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WASHINGTON, DC. (IDN) -- Nagasaki is the historic centre of Japanese Catholicism. In the 16th century, beginning with the missionary visits of one of the first Jesuits, Francis Xavier, Nagasaki was the ...
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Despite my many visits to Japan, a question continues to pop up. Are the Japanese really different? Are they special?
The Japanese people are socially disciplined, orderly and meticulously punctual. ...
... meeting was greeted with resolute pushback by ASEAN’s ‘balancing’ states — Indonesia and Singapore. More pointedly, the conservative Japanese and pro-US daily, the Yomiuri, editorialised that the United ...
... mix of uranium oxides and plutonium.
The Mox for this reactor and other Japanese ones was produced in France, using nuclear waste sent from Japan. Greenpeace has denounced the danger deriving from the ...
... of Nazism, fascism or communism. Christianity has spawned all three. Japanese Buddhism failed to resist Japanese militarism and Confucianism proved hospitable to Maoism. Yes, there was Saddam Hussein, ...
... Treaty’s entry into force marks the beginning of a new phase in the struggle to eliminate the existential threat posed by the world’s nuclear arsenals. Hiroshima and Nagasaki Hibakusha and the Japanese ...
... why he didn’t apologise for the US war crime there. But when Japan’s PM Abe went to Pearl Harbour the focus was on a Japanese apology.
Another chapter discusses at length how the media reports human ...
Viewpoint by Sven Saaler
The writer is representative of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Japan and Professor of Modern Japanese History at Sophia University in Tokyo. This article appeared the web-based ...
... whose lagoons, lush tropical jungles and mountains attract millions of visitors every year. Some 39 dolphins have been found dead since the Japanese-owned ship struck a coral reef on July 25.
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... him”.
Machado and Abreu admitted that their musical effort was an experiment that worked in carefully controlled conditions. They invited to Venezuela one of the most successful teachers of the Japanese ...
... to secure transport may have led some oil producers to consider unseaworthy large crude-oil carriers.
The Wakashio, a Japanese-owned and Panama-flagged bulk carrier, had been carrying 4,000 tons of fuel ...
... control.
Indeed, it was the Soviet advance that convinced Japan to surrender.** Although unaware of each other’s thinking both Truman and the Japanese leadership shared a common cause – they both wanted ...
... sentient human being who has met or seen the hibakusha (survivors), or visited the hypocentre, or looked at the photographic evidence of the destruction of the two devastated Japanese cities, can avoid ...
... in effect prioritize the claims of domestic manufacturers on national security grounds.
Of course, the Japanese authorities have crafted these restrictions on the vague grounds of "national security," ...
... such as the attack of Italy on Ethiopia, a civil war in Spain, the Japanese aggression against China and the Anschluss of Austria. Furthermore, in case of the Munich Betrayal that, in addition to Hitler ...
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Cisgender male privilege did not crumble. Religiously-blessed male domination, Hindu, Christian and Muslim, continued to reproduce itself, as it does in secular forms in Chinese Communism and Japanese ...
... nationwide policies, the Japanese people mostly resorted to diverse, bottom-up, decentralized, and local responses and achieved much better results than many countries that imposed lockdowns and other ...
... most complex operations involving Australian land, air and sea forces in the war. It was also the last Australian campaign to be planned and undertaken. Borneo had been captured by the Japanese in early ...
... European or Japanese lab, President Rajoelina said, he would not have had to answer all the questions about the safety, quality or efficacy of the herbal remedy, when hundreds of people are still dying ...
... perished during the War, and many of them died due to deliberate genocide, massacres, mass-bombings, disease, and starvation.
Among poignant atrocities are the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; atomic ...
... Even if Trump is deposed in the November election, the Europeans, the Canadians and Japanese should not let it return to being treated as number one.
It is too beholden to the military/legislative/industrial/academic ...
... Clemens von Ketteler, imperial Germany's minister to China. In August 1900, an international military-force of Russian, Japanese, British, French, and American soldiers captured Beijing, before the German ...
... a Japanese diplomat, remarked to IAEA's Board of Governors, "Iran is implementing its nuclear commitments". Amano, who died in July 2019, urged Tehran to continue adhering to the deal, known as JCPOA.
The ...
... (survivors), or visited the hypocentres in the two cities, or seen the photographic evidence of the destruction of these two Japanese cities, can avoid being shocked and horrified by the devastation that ...
... of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI) Buddhist network. It is his 38th annual peace proposal titled 'Toward Our Shared Future: Constructing an Era of Human Solidarity'. The original Japanese version was ...
... capital punishment does “justice” and contributes to “healing pain”. This view contributes to public opinion polls showing that a majority of Japanese favour the death penalty.
The fact however is that ...
... United States Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has summed up the risks at this level warning of a “cyber Pearl Harbour” – an allusion to the devastating Japanese attack on Hawaii that caught the US unawares ...
... throne, however, has brought to the fore how much Japan searches for its core identity beneath the harmonious surface.
The Japanese government and the governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) were ...
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Burmese temple (left) and German Tibetan temple (right). Photos: Kalinga Seneviratne
The plan to develop Lumbini as a Buddhist pilgrim centre was first proposed by a Japanese professor Kenzo ...
By Santo D. Banerjee
NEW YORK (IDN) – The survivors of atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Mayors of the two Japanese cities whose inhabitants have experienced first-hand the mind boggling ...
... of nuclear weapons”.
Japanese Ambassador to Kazakhstan Tatsuhiko Kasai expressed praise for organization of the exhibition ‘Everything You Treasure – For a World Free from Nuclear Weapons’, and mentioned ...
... last decade of implementation of the SDGs, according to a background note by the UN.
In a recent interview with the Japanese newspaper Seikyo Shimbun Ambassador Chowdhury said: “It is essential to remember ...
... than the Kremlin had previously admitted.
Today, the Kazakh government estimates that Soviet-era testing harmed about 1.5 million people in Kazakhstan alone. A 2008 study by Kazakh and Japanese doctors ...
... two cities, or seen the photographic evidence of the destruction of these two Japanese cities, can avoid being shocked and horrified by the devastation that was inflicted by nuclear weapons.
Until ...
... to at most 19 days. He said the Russian rail company was looking at building logistics centres with Japanese trading firm Sojitz.
Upgrading the Trans-Siberian Railway would significantly bolster Russia’s ...
... – a Japanese national – wrote that over the past decade, the agency also known as the nuclear watchdog had delivered "concrete results" to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, in line with its mandate. ...
... make a deal.”
During his Japan trip, Trump also endorsed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s plan to visit Iran, raising speculation that Abe is serving as a mediator for the Trump administration (see ...
... since 1986. But curiously, it is the Japanese whaling activity that arouses the unmitigated ire of NGOs. Japan appears to have taken over 21,842 since 1986. The total number of whales has increased very ...
... visit the capital Tashkent and the cradle of Moghul Islamic culture Samarkand. Bukhara is about eight hours by train from Tashkent. Recently, a Japanese built ‘bullet train’ has been introduced that cuts ...
... time. It was encouraging to have such a diverse mixture of global and local components in this education program.
The conference offered students from five Japanese high schools, three Russian high schools ...
... is the best measurement, in most cases it predicts outcomes. Beckley has trawled through the data on war and “net resources” and found this to be usually true.
Look at the Chinese-Japanese War of 1937-1939. ...
... Gakkai Peace Committee participates, offered the following recommendations from Japanese civil society to the fourth meeting of the Group of Eminent Persons (EPG): “The expansion of the international norm ...
... With the influx of Chinese, Japanese and Korean tourists, Auckland takes the appearance of Hong Kong or Singapore in the summer.
Historically, the Maori have legitimate reasons for feeling bitter about ...
... said Eusebio Mbiuki, a 100-year-old veteran who served in Britain’s Burma campaign against the Japanese. “They beat us a lot. Our bodies became so swollen from the beatings. They would beat us and slap ...
... Toda Peace Institute and the National Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand, the colloquium heard South Korean, U.S., Chinese, Russian, and Japanese perspectives ...
... may have been killed by these three nations, Norway takes the largest number. But curiously, it is the Japanese whaling activity that arouses the unmitigated ire of NGOs. The total number of whales has ...
... Rights Watch.
The significance of the activity in Tokyo was accentuated by the fact that the Japanese government has emphasised on several occasions the country's firm belief in the promotion and protection ...
... one of the most practical and achievable elements of a nuclear-weapons-free world. [IDN-InDepthNews – 20 November 2018]
Photo: Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono co-chairs the ninth Ministerial Meeting ...
... and contexts. These include measures for elimination, prohibitions, arms control, limitation, reductions, non-proliferation, regulation, transparency, confidence-building, etc.”
Meanwhile, the Japanese ...
... in the Orthodox Church, Chief Rabbis of Israel Yona Metzger, Shlomo Amar and Yitzhak Yosef, President of Jinja Honcho (the Japanese Association of Shinto Shrines) Tsunekiyo Tanaka, Chairman of the Institute ...