All about Yo Words make the world CM of the week Tsutaya
Yo is the subject of this week's installment of "Family History" (NHK-G, Mon., 10 p.m.), which looks at her background. Raised in Yokohama by a Japanese mother and a Taiwanese father ...
View ArticleSo fat cats and a blue caterpillar will save Japan from nuclear hell. OK
If you visit the Alice Pavilion at the Shika nuclear power plant in the town of Shika, Ishikawa Prefecture, you will be happily entertained by Prof. Aomushi (Blue Caterpillar), who, water pipe in ...
View ArticleTax helps Japans public schools
I always feel indignant to say that tax is used chiefly for national or governmental or public schools. Even in Fukushima Prefecture, parents who send their children to private schools pay ...
View ArticleThe colonial exposition Japan branded aggressor nation Cuban missile crisis...
Despite rainy weather yesterday, the Colonial Exposition at Ueno [in central Tokyo] was visited by an enormous number of people, who thronged in and about the building to enjoy the queer objects. ...
View ArticleWhy the welfare discrimination
This change does little to rectify what is often a confusing process for welfare applicants, especially those who are permanent residents, official refugees or spouses of Japanese. In cities such as ...
View ArticleKoreans not as Japan sees them
Territorial disputes don't rain on Asia's largest parade of cinema, " I enjoyed reading it, but I would like to comment on one sentence at the beginning stating "Koreans' ...
View ArticleKoreans not as Japan sees them
Territorial disputes don't rain on Asia's largest parade of cinema, " I enjoyed reading it, but I would like to comment on one sentence at the beginning stating "Koreans' ...
View ArticleUsing the noodle to gain insight into Japanese culinary culture
SLURP! A Social and Culinary History of Ramen — Japan's Favorite Noodle Soup, by Barak Kushner. Global Oriental, 2012, 289 pp., $90 ...
View ArticleHagi restful cradle of a revolution
I thought I would test the strategy by not bothering to reserve a bed for my stay in Hagi, but by the time I boarded the single-carriage Sanin Line train at Shimonoseki, it was already well past 10 ...
View ArticleOnagawa a reason for trust
Quake's role in Fukushima disaster, " I was an independent member of the IAEA's Mission to Onagawa, which performed a damage walkdown of the Onagawa nuclear power station in Tochigi ...
View ArticleDramatists explore the essence of language in new play
In a small studio just a seagull's squawk from Tokyo Bay in the Higashi Gotanda district of Shinagawa Ward, a unique play titled "Understandable?" briefly delighted packed houses of ...
View ArticleAmerica should brace for cyber-war blowback
WASHINGTON — Blowback is defined as "an unforeseen and unwanted effect, result, or set of repercussions," according to the Merriam-Webster ...
View ArticleIn search of the fearsome Onibaba
Beneath that solitary tree, according to local legends, repose the remains of Adachigahara no Onibaba, the so-called Demon-hag of Adachigahara. Also described variously as an "ogress" and a ...
View ArticleOnly immigrants can save Japan
Face of change: Hidenori Sakanaka, the former Justice Ministry bureaucrat and Tokyo Immigration Bureau chief fears the nation is on the brink of collapse, and says "we must welcome 10 million ...
View ArticleOpen up U.S. political system
The curtain falls on the U.S. left's forced exuberance, " Rubin takes U.S. President Barack Obama's lackluster performance in the first presidential debate and runs with it; taking a ...
View ArticleWatching the wealthy a popular spectator sport
In a book published that year titled "Hokokuron" ("The Theory of National Affluence"), business pundit Taiichi Sakaiya gleefully extolled Japan's newfound wealth, remarking, ...
View ArticleJapan U.S. abandon drill to retake isle
Japan and the U.S. have decided to cancel a joint drill in which their forces would "recapture" a remote island in Okinawa Prefecture, according to informed ...
View ArticleSharing lessons from a farm in Japan
City Kitchen: Nancy Singleton Hachisu, a native Californian, moved to a small village in rural Japan more than 20 years ago. She shares her personal stories in a just-released cookbook, ...
View ArticleGiants send series back to S.F.
Zito was at his best Friday night, pitching San Francisco back into the NL Championship Series with a 5-0 win over the St. Louis Cardinals that narrowed its deficit to ...
View ArticleHokkaido Electric warns of shortages
Hokkaido Electric Power Co. estimates that demand for electricity may exceed supply by up to 10.4 percent this winter if the utility experiences problems at its major thermal power plant or other ...
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