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TOKYO—Iwao Hakamada, Japan's longest serving death row inmate, has insisted for 40 years that he is innocent of the four murders he was convicted of. The evidence was suspect, he says, and his confession was coerced.
Now the judge who wrote the ...
From CHISAKI WATANABE,
Boston Globe,
4 May 2008
A major Japanese Buddhist temple withdrew Friday from a plan to host the Beijing Olympics torch relay, citing safety concerns and sympathy among its monks and worshippers for pro-Tibet protesters.
Zenkoji Temple has refused to serve as the ...
From CHISAKI WATANABE,
Taiwan News,
18 Apr 2008
TOKYO—A troubled American college student has disappeared in northern Japan and her family fears she wanted to see cherry blossoms bloom before killing herself, her sister said Wednesday.
The family of Skye Lynn Budnick, of Southington, Connecticut, ...
From CHISAKI WATANABE,
Boston Globe,
16 Apr 2008
TOKYO—Violent clashes with animal rights groups and fewer whale sightings forced Japan's whaling fleet to head home from the Antarctic with only 55 percent of its 985-whale hunting target, the government said Monday.
The whalers, who were chased for ...
From CHISAKI WATANABE,
Boston Globe,
14 Apr 2008
TOKYO—Japan extended for six months Friday the economic sanctions imposed on North Korea for conducting its first test of a nuclear weapon in 2006.
The Cabinet approved the extension because the North has failed to make good progress on dismantling its ...
From CHISAKI WATANABE,
Boston Globe,
10 Apr 2008
TOKYO (AP) -- Kaku Yamanaka, Japan's oldest person, has died of old age in central Japan, officials said Saturday. She was 113.
Yamanaka died at a hospital where she was taken early Saturday after falling ill at a nursing home in Yatomi City in Aichi ...
From CHISAKI WATANABE,
Associated Press,
5 Apr 2008
TOKYO—Japan's foreign minister urged the Group of Eight industrialized nations to step up assistance to Africa and other impoverished regions as talks on development aid opened Saturday amid a worldwide economic downturn.
"I am also determined to stop ...
From CHISAKI WATANABE,
Boston Globe,
5 Apr 2008
Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Muluyani Indrawati, right, talks with Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura, prior to the Outreach Session of the G8 Development Ministers' Meeting at Mita Conference Hall on Saturday, April 5, 2008 in Tokyo. ...
From CHISAKI WATANABE,
Boston Globe,
5 Apr 2008
The showdown over the tax, which was to expire Tuesday, has dominated Japanese headlines for more than a month, and was seen by many analysts as evidence that Fukuda's administration does not have the political clout to fight an increasingly strident ...
Chisaki Watanabe
Associated Press
Vail, CO Colorado
March 7, 2008
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TOKYO — The Japanese coast guard said Friday that anti-whaling activists threw rotten butter and other objects at a Japanese whale-processing ship, the latest ...
From CHISAKI WATANABE,
Vail Daily,
7 Mar 2008
