Executions rose by almost 15% in 2013, compared with 2012. Excluding China, at least 778 people were executed worldwide. Nearly 80% of them were in just three countries: Iran, Iraq and Saudi […]
Apparently, old U.S. action actors are attractive for the Japanese market. Here, they are selling canned coffee.
Shigeru Ban, the 57-year-old winner of this year’s Pritzker Prize — arguably the world’s most prestigious architecture award — is the Rumpelstiltskin of building design. For more than two decades he has […]
Ultra-Left anarchist ‘punks’ and pro-Korean protestors in the Shin Okubo area of Tokyo.
Tori and Sashimi under the tracks in Yurakucho, Tokyo, Japan. Photograph by Brian Kemper on Google+.
On Sunday, March 23, the Urawa Reds played Shimizu S-Pulse to a draw at a locked and empty Saitama Stadium 2002 in the first ever closed-door match enforced by the J-League, Japan’s […]
Mongolian-born Ozeki Kakuryu won his first Emperor’s Cup on Sunday with a 14-1 record in the Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka. He has all but secured his promotion to sumo’s highest rank […]
Message from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe: I am visiting the Netherlands in order to attend the Nuclear Security Summit. I visited the Secret Annex in which Anne Frank, author of The Diary […]
Message from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe: The younger generation is enjoying great success internationally in the arts, sports, and various other fields. Two of those who have achieved success are Mr. Haruo […]
Japan’s biggest slum is visible just blocks from bustling restaurants and shops in Osaka, the country’s second-largest city. But it cannot be found on official maps. Nor did it appear in the […]
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