National / Science & Health Aug 11, 2020
91 test positive for coronavirus in Shimane high school cluster
Among those found to have contracted the virus were 88 members of the soccer team at the school in Matsue, with 82 living in the same dorm.
National Aug 29, 2017
Matsue mayor to visit sister city in South Korea for first time in 10 years
The mayor of Matsue will visit the city's sister city in South Korea for the first time in nearly a decade to resume exchanges that were interrupted due to a territorial dispute over a pair of islets, the Japanese city said Tuesday. Matsue Mayor Masataka ...
National Dec 15, 2016
Two more bodies found inside sunken fishing boat off Shimane Prefecture
The Japan Coast Guard on Thursday found two bodies inside a sunken fishing boat that capsized the previous day off Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, in the Sea of Japan. One of the bodies was identified as Yasushi Yoshida, 59, the chief engineer of the vessel Daifuku ...
National Dec 14, 2016
One killed, nine missing as fishing boat capsizes off Matsue
A vessel being towed by another fishing boat capsizes off Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, triggering a search for its crew.
National Aug 4, 2016
Shimane park's penguins suit up for Olympic cheerleading duties
As the Rio de Janeiro Olympics approach, a theme park focusing on birds and flowers in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, is letting penguins strut their stuff in special outfits to cheer on Japanese athletes at the Rio Games. Five penguins at Matsue Vogel Park wear white ...
National Jul 16, 2016
A museum in Shimane Prefecture reopened on Saturday with more exhibition space for the personal effects and books of naturalized Japanese writer Lafcadio Hearn, also known as Yakumo Koizumi. The Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum in Matsue had been closed since January for a renewal that ...
Travel Sep 20, 2014
Glimpses of Lafcadio Hearn's Matsue
by Stephen Mansfield
The Matsue-bound train I boarded at Okayama Station was pointedly named Yakumo, a reference to its destination's best-known former resident: Greek-Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), whose adopted Japanese name was Yakumo Koizumi. Although Hearn stayed in Matsue for only a year, he developed a great ...
National Aug 26, 2013
The Matsue education board decided Monday to retract its request to limit student access to the comic book "Hadashi no Gen" ("Barefoot Gen") amid reports that sales of manga are soaring. The board in the capital of Shimane Prefecture, had urged municipal elementary and junior ...
National Aug 23, 2013
The Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, board of education is bent on covering up negative aspects of Japan's wartime history, as evidenced by its decision to have local elementary and junior high schools curb student access to the longtime iconic anti-war manga "Hadashi no Gen" ("Barefoot ...
National Aug 22, 2013
After the Matsue board of education caused a stir last week by restricting student access to an iconic manga about the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and other wartime cruelties, it said Thursday that 44 of 49 school principals polled in the city ...
Reference | Q&A Aug 21, 2013
'Barefoot Gen' pulled as anti-war images strike too close to home?
by Jun Hongo
The decision by the board of education of Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, to limit students' access to the manga series "Hadashi no Gen" ("Barefoot Gen") at school libraries continues to cause a stir. While some support the move, others say it disrespects the best-selling anti-war ...
National Aug 18, 2013
Matsue restricts student access to 'Barefoot Gen' A-bomb manga
Claiming it contains too many violent images, the education board of Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, has asked all its public elementary and junior high schools to limit pupils' access to "Hadashi no Gen" ("Barefoot Gen"), the manga series by the late Keiji Nakazawa that depicts ...