Japan: embattled Shinzo Abe blames staff over land sale scandal | World news | The Guardian
The scandal surrounds the 2016 sale of state-owned land to a nationalist operator of schools who claims ties to Abe and his wife Akie. The sale was clinched at a price well below market value amid allegations that the high-level connections helped grease the deal. The affair first emerged early last year, but resurfaced after the revelation that official documents related to the sale had been chan
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The hermaphrodite flatworm, Macrostomum hystix, which can self-fertilise by injecting sperm into its own head. Photograph: Ramm SA, Schlatter A, Poirier M, Schärer L The hermaphrodite flatworm, Macrostomum hystix, which can self-fertilise by injecting sperm into its own head. Photograph: Ramm SA, Schlatter A, Poirier M, Schärer L
South Korea seizes drugs made from dead babies
South Korea has seized thousands of smuggled drug capsules filled with powdered flesh from dead babies, which some people believe can cure disease. The capsules were made in north-east China from babies whose bodies were chopped into small pieces and dried on stoves before being turned into powder, the Korean customs service said. Officials refused to say where the dead babies had come from or who
Israel using flechette shells in Gaza
The Israeli military is using flechette shells, which spray out thousands of tiny and potentially lethal metal darts, in its military operation in Gaza. Six flechette shells were fired towards the village of Khuzaa, east of Khan Younis, on 17 July, according to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights. Nahla Khalil Najjar, 37, suffered injuries to her chest, it said. PCHR provided a picture of flec
Fukushima's children at centre of debate over rates of thyroid cancer
When doctors found several tiny nodules on his 12-year-old daughter's thyroid gland, Toshiyuki Kamei refused to let parental fear get the better of him. The symptoms are not uncommon, and the probability that they will develop into something more serious is low. Yet Kamei can be forgiven for occasional moments of doubt: his daughter, Ayako, is one of almost 400,000 children who were living in Fuku
The crisis in Crimea could lead the world into a second cold war | Dmitri Trenin
This is perhaps the most dangerous point in Europe's history since the end of the cold war. Direct confrontation between Russian and Ukrainian forces will draw in the United States, one way or another. While there is still time, it's extremely important to understand what each party involved is aiming for. Over the last 10 days, Moscow has been unpleasantly surprised several times. First, when Ukr
Anger of wartime sex slaves haunts Japan and South Korea
Kang Il-chul was 16 when Japanese military police arrived at her home in South Korea and told her she was being conscripted. The year was 1943, and her country was just two years away from liberation after 35 years of brutal Japanese colonial rule. Kang spent the remainder of the war in occupied China, as one of tens of thousands of Asian women forced to have sex with Japanese soldiers in frontlin
Japan disaster: Fukushima residents return to visit their homes
Takashige Kowata thought he was prepared for the worst when he opened the door to his house for the first time in six months. But the trauma of seeing his family home abandoned amid the panic of a nuclear meltdown was compounded when he noticed a broken bathroom window. "It looks like we have been burgled," the 63-year-old says, still too shaken to establish what is missing. "I can't believe that
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