Just hours after Pompeo arrived in Tokyo, the North blasted the discussions, saying the visit had been “regrettable.” In a statement carried by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency, the for... ( read original story ...)
Yokohama off and running for Clay County
Higgins, who’s been credited with bringing over 6,000 jobs to the Golden Triangle and was once featured as an economic development ‘miracle worker’ on CBS news magazine ’60 Minutes’, couldn’t be happi... ( read original story ...)
Sapporo Apologizes for Unauthorized Usage of The Rose of Versailles Characters in Pamphlet
The city of Sapporo, Hokkaido recently apologized to The Rose of Versailles manga creator Riyoko Ikeda's Ikeda Riyoko Production company after its monthly pamphlet used content inspired by the famous ... ( read original story ...)
The business of death, a cultural taboo, now has a bright future in Japan
Tear is just one of 8,550 Japanese companies selling funerals and wakes. Yet by expanding to 98 locations, it has become the biggest in the city of Nagoya and the second-largest in Japan (just behind ... ( read original story ...)
49 killed, at least 48 missing as torrential rainstorms pummel Japan
firefighters and members of Japan‘s Self-Defense Forces were responding to appeals for help. The weather also hit industry. Some automakers halted production as the rain and flooding disrupted supply ... ( read original story ...)
38 killed, at least 50 missing as torrential rainstorms pummel Japan
firefighters and members of Japan‘s Self-Defense Forces were responding to appeals for help. The weather also hit industry. Some automakers halted production as the rain and flooding disrupted supply ... ( read original story ...)
Japan on alert after execution of doomsday cult founder
Kyodo news agency said on Friday, citing warnings by a senior police official that Aum followers remained active. The agency said it searched 16 facilities belonging to three groups across Japan on Fr... ( read original story ...)
Why the Japanese army’s WW II ‘comfort women’ are still waiting for their #MeToo moment
Lee Ok-sun was 15 years old in 1942, when two Japanese men in civilian clothes abducted her while she was out running errands in the port city of Busan, in what is now South Korea. She was eventually ... ( read original story ...)
Cult leader in Tokyo sarin attack executed along with 6 followers
Japan executed on Friday the former leader of a doomsday cult and six other members of the group that carried out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995 ... read out the names of the seven at ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese Journalist, Missing in Syria Since 2015, Appears in New Video
“I want to see you.” A few seconds later, a network voice-over in Japanese began summarizing the video’s contents, while continuing to show Mr. Yasuda speak. The segment that ANN News broadcast showed ... ( read original story ...)
Japan executes leader, six followers, of sarin attack doomesday cult
Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa read out the names of the seven at a news conference and said what they had done was “extremely atrocious”. “These crimes ... plunged people not only in Japan but in oth... ( read original story ...)
TOKYO | Japan cult leader’s hanging closes chapter on shocking crime
TOKYO — The executions Friday of a doomsday cult leader ... and that is beyond my imagination,” Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa told a news conference. She said the crime affected not only Japan but al... ( read original story ...)
TOKYO | The Latest: Japanese minister calls cult’s crimes heinous
She signed the execution order on Tuesday. The cult’s most notorious crime was the release of sarin gas on Tokyo subways in 1995. The attack killed 13 people and sickened more than 6,000 others. 11:50 ... ( read original story ...)
Japan hangs seven members of doomsday cult that attacked subway with sarin
Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa read out the names of the seven at a news conference and said what they had done was “extremely atrocious”. “These crimes ... plunged people not only in Japan but in oth... ( read original story ...)
Japan cult leader behind gas attack, followers are executed
and I wanted the authorities and experts to learn more from them," she told a televised news conference. "I regret that is no longer possible." The cult claimed 10,000 members in Japan and 30,000 in R... ( read original story ...)
TOKYO | The Latest: ‘Peace of mind’ after Japan executes cult leader
Shoko Asahara was hanged Friday morning for masterminding a series of deadly crimes including a 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system. Kiyoe Iwata told Japanese broadcaster NHK by phone Fri... ( read original story ...)