Yoshio Ichida is recalling the worst day of his 53 years: 11 March, when the sea swallowed up his home and killed…
With no end in sight to the world’s worst atomic power crisis in a quarter of a century, collusion between Japan’s nuclear…
Toyota City — An unexpected note of poignancy greets visitors to the museum of the world’s largest car company. In the cavernous…
Japan marked the 50th anniversary of the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty on January 19 amid calls for an inquiry into the dispatch of…
Davao, The Philippines — They came to kill her children one by one. First was Richard in 2001, then his brother Christopher.…
Six months ago Sato Junichi and Suzuki Toru were ordinary men looking after young families. But in June they were arrested by…
A bloody dispute between two rival Yakuza groups in a southern Japanese city has led to a historic fight-back by local people.…
Out of the thick political fog produced by Japan’s G8 Summit in Hokkaido emerged one key pledge: the world’s second-largest economy has…
Interview translated by Greg Vanderbilt Prisoners of conscience, communists, antiwar activists, martyrs for Japan’s tottering pacifist constitution: Obora Toshiyuki, Onishi Nobuhiro and…
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