Month: May 2019

Editorial: Honor, common sense demand lawmaker resign over comment on war with Russia  The Mainichi

It was a comment so beyond the pale for a sitting Diet lawmaker, someone chosen to be a representative of the Japanese people, that it cannot possibly.

Editorial: Honor, common sense demand lawmaker resign over comment on war with Russia  The Mainichi

It was a comment so beyond the pale for a sitting Diet lawmaker, someone chosen to be a representative of the Japanese people, that it cannot possibly.

Diet member who suggested war against Russia won’t resign：The Asahi Shimbun  Asahi Shimbun

Despite offending war victims and having his intelligence questioned, Hodaka Maruyama indicated he w.

Killer whales put on show for tourists in Hokkaido’s Shiretoko  Kyodo News Plus

The best time of the whale watching season has begun in waters off the Shiretoko Peninsula in northern Japan’s Hokkaido, with pods of killer whales often …