Asahi Shimbun

...in Fukuoka Prefecture in mid-October. Chiba police suspect Ichihashi underwent plastic surgery several times, the report said. The Asahi Shimbun said in its Wednesday morning edition that Chiba police concluded that Ichihashi had visited a...

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...and bringing the troops home. Among the prime movers of the plan was the highly respected Ryohei Murayama - founder, in 1879, of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper. The Osaka Asahi ran an article criticizing the government, and the...

In this article: Japan, Liberal Democratic Party, Masatake Terauchi, Katsuya Okada, Yukio Hatoyama, Closed circle, and World War II

...of his job. Gotta have ninjo? : Chris Burgess (left), broadcaster Peter Barakan and Wataru Sawamura, foreign editor at the Asahi Shimbun, take part in a discussion at Yurakucho Asahi Hall in Tokyo last month following a special...

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...its surveillance activities after detecting the highly virulent sarin gas in November last year and in February in Liaoning province, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported, citing anonymous sources from the Chinese military. Sarin gas, which...

In this article: North Korea, China, Sarin, Tokyo, World War I, and Germany

...the Democratic Party of Japan, reflecting a favorable popular response to the outcome of the Aug. 30 general election. Yet, in an Asahi Shimbun survey, only 32 percent of pollees said the DPJ could greatly change politics in Japan, versus 46...

In this article: Democratic Party of Japan, Japan, LDP, China, Recession, Unemployment, and House of Councilors

The mass-circulation Yomiuri Shimbun wrote in a headline, "A series of fine shots makes up for a lack of speed" and the influential daily Asahi Shimbun praised her "fighting spirit". It was Date-Krumm's eighth career title and the first...

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...news shows keep playing and analyzing. The video shows the bear savagely mauling a man on the ground. According to a report in the Asahi Shimbun, people at the site subsequently cornered the bear in a building and waited for the hunter, who...

In this article: Hokkaido, The International Union for Conservation, Unesco, Japan, Gifu Prefecture, and Honshu

...lacks specific policies" and it warned the DPJ to "avoid words and actions that could weaken the alliance." Japan's liberal newspaper Asahi Shimbun has forecast that the new policy will be revealed in two weeks when new Prime Minister...

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...opinion polls point to a rout of the Liberal Democratic Party government led by the Prime Minister, Taro Aso. The latest, from the newspaper Asahi Shimbun , indicated the LDP would go from the 327 seats it won in the 480-seat lower house four...

In this article: Liberal Democratic Party, Democratic Party of Japan, Japan, Taro Aso, Tax, Revenue, Diet, Kyorin University, and Temple University

...party. Yoshida, who negotiated the peace treaty ending World War Two, is often referred to in Aso's speeches. According to the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, Suzuki had advised Yoshida to face defeat like a carp on the chopping board.

In this article: Shigeru Yoshida, Taro Aso, Kantaro Suzuki, Liberal Democratic Party, Japan, World War Two, and Tokyo