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Japanâs disappearing village fights to avoid extinction (opens the original)
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Once a year in late summer, the sleepy mountainous village of Nanmoku comes alive for a 400-year-old fire festival. Local people swing rings of burning straw over the Nanmoku river, which cuts through a forested valley dotted with weather-beaten traditional houses, some abandoned. Once the fires are winked out and tourists depart, the loudest sound in the village is the gushing river and chirping of birds. A 90-minute drive from Tokyo, Nanmoku sprawls over an area roughly the size of Dublin city
âVery unfortunateâ: the phrase that captures Japanâs Trump dilemma (opens the original)
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The Trump administrationâs decision to sanction Tomoko Akane, president of the International Criminal Court (ICC), has put Japan in a bind. US secretary of state Marco Rubio imposed the sanctions this month to âprotect Americansâ from what he called a âshamâ court. Akane and lawyer Abdoulaye Seye had âdirectly engaged in efforts ... to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute officials whose government has not consented to ICC jurisdictionâ, he wrote on social media. The sanction
Japanâs defence minister arrives in Australia amid âmelongateâ controversy (opens the original)
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In hindsight it may not have been the Australian prime ministerâs best moment. Over a glass of whiskey during a comedy podcast in July, Anthony Albanese joked about a gift of pricey melons from his Japanese counterpart, Sanae Takaichi. Chatting with comedian Nikki Osborne, Albanese appeared to make a cupping gesture near his chest, Carry-on style, calling the melons from Japanâs first woman prime minister âpretty strangeâ but nice gifts. Osborne joked: âShe brought two ... She just cam
Japanâs nuclear taboo faces its sternest test in decades (opens the original)
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Tsutomu Yamaguchi was 90 years old when he finally began talking about his life as a double-hibakusha â one of about 150 people who survived both US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As Yamaguchi stepped off a tram in Hiroshima on the morning of August 6th, 1945, exactly 81 years ago, the âLittle Boyâ bomb detonated over the city. He fled home to Nagasaki, where the âFat Manâ was dropped two days later, killing 70,000 people. âThere is a famous Japanese proverb,â Yamaguchi
Japanâs earthquake death toll could have been far higher. Here is why it was not (opens the original)
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Tuesdayâs powerful earthquake in Japan caused widespread destruction, with buildings collapsing and transport disrupted. Rescue efforts are still under way. Yet despite its severity, the death toll could have been far higher. The âRing of Fireâ, a horseshoe-shaped zone around the Pacific Ocean marked by sliding and colliding tectonic plates, accounts for 90 per cent of the worldâs earthquakes. Japan sits right on top of it. Millions of Japanese people must live with the possibility of th
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