News Japan History: Why this 73-year-old tattoo artist is a legend in Japan
The controversial history of Japanese tattooing, or irezumi, can be traced back to around 10,000 BC, in the Jomon period. The Japanese government banned tattoos in 1872, as while the practice had ...
News Japan History: Shinzo Abe Appears to Be Headed to Victory and Place in History as Polls Close in Japan
TOKYO — As polls closed in Japan on Sunday after lackluster turnout in national elections, voters appeared to have delivered a victory to the governing party of Shinzo Abe and its allies, according to ...
News Japan History: Japan Makes History With Second Asteroid Landing To Scoop Material From The Dawn Of The Solar System
Japan’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft has successfully landed on the asteroid Ryugu for a second time, firing a projectile into the surface in the process and hopefully kicking up material into a collector that will return to Earth.
News Japan History: Tensions over history, North keep Japan, South Korea at odds
Japan and South Korea, two major U.S. allies, are again at odds, this time over Tokyo's decision to tighten controls on exports of sensitive materials that are mainly used in computer chips and ...
News Japan History: Chinese economy has bright future: Japanese entrepreneur
The friendly exchanges between Japan and China have a long history and Japan has benefited from traditional Chinese culture, he said. The entrepreneur said that he hopes the two countries will ...
News Japan History: A Japanese American newspaper chronicles the ‘searing’ history of immigrant incarceration
Twice per week, Maggie Ishino, a 94-year-old newspaper columnist, takes three buses across Los Angeles’ sprawl to the office of The Rafu Shimpo, the last bilingual Japanese-English daily paper in the ...
News Japan History: Japan's former empress has heart problem but fine to travel
Michiko is the first commoner to become empress in modern Japanese history. Catholic-educated Michiko Shoda and Akihito married on April 10, 1959, after what is known as their tennis court romance. ...
News Japan History: Reluctant hero Leitch says Japan can make World Cup history
Japan's rugby captain Michael Leitch warned that the "Brave Blossoms" will fear no one at this year's World Cup as the hosts target a place in the knockout stage for the first time. The New Zealand-born flanker shot to fame four years ago when Japan won three games under Eddie Jones
News Japan History: Ardent drive to promote Poland-Japan exchanges
As a scholar of Japanese law, Polish Ambassador Jacek Izydorczyk brings a distinct cultural understanding to the diplomatic world, where he works day in and day out to deepen ties between Poland and Japan.
News Japan History: Japan, China agree to boost relations ahead of Xi visit
TOKYO — Japan and China agreed Friday to boost their relations ahead ... of tiny islands and undersea deposits in the East China Sea, as well as over wartime history, but their relations have improved ...
News Japan History: How Japan's renewables-powered Olympics could kick off a global race for clean energy
Japan is aiming to host the first Olympic Games ... of course, not without history. Now, with the climate crisis becoming ever more urgent and heavily-reported, the 2020 summer Olympics may ...
News Japan History: Living History: Ushering in the New Imperial Era in Japan
The sun occasionally peeked through the clouds over a sea of cameras and Japanese flags and shone on the crowd packed arm to arm. We waited in anticipation as security combed the grounds and ...
News Japan History: What China Wants to Avoid in Trade Talks: Becoming the Next Japan
History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes ... This should be a warning to China, the articles assert, because Japan’s “three lost decades” can be blamed on the 1985 deal, struck at the iconic hotel ...
