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Aichi Triennale 2019 Comfort Women Artwork Shut Down Over Safety Fears After Right-Wing Outrage
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JAPAN TRENDS
An artwork dealing with the historical comfort women issue has ignited one of the biggest scandals in the Japanese art world.
Created by a South Korean husband-and-wife team, Statue of a Girl of Peace was an installation at the Aichi Triennale, a 75-day event that is one of Japan’s...
An artwork dealing with the historical comfort women issue has ignited one of the biggest scandals in the Japanese art world.
Created by a South Korean husband-and-wife team, Statue of a Girl of Peace was an installation at the Aichi Triennale, a 75-day event that is one of Japan’s...
- August 14, 2019
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Taiwan, Japan Brace For Potential Super Typhoon
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KOAM NEWS
TOKYO - Lekima briefly strengthened into a super typhoon on Thursday as it passed across the southern Ryuku islands of Japan, before weakening on its trajectory toward China.
With powerful winds of 220 kph (134 mph), the storm is no longer "super" but it is still very strong -- the eq...
TOKYO - Lekima briefly strengthened into a super typhoon on Thursday as it passed across the southern Ryuku islands of Japan, before weakening on its trajectory toward China.
With powerful winds of 220 kph (134 mph), the storm is no longer "super" but it is still very strong -- the eq...
- August 9, 2019
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57 People Are Dead And 18,000 Were Hospitalized In Japan As The Country Grapples With A Stifling Heat Wave
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INSIDER
57 people died, and 18,000 were taken to hospital, in the space of a single week in Japan, which is grappling with a powerful heat wave.According to Kyodo News, more than triple the number of hospitalizations occurred this week in response to heat, most of which were for people aged ov...
57 people died, and 18,000 were taken to hospital, in the space of a single week in Japan, which is grappling with a powerful heat wave.According to Kyodo News, more than triple the number of hospitalizations occurred this week in response to heat, most of which were for people aged ov...
- August 8, 2019
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Japan's 'Smiling Cinderella' Wins Women's British Open On Debut
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SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Milton Keynes: Japan's Hinako Shibuno has birdied the final hole to win the Women's British Open in thrilling fashion on her major championship debut at Woburn.
Shibuno overcame a four-putt double-bogey on the third hole on Sunday to card a closing 68 and finish 18-under p...
Milton Keynes: Japan's Hinako Shibuno has birdied the final hole to win the Women's British Open in thrilling fashion on her major championship debut at Woburn.
Shibuno overcame a four-putt double-bogey on the third hole on Sunday to card a closing 68 and finish 18-under p...
- August 5, 2019
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Peerless Artists Built Kyoani’s Reputation For Quality
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THE JAPAN NEWS
Two weeks after the fatal arson attack on Kyoto Animation Co.’s No. 1 studio, the outpouring of grief for the victims and support for the company continues to grow in Japan and overseas. This reflects the respect the company known as KyoAni had built up as a driving force of Japa...
Two weeks after the fatal arson attack on Kyoto Animation Co.’s No. 1 studio, the outpouring of grief for the victims and support for the company continues to grow in Japan and overseas. This reflects the respect the company known as KyoAni had built up as a driving force of Japa...
- August 2, 2019
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Japan's Abe Claims Victory In Upper House Election
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AL JAZEERA
The ruling bloc falls short of the two-thirds needed to amend the nation's pacifist constitution, according to state TV.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling bloc won a solid majority in Japan's upper house election on Sunday, but fell short of the two-thirds "super majority" neede...
The ruling bloc falls short of the two-thirds needed to amend the nation's pacifist constitution, according to state TV.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling bloc won a solid majority in Japan's upper house election on Sunday, but fell short of the two-thirds "super majority" neede...
- July 22, 2019
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Suspected Arsonist Of Japan Animation Studio Was A Reclusive, Quarrelsome Gamer, Says Neighbour
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STRAITS TIMES
OMIYA, Japan (REUTERS) - The man suspected of killing 34 people in an arson attack in Japan lived alone, hundreds of kilometres from the torched Kyoto Animation studio, where he played video games non-stop and had "terrified" his neighbour just days earlier.
Police late on Saturda...
OMIYA, Japan (REUTERS) - The man suspected of killing 34 people in an arson attack in Japan lived alone, hundreds of kilometres from the torched Kyoto Animation studio, where he played video games non-stop and had "terrified" his neighbour just days earlier.
Police late on Saturda...
- July 21, 2019
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Japan's Core Inflation Hits Two-Year Low
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BUSINESS TIME
JAPAN'S core inflation slowed to its weakest in about two years in June, underlining policymakers' long battle to boost consumer prices and adding to speculation the Bank of Japan could deliver more stimulus later this month.
With the global economy slowing and factory production ...
JAPAN'S core inflation slowed to its weakest in about two years in June, underlining policymakers' long battle to boost consumer prices and adding to speculation the Bank of Japan could deliver more stimulus later this month.
With the global economy slowing and factory production ...
- July 20, 2019
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Japan Is Among the World's Safest Countries, Though It Has a Grisly Record of Mass Violence
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TIME
A 41-year-old man shouting “you die!” ran into an anime studio in Kyoto and set it ablaze Thursday morning, killing 33 people and injuring 36 others.
Police said the man sprayed sprayed an unidentified liquid accelerant before starting the fire, according to the Associated Press.
The viole...
A 41-year-old man shouting “you die!” ran into an anime studio in Kyoto and set it ablaze Thursday morning, killing 33 people and injuring 36 others.
Police said the man sprayed sprayed an unidentified liquid accelerant before starting the fire, according to the Associated Press.
The viole...
- July 20, 2019
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Kyoto Animation Fire: Arson Attack At Japan Anime Studio Kills 33
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BBC
At least 33 people died and dozens were injured after a man set fire to an animation studio in the Japanese city of Kyoto, officials say.
Police said the 41-year-old suspect broke into the Kyoto Animationstudio on Thursday morning and sprayed petrol before igniting it.
The suspect has been ...
At least 33 people died and dozens were injured after a man set fire to an animation studio in the Japanese city of Kyoto, officials say.
Police said the 41-year-old suspect broke into the Kyoto Animationstudio on Thursday morning and sprayed petrol before igniting it.
The suspect has been ...
- July 19, 2019
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