With door-to-door sales tactics that targeted grieving elderly people and the cultivation of prominent political leaders, the Unification Church has spent decades establishing Japan as its most dependable profit center, according to investigators who study the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s many-tentacled spiritual and financial global empire. Now, after the suspected assassin of former Japanese prime
A previous version of this story said 97.7 percent of Japan is ethnically Japanese. That number refers to nationality, not ethnicity, which the Japanese government does not track. TOKYO — Even before she lost in the third round of an Olympic tennis tournament in which she was a favorite to win, Naomi Osaka faced backlash in Japan. The criticism, long running and usually bubbling just under the sur
TIMONIUM, Md. — Five years ago, Becca Meyers was on the floor of her room in the Olympic Village at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics, balled up and sobbing, frustrated and terrified. She had stopped eating because she couldn’t find the athletes’ dining area. Even after her parents rescued her and pumped her full of calories and confidence in time for her to win three gold medals and a silver fo
Somewhere along the line Baron Von Ripper-off and the other gold-plated pretenders at the International Olympic Committee decided to treat Japan as their footstool. But Japan didn’t surrender its sovereignty when it agreed to host the Olympics. If the Tokyo Summer Games have become a threat to the national interest, Japan’s leaders should tell the IOC to go find another duchy to plunder. A cancell
Tokyo Olympics chief says women talk too much at meetings, calls it ‘annoying’
Hours after the Fulton County district attorney announced felony murder and other charges against the former Atlanta police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old black man, in the back, a number of Atlanta police officers called in sick just before a shift change Wednesday evening.
The quarrel between Japan and South Korea reached a new low last week when Seoul pulled out of an intelligence-sharing agreement that had taken the United States years to broker. What’s behind this dispute? Some observers blame President Trump for neglecting these two U.S. allies. But relations between Japan and South Korea have soured numerous times over decades, long before Trump came along.
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