Rainbow ears, but is Japan’s parliament listening?
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Japan has a rich queer history and is seeing societal changes in favor of greater LGBTQ recognition. That said, national politicians have yet to catch up.
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Publicly available data on social media opens a new avenue for studying the environment with “incidental citizen science”.
An American guided-missile cruiser off the coast of Japan near Mt. Fuji.
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NATO’s growing presence in the Pacific evokes a painful history that the western world has never confronted or fully acknowledged.
Tina Turner performs onstage during the 50th annual Grammy Awards held at the Staples Center on Feb. 10, 2008, in Los Angeles.
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Turner was introduced to Nichiren Buddhism in 1973, and its teachings provided inspiration for some of the final projects of her career.
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The heads of the some of the most powerful countries in the world would be wise to listen to the devastating testimony of Hiroshima survivors.
Running a few bilateral ideas up the flagpole.
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The meeting is just the second US state visit during the Biden administration. It comes as Washington and Seoul face common concerns.
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Suzume stands its ground in the large collection of films and literature coming to terms with the memory of Japan’s 2011 triple disaster.
A Marine amphibious assault vehicle takes part in a 2019 joint U.S.-Philippines exercise.
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The South China Sea is of strategic and economic importance to Beijing and the US, setting up a potential power struggle that could spark conflict.
Both the U.S. and China have plans to establish bases on the Moon in the near future.
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China has invested massively in its space capabilities in recent years and is now a major competitor with the US. But according to a space policy expert, the US still dominates space by most measures.
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The late writer never shied away from hard topics, breaking down walls of silence around topics like disability and rurality in post-war Japan.
An earthquake-triggered tsunami sweeps shores along Iwanuma, Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan, March 11, 2011.
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Images of the 2011 tsunami did not look as I had expected, and pointed to the sublime, when experience exceeds our frameworks of understanding. My exhibit ‘Salients’ treats this theme.
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An uncompromising writer who wrote about the dark and light of postwar Japan
In 1907, a large anti-Asian riot took place in Vancouver. Here is a colourized photo of 245 Powell St., a stop on a walking tour that retraces the steps of the angry mob.
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A virtual walking tour traces the route of a white mob that attacked Asian communities of Vancouver in 1907. Learning about past contexts may shed light on the recent surge in anti-Asian violence.
Worst-hit areas in Turkey were reduced to rubble.
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Turkey has repeatedly attempted to improve its earthquake preparedness. So what went wrong?
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s main red-light district, where Chinese gangs have been active in recent years.
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Japan’s traditional mafia organisation, the yakuza, has become almost respectable, leaving space for more violent Chinese gangs to muscle in on their turf.
An undersea tunnel is under construction to release wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
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Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is set to release radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean – but the cause for concern is minimal.
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Successive Japanese administrations have tried – and largely failed – to reduce urban overcrowding for 70 years.
Biden and Kishida: A relationship far from flagging.
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The meeting is the first between the leaders since Japan outlined a more assertive defense strategy in December.
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In the early decades of the 20th century, people grappled with the sounds modernity wrought. Some heard only noise. Others found great beauty.
In Japan, children look forward to a visit from Hotei, a jolly Japanese god with a rotund frame.
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Hotei, a Japanese god who carries a large sack, has come to be identified with Santa Claus – except that he brings the goodies on New Year’s Day instead of Christmas.