“We must never allow this painful past to repeat itself.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) The mayor of Hiroshima on Thursday warned of the ongoing dangers of nationalism and militarism on the 75th anniversary of ...
“This is one of the most shocking discoveries I’ve made in decades of radiation surveys.” The troubling discovery was supposed to remain under wraps, until Greenpeace Japan determined on December 4 that it had no ...
“Japan can help in easing the ongoing tension between Iran and America…. As a goodwill gesture, America should either lift the unjust oil sanctions or extend the waivers or suspend them.” Japan is willing to ...
“However, growth remains low, and risks remain tilted to the downside. Most importantly, trade and geopolitical tensions have intensified.” On Sunday, June 9, finance ministers and central bank chiefs of the G20 countries wrapped up ...
As U.S. President Donald Trump met with Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo in Japan over the weekend, differences over trade and North Korea lingered below the surface. President Trump’s visit to Japan over memorial day ...
“I don’t want to [have surgery], to be honest. However, I have to just because it is a requirement…I feel pressured to be operated on – so terrible.” In Japan, any transgender individual appealing for ...
The Fukushima cleanup is already running out of space to store treated water. And should another big quake strike, experts say tanks could crack, unleashing tainted liquid and washing highly radioactive debris into the ocean. ...
A Japenese politician said the council had not taken kindly to her since the November incident because their “outdated attitudes had been exposed and criticized in public.” Yuka Ogata, a Japanese politician, was in November ...
Almost 70,000 people congregated at Naha City, the capital of Okinawa in the Ryukyu Islands to protest the proposed relocation of a US Marine Corps Air Station. The plan is to move the military base from ...
The Okinawa government is building outdoor shelters for schoolchildren to protect them from faulty U.S. Marine helicopters. Multiple times now Okinawa schoolchildren have been endangered when random metal shrapnel from US military helicopters fell onto ...
The U.S. military is building its 33rd military base on the small Japanese island, Okinawa, but locals are waging a multi-year, non-violent protest to stop construction and preserve Oura Bay and its spectacular coral reef ...
As we pass the anniversaries of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki we look at war tax resistance then and now. (By Ruth Benn, National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee) August ...
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