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You are here: Home / Archives for Yoshihide Suga

Summons of Japanese media raises complaints of interference

April 25, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Mari Yamaguchi Associated Press TOKYO (AP)  — Japan’s ruling party summoned executives from two leading television networks Friday, the latest in a series of actions that opponents say endanger press freedom and intimidate the media. The Liberal Democratic Party’s panel on information and communications strategy questioned the executives from Asahi TV and public broadcaster […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, 2015, Although Japan, Asian Studies, Democratic Party, Foreign Correspondents Club, Hodo Station, Jeff Kingston, Jiro Kawasaki, Katsuto Momii, Koichi Nakano, LDP, NHK, Shigeaki Koga, Sophia University, Temple University, Tokyo, Vol 34 No 18 | April 25 - May 1, Yoshihide Suga, censorship

Review confirms basis of Japan’s sex slave apology

July 12, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Mari Yamaguchi Associated Press TOKYO (AP) – A Japanese panel confirmed the validity of a study that led to Japan’s landmark 1993 apology for forcing Asian women into wartime prostitution, even as South Korea blasted the review as a move that “picks again at the painful wounds” of victims.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, Associated Press, China, East Asia, Elaine Kurtenbach, Foreign Ministry, Jen Psaki, Keiichi Tadaki, Kono Statement, Noh Kwang-il, South Koreans, Taiwan, Tokyo, Top Japanese, United States, Vol 33 No 29 | July 12 - July 18, Yoshihide Suga

Japan’s last WWII straggler dies at 91

January 25, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Elaine Kurtenbach Associated Press TOKYO (AP) – Hiroo Onoda, the last Japanese imperial soldier to emerge from hiding in a jungle in the Philippines and surrender, 29 years after the end of World War II, has died. He was 91. Onoda died Jan. 16 at a Tokyo hospital after a brief stay there. Chief […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, Associated Press, Brazil, Imperial Army, Mari Yamaguchi, Norio Suzuki, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Philippines, Shoichi Yokoi, Tokyo, Vol 33 No 5 | January 25 - January 31, WWII, Yoshihide Suga, Yoshimi Taniguchi, japan

S Korea bans Japanese fish due to radiation fears

September 15, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Eun-Young Jeong The Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea announced Sept. 6 that it was banning all fish imports from along Japan’s northeastern coast because of what officials called growing public worry over radioactive water leaking into the Pacific Ocean near the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, 2013, Energy Minister Toshimitsu Motegi Sept, Fukushima Dai-ichi, Hiroshi Kishi, Hisashi Hiroyama, Japan Fisheries Cooperatives, Japanese Fisheries Agency, Pacific Ocean, SEOUL, South Korea Vice Fisheries Minister Son Jae-hak, TEPCO, Tokyo Electric Power Co, Vol 32 No 38 | September 14 - September 20, Yoshihide Suga

North Korea apparently conducts third nuclear test

February 15, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Hyung-Jin Kim The Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea apparently conducted a widely anticipated nuclear test Tuesday, Feb. 12 strongly indicated by an “explosion-like” earthquake that monitoring agencies around the globe said appeared to be unnatural.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, 2013, Chi Heoncheol, Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, Geological Survey, Japan Meteorological Agency, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un, Kim Min-seok, Last October, National Defense Commission, North Korea, Security Council, South Korean Defense Ministry, United States, Vol 32 No 8 | February 16 - February 22, Yoshihide Suga, Yosuke Igarashi

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