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SPAIN

ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Dec 3, 2015
Aging Spain passes population milestone as deaths surpass births
Spain, long concerned about its aging population and emptying countryside, passed a milestone in population decline on Wednesday when it recorded more deaths than births in the first half of this year.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 1, 2015
Catalonia's breakaway vote
Artur Mas, president of the regional government of Catalonia, is creating a crisis for Spain as he strives for independence.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 4, 2015
Canary camp refugees rat on trafficking ring boss, smuggling boat skipper in their midst
Spanish police have arrested the suspected organizer of a ring smuggling migrants from Western Sahara to the Canary Islands and the captain of a trafficking boat from among a group of migrants recently arrived in the islands.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 6, 2015
Search called off for legendary Russian free-diver who vanished off Spain
One of the world's greatest free-divers, Russia's Natalia Molchanova, is feared dead after disappearing during a dive off Spain's Balearic Islands, officials said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
May 28, 2015
Coldest case? Spain cave yields 430,000-year-old murder mystery
This 430,000-year-old case may be the world's oldest murder mystery.
WORLD
Apr 16, 2015
German air traffic controllers urge industry to build radio-controlled jetliners
The German air traffic control authority has urged the aviation industry to develop technology that ground staff could use in an emergency to take remote command of a plane, a principle which might help prevent a repeat of the Germanwings crash last month.
WORLD
Apr 5, 2015
EU found 'issues' with German aviation regulator
A European regulator found "issues" with Germany's aviation authority in a regular review of air safety enforcement, the European Commission said on Saturday.
WORLD
Apr 4, 2015
Germanwings copilot increased speed as jet went down
The pilot at the controls of a Germanwings jet that crashed in the French Alps accelerated the plane into the mountainside, killing all 150 people on board, according to French investigators.
WORLD
Apr 1, 2015
Video showing chaotic final seconds of Germanwings flight is unearthed: reports
A video showing the chaotic final seconds on board the Germanwings flight that crashed in the French Alps last week has been discovered near the site, Germany's Bild daily reported Wednesday, saying it had seen the footage.
WORLD
Mar 27, 2015
No sure way to prevent pilot suicides: psychologists
As investigators probe why a young German pilot deliberately crashed an Airbus A320 passenger jet into the French Alps on Tuesday, pilots and psychologists warned there is no foolproof way to prevent similar incidents in the future.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 27, 2015
German co-pilot said to have suffered from depression, anxiety
The German co-pilot who is believed to have deliberately crashed a plane in the French Alps, killing 150 people, broke off his training six years ago due to depression and spent over a year in psychiatric treatment, a German newspaper reported on Friday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 23, 2015
Spain's Andalusia vote sets stage for sweeping change at national level
Leftist newcomer Podemos made spectacular inroads in elections in the Spanish region of Andalusia on Sunday, with the vote splitting over the political spectrum in a foretaste of the upheaval likely in national elections later in the year.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 11, 2015
Peruvian ice cap harbors pollutants tracing conquistadors' silver slave mines
After vanquishing the Inca Empire with superior weapons and a touch of treachery, the Spanish conquistadors sought to satisfy their lust for riches by forcing multitudes of native people to toil in silver mines in dire conditions that claimed many lives.
Japan Times
JAPAN / AMBASSADOR VISIT
Feb 5, 2015
Spanish ambassador speaks of hopes for ties
Newly appointed Spanish Ambassador Gonzalo de Benito Secades said Thursday he hopes to enhance existing partnerships between Spain and Japan and build new ones.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 3, 2015
Greece ruptures 30 years of political consensus in Europe
By catapulting to power an improbable alliance of the hard -left and nationalist far-right, Greece has shaken up Europe's political kaleidoscope and may have signaled the end of an era of centrist consensus.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Nov 10, 2014
Catalans in Tokyo: How did you vote in the Catalonia referendum and why?
Independence-minded Catalans at a polling station in Tokyo explain why they voted in defiance of Madrid in a referendum that had already been ruled invalid.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 17, 2014
Priest, air passenger among six hospitalised in Spain for Ebola tests
Spanish authorities reported four new patients with suspected Ebola symptoms on Thursday, including a feverish passenger who started shaking on an Air France flight to Madrid and a Spanish priest who had recently been in Liberia.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 10, 2014
Spanish nurse worsens; Madrid blames Ebola infection on human error
The health of a Spanish nurse with Ebola worsened on Thursday and four other people were put into isolation in Madrid, while the country's government rejected claims its methods for dealing with the disease weren't working and blamed human error.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 7, 2014
Nurse diagnosed with Ebola at Madrid hospital believed first not to catch virus in Africa
A Spanish nurse has been diagnosed with Ebola at the Madrid hospital where two patients have been treated for the viral illness, in what is the first case of a person becoming infected outside of Africa.
WORLD
Oct 1, 2014
Catalonia suspends formal campaign on Spain independence vote
Catalonia's regional government said on Tuesday it would temporarily suspend campaigning for a vote on independence from Spain, after Madrid filed a legal block to the referendum.

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Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past