Tag: Japan
‘Don’t blame women’: Japan birth drive sparks online debate
Policy changes such as expanding daycare provision can help boost birth rates, but the increase is often "temporary"
Kenzaburo Oe: Novelist who won Nobel with ‘poetic force’
Known for his pacifist and anti-nuclear views, Oe saw himself as part of a generation of writers "deeply wounded" by World War II
Seoul to compensate Japan wartime forced labor victims
Seoul and Tokyo have ramped up security cooperation in the face of growing threats from Kim Jong Un's North Korea
Japan ‘Happy Science’ cult leader Okawa dies
Okawa was the singular leader and founder of the Happy Science group, which was started in 1986
Climate campaigners slam Japan’s growing push for fossil gas in Asia
Climate activists said fossil gas is a dirty energy source that is also responsible for more global warming than previously known
The Japanese ex-soldier who declared war on sexual abuse
Her story has inspired dozens more people to report sexual and other abuse in the military
Japan bids farewell to four pandas returning to China
There are an estimated 1,860 giant pandas left in the wild, mainly in bamboo forests in the mountains of China
Women’s group warns against Philippines’ ‘dangerous liaisons to set war against...
Gabriela said it would be "foolish" to believe that the US and Japan "are here to form military ties with Philippine interests in mind”
Japanese prime minister vows to take action on declining birthrate
“Japan is standing on the verge of whether we can continue to function as a society,” Kishida said in Monday’s speech
Japanese Buddhists back selection of next Dalai Lama by Tibetans, not...
Tibetans believe the Dalai Lama chooses the body into which he is reincarnated, a process that has occurred 13 times since 1391
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