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PEACE

Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Sep 30, 2017
'Sonic Peace': Troubling poetry about the modern world
“Sonic Peace,” which won the Chuya Nakahara Prize in 2006, is in the classic “artist-versus-modernity” vein. It rings with contemporary loneliness, solitary figures awake in the night and vending machines glowing in the gloom. Many of the voices are personified electronic devices, our phones and computers looking back at us from the “blue-darkness.” The threat of surveillance, of being watched, pervades the work, which is rooted in the artificiality of modern Tokyo. As the voice in “March Road” says, even the horizon is counterfeit.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 19, 2017
Malala slams China over death of fellow Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, faults Nigeria on education
Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai condemned China's treatment of her fellow peace prize-winner Liu Xiaobo following his death of liver cancer in custody last week .
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 14, 2017
Japanese recount memories of 'noble' Liu
Acquaintances of Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo recall a noble and friendly man who dedicated his life to promoting democratic reform and human rights in China.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jun 29, 2017
China's Liu Xiaobo cannot be moved elsewhere for cancer treatment: source
Chinese authorities on Thursday told U.S., German and European Union diplomats that Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist Liu Xiaobo can not be moved to get medical treatment elsewhere due to his illness, a source briefed on the meeting said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jun 28, 2017
U.S. hopes to see Chinese activist Liu treated for cancer 'elsewhere'
Newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to China Terry Branstad said Wednesday the United States would like to see Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist Liu Xiaobo treated elsewhere for cancer, and that the two countries must work together on human rights.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 15, 2017
Kagoshima artist completes global peace mural painting trek in Okinawa
A Japanese artist has attained his goal of painting murals in 10 countries to spread a message of peace, completing the last one on his home soil to complete the three-year quest.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 14, 2017
Nagasaki wants to light up Peace Park and will consult with hibakusha
The Nagasaki Municipal Government is considering lighting up the Peace Park commemorating the Aug. 9, 1945, atomic bombing of the city.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 6, 2017
Guidebook covers 'comfort women' museums across Asia
A Tokyo-based museum that focuses on issues involving wartime sexual violence against females has compiled a guidebook on its counterparts around Asia in an effort to have more of the victims heard.
JAPAN
May 9, 2017
Hiroshima mayor wants U.N. chief to attend nuclear disarmament conference in August
Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui has called on U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres to take part in a peace conference to be held in Nagasaki in August.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 26, 2017
Hiroshima A-bomb museum building reopens, with full renovation to finish in 2018
The east building of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum reopened Wednesday following renovations that include a new multimedia display showing images of the city before and after the U.S. bombing in 1945.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 3, 2017
Hiroshima A-bomb museum sees record visitors in fiscal year following Obama visit, popular film
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum attracted a record 1.74 million visitors in the fiscal year that ended in March, apparently boosted by former U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to the city last May.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 27, 2017
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum breaks annual attendance record thanks to Obama visit
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum drew nearly 1.6 million visitors in fiscal 2016 as surging attendance set a record following U.S. President Barack Obama's historic visit in May 2016.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Dec 14, 2016
Putin set to arrive for summit with Abe, but island dispute progress seen as unlikely
Despite the onsen rapprochement, the meeting is seen as unlikely to produce a major breakthrough in the territorial row.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 15, 2016
Russia cool to restart peace treaty talks with Japan ahead of Putin visit: sources
Russia is reluctant to reconvene a meeting on concluding a peace treaty despite repeated requests by Tokyo to speed up the talks ahead of a summit next month between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Japanese government sources said Monday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 31, 2016
NGO that runs 'comfort women' museum receives bomb threat
A nonprofit organization that runs the Women's Active Museum on War and Peace received a bomb threat earlier this month, it said on its website Sunday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 7, 2016
Colombian President Santos wins Nobel Peace Prize
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for bringing to an end half a century of civil war.
JAPAN
Oct 5, 2016
Hibakusha visit U.K. Parliament, call for nuclear-free world
A group of atomic bomb survivors on Tuesday shared their personal experiences of suffering and appealed for the abolition of nuclear weapons at an event hosted in the House of Lords in London.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 22, 2016
Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet members lay wreaths at Hiroshima cenotaph
Three representatives of the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, winner of the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize, offered flowers Friday at the cenotaph dedicated to A-bomb victims at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima.
WORLD
Jun 30, 2016
Fame brings fortune: Pakistani schoolgirl activist Malala now millionaire
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenage education activist who survived a near-fatal attack by the Taliban, and her family have become millionaires in under four years due to sales of a book about her life and appearances on the global speaker circuit.
LIFE / Language / COMMUNICATION CUES
Jun 27, 2016
Visitors to A-bomb museum double
The number of visitors to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum during the last weekend of May, following a historic visit by U.S. President Barack Obama, more than doubled from a year earlier to 13,389, the museum said May 30.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
'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.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same 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.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
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.

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