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Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2015
Japan sets up ninja body to promote culture of legendary mercenaries, tourism
Tales of the legendary ninja abound in Japanese films and anime, but more tourists will be able to experience the culture first-hand after a new organization launched Friday honoring the mercenaries.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 30, 2015
High school student held over classmate's stabbing death
Police arrested a senior high school student Tuesday on charges of stabbing an 18-year-old classmate to death in Mie Prefecture on Monday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2015
'Ama' divers denounce 'obscene' city mascot, demand its withdrawal
More than 100 ama divers are demanding that the coastal city of Shima, Mie Prefecture, scrap a newly adopted mascot on the grounds that it is obscene.
Japan Times
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Jul 28, 2015
Kajikawa using power of sport to improve society
In the increasingly cynical world we live in it seems like true believers are becoming a dying breed. The cold, hard reality of everyday life having taken a toll on optimism and enthusiasm.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 15, 2015
23 injured after bus, truck collide in Mie Prefecture
Twenty-three people were taken to hospitals after a tour bus and a dump truck collided on an expressway and tumbled off it on Tuesday, overturning on the grounds of a tea plantation 2 meters below, police said.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 23, 2015
G-7 summit in Shima fixed for May 26-27
Next year's Group of Seven summit of advanced countries in Shima, Mie Prefecture, will be held on May 26 and 27.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 22, 2015
For Mie, 2016 summit chance to enhance area's tourism appeal
Mie Prefecture sees next year's Ise-Shima Summit as the best opportunity to build infrastructure and nurture human resources to welcome more foreign tourists, hoping to achieve sustainable regional growth beyond 2016, Mie Gov. Eikei Suzuki said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jun 22, 2015
Shima has high hopes for long-term windfall from G-7 meet
Just before departing for this year's Group of Seven summit in Germany earlier this month, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced that Shima, situated at the end of a peninsula in Mie Prefecture, will be the main venue for next year's annual gathering.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 6, 2015
Mie's G-7 summit victory credited to Ise Shrine
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's decision to hold the 2016 G-7 summit close to Ise Shrine underlines his conservative credentials.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 5, 2015
Shima, capital of pearl cultivation, to host G-7 summit in 2016
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Friday next year's Group of Seven summit will take place in the picturesque but isolated city of Shima, situated at the end of a peninsula in Mie Prefecture.
JAPAN
May 28, 2015
Mie Prefecture apologizes over bear attack
Officials in Mie Prefecture have apologized to neighboring Shiga Prefecture after an elderly woman was attacked by a moon bear 6 km from where they released such an animal.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 17, 2015
Traditional 'ama' diving at risk as numbers plunge
Shinmei Shrine in Osatsu, a small community in Mie Prefecture, is a magnet for tourists from across the country, particularly women attracted by its supposed promise to accommodate at least one of each female worshipper's wishes.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 12, 2014
Ecotherapy Getaway Holiday: Finding feminism on the way to a waterfall
Doesn't every kid imagine being lost in the woods?
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2014
Mie teacher punished for taping boy's mouth shut
Maintaining calm in a classroom may be a tough challenge for many elementary school teachers, but one in Mie Prefecture resorted to the ultimate step to ensure silence — taping a student's mouth to shut him up.
JAPAN
Jul 3, 2014
Mayor to sue over Cabinet's decision to permit collective self-defense
A mayor in Mie Prefecture said Thursday he is planning to file a lawsuit over the Cabinet's decision to allow Japan to use the U.N. right to collective self-defense, because he believes it is unconstitutional.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 25, 2014
Famed Mie trail ripped by '04 typhoon reopens
A scenic hiking trail in the Osugidani Valley of Mie Prefecture reopened Friday morning, nearly a decade after it was severely damaged by a powerful typhoon that hit the area in September 2004.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 24, 2014
Skin divers turn to tourism to stem the tide
At the Sea People restaurant in Shima, a coastal hamlet in Mie Prefecture, sea diver Machiyo Yamashita wants a piece of a tourism industry dominated by the cities that sapped her town's vitality by luring away its youth.
JAPAN / Media / NET NEWS WATCH
Mar 25, 2014
Mysterious suicide goes unnoticed in police-box restroom
A man was found hanged in an apparent suicide in a police-box restroom in Mie Prefecture on March 20, police said.
JAPAN
Mar 3, 2014
Youth, 18, held, admits to August slaying of Mie girl, 15
An 18-year-old male was arrested late Sunday for murdering a 15-year-old female last August in Mie Prefecture, police said.
JAPAN
Jan 26, 2014
Prefectures unite on 'ama' diving campaign for UNESCO culture listing
Eight prefectures announce a joint bid to promote “ama” diving culture for inclusion on UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage.
'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.
Yen rebounds strongly after first slide past ¥160 since 1990
The yen dropped to ¥160.245 per dollar on Monday before heading into the other direction to ¥155.01 amid speculation of an intervention by Japanese currency authorities.
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.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
Golden Week crowds greeted with high temperatures as holiday period kicks off
The departure lobby for domestic flights is crowded with travelers at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Saturday, the first day of this year's Golden Week holidays.
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.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
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.

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