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A Day at the Diet
Last week, my politics/economics class went on an outing to the National Diet Building, the home of the two houses of the Japanese legislature. (We also went to the Imperial Palace, but that’s a story for another day.) As a … Continue reading
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Tagged japan, photography, pictures, politics, postaweek2012, sightseeing, travel
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Anti-Nuclear Protest, Shibuya
There was a small anti-nuclear protest near my apartment in Shibuya tonight. I could hear the chanting about Fukushima, so I went out to take a look. The protest seemed to be in the “sound demo” format, where people play … Continue reading
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Tagged asia, demonstrations, fukushima, japan, nuclear energy, nuclear weapons, politics, postaweek2011, protests, shibuya, sound demo, tokyo
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Berkeley and Tokyo: Anti-Nuclear Parallels?
Given the recent events in Japan, many around the world have raised new (and old) concerns about nuclear energy and its risks, which has made me a little more thoughtful about those espousing these opinions closer to home. On my … Continue reading
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Tagged berkeley, debates, earthquake, history, japan, nuclear energy, nuclear weapons, photography, pictures, politics, postaweek2011, protests, risk, tokyo, travel, war
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The Indomitable Mrs. Kan
Anyone who follows Japanese politics knows that Prime Minister Naoto Kan hasn’t been having an easy time of it. Despite the fact the his party, the Democratic Party of Japan, was swept into power on a tide of great popularity … Continue reading
Troubling News from North Korea
Picture via the Associated Press and The New York Times As many of you know, North Korea fired a number of artillery shells at a South Korean island today. The reports are still coming in, but at least two South … Continue reading
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More join the ranks of the missing!
Just a quick update on my previous post. While I earlier mentioned that Japanese officials estimated that there were about 75 people missing across Japan, it now appears that there are 105 centenarians unaccounted for in the city of Kobe alone. Yikes! … Continue reading
Japan’s Missing Centenarians
Photo: A Loving Japanese Couple in Old Age (1880s) by Okinawa Soba It appears that having the world’s second-largest number of centenarians (people over 100 years old) has its hazards. It all started in late July, when the mummified remains of … Continue reading
Election time!
It’s election time here in Japan. The official 17-day campaign period for the 2010 Upper House election began on June 24, and the actual election is scheduled to take place on July 11. The area of Kyoto where I live … Continue reading
East Timor president suggests Japan eat fruit, not whales
Simpsons Food Chain by =SpacePlatypus on deviantART I came across this article and couldn’t resist sharing it as a follow up to my previous post on the Japanese and the whaling issue. According to Kyodo News, East Timorese President Jose … Continue reading
The Japanese and the Whale
As some of you may be aware, for the last two days, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) has been meeting in Morocco to try to reach a compromise between pro- and anti-whaling countries. Commercial whaling has been banned since 1986, … Continue reading