カテゴリー: Japan
Kane Tanaka, who has not been able to see her family due to the pandemic, celebrated with a bottle of CokeA 117-year-old woman with a weakness for fizzy drinks and chocolate has become Japan’s oldest person on record, as the country marks a public holi…
For diners with money to spare it is the taste of autumn but decline of red pine forests has left it with a precarious futureIn a country that prides itself on its seasonal cuisine, few ingredients generate as much anticipation in Japan as the delicate…
Gallery rejections suggested residual squeamishness about depictions of gay sexuality in JapanAfter a fruitless two-year search for a venue, Shai Ohayon was on the verge of abandoning his dream of bringing the art of Tom of Finland to a Japanese audien…
MPs approve Suga as PM, as outgoing leader promises support for successor who vowed to continue his policiesYoshihide Suga has been installed as Japan’s prime minister, after the lower house of parliament approved his appointment as successor to Shinzo…
MPs approve Suga as PM, as outgoing leader promises support for successor who vowed to continue his policiesYoshihide Suga has been installed as Japan’s prime minister and promised a “reform-minded, hard-working” cabinet as the outgoing leader, Shinzo …
The favourite may be the Abe continuity candidate but his background could not be more different Nothing short of force majeure will prevent Yoshihide Suga from becoming Japan’s prime minister when the ruling Liberal Democratic party (LDP) elects a lea…
The makers of this ancient instrument were near to closure. But could it get a new lease of life? Katsuhiro Otaki confesses he can’t play a note on the shamisen, a three-stringed instrument whose sound has been the backdrop to Japanese traditional thea…
Hundreds of thousands without power on Kyushu after winds of 140km/h and heavy rain hit the regionFour people are missing and dozens more have been injured after a powerful typhoon battered south-western Japan on Monday before making landfall on the Ko…
More than half of yakuza are now over 50 – and 10% are over 70 – as a result of an ageing population and police crackdownsA double-whammy of skewed demographics and legal crackdowns has forced Japan’s yakuza crime syndicates to call on middle-aged men …
Forty crew members are still missing but rescue efforts are being hampered by approach of Typhoon HaishenAuthorities have suspended their search for 40 missing crew members from a cargo ship that capsized off south-west Japan as Typhoon Haishen bears d…
Dante Addug called his partner as water entered the Gulf Livestock 1 cargo ship but family has not heard from him sinceThe last time the captain of the Gulf Livestock 1 spoke to his partner, Typhoon Maysak was battering the ship and water was already f…
Rescuers search for more than 40 crew from ship carrying 6,000 cattle that went down en route from New Zealand to China A second survivor from a cargo ship carrying 6,000 cattle that capsized off southwest Japan has died after being pulled from the wat…
3 September 1945: With the signing on the USS Missouri, the second world war is now officially over. Full occupation of Japan is about to beginThe Japanese signed the terms of surrender in the American battleship Missouri early yesterday and the war is…
Strong winds and rain from Typhoon Maysak hamper rescue of crew from Philippines, New Zealand and Australia A cargo ship carrying 43 crew members and nearly 6,000 cattle sank off the coast of Japan after reportedly losing an engine in rough seas caused…
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