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Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Oct 3, 2019
'Q: A Night At The Kabuki': Giving a classic love story the Queen treatment
Hideki Noda's new play updates the story of 'Romeo and Juliet' and sets it to a soundtrack of songs from Queen's classic 1975 album, 'A Night at the Opera'
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 19, 2019
Japan's opposition parties join forces in bid to counterbalance ruling bloc in Diet
Japan's two major opposition parties agreed on Thursday to join forces in both houses of the Diet in their latest bid to counterbalance the ruling bloc in an upcoming extraordinary Diet session.
Japan Times
Rugby
Aug 2, 2019
Kamaishi draws strength from traditional ties to rugby
"Kamaishi has the rugby power."
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 12, 2019
Guilty ruling finalized for Chiba mother complicit in fatal abuse of 10-year-old daughter
A Chiba court said Friday a guilty verdict for a woman who was complicit in her husband's fatal assaults on their 10-year-old daughter has been finalized.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 26, 2019
Chiba mother gets suspended sentence for role in father's alleged fatal abuse of daughter
A 32-year-old woman was sentenced to a 2u00bd-year jail term, suspended for 5 years, for assisting her husband in assaulting their daughter and contributing to the child's death.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 16, 2019
Chiba woman pleads guilty to complicity in husband's fatal abuse of 10-year-old daughter
A woman pleaded guilty Thursday to complicity in her husband's assaults on their 10-year-old daughter, who died in January, as her trial began in a case that has attracted national attention.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 15, 2019
Chiba girl who died after mistreatment reported sex abuse before being released to parents, sources say
Mia Kurihara, who died in January following a series of alleged assaults by her father, was released from protective custody despite suspicion that he had sexually abused her, local government sources admitted Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 1, 2019
Chiba education board admits it showed girl's report of abuse to father now suspected of fatal assault
Local officials admitted Thursday they handed a copy of a school questionnaire, in which a third-grader wrote that she had been physically abused by her father and asked teachers to help, to the father in response to his emphatic request, about a year before his arrest over her death.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Dec 7, 2018
Abuse is the norm for Japan's hometown tax donation system
On Sept. 11, then-Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Seiko Noda gave a news conference at which she stated the government's intention to revise laws for local taxes.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 3, 2018
LDP's Seiko Noda goes against custom, addressing lawmakers with honorific suffix san, not kun
Former internal affairs minister Seiko Noda, the first female chair of the Lower House Budget Committee, is making headlines for her unconventional style in steering deliberations — calling lawmakers by their names with the honorific suffix san, rather than kun, which is usually used for men.
Japan Times
CULTURE
Oct 20, 2018
Japonismes 2018 seeks to break down cultural stereotypes
A stupendous full autumn moon, bright orange and fat, flashes intermittently between the nondescript high-rise flats and offices on the drive to Charles de Gaulle Airport. It's an apt and beautiful reminder of one of the events that we, a group of Tokyo-based editors and writers, were invited to see earlier in the week at Japonismes 2018: Souls in Resonance. It was a theater production of "Tsukimi Zato" ("Moon-viewing Blind Man"), starring veteran kyogen performer Mansaku Nomura, wherein a townie from upper Kyoto out for a stroll in the countryside bumps into a gentle old blind man. The two characters merrily share sake and poems together but, after parting, the slightly drunk younger man doubles back and deliberately bumps into the blind man as a practical joke and roughly pushes him over. The punchline of the play is that the blind man, as he makes his way home, wonders sadly how there can be such different people in the world, not realizing that it was the same person.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 30, 2018
Japan's Internal affairs minister Seiko Noda may exit Abe Cabinet
Internal affairs minister Seiko Noda hints she will not be retained in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe after a reshuffle set for this week.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 11, 2018
Japan to curb expensive gift incentives under 'hometown tax' program
The program allows taxpayers to donate to any municipality and receive tax cuts, but has led to fierce competition among local governments to lure donations with expensive gifts.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 31, 2018
Seiko Noda rules herself out of LDP leadership vote but mulls creating her own party faction
Noda again postponed her long-shot bid to replace Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as the nation's first female leader.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 7, 2018
Internal affairs minister Seiko Noda to return part of her salary over leak to reporters
Noda, a potential Abe rival in the LDP's September leadership election, said she u2018undermined trust in the government' in leaking information to the press.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 6, 2018
Bid to challenge Abe for LDP presidency faces 'thorny path,' Seiko Noda says
The internal affairs minister admitted Monday that she is concerned about her candidacy because her eligibility is still in doubt, describing it as “a tough situation.”
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Jul 26, 2018
Female leaders encourage women to be confident and believe in themselves at Tokyo conference
With "womenomics" often touted as a key policy of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the government has been working to increase women's participation in the workforce, politics and other areas in recent years.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 14, 2018
Abe to throw hat into LDP presidential race next month
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will announce his candidacy for the Liberal Democratic Party's presidential race next month, sources familiar with the matter said Saturday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 12, 2018
Abe-led panel mandates anti-sexual harassment training for senior officials but shelves talks on law to penalize harassers
Tokyo on Tuesday decided to mandate senior officials undergo training aimed at preventing sexual harassment following a string of revelations of inappropriate behavior involving bureaucrats.
Japan Times
Rugby
May 15, 2018
Events set to commemorate opening of new stadium in Iwate Prefecture
The construction of a new stadium in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, which will host two games in the 2019 Rugby World Cup will be completed in August and celebration events are planned to open the stadium on Aug. 19, organizers announced on Tuesday at a news conference in Tokyo.

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