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Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 27, 2021
Japan to allow two dismissed Myanmar diplomats to remain after credentials expire
The Myanmar Embassy in Tokyo informed Japan in March that the pair's diplomatic status and passports had been nullified.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FOCUS
May 20, 2021
Axed diplomat fears Myanmar will descend into darkness of dictatorship
Aung Soe Moe says he has been attending online meetings with other diplomats participating in the civil disobedience movement around the world.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 20, 2021
100 Myanmar diplomats who oppose junta ordered to return home, document shows
The diplomats who were ordered to return to Myanmar had served in some 20 nations including Japan, the United States, Britain and Singapore.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 20, 2021
Myanmar junta fires two diplomats in Tokyo for opposing coup and violence
A Japanese Foreign Ministry official declined to comment on the pair's diplomatic status, saying only, 'We will judge their status as we monitor how the situation in Myanmar evolves.'
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 7, 2021
After coup in Myanmar, a career diplomat takes a stand
In Myanmar embassies around the world, diplomats are struggling with whether to represent a military that has locked up their elected leaders.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 3, 2021
Myanmar's U.N. envoy and junta make rival claims to representation
The claims to represent Myanmar will now likely have to be considered by a U.N. credentials committee that reports to the General Assembly, which will then make the final decision.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 30, 2016
Nikkei newspaper employee arrested over hacking of model's email
An employee of Japanese news organization Nikkei Inc. was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of illegally accessing the email accounts of a popular Japanese model, a former idol group member and two others.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 6, 2015
City withdraws controversial 'ama' divers mascot
The city of Shima in Mie Prefecture has scrapped its endorsement of a controversial mascot slammed by some locals as overly sexual and demeaning to local ama divers.
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
CULTURE / Music / They're Playing Our Song
Jul 5, 2015
The songs that tried to teach Japan to kill
It looks like the 1940s are back, but not in a way you'd expect. Military songs are reportedly becoming fashionable with certain segments of youth.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media
Feb 24, 2014
Teen duo's DIY anime 'Senpai Club' draws cult following
Pink-haired Tsumiki Domen introduces herself before exclaiming, "Kuso! F-kku! Chikoku da!" That's subtitled not as the literal "Sh-t! F-ck! I'm late!" but as "Oh no, I'm late!," setting the tone of this humorous animation. Our heroine rushes off to her first day of high school, slice of toast clamped in mouth — a cliché you could expect in any cute Japanese anime. Except it's not Japanese TV — "Senpai Club" is a parody video with more than half a million YouTube views. And it's made by two Swedish high school students calling themselves Make Babies.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jun 2, 2013
Taking anime too seriously
'Why study anime?' the author of this study of anime asks himself. Good question, thinks the reader. Why indeed 'study' a pop art whose appeal is less to thought than to mass, unreflecting, spontaneous enjoyment?
LIFE / Digital / Japan Pulse
Mar 21, 2013
Koe moe apps find their voice on smartphones
Hey girlfriend. Read me a bedtime story.

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