カテゴリー: Japan
Tree-viewing parties are banned as many coronavirus restrictions remainCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJapan will emerge from 10 weeks of coronavirus restrictions on Sunday, just in time for the peak of the annual cherry blo…
LGBT activists celebrate as landmark decision boosts campaign to legalise same-sex unionsA court has given hope to the campaign to legalise gay marriage in Japan after it ruled that not allowing same-sex couples to wed is unconstitutional.Japan is the …
Critics warn of imperial fantasy but the economic and political forces pulling the UK back to the region are realSome will call it a tilt, others a rebalancing and yet others a pivot but, either way, the new big idea due to emerge from the government’s…
Much has changed along the hundreds of miles of devastated coastline and the recovery is gathering paceAfter the wave: a decade of grieving for a daughter lost to the tsunamiOn 11 March 2011 a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off Japan’s north-east coas…
Huge waves swept across swathes of the north-east coast after one of the strongest quakes ever recorded, triggering a nuclear meltdownJapan has observed a moment’s silence to mark the 10th anniversary of an earthquake and tsunami that killed more than …
Mio Sugita earns notoriety for accusations that women lie about sexual violence and LGBT community are ‘unproductive’Of all the candidates for Japan’s most sexist comment of the year, there seemed to be only one possible winner – Yoshiro Mori, the form…
Ten years ago one of the most powerful earthquakes on record triggered a devastating tsunami in Japan, killing more than 18,000 people and triggering catastrophic meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Then and now photographs show the exten…
Mai was 12 when she died in one of the most harrowing stories to emerge from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunamiTen years after a tsunami killed more than 18,000 people on the north-east coast of Japan, Noriyuki Suzuki returned to the spot where his …
Academics reject J Mark Ramseyer’s claim women were not forced into sexual slavery during second world warA Harvard University professor has sparked outrage among fellow academics and campaigners after claiming that women forced into sexual slavery by …
Family of Natsuko Okuyama ‘extremely happy’ after remains identified as those of 61-year-old woman who went missing 10 years agoSkeletal remains found on a beach have been identified as those of woman who went missing 10 years ago in the 2011 Japan tsu…
Yusaku Maezawa, an online fashion tycoon, needs to fill eight spare seats on the lunar spaceship being developed by SpaceXIt’s the sort of chance that comes along just once in a blue moon: a Japanese billionaire is throwing open a private lunar expedit…
Anal swabs cause ‘great psychological pain’, says Japan’s chief cabinet secretaryCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageTokyo has requested Beijing to stop taking anal swab tests for Covid-19 on Japanese citizens because the proced…
Tamayo Marukawa among 50 conservative MPs to urge local body not to support policy changeJapan’s minister for women’s empowerment and gender equality, Tamayo Marukawa, is among a group of conservative MPs who have opposed a legal change that would allo…
Gossiping adults and boisterous children are identified on the Dorozoku map, which has struck a chord in a country known for its quietChatty neighbours and children letting off steam on the street have become the target of a controversial website in Ja…
LDP’s attempt to demonstrate gender equality after Olympic sexism row backfiresIt was a move designed to show that Japan’s ruling party was committed to gender equality after the sexism row that forced one of its former prime ministers, Yoshiro Mori, t…