Ski resorts in Japan are prized for having some of the deepest, lightest powder around. A winter of exceptionally heavy snow — some areas had more than 12 feet of snowpack this week — should be a skier or snowboarder’s…
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Fighting for Justice for Japan’s ‘Comfort Women’
This article is part of a Women and Leadership special report highlighting women who are charting new pathways and fighting for opportunities for women and others. When Gil Won-ok, a Korean woman, died recently at the age of 96, the…
Japan Fights Its Largest Wildfire in More Than 30 Years
Japan’s largest wildfire in more than three decades was burning through a forested area of a small coastal city on Sunday after killing at least one person, damaging dozens of homes and prompting evacuation orders for thousands of residents, fire…
Japan Fights Its Largest Wildfire in More Than 30 Years
Japan’s largest wildfire in more than three decades was burning through a forested area of a small coastal city on Sunday after killing at least one person, damaging dozens of homes and prompting evacuation orders for thousands of residents, fire…
Why Japanese Oscar Contender ‘Black Box Diaries’ Isn’t Being Shown in Japan
A film by a Japanese woman about her search for justice from uncooperative authorities after she reported being raped is a contender at Sunday’s Academy Awards. Yet, despite being the first full-length documentary made by a Japanese director ever nominated…
South Korean Police Investigate Japanese Woman for Kissing BTS Star Jin
The South Korean police have summoned a Japanese woman for questioning after she was accused of kissing Jin, a member of the K-pop supergroup BTS, without consent during a public event last year. The Japanese woman, whose name was not…
Bomber Given 10 Years in Prison for Attempted Murder of Japanese Premier
A court in western Japan sentenced a man to 10 years in prison on Wednesday after finding him guilty of attempting to murder the prime minister two years ago with a homemade bomb. The court in the city of Wakayama…
U.S. Marines Start to Leave Japan, Decades Behind Schedule
Before Christmas, a contingent of 105 U.S. Marines who would have been sent to Okinawa were redirected to a new base on the United States territory of Guam instead. The small reshuffling marked a major milestone: This was the first…
Korean Victim of WWII Sex Slavery Who Fought for Japan’s Apology Dies
Gil Won-ok, one of the last survivors of sexual slavery in brothels for Japan’s World War II troops, who campaigned to bring international attention to the suffering of thousands of women like her, died this week at her home. She…
Laapataa Ladies gets shortlisted at Japan Academy Film Prize 2024 : Bollywood News
Jio Studios and Aamir Khan Productions’, Kiran Rao directorial Laapataa Ladies (Lost Ladies), continues to win hearts since its release on October 4, 2024 in Japan, celebrating an uninterrupted theatrical run of 115 days and still counting. Now in its…