These issues have been discussed for years in Japan, but the editor of the Asahi forum said that instead of obsessing over gender, the media should present the news in such a way as to “promote equality.” Nevertheless, there are just too many ... ( read original story ...)
Young Japanese Canadians revisit wartime past, hoping to preserve it
Come for the barbecued salmon and takoyaki (fried balls filled with chopped octopus), stay on for the artistic attempts to preserve the legacy of Japanese internment. This is the paradox of the Powell Street Festival, a beautiful, delicious and joyous ... ( read original story ...)
50 years after Guevara’s death, rare Tokyo photo show to shine light on Marxist revolutionary
“What is extremely important is to get to know about the life (of my father), his thoughts and ideals,” Camilo, 55, said in a recent interview with Kyodo News through a Spanish interpreter on his first visit to Japan. As a medical student, Guevara ... ( read original story ...)
Typhoon Noru threatens widespread flooding across Japan
Typhoon Noru is threatening floods and damaging winds across Japan's main islands as it sweeps in from the northwest Pacific over the next few days. Noru is currently located to the south of Kyushu around 350km to the south of Nagasaki Prefecture and ... ( read original story ...)
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The Rangers ran the attached ad on Sunday morning in the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's national daily paper. The ad was published in the Tokyo Metropolitan Edition, Hokuriku Edition and Hokkaido Edition of the paper. ( read original story ...)
Shinzo Abe’s era may be over as Japan braces for instability
Keeping consumers active has been a long, unfulfilled priority of the Japanese government. "The economy remains our top priority," Abe told a news conference after the reshuffle. This should bring a new push on the so-called "third arrow" of Abenomics. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Abe sticks to tax hike plan for October 2019
Shinzo Abe changes foreign minister, but successful Japanese diplomacy really comes down to him According to the latest Kyodo News poll conducted after the cabinet reshuffle, the approval rating for Abe’s cabinet has risen 8.6 points since mid-July to 44 ... ( read original story ...)
Rangers take out ad in Japanese newspaper to thank Darvish
Readers of Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun may notice some extra MLB content ... In the Aug. 3 edition of the Dallas Morning News, Darvish took out his own full-page ad to thank the Rangers and their fans for their support, as well as apologize for giving up ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Sansan raises $38M from Toyota- and Sumitomo Mitsui-backed fund for Asia expansion
The Nikkei reported early this morning today that Tokyo-based Sansan, the company that operates the business card-based CRM (customer relationship management) solutions, has secured 4.2 billion yen (about $38 million) from Mirai Creation Investment Limited ... ( read original story ...)
Japan: A story of resilient and innovative people
Despite the uncomfortable weather, I realised that there is more to Japan beside the famous Mt. Fuji, sushi or the great Hanshin earthquake. Japan is a lot more than just that. Why we don’t know, I discovered that a common trait of the Japanese is that ... ( read original story ...)
Illegal storage containers continue to spread across Japan
not many of these units have the correct foundations or have gone through inspections based on the Building Standards Act -- making them at risk of collapsing in the event of disasters such as earthquakes. The containers also need to comply with Japanese ... ( read original story ...)
AfDB and African Ambassadors host 2nd Japan-Africa Business Forum in Tokyo
They attended series of encounters organized by the Japanese ministries of Finance, Foreign Affairs ... The first Forum was held in June 2014, one year after the Fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD V) with the goal of ... ( read original story ...)
Will Aramco sale save the kingdom?
In the West, the record-breaking initial public offering (IPO) of Saudi Aramco is viewed as a fees-fest ... of unprecedented scale that has got stock exchanges from New York to Tokyo salivating at the prospect of the biggest prize in flotation history. ( read original story ...)
Alaska is at high tsunami risk due to structure discovered beneath sea floor
The feature is similar to one off the coast of Japan, which caused the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, killing 20,000 people and causing meltdowns in three nuclear reactors, according to the study published in Nature Geoscience. The feature is found ... ( read original story ...)
The Japanese Vending Machine: A Picturesque Chronicle by Eiji Ohashi
It seems like a trivial fact, but the machine symbolizes more. Roadside Lights © Eiji Ohashi When the Great Tohoku Earthquake of 2011 hit the shores of Japan, one of the first items that were listed 'wasteful' were vending machines, and they were the ... ( read original story ...)
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After a catastrophic earthquake sinks most of Japan into the ocean, high school student Ganta Igarashi’s life gets even worse when he’s framed for the murder of his entire class and sentenced to Deadman Wonderland, a bizarre prison slash theme park. ( read original story ...)