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Hiroshi Hiyama

Hiroshi Hiyama

International Business Times

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Pacifist Japan Struggles To Boost Troops As China Anxiety Grows

Sporting dark face paint and clutching a gun, teenage soldier-in-training Takuma Hiyane crawls across a field on Japan's Okinawa, the front line of...

02.09.2025 10

International Business Times

Hiroshi Hiyama

Okinawa A Reluctant Host For US Troops 80 Years After WWII

Okinawa resident Hiromasa Iha can still recall the screams of his classmates and teachers after a US military jet crashed into his elementary school,...

16.08.2025 9

International Business Times

Hiroshi Hiyama

Japan Sees Bright Future For Ultra-thin, Flexible Solar Panels

Japan is heavily investing in a new kind of ultra-thin, flexible solar panel that it hopes will help it meet renewable energy goals while challenging...

22.07.2025 10

International Business Times

Hiroshi Hiyama

Bone Collectors: Searching For WWII Remains In Okinawa

Trekking through mud and rocks in Japan's humid Okinawan jungle, Takamatsu Gushiken reached a slope of ground where human remains have lain forgotten...

24.06.2025 9

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Hiroshi Hiyama

Nintendo Forecasts 15 Million Switch 2 Sales In 2025-26

Japanese gaming giant Nintendo forecast Thursday that it would sell 15 million units of its hotly awaited Switch 2 console in the current financial...

09.05.2025 10

International Business Times

Hiroshi Hiyama

Japan Victims Voice Fears 30 Years After Sarin Subway Attack

Three decades since Shizue Takahashi's husband and a dozen others were killed with a nerve agent on Tokyo's subway, she fears Japan could see a repeat...

19.03.2025 8

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Hiroshi Hiyama

A Fearful New Year In Temporary Homes After Japan Quake

Before the earthquake changed everything, 83-year-old Sueko Naka from Japan's remote Noto Peninsula wished to live out her life at home, watched...

31.12.2024 3

International Business Times

Hiroshi Hiyama

Japan's A-bomb Survivors: From Discrimination To A Nobel

Survivors of the US atomic bombings of Japan will receive the Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday but, after years of anti-nuclear campaigning and showing...

10.12.2024 4

International Business Times

Hiroshi Hiyama

Lawmakers Vote To Keep Embattled Ishiba As Japan PM

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba kept his job in a parliamentary vote on Monday, despite having recently led the ruling coalition to its...

11.11.2024 2

International Business Times

Hiroshi Hiyama

New Rules Drive Japanese Trucking Sector To The Brink

Fujio Uemura has to rest after driving fish all night to Tokyo, under new rules that trucking firms and experts say are crippling Japan's logistics...

20.10.2024 2

International Business Times

Hiroshi Hiyama