Insult to injury
NOT since 1993 had a Japanese journalist been investigated in South Korea. But this time it was not classified military intelligence that was allegedly divulged—but hearsay. On October 8th prosecutors charged Tatsuya Kato, until recently the Seoul bureau chief of the Sankei Shimbun, a Japanese right-wing daily, with defaming the South Korean president, Park Geun-hye. Mr Kato is currently banned fr
Spin and substance
IN OSAKA’s strongly Korean Tsuruhashi district, a 14-year-old Japanese girl went out into the streets last year calling through a loudspeaker for a massacre of Koreans. In Tokyo’s Shin-Okubo neighbourhood, home to one of the largest concentrations of Koreans in Japan, many people say the level of anti-foreigner vitriol—on the streets and on the internet—is without modern precedent. Racists chant s
Proceed with caution
Proceed with cautionA British security review proposes tighter oversight of a testing centre IN JUNE the Intelligence and Security Committee, a group of British parliamentarians, published a stern report. It concerned the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre, at Banbury in Oxfordshire, where telecoms-network equipment supplied by the Chinese company is tested to alleviate any worries that its c
Once more with feeling
TOKYO'S bid to host the 2016 Olympics, observed many of its disappointed residents afterwards, failed because of a lack of passion. After years of rising economic insecurity and public debt, Tokyoites simply could not muster enough enthusiasm to put on the world’s costliest sporting extravaganza. There was no such problem this time.
Why are there North Korean schools in Japan?
Why are there North Korean schools in Japan?Because some Koreans living in Japan after the second world war identify with the North, not the South ALONG with America and South Korea, Japan is one of a handful of states that has no diplomatic relations with North Korea (though 165 countries do). On the rare occasions when they meet, the Japanese and North Korean leaders mostly discuss the thorny is
Olympian depths
“THIS is a referendum on modern-day corporate Japan,” fumes Michael Woodford, a Brit cast down from the heights of Olympus, a Japanese camera maker. Mr Woodford was ousted as the company's president on October 14th, after barely six months in the job. Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, the 71-year-old chairman, blasted him for failing to hew to Japanese cultural practices. The board voted unanimously at a ten-min
Something must give
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All at sea
Japan and the Chinese fishing boat All at sea IT COULD have been a public-relations coup. Imagine the opportunity. Just as Japan's prime minister needs to shore up his own credibility, following a bruising battle for party leadership, and to garner support for the country's 50-year-old security alliance with America, his government obtains videotaped evidence of naked (well, bare-chested) aggressi
Preparing for the worst
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Suicide in Japan | Death be not proud | Economist.com
“DO NOT open! Gas being created!” Written in red felt-tip pen and affixed to a door, they are among the last words of a 14-year-old Japanese schoolgirl, who took her life on April 23rd. The warning followed the advice of a website that also provided instructions for creating hydrogen-sulphide gas by mixing toilet-bowl cleaner with bath salts.
Where have all the young men gone?
IN THE hamlet of Ogama, a scattering of traditional wooden houses in a steep-sided valley just a ridge away from the Sea of Japan, the forest is claiming back land that had been cleared generations ago for rice and vegetables. By her small patch of mountain potatoes, 71-year-old Setsu Yachida sits down to rub her arthritic hands. Quite frankly, she says, she's lonely. Her husband is dead. Two elde
The future of newspapers | Who killed the newspaper? | Economist.com
Who killed the newspaper?The most useful bit of the media is disappearing. A cause for concern, but not for panic “A GOOD newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself,” mused Arthur Miller in 1961. A decade later, two reporters from the Washington Post wrote a series of articles that brought down President Nixon and the status of print journalism soared. At their best, newspapers hold gover
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