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Giant tuna landed by actor sells for 4.37 million yen A giant tuna landed by actor Hiroki Matsukata in Yamaguchi Prefecture has been sold for about 4.37 million yen at Tokyo's Tsukiji Market. Matsukata caught the 325-kilogram...
Ignacio Maiakovsky A journalist and a writer, Ignacio has researched the Porvenir Institute and its founder Seto Mishima for the last four years of his life. Ignacio is an honest and idealistic man. His life changes when he...
Hepatology. 2009 Aug 5; Itsui Y, Sakamoto N, Kakinuma S, Nakagawa M, Sekine-Osajima Y, Tasaka-Fujita M, Nishimura-Sakurai Y, Suda G, Karakama Y, Mishima K, Yamamoto M, Watanabe T, Ueyama M, Funaoka Y, Azuma S, Watanabe M
Asahi Shimbun reporter Atsushi Yamada interviewed Jeffrey Irish in Japanese at his home in Kyushu. Question: Your dissertation was on Fusae Ichikawa, one of the leaders in the women's rights movement in Japan. He was the mayor...
A fire broke out early Friday in a Tokyo building that houses an established confectionery shop, killing the owner of the store, police said. The fire started at around 4 a.m. on Friday at the home o...
AFP/File – Japanese writer Yukio Mishima delivers a speech to 2000 soldiers on the balcony of the Japanese ground … TOKYO (AFP) – A Japanese bookseller will Sunday auction off letters and photos of the nationalist author and...
Review by Ed Sizemore This volume continues, and concludes, the adventures of Mao-chan and the Special Defense Corps as they attempt to fight off the aliens who want to steal all of Japan’s cultural landmarks. The two female...
The ICA in London is always a great place to hit for the weird and unusual or just downright awesome. A few months back I went there to see Asobi Seksu, a New York based Shoegaze band that sings mostly in Japanese. And it was –...
Tuesday 30th June, 05:00 AM JST By Mandy Bartok As daytrip destinations go, the Izu Peninsula — a two-hour train ride from Tokyo’s overwhelming bustle — isn’t exactly unexplored territory. Yet for those who care to step away...
A prequel to her autobiographical best-selling novel "Fear and Trembling," Amelie Nothomb's "Tokyo Fiancee" is a slight tale of love and doubting in Japan. The narrative overlaps the time period of "Fear and Trembling,"...
