Musician Keigo Oyamada, better known as Cornelius, said he felt ‘deep regret’ over his past actions. Photograph: Atsushi Tomura/Getty Images
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The storage tanks for treated water are seen at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Japan. Photograph: Sakura Murakami/Reuters The storage tanks for treated water are seen at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Japan. Photograph: Sakura Murakami/Reuters
Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has said he will resign because of his declining health, telling a shocked country that the return of a chronic bowel condition had left him unable to steer it through the coronavirus pandemic. “Poor health should not influence political decisions, and as long as I am unable to meet the expectations of the Japanese people, I have decided that I cannot stay on as
Britain’s Hannah Cockroft (left) and Kare Adenegan celebrate winning the gold and bronze in the women’s T34 400m at the Rio Games. Photograph: Friedemann Vogel/Getty Images Britain’s Hannah Cockroft (left) and Kare Adenegan celebrate winning the gold and bronze in the women’s T34 400m at the Rio Games. Photograph: Friedemann Vogel/Getty Images
Officials reportedly said her speech was the most registered event of the three-day assembly, but that tight security had meant not everyone had been able to enter the hall before the doors were closed for the duration of the speeches by Abe and Trump. However, the Guardian arrived at the hall 10 minutes before the event began and witnessed no long lines of people waiting to get in. Another attend
Their imminent departure from evening news programmes is not just a loss to their profession; critics say they were forced out as part of a crackdown on media dissent by an increasingly intolerant prime minister, Shinzo Abe, and his supporters. Only last week, the internal affairs minister, Sanae Takaichi, sent a clear message to media organisations. Broadcasters that repeatedly failed to show “fa
The Kobe Shimbun revealed Murakami’s reading habits of half a century ago after obtaining the cards from the school’s library that carried borrower entries under the author’s name, Japanese media reported. The newspaper defended its actions, but the Japan Librarian Association accused it of violating the privacy of Murakami and other students whose names appear on the cards. “Disclosing the record
Japan’s chief cabinet secretary, Yoshihide Suga, said the decision to register the documents reflected a biased Chinese view of history. “There is a big discrepancy of views between Japan and China, and the decision reflecting a unilateral view turns the issue into a political problem,” he told reporters. “We are considering all measures, including suspension of our funding contributions” to Unesc
The issue was initially raised by three former FT editors in a letter that was published in the FT on 24 July, the day after Nikkei agreed to pay £844m to acquire the FT from Pearson. Geoffrey Owen (editor, 1981-1990), Richard Lambert (1991-2001) and Andrew Gowers (2001-2005) wrote: “There is nothing at present in the governance structures of the publication to guarantee the continued independence
Japan’s crown prince has warned of the need to remember the second world war “correctly”, in a rare foray into an ideological debate as nationalist politicians seek to downplay the country’s historic crimes. In an unusual intervention in the discussion, Naruhito’s mild-mannered broadside was being interpreted in some circles as a rebuke to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a key figure in the right wing
More than 200 copies of books about Anne Frank, including copies of the diary the Jewish teenager wrote in hiding during the second world war, have been vandalised in libraries across Tokyo. At three libraries in Shinjuku ward, 10-20 pages were torn from The Diary of a Young Girl, biographies of Frank and books about Nazi persecution of Jews, leaving 39 books "unusable", archives director Kaori Sh
I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity. But it is disfigured by inappropriate incentives. The prevailing structures of personal reputation and career advancement mean the biggest rewards often follow the flashiest work, not the best. Those of us who follow these incentives are being entirely rational – I have followed them myself – but we do not alwa
Eric Hobsbawm, one of the leading historians of the 20th century, has died, his family said on Monday. Hobsbawm, a lifelong Marxist whose work influenced generations of historians and politicians, died in the early hours of Monday morning at the Royal Free Hospital in London after a long illness, his daughter Julia said. He was 95. Hobsbawm's four-volume history of the 19th and 20th centuries, spa
Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami last night accepted Israel's prestigious literary award, the Jerusalem prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society, despite opposition from pro-Palestinian groups. Murakami was presented with the $10,000 (£7,000) prize, given to the author whose work "best expresses and promotes the idea of the 'freedom of the individual in society'", on Sunday evening at t
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