China's Great Firewall descends on Hong Kong internet users | World news | The Guardian

2020/07/09 7 users The Guardian

Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong hold up their mobile phones. The territory faces a dramatic decline in internet freedoms. Photograph: Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty Images At midnight on Tuesday, the Great Firewall of China, the vast apparatus that limits the country’s internet, appeared to desc... 続きを読む

Japan's public broadcaster condemned over 'offensive' BLM anime | World news | The Guardian

2020/06/09 12 users The Guardian

Japan’s public broadcaster, NHK, has come under fire after its attempt to explain the Black Lives Matter movement in anime form was condemned as offensive and misleading. The animated clip features black men and women standing on a burned-out street with their fists raised, while an African-Ameri... 続きを読む

From near disaster to success story: how Japan has tackled coronavirus | World news | The Guardian

2020/05/23 7 users The Guardian

Staff members wearing face masks and shields bow to customers as the Nihombashi Takashimaya shopping centre partially reopens in Tokyo. Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters A little over a month ago, health experts were saying Japan risked becoming one of the world’s coronavirus “disaster zones”. I... 続きを読む

Japanese politician in baby row thrown out again – for sucking cough drop | World news | The Guardian

2018/10/01 17 users The Guardian

Yuka Ogata claims attitudes towards her have hardened since she took her child into the assembly last November (above). Photograph: The Asahi Shimbun/The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Imag A Japanese politician who was forced to leave an assembly chamber last year after her colleagues objected to the p... 続きを読む

Japanese magazine to close after Abe ally's 'homophobic' article | World news | The Guardian

2018/09/26 209 users article The Guardian

Mio Sugita, 51, was not pressured to resign by Shinzo Abe because he said she was ‘still young’. Photograph: The Asahi Shimbun/The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images A prominent magazine in Japan is to close after an outcry over an allegedly homophobic article written by a rightwing MP from the rulin... 続きを読む

Japan: Shinzo Abe's political future in doubt as wife linked to cronyism scandal | World news | The Guardian

2018/03/12 52 users Japan The Guardian

A spiralling cronyism scandal linked to the Japanese prime minister and his wife has reached fever pitch after the finance ministry admitted to tampering with records to remove references to the first... 続きを読む

H1B Visa: H-1B visa reform bill introduced in US House of Representatives

2017/01/31 6 users Updated NEWS US News Jan 31

News » World News » US News » H-1B visa reform bill introduced in US House of Representatives H-1B visa reform bill introduced in US House of Representatives TNN & Agencies | Updated: Jan 31, 2017, 06... 続きを読む

Korean comfort women agreement is a triumph for Japan and the US | World news | The Guardian

2015/12/28 8 users The Guardian

Korean comfort women agreement is a triumph for Japan and the US Shinzo Abe hails new era of bilateral relations but, mindful of China and nationalism in South Korea, Park Geun-hye’s response is coole... 続きを読む

何千億円もの価値ある金銀財宝を積んだ307年前の幻の沈没船が発見される - GIGAZINE

2015/12/07 17 users 金銀財宝 残骸 海底 GIGAZINE スペイン

海底に沈んでしまったものの中で「最も引き揚げる価値のあるもの」と考えられてきた、307年前に金銀財宝を積んだまま沈没したスペインのガレオン船「サンホセ号」の残骸が発見されました。 Spanish galleon may contain biggest treasure haul ever found on seabed | World news | The Guardian http://www.... 続きを読む

Confidential files on El Salvador human rights stolen after legal action against CIA | World news | The Guardian

2015/10/23 8 users CIA The Guardian

Confidential files on El Salvador human rights stolen after legal action against CIA US group says computer and hard drive containing survivor testimony about El Salvador civil war was stolen from Was... 続きを読む

Japanese soldiers could fight abroad again after security bill passed | World news | The Guardian

2015/09/19 15 users The Guardian

Japanese soldiers could fight abroad again after security bill passed Law change amid mass protests marks biggest shift in foreign and military policy since end of second world war LDP MPs clap after ... 続きを読む

New generation of Japanese anti-war protesters challenge Abe | World news | The Guardian

2015/09/16 15 users The Guardian

Students are demonstrating against a bill to alter Japan’s pacifist constitution to allow it to send troops overseas for the first time since WW2. Five protesters say why Beniko Hashimoto speaks at an... 続きを読む

Japan takes no Syrian refugees yet despite giving $200m to help fight Isis | World news | The Guardian

2015/09/09 61 users The Guardian To help $200m

Japan takes no Syrian refugees yet despite giving $200m to help fight Isis Although it is the second largest donor to the UN refugee agency after the US, in 2014 Japan accepted just 11 asylum seekers ... 続きを読む

Japan's emperor strikes more apologetic tone than Abe over second world war | World news | The Guardian

2015/08/15 27 users The Guardian

Japan's emperor strikes more apologetic tone than Abe over second world war The emperor, 81, is banned by the constitution from any political role, but his carefully nuanced words could be seen as reb... 続きを読む

Japan's PM Shinzo Abe heckled at Okinawa battle anniversary event | World news | The Guardian

2015/06/23 18 users The Guardian

Japan's PM Shinzo Abe heckled at Okinawa battle anniversary event Abe heckled over continuing presence of US forces amid criticism of his attempts to allow Japanese troops to fight overseas for first ... 続きを読む

France to force big supermarkets to give away unsold food to charity | World news | The Guardian

2015/05/22 7 users The Guardian

France to force big supermarkets to give away unsold food to charity Supermarkets will have to take measures to prevent food waste and will be forced to donate unsold but edible food to charity or for... 続きを読む

Neo-Nazi photos pose headache for Shinzo Abe | World news | theguardian.com

2014/09/09 13 users theguardian.com

Pictures from Japanese neo-Nazi Kazunari Yamada’s website show him posing with Shinzo Abe’s internal affairs minister, Sanae Takaichi, and his party’s policy chief, Tomomi Inada. Photograph: Guardian ... 続きを読む

Vagina selfie for 3D printers lands Japanese artist in trouble | World news | theguardian.com

2014/07/15 11 users theguardian.com

Last month it took more than 20 firefighters to free a US student who had become trapped inside a giant sculpture of a vagina in Germany. But genital art elicited a very different response in Japan th... 続きを読む

Tokyo assemblywoman subjected to sexist abuse from other members | World news | theguardian.com

2014/06/20 51 users theguardian.com

Ayaka Shiomura, a member of the Tokyo assembly, was told to get married while she tried to debate support for childrearing. Photograph: Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Images Senior Japanese politicians have urg... 続きを読む

Fukushima's children at centre of debate over rates of thyroid cancer | World news | theguardian.com

2014/03/10 22 users theguardian.com

Young children play in a Red Cross 'Smile Park' - a play facility set up for Fukushima's children in Fukushima city. Photograph: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert When doctors found several tiny nodules on his 12... 続きを読む

Russian military moves in Crimea are declaration of war, says Ukrainian PM | World news | theguardian.com

2014/03/02 9 users theguardian.com

Kiev calls up military reserves, Russian troops surround Crimean base and Nato ambassadors meet in BrusselsVladimir Putin has declared war on Ukraine, the acting prime minister in Kiev, Arseniy Yatsen... 続きを読む

Tokyo women call for 'sex strike' over sexist gubernatorial candidate | World news | theguardian.com

2014/02/08 15 users strike sex theguardian.com

One Tokyo-based Twitter campaign group has billed itself as 'the association of women who will not have sex with men who vote for Masuzoe'. Photograph: Franck Robichon/EPA A group of women in the Japa... 続きを読む

Japan whistleblowers face crackdown under proposed state secrets law | World news | theguardian.com

2013/12/05 19 users theguardian.com

Officials who leak 'special state secrets' and journalists who seek to obtain them could face prison if bill is approved this weekWhistleblowers and journalists in Japan could soon find themselves fac... 続きを読む

Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex? | World news | The Observer

2013/10/20 85 users sex The Observer HAVING

What happens to a country when its young people stop having sex? Japan is finding out… Abigail Haworth investigatesAi Aoyama is a sex and relationship counsellor who works out of her narrow three-stor... 続きを読む

NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users | World news | theguardian.com

2013/10/04 10 users theguardian.com

• Top-secret documents detail repeated efforts to crack Tor • US-funded tool relied upon by dissidents and activists • Core security of network remains intact but NSA has some success attacking users'... 続きを読む