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VOX POPULI: World Press Photo exhibition echoes the words of Robert Capa

During my recent visit to The Kyoto Shimbun, I descended the dimly lit stairs of the newspaper company’s building into the basement. There, a...

yesterday 10

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The Asahi Shimbun

EDITORIAL: Progress needed in lightening U.S. military’s burden on Okinawans

Eighteen years following the bilateral agreement between Japan and the United States, the relocation process for U.S. Marines stationed in Okinawa...

yesterday 10

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The Asahi Shimbun

EDITORIAL: Fair burden sharing must lie at heart of debate on tax reforms

The ruling coalition has compiled its outline for next fiscal year’s tax reforms. The ruling camp’s tax negotiations with the Democratic Party for...

saturday 20

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The Asahi Shimbun

VOX POPULI: Time to post New Year’s greeting cards, if you cling to custom

In 1908, Takuboku Ishikawa (1886-1912), a poet born in Iwate Prefecture, sent a brush-written “nengajo” (New Year’s greeting card) to the...

saturday 1

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The Asahi Shimbun

VOX POPULI: The Yomiuri chief’s love-hate affair with rival Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun has lost someone who was arguably its “most faithful” reader and toughest critic. Tsuneo Watanabe, who headed The Yomiuri...

20.12.2024 4

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The Asahi Shimbun

EDITORIAL: Science Council deserves a future that leaves no lingering issues

The Cabinet Office’s panel of experts has compiled a draft final report on the future of the Science Council of Japan (SCJ). To ensure the SCJ...

20.12.2024 20

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The Asahi Shimbun

EDITORIAL: Ethics council sessions should not end funding scandal scrutiny

The Liberal Democratic Party is apparently trying to lay the political groundwork for closing the curtain on the damaging slush fund scandal prior...

19.12.2024 5

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The Asahi Shimbun

VOX POPULI: Honda-Nissan alliance taking auto industry to major crossroad

I think I was still in elementary school when my father came home one day in a blue Nissan Bluebird he’d just bought secondhand. The vehicle had...

19.12.2024 3

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The Asahi Shimbun

VOX POPULI: ‘Touch grass,’ Thoreau’s ghost cries over Word of the Year 2024

The U.S. author and philosopher Henry D. Thoreau (1817-1862) was in his late 20s when he built himself a hut on the shores of Walden Pond in...

18.12.2024 1

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The Asahi Shimbun

EDITORIAL: New draft energy plan ignores Fukushima disaster lesson

The industry ministry on Dec. 17 released a draft for the next edition of the Strategic Energy Plan. A policy to minimize Japan’s dependency on...

18.12.2024 2

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The Asahi Shimbun

INTERVIEW/ Takashi Mikuriya: Ruling bloc’s loss of majority fired off starting gun for change

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner, Komeito, lost a combined majority of seats in the Oct. 27 Lower House...

18.12.2024 5

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