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Politics › Ex-diplomat to testify on secret Japan-U.S. pact on Okinawa reversion
Tōkyō :: Japan | about 12 hours ago
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A former senior Foreign Ministry official will appear as a witness in a Tokyo District Court trial on Tuesday over the disclosure of state documents that plaintiffs argue indicate the existence of a secret Japan-U.S. pact involving cost burdens for the...
Tags: Okinawa, secret japan, Japan, Tōkyō, Kyodo News, Okinawa Prefecture, Japanese media, Politics, Business Finance, Chiune Sugihara, The Holocaust in Lithuania
3. Embracing love
Okinawa :: Japan | 3 days ago
Credibility In conjunction with the release of her debut EP Love�s Embrace, teen idol Yao Yao is on a mission to collect hugs. Kuo Shu Yao, popularly known as Yao Yao, is on a mission to collect hugs. With her doe eyes, childlike-voice and baby face, the cute-as-a-button...
Tags: Yao Yao, Japan, Okinawa, Yao people, Together, Japanese culture, Yao language, Entertainment Culture, Japanese society, Hug, Fandom, Otaku
Teenagers arrested in classmate's death
Okinawa :: Japan | 7 days ago
Credibility Eight teenagers in Okinawa, Japan, have been arrested in the death of a classmate beaten so badly he died of hemorrhagic shock, police said. The eight were charged Friday with inflicting bodily injury resulting in the death of 14-year-old Hoshito Yonemori...
Tags: Hoshito Yonemori, Japan, Okinawa, Uruma Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, Okinawa Prefecture, Law Crime
Slowly, secret U.S. nuke deals come to light
Okinawa :: Japan | 9 days ago
Credibility Decades since Washington and Tokyo reportedly crafted secret agreements to allow U.S. nuclear weapons in Japanese territory, declassified documents from the U.S. detailing its nuclear presence in Okinawa and elsewhere in Japan during the postwar period...
Tags: U.S.-Japan, Japanese, U.S. National Security Council, U.S. Navy, Okinawa, nuclear weapon, United States, National Security Archives, prime minister, secret agreement, Japan, Okinawa Prefecture, Three Non-Nuclear Principles, Eisaku Satￅﾍ, Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan, Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands, Government of Japan, Kyￅﾫshￅﾫ region, Politics, War Conflict
Musette delivers taste of France
Okinawa :: Japan | 9 days ago
Credibility Louis Vuitton may have charmed Japanese wallets, but if Dominique Cravic and Daniel Colin have their way, musette will soon enchant Japanese ears and minds. Musette is an accordion-centered traditional French music created in Paris in the 1920s from...
Tags: Dominique Cravic, Daniel Colin, cravic says, Japan, Claire Elziere, Paris Musette & Tango, French, France, Okinawa, Bagpipes, Bal-musette, Baroque music, Entertainment Culture
Have Your Say › Can anyone suggest a solution to the U.S. bases issue in Okinawa?
Okinawa :: Japan | 10 days ago
Credibility The US must deal with the fact that the Japanese people have chosen a different path from 50-odd years of LDP rule, and that the old certainties of the alliance are no longer valid...It violates the expressed will of Nago citizens, as well as that of...
Obama’s Asia Trip: Lots of Problems, Not Much Adulation
Okinawa :: Japan | 10 days ago
Credibility South Korea For all of President Obama ’s laying claim to the title of “America’s first Pacific president,” Asia was always going to be a tough nut for him to crack. Without the first lady at his side, he would not have the kind of round-the-clock...
Tags: Mr. Obama, China, Japanese White House, United States, Singaporean, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, American, South Korea, Japan, Okinawa
2. Magic moments
You :: Burkina Faso | 11 days ago
Credibility Magician Cyril Takayama thinks of himself as a performing artiste. YOU may not have heard of Cyril Takayama, one of Japan�s most popular street magicians who has been appearing in local Japanese television productions.
Tags: Cyril Takayama, AXN, Tokyo, performance artiste, Malaysia, Okinawa, street magician, Japan, Burkina Faso, You, Street magic, Takayama, THEM, The Magician, Human Interest, Magic, Secrecy, Entertainment Culture
US says air base in Japan 'stays put'
Tōkyō :: Japan | 12 days ago
Credibility The former Japanese government had agreed to keep the Futenma air station in the southern island of Okinawa provided that Washington would agree with the relocation of some 8,000 US marines in Japan to the US territory of Guam. Japan's incumbent Premier...
Tags: Japan Airlines Corp, U.S, Tokyo, Okinawa, United States, child allowances, Yukio Hatoyama, oecd urged, urged japan, Toyota Motor Corp, Japan, Tōkyō, Topix, Business Finance, Compact cars, Subcompact cars, Technology Internet, Toyota, Sedans, Mid-size cars, Punahou School alumni, International reaction to the United States presidential election, Foreign policy of the Barack Obama administration, Presidency of Barack Obama, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Barack Obama, Educational stages, International trade, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Preschool education, Child care, Prime Ministers of Japan, Early childhood education, Education, Social Issues
FOCUS: Prospects bleak for Okada's study to merge Futemma with nearby base
Tōkyō :: Japan | 13 days ago
Credibility Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada may have eyed a breakthrough on the thorny issue of where to relocate a U.S. military airfield in Okinawa when he revived in late October a previously dismissed idea of merging it with the nearby U.S...Marine Corps' Futemma...
Tags: U.S. Marine, Japan, Okinawa, Marine Corps, Katsuya Okada, foreign minister, marine base, minister katsuya, Yukio Hatoyama, prime minister, Tōkyō, Camp Schwab, Kadena Air Base, Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler, United States Forces Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa Prefecture, Yukio, Ichirￅﾍ Hatoyama, Hatoyama Hall, Politics, Prime Ministers of Japan, Hirokazu Nakaima, Democratic Party of Japan, Nago Okinawa, Okinawa Island, War Conflict
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