TOKYO — For a year, unmanned aerial vehicles planted, cultivated, and have recently harvested wheat in a field of one hectare in the UK. They didn’t get any help doing all this. Around the same time, the late theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking’s last book “Brief Answers to the Big Questions” (John Murray, 2018) was published …
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Japanese Journalist Held Hostage in Syria for More than 3 Years: “This is not Islam”
BBC Turkish, Nov. 10th, 2018 — Jumpei Yasuda, the freelance Japanese journalist who had been kidnapped in Syria in 2015, was released three weeks ago at the Turkish border. TOKYO — Jumpei Yasuda marvels at a Japanese-made video camera complete with latest gimmicks that someone uses to record him with. Having …
Overseas Press Reacts to Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki’s Opposition to the U.S. Bases Prior to His First U.S. Visit
Asahi Shimbun, Nov. 10th, 2018 海外記者、玉城デニー知事をどう見た? 初訪米前に会見 How did the foreign press react to Denny Tamaki’s speech before his first visit to the U.S.? 日本外国特派員協会で会見する玉城デニー沖縄県知事=2018年11月9日午前11時56分、東京都千代田区、恵原弘太郎撮影 玉城デニー沖縄県知事の会見を取材する記者たち=2018年11月9日午前11時34分、東京都千代田区、恵原弘太郎撮影 日本滞在歴計8年で、米英でも仕事をしてきたトルコ人のフリージャーナリスト、イルグン・ヨルマズさん(47)は「沖縄が『辺野古』に反対している理由は、私も含め海外には十分伝わっていない。その意味で、訪米は理解を広めるチャンス」と指摘する。「米国で訴え、米国から日本政府にプレッシャーがかかるのなら、日本政府も聞く耳を持つのでは」と語った。 関心は、来春までに実施される県民投票だ。「イエスか、ノーかを問うことは大切。ノーが示され、それでも日本政府が民意を無視するのなら、ビッグニュースだ。日本には民主主義はないのか、と問われるだろう」(成沢解語、木村司、上遠野郷) Turkish freelance journalist Ilgin Yorulmaz (47), who has worked in the United States and the UK for 8 years, said, “The reason Okinawa is opposed to” …
How do Japanese Companies Invest in Emerging Markets Like Turkey?
BBC Türkçe — Tokyo Reuters news agency reported last week that Turkey’s Yıldız Holding has been preparing to sell Japanese operations of one of its brands, the luxury chocolate producer Godiva, to an undisclosed buyer. This rumor has not yet been confirmed by Godiva. However, the possibility that the prospective buyer could be a Japanese …
Naomi Osaka Offers Best of Both Worlds, So Why Was Japan So Late to Embrace Her?
Tokyo — BBC News Türkçe Born in Japan, where unity and similarity are valued, Naomi was raised and trained in the US, a country known for cherishing individual success and diversity. Judging by her Instagram posts, she looks like any other 20-year-old American girl: strutting her blond tinted hair at Times Square in New …
PORTRAIT OF A JAPANESE BRAND — KNOT
KNOT ノット — where mass customization at affordable price is the norm What’s the fuss? Knot is a high quality, customized and Japan made watch brand sold at a fraction of the stuff that the Swiss and other watchmaker giants that it is inspired by produces. (Not to mention the excellent Japanese customer care to …
Analogue Strikes Back – 1: Handmade Business Cards
This is the first dispatch in a series of digital products and services with a modern twist on the analogue. NAKAMURA KATSUJI — return to handcrafted business card A small painting in a gold color frame of a man with a long, blonde beard, wearing a fur-trimmed cap jumps from the past to greet visitors …
Peanuts and Drinks: Uber Has Other Lessons to Learn From Japan
LATE NIGHT TAXI — small gestures that mean the world to a (tired) customer You work late in the office one night, miss the last train, and don’t have a choice but to ride a cab home. The rain has turned into a downpour and you are cursing to your bad luck. You hail a cab, …