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The exhibition that was closed at the Aichi Triennale in Nagoya, Japan, included a statue symbolizing women forced into sexual slavery during World War II.Credit...The Yomiuri Shimbun, via Associated Press Images TOKYO — It was an exhibit meant to celebrate freedom of expression. Instead, freedom of expression was shut down. A long, bitter battle between Japan and South Korea over historical memor
Ms. Kim, right, joined a protest in 2013 against a visit by Japanese lawmakers to a shrine near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul.Credit...Kin Cheung/Associated Press To the Editor: Re “Kim Bok-dong, 92, Wartime Sex Slave Who Campaigned for Justice, Dies” (obituary, Jan. 30): The Japanese government recognizes that the issue of the comfort women in World War II was a grave affront to the honor and dig
Scientists say a recording of disturbing sounds made by American diplomats in Cuba actually may be of a very loud cricket species.Credit...Yamil Lage/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images In November 2016, American diplomats in Cuba complained of persistent, high-pitched sounds followed by a range of symptoms, including headaches, nausea and hearing loss. Exams of nearly two dozen of them eventually
Japan’s finance minister, Taro Aso, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan sharing words in the Diet, in May.Credit...Kimimasa Mayama/EPA, via Shutterstock TOKYO — A sketchy land deal implicating the prime minister’s wife is revealed, then a vast cover-up by government officials. The relevant minister acknowledges the wrongdoing, apologizes and says he will fulfill his duty — by refunding a year’s
The Tokyo Grand Sumo tournament in 2015. Today’s tradition of barring women from the ring is as much a habit as anything else, said Lee Thompson, a professor of sports science at Waseda University.Credit...Chris McGrath/Getty Images TOKYO — Sumo wrestling, one of Japan’s oldest and most hallowed sports, has all kinds of inviolable rituals. The wrestlers must wear their hair in carefully coifed top
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan with President Trump in New York in September. Japan’s omission from the list of countries temporarily exempted from United States tariffs seemed also a personal snub of Mr. Abe.Credit...Tom Brenner/The New York Times TOKYO — For Japan, the hits just keep on coming. Only last week, Tokyo was scrambling to recover after being caught flat-footed by President Trump’
Shiori Ito told the police she had been raped by Noriyuki Yamaguchi, then the Washington bureau chief for the Tokyo Broadcasting System and a biographer of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.Credit...Jeremie Souteyrat for The New York Times TOKYO — It was a spring Friday night when one of Japan’s best-known television journalists invited Shiori Ito out for a drink. Her internship at a news service in Tokyo
A memorial for “comfort women” in St. Mary’s Square in San Francisco. The mayor of Osaka wants to terminate the relationship between his city and San Francisco because of the statue.Credit...Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The mayor of the Japanese city of Osaka has said he is cutting ties with San Francisco because of a new statue there, overlooking a small park downtown. The statue has three figure
A television screen in Tokyo’s Akihabara district showing a report on North Korea’s ballistic missile test over northern Japan.Credit...Toru Yamanaka/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images North Korea has targeted Japan in particular by abducting many innocent Japanese citizens, including a 13-year-old girl who was abducted in 1977. Most of them have been held in North Korea since the 1970s and 1980s
In Promoting His City for 2020 Games, Tokyo’s Bid Chairman Tweaks Others With less than five months to go before the International Olympic Committee chooses a city to host the 2020 Summer Games, the three remaining bidders — Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo — are increasing their efforts to win over delegates and the public. The Olympic committee’s rules prohibit bid committee members from directly crit
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