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MOVEMENT

Japan Times
BUSINESS / Longform
Sep 27, 2021
How to retire in Japan decades earlier than you think
Japan's pioneers of the FIRE movement — u2018financial independence, retire early' — believe in living below one's means early in life so they're able to stop working well before retirement age.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 11, 2021
Raised fist, dangling handcuffs: A snapshot of Cuban dissent
To those who want the end of the one-party state, Maykel Castillo, 37, is a hero. To others he is a social misfit.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 14, 2020
Hong Kong 'Umbrella Movement' leader Chan Kin-man is freed from prison
Hong Kong democracy activist Chan Kin-man walked free from prison on Saturday saying he had no regrets for his leading role in the 2014 "Umbrella Movement" civil disobedience movement and that sacrifice was needed to achieve universal suffrage.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 28, 2019
Italy inches closer to new government amid party haggling
Tense talks aimed at forming a new Italian government inched forward on Wednesday as two major political parties, struggling to bury years of hostility and avoid snap elections, agreed to re-install Giuseppe Conte as prime minister.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 9, 2019
Italy's Matteo Salvini says government is finished and he wants elections
The leader of Italy's ruling League party, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, said on Thursday the governing coalition had broken down and the only way forward was to hold new elections.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 11, 2019
Hong Kong activist urges Japan to put pressure on city government to withdraw extradition bill
Tokyo should put pressure on the Hong Kong government to withdraw a controversial bill that would allow extraditions to mainland China, given Japan's strong economic ties with the former British territory and the large number of mutual visits by tourists, a high-profile pro-democracy activist told a...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 17, 2019
Michael Jackson's influence cannot be canceled
Credible accusations of abuse against an artist don't make his art less great, but they do make it less enjoyable.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Dec 11, 2018
Majority of Australian women sexually harassed at work: survey
Two in three Australian women have been sexually harassed at work, with the majority of cases unreported, according to a survey released on Tuesday that highlighted challenges activists said prevent women from advancing in their careers.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 21, 2018
Hundreds protest Hong Kong's move to ban separatist political party
Hundreds of Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters on Saturday rallied against the government's attempt to ban a political party, saying it dealt the most serious threat to the city's freedom of association since its return to Chinese rule.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 3, 2018
In Italy's 'Plan B,' euro-skeptic and their currency ideas take center stage
If Italy leaves the euro, it will be late on a Friday night.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Mar 5, 2018
South Korea shuts famed 84-year-old poet's exhibition amid sex harassment claims by rival
South Korea's capital has closed an exhibition by poet Ko Un, long the country's hope for a Nobel Prize in literature, amid allegations of sexual misconduct and the government is considering removing his work from textbooks.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 9, 2015
Why Beijing is giving Hong Kong less respect
The crux of Beijing's declining respect for Hong Kong is Britain's apparent efforts to enhance its economic relationship with China amid U.S. hegemonic decline.
EDITORIALS
Dec 26, 2014
Occupy Central's spirit endures
The Occupy Central movement that shut down the heart of Hong Kong for 79 days over the demand for greater democracy in the Special Administrative Region is over. But the impulses that drove the movement have not disspated.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 13, 2014
Tavarataivas (365 Nichi no Simple Life)
Perhaps you are aware of the tiny house movement, where people move into a teensy-tiny house with the barest of amenities, or Project 333, where people choose to dress with only 33 items for three months or longer. Both have gained significant interest over the last few years as more people in the so...
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 28, 2014
Cairo court bans group that helped topple Mubarak
An Egyptian court on Monday banned a prodemocracy movement that helped ignite the uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011, judicial sources and the website of the state-run Al-Ahram newspaper said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 11, 2014
Prominent Chinese activist scorns court after prison term upheld
A prominent Chinese rights activist expressed defiance on Friday after a court upheld his four-year jail sentence, saying the pall of communism and dictatorship would eventually give way to freedom and justice.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 27, 2014
Exhausting the sense of the beautiful
The Aesthetic Movement, a loosely defined tendency in 19th-century European art, operated under the slogan of 'art of art's sake' and believed beauty was the end, not the means.

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Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.
A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan