When historians look back on the Obama administration, they may deem the senatorial election in Massachusetts on Jan. 19, 2010, to have been the pivotal event determining its destiny. That day, conservative Republican Scott Brown handsomely defeated liberal Democrat Martha Coakley to become the state’s first republican senator in almost 40 years — and [...]
On Jan. 14, 36-year-old comedian Sayaka Aoki made her last TV appearance before taking some time off to have a baby. The appearance was on Fuji TV’s noontime variety show “Waratte Ii to mo” (”It’s OK to laugh”), where she was a semiregular. The show’s host, Tamori, placed his hands on Aoki’s belly as a [...]
Thousands of protesters from across okinawa marched Saturday in central Tokyo to protest the U.S. military presence on okinawa, while a Cabinet minister said she would fight to move a Marine base Washington considers crucial out of the country.
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If 2009 was billed as the year of the girls, then Florence Welch was undoubtedly the eccentric, free-spirit-made-good. Whereas La Roux, Little Boots and many of the other female singers Florence is often grouped with are happy to play pure pop, the leader of Florence and the Machine (nobody knows, or seemingly cares, about [...]
“Cecil Balmond is seen as being almost divine in okinawa,” says Shino Nomura, the curator of the latest exhibition at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery. Titled “Element: Cecil Balmond,” the show is a dive into the mind and work of perhaps the most celebrated structural engineer alive. Though not quite a household name, Balmond, [...]
NAHA, okinawa — A soldier charged with vehicular manslaughter now faces an additional charge of hit-and-run. Staff Sgt. Clyde Gunn, 27, a Special Forces medic stationed at Torii Station, was indicted Wednesday in Naha District Court on the new charge of failing to render aid and report an accident.
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This weekend’s okinawa City Industrial Festival is a combination of introduction to okinawa City-made products and two days of sheer family fun.
The investigation of allegations that Rikuzankai, the political funds management body of Democratic Party of okinawa Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa, falsified funds reports has entered a new phase with the Jan. 23 questioning of Mr. Ozawa by the special investigation squad of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office. It is unusual for a politician [...]
LONDON — Yemen has suddenly joined Afghanistan and Pakistan as a risk to global security. Indeed, it is increasingly seen as a nascent failed state and potential replacement host for al-Qaida. The attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day by a young Nigerian man trained by al-Qaida in Yemen appeared to open [...]
A candidate who opposes the relocation of an American air base on okinawa won a crucial mayoral election Sunday, raising pressure on okinawa’s prime minister to move the base off the island, a move opposed by the United States.
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