious nationalism that impedes reconciliation.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 27, 2017
Tourism industry braces for fallout from Apa's Nanking Massacre denial book
The furor over a major Japanese hotel chain's decision to place a book denying the 1937 Nanking Massacre in its rooms is rattling the tourism industry as the money-making Lunar New Year holidays get underway.
JAPAN
Jan 26, 2017
Apa agrees to remove Nanking Massacre denial book from hotel for Asian Games
The organizer of the Asian Winter Games in Japan next month has said a book denying the 1937 Nanking Massacre will be withdrawn from guest rooms at a hotel to be used as one of the athletes' dormitories, according to South Korea's national sports organization.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 25, 2017
Despite calls for boycott, Apa hotel chain will keep books denying Nanking Massacre
The hotel operator refuses to remove books, written by its CEO and placed in its hotel rooms, that deny the Rape of Nanking.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 19, 2017
Istanbul nightclub attacker says he acted on Islamic State orders; terror sweep nets dozens of arrests
An Uzbek gunman who killed 39 people in Istanbul's Reina nightclub on New Year's Day told police he had changed his target at the last minute to avoid heavy security and acted on direct orders from Islamic State in Syria, a newspaper said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 18, 2017
Apa takes flak from China over books in its inns denying Nanking Massacre
Major hotel chain operator Apa Group is facing fierce criticism after two students who stayed at one of its hotels in Tokyo posted a video about a book written by its CEO, which claims the 1937 Nanking Massacre committed by the Imperial Japanese Army was "fabricated by the Chinese side."
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jan 18, 2017
Orlando nightclub gunman's widow accused of misleading police, aiding and abetting
The wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, last year was due in court on Tuesday, accused of misleading authorities investigating the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
G7 eyes plan on U.S.-led $50 billion aid package for Ukraine
A local resident visits the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on Thursday. The U.S. is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Japan’s record-low children population weighs on growth
The number of children 14 years old or younger fell for the 43rd straight year to around 14.01 million as of April 1.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
'Monster' Inoue ready to tear down Luis Nery in title defense at Tokyo Dome
Naoya Inoue (left) and Luis Nery following a pre-fight news conference in Yokohama on Saturday, two days ahead of their super bantamweight title fight.
Debate on constitutional revision at a standstill despite Kishida's pledges
With less than two months left before the conclusion of the current session of parliament, any possibility that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can deliver constitutional reform before the end of his term as Liberal Democratic Party president in late September, as he has promised, appears remote.
Sapporo court ruling on Ainu fishing rights presents tough questions
A traditional Ainu preserved food called <i>satchep</i> (dried fish) being made at the government-run National Ainu Museum and Park, nicknamed Upopoy, in the town of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, on Dec. 25. The Sapporo District Court ruled last month that the Raporo Ainu Nation's rights as an Indigenous people did not extend to having an inherent right to fish for commercial reasons.
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
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.

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