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A Japanese lawmaker is being criticized for saying U.S. President Barack Obama was a descendant of black slaves and so would have been an unthinkable presidential choice in America's early history. Kazuya Maruyama, a lawyer-turned-lawmaker in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling party, apologized hours after making the remark at a parliamentary constitutional panel in Tokyo, saying it was misleading
Pro-Abe lawmakers offer plan to 'punish' media; Hyakuta wants Okinawa papers closed Young ruling party lawmakers and a best-selling novelist close to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe lambasted the two leading dailies in Okinawa Prefecture for opposing the government’s U.S. military base relocation plan in the prefecture. The Okinawa Times and The Ryukyu Shimpo “must be closed down by any means,” Naoki Hy
Japan scholars in West issue statement calling for 'unbiased accounting' of past NEW YORK--Nearly 200 historians and other Japan scholars working mainly in the West have issued a statement calling for "as full and unbiased an accounting of past wrongs as possible" in this 70th anniversary year of the end of World War II. Titled "Open letter in support of historians in Japan," the statement release
Robotics journal cover draws accusations of stereotyping women The cover design for an academic journal prompted a wave of criticism on Twitter over what was perceived as discrimination against women. An illustration of a female robot adorned the cover of the January 2014 issue of the Journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence to introduce a basic cover redesign. The robot, draggi
Free Chinese software secretly transmitting Japanese users’ data Free online software provided by China's Baidu search engine has been covertly sending almost all information inputted in Japanese to Baidu Inc.’s servers, according to a computer security company. According to Takayuki Sugiura, president of NetAgent, when individuals use the Baidu IME software, information entered in full-width char
TOKYO: National Diet Library embraces digitization and on-line reading It feels like a different world. As I step out of the elevator, cool air envelops me. The temperature is maintained at 22 degrees and the humidity level is kept at 55 percent. In an open courtyard, sunlight streams down from the glass ceiling 30 meters above. And yet, I am eight floors underground, in a book vault in the new an
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimioto issues a statement ahead of his press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo. * * * Ideals and values on which I stand: Today, I want to start by talking about my basic ideals as a politician and my values as a human being. Nothing is more regrettable than a series of media reports on my remarks with regard to the issue of so-called "comfort wo
OSAKA--Toru Hashimoto, co-leader of the Japan Restoration Party, said on May 13 that "comfort women" were necessary for Japanese soldiers during World War II, but then softened his tone, saying that they served soldiers "against their will." Comfort women are an euphemism for those who provided sex for Japanese soldiers during the war. “In the circumstances in which bullets are flying like rain an
National library joins digital wave, will offer books online Japan's largest library will begin offering online access to selected books on Feb. 1, starting with 13 works that include some of the country's most famous epics and folk tales and a novel written by one of its most acclaimed novelists. The National Diet Library is trying out its new online delivery system, which was requested by the Ag
IMF cuts global growth forecast; prods Europe, U.S. The IMF cut its global growth forecast on Oct. 9 for the second time since April and warned U.S. and European policymakers that failure to fix their economic ills would prolong the slump. Global growth is too weak to bring down unemployment and what little momentum exists is coming primarily from central banks, the International Monetary Fund sai
After 500 days, Fukushima No. 1 plant still not out of the woods A little more than 500 days after the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant threatened to force the evacuation of the entire Tokyo metropolitan area, the situation is certainly much improved. The levels of cesium being emitted from the damaged reactors have dropped substantially, core temperatures in the pressure vessels are
COMMENTARY/ Ryuichi Sakamoto: Japanese will have to continue raising voices against nuclear energy I have always felt discomfort about the way decisions are made in Japan based on "the mood" rather than "logic," and without proper discussions regarding principles. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda in some sense personifies that discomfort. When Naoto Kan was prime minister, a mood developed that no pr
Tokyo’s 2020 Olympic bid organizers were hoping that the international community would rally around the bid in a show of solidarity as the nation rebuilds after the events of March 11, 2011. It now seems, however, that it may have been a flawed strategy to play the “sympathy” card as concerns over radiation are still very much on the minds of many Europeans. After last year’s nuclear accident, Tok
When the International Atomic Energy Agency in 2005 proposed defining a zone where food intake regulations were to be enacted in the event of a nuclear emergency, Tokyo objected. And the Vienna-based international nuclear watchdog never did define such a zone, leaving it up to the health ministry to hastily introduce regulations six years later following the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear
The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan (FCCJ) in Tokyo's Yurakucho district has served as a haven for overseas journalists reporting on Japan’s breathtaking changes since the end of World War II. It was the place to be for media people and often the venue for news conferences by the top newsmakers of the day. But now, the famed club is mired in problems and confusion. Amid a changing media envi
City resorts to secret dumping to deal with piles of radioactive dirt FUKUSHIMA--Deep in the mountains, a 4-ton dump truck unloads burlap bags that land with a thud in a hole shaped like a swimming pool 25 meters long and more than 2 meters deep. Another dump truck soon arrives, also filled with burlap bags. The two male workers in the first truck wash off the tires and then rumble off. The Fukush
This special website by Asahi Japan Watch (AJW) is designed to provide readers with the Internet's most comprehensive, archival coverage of Japan's tragic earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear crisis.
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