Oct. 12, 2019As of Monday, dozens of people had been killed, more were missing and hundreds of thousands had been forced to abandon their homes after Japan was lashed by Typhoon Hagibis, the most powerful storm to strike the country in decades. Rescue services jumped into action, using helicopters to pluck stranded people from balconies and roofs, and inflatable boats to access residential streets
“I Will Not Work Overtime, Period!” features a heroine, Yui Higashiyama, center, who fights for her right to leave work in time for happy hour.Credit...TBS TOKYO — Last month, as Americans tuned in to the final episode of “Game of Thrones,” Japan was indulging in its own television fantasy world. In this one, a woman dares to leave work at 6 p.m. sharp. The determination of Yui Higashiyama, a 30-s
North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, during a meeting this month.Credit...Korean Central News Agency President Trump on Thursday sent a letter to the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, canceling their highly anticipated summit on June 12 to discuss denuclearization. Mr. Trump dictated the entire letter on Thursday morning, according to a senior administration official. [Read more about the president’
You hear a murder scene before you see it: The desperate cries of a new widow. The piercing sirens of approaching police cars. The thud, thud, thud of the rain drumming on the pavement of a Manila alleyway — and on the back of Romeo Torres Fontanilla. Tigas, as Mr. Fontanilla was known, was lying facedown in the street when I pulled up after 1 a.m. He was 37. Gunned down, witnesses said, by two un
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan during a ceremony at a base north of Tokyo last year. He will meet with President Trump on Friday in the Oval Office.Credit...Eugene Hoshiko/Associated Press HONG KONG — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, the first world leader to meet Donald J. Trump after the election in November, plans to meet with the president in Washington on Friday in the Oval Office. Mr.
A missile test by North Korea on April 23. The missile was apparently launched from a 2,000-ton Sinpo-class submarine and did not travel far.Credit...KCNA, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images SEOUL, South Korea — After years of trying to separate fact from propaganda about North Korea’s nuclear program, American and South Korean intelligence officials say they have concluded that the country c
Members of SEAL Team 6 and other units parachute from a plane near the Navy frigate Halyburton, in the Indian Ocean, to start the rescue of Capt. Richard Phillips from Somali pirates. They have plotted deadly missions from secret bases in the badlands of Somalia. In Afghanistan, they have engaged in combat so intimate that they have emerged soaked in blood that was not their own. On clandestine ra
Kaname Harada, 98, holding a photo of himself as a Japanese fighter pilot in World War II. His final mission, he said, was to warn Japan to never go to war again.Credit...Ko Sasaki for The New York Times NAGANO, Japan — Kaname Harada was once a feared samurai of the sky, shooting down 19 Allied aircraft as a pilot of Japan’s legendary Zero fighter plane during World War II. Now 98 years old and in
At a demonstration in Amman, Youssef al-Kasasbeh, right, the father of the Jordanian air force pilot captured by Islamic State militants in Syria, called for Jordan to make the exchange.Credit...European Pressphoto Agency AMMAN, Jordan — The Jordanian government agreed on Wednesday to release a convicted terrorist in exchange for the freeing of an air force pilot captured by Islamic State militant
The government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe this month rammed through Parliament a state secrecy law that signals a fundamental alteration of the Japanese understanding of democracy. The law is vaguely worded and very broad, and it will allow government to make secret anything that it finds politically inconvenient. Government officials who leak secrets can be jailed for up to 10 years, and journa
Women Forced Into WWII Brothels Served Necessary Role, Osaka Mayor Says TOKYO — The mayor of one of Japan’s largest cities, who is seen by some as a possible future prime minister, drew an outcry on Monday after he said women forced into wartime brothels for the Japanese Army during World War II had served a necessary role in providing relief for war-crazed soldiers. Toru Hashimoto, the populist m
WASHINGTON — A small number of C.I.A. officers are operating secretly in southern Turkey, helping allies decide which Syrian opposition fighters across the border will receive arms to fight the Syrian government, according to American officials and Arab intelligence officers. The weapons, including automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, ammunition and some antitank weapons, are being funnele
A handout image supplied Thursday by Tokyo Electric Power Company shows conditions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.Credit...TEPCO, via European Pressphoto Agency TOKYO — The damage to one of three stricken reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant could be worse than previously thought, a recent internal investigation has shown, raising new concerns over the plant’s stability and complicating
I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif. I hoped he would be rich and kind and would come into our lives (and our not yet furnished apartment) and help us. Later, after I’d met my father, I tried to believe he’d changed his number and left no forwarding address because he was
In Shika, Japan, a nuclear plant's visitor hall promotes nuclear power with “Alice in Wonderland” characters.Credit...Ko Sasaki for The New York Times SHIKA, Japan — Near a nuclear power plant facing the Sea of Japan, a series of exhibitions in a large public relations building here extols the virtues of the energy source with some help from “Alice in Wonderland.” “It’s terrible, just terrible,” t
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