Topic: Japan
A New Zealand anti-whaling activist was arrested in Japan Friday after a harpoon ship he boarded in Antarctic waters last month docked in Tokyo, greeted by police and nationalist protesters. Peter Bethune of the militant Sea Shepherd Conservation Society was engaged in months of high-seas clashes with the Japanese whaling fleet but has been in custody since mid-February when he ...
Two weeks' paternity leave may not seem like much, but for Hironobu Narisawa, the 44-year-old mayor of a Tokyo district, it is a leap into the future for Japanese society. Next month he will become Japan's first local government chief to take time off work to look after a child, a move he hopes will encourage other men to ...
Tokyo's third international airport opened Thursday with festivity — and heavy criticism that it is a wasteful project likely to serve just a fraction of the passengers forecast. Hundreds of passengers and visitors wandered through Ibaraki Airport's concourses and halls as special commemorative flights were scheduled ...
