Expanding the State of Emergency
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported in the last half of April 2020.
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Bread & Roses: Warm Meals to Tackle Poverty in Japan
When did poverty become normal? Conventional wisdom had it that poverty didn’t exist in Japan; that the miracle recovery during the country’s rapid growth period had given birth to a middle class of 100 million people.
Japan and South Korea Engage in Tit-for-Tat
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on January 7, 2019.
Cycling for Charity: What’s the Rumpus?
Robert Williams joins WTR to discuss the activities of the Tokyo-based charity organization “Knights in White Lycra.”
The Wrong Man for the Job
We still don’t know exactly why Prime Minister Naoto Kan tapped Ryu Matsumoto for the high-profile post of Minister in Charge of Reconstructing Areas Ravaged by the March 11 Earthquake and Tsunami, but we did discover today that he is certainly the wrong man for the job.
