The Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to Japan’s Riken Yamamoto, who earns the field’s highest honor for what organizers called a long career focused on “multiplying opportunities for people to meet spontaneously, through precise, rational design strategies.”
On Valentine’s Day, LGBTQ+ activists in Japan call for the right for same-sex couples to marry
Activists and LGBTQ+ community members handed out colorful chocolate candy for Valentine’s Day in Tokyo this week, marking the fifth anniversary of the launch of a legal battle to achieve marriage equality for same-sex couples.
Japan joins an elite club by landing on the moon. What are others doing?
Japan landed a spacecraft on the moon Saturday, an attempt at the world’s first “pinpoint lunar landing.”
Planes collide and catch fire at Japan’s busy Haneda airport, killing 5
A passenger plane and a Japanese coast guard aircraft collided on the runway at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Tuesday and burst into flames, with five people on the smaller plane killed, officials said.
A Japan court says North Korea is responsible for the abuses of people lured there by false promises
A Japanese high court on Oct. 30 said the North Korean government was responsible for the human rights abuses of plaintiffs who said they were lured to the North by Pyongyang’s false promise of living in “paradise on Earth,” a decision praised as a victory by survivors and their supporters.
South Korean scholar acquitted of defaming sexual slavery victims during Japan colonial rule
South Korea’s top court on Thursday, Oct. 26, cleared a scholar of charges of defaming the Korean victims of sexual slavery during Japanese colonial rule, in a contentious book published in 2013.
Japan’s top court strikes down required sterilization surgery to officially change gender
Japan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday, Oct. 25 ruled that a law requiring transgender people to undergo sterilization surgery in order to officially change their gender is unconstitutional, a landmark verdict welcomed by advocates as a sign of growing acceptance of LGBTQ+ rights.
Japan TV network will acquire Totoro creator Studio Ghibli as animation studio prepares for future
Studio Ghibli, the famed Japanese animation studio of Hayao Miyazaki, will become a subsidiary of Nippon Television Network Corp., both sides said.
Barbie’s Japanese distributor apologizes for its parent company`s reaction to Barbenheimer memes
The Japanese distributor of the Warner Bros. movie “Barbie” has apologized for its U.S. parent company’s reaction to social media posts about the “Barbenheimer” blitz that combined images of Barbie and a mushroom cloud.
Japanese cultural influences in the US
As a result of her fascination with Japanese culture, 20-year-old Avery George finds a clue about the Panama Hotel, a historic landmark for Japanese American heritage in the Pacific Northwest.
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