Matsue Journal: Honoring a Westerner Who Preserved Japanâs Folk Tales
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Descriptions of Matsue, Japan by Lafcadio Hearn, the Irish-Greek author and muckraking journalist, put this medieval city on the map in the 1890s.
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Col. Masanobu Tsuji was a fanatical Japanese militarist and brutal warrior, hunted after World War II for massacres of Chinese civilians and complicity in the Bataan Death March.
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Kimono-makers laid their old needles to rest during the "hari-kuyo" needle festival at Buddhist temples all over Japan on Thursday, sticking them into soft chunks of tofu bean curd to thank them for their hard work.
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TOKYO -- On a recent business trip to Colorado, Japan's agriculture minister, Toshikatsu Matsuoka, popped into an inviting Japanese restaurant in the Denver suburbs with a hankering for a taste of back home. What he found instead was something he considered a high culinary crime -- sushi served on...
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Mr. Shimaoka was designated a âliving national treasureâ in Japan for his mastery of his craft.
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Variety - TOKYO -- Traditionally, Japanese summer fairs and festivals that start in the evening and last until the small hours are called "matsuri."
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TOKYO, JAPAN.- German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder (R) looks at a painting as Isamu Adachi (L), chairman of the Adachi Foundation for wood carvings looks on, during a visit to the Ota Memorial Museum of Art in ...
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Here in the Gion geisha district of Japan's ancient capital, even one bad hair day can cost a girl her career. So it is no wonder that Tetsuo Ishihara is the man with the most popular hands in town.
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Wataru Misaka, the first Japanese-American to play basketball at the highest level, remains a gentle reminder of the sport's first steps toward diversity.
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Japanâs nationalists are fanning fury over abductions decades ago by North Korea, still a burning issue.
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It isn't as though Hideki Matsui hasn't been in the middle of a baseball blood rivalry before. In Japan, the clan war between the Yomiuri Giants and Hanshin Tigers has been going on for decades. It's just as lopsided (30 Central League titles for the Giants, 4 for the Tigers) and it even has its own curse.
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Its name means "peaceful nation," but the Yasukuni shrine to Japan's war dead generates a lot of rage. Asian neighbors attack it as a promoter of militarism, Japanese have filed a slew of lawsuits against official visits there, and the U.S., Japan's main ally, finds its take on history disturbing.
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Veteran astronaut Koichi Wakata has been named as the first Japanese to stay long-term in space, and said he hoped to bring ramen noodles to the International Space Station.
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Eight and a half years ago, Daisuke Matsuzaka established his legendary status in Japan with a feat of endurance that is still hard to fathom in the context of Major League Baseball.
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Emperor Akihito of Japan has paid tribute to an 18th-century Swedish scientist, Carl Linnaeus, saying his ground-breaking system of classifying wildlife helped ease Japan&#39;s long isolation with the rest of the world.
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IT is a special honour for me to be speaking before such a distinguished gathering, including my illustrious predecessor and his colleagues from Korea and Japan who are all well-known for their visionary ideas and as proponents of East Asian cooperation.
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MOUNT OMINE, Japan -- At 5 a.m. on a summer day already sticky with humidity, three dozen ascetic priests known as ''yamabushi&quot; -- ''those who lie down in the mountains&quot; -- have gathered at the foot of this mountain in southern Japan to pray before climbing its sacred slopes.