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How to Raise the Best Beef in Japan? Start with Love
Associated Press Content, June 5, 2019 KOGA — At the crack of dawn on a cold February morning, Katsuo Nagashima woke up in his farmhouse in Koga, Ibaraki Prefecture, just northeast of Tokyo. He put on his black turtleneck sweater, his old, dark blue sweatpants and white rubber boots. After breakfast, he left home to …
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” …
Tokyo’s Misfit Sibling Comes of Age
Skylife, March 2018 — It’s best to say out loud from the outset an open secret: Osaka is not on the radar of everyone who visits Japan. Most people travel to Tokyo, the neon capital of the world, but bypass Osaka and continue to Kyoto, the country’s cultural heart. As the noisy and fun-loving sibling …
A Rhodes Scholar Speaks Out
An academic star of Haitian descent responds to Trump’s anti-immigrant remarks West Side Spirit — Jan. 22, 2018 Thamara Jean is a regular at Good Shepherd Baptist Church in Brooklyn, where she helps her family at the church all day every Sunday. For the 22-year-old political science major at Hunter College — who in November …
How Do You Stamp Out Child Marriage? Start With The Wedding Singer
HuffPost, Sept. 19, 2017 — VAN, Turkey — The men came unexpectedly, in the middle of the night. Gülmay Gümüşhan was fast asleep in her apartment in the easternmost Turkish province of Van, some 1,000 miles from Istanbul. They were allegedly sent by her estranged husband — a man she was forced to marry; a man …
Religious Freedom And LGBTQ Rights Move From Battleground To Common Ground
HuffPost — June 17, 2017 Last weekend’s The Equality March for Unity and Pride in Washington D.C. offered a vivid reminder of the important role that leaders of faith and moral courage are playing in the continuing fight for full dignity and equality for LGBTQ people. “Queer people of moral courage have always been the …
Race Is At The Heart Of The New Faith-Driven Environmental Justice
HuffPost — June 4, 2017 A quiet but powerful march took place in Philadelphia last week, indicating a new direction in the faith-driven environmental justice movement in America. A coalition of climate activists and poverty activists walked through five counties and ended in Philadelphia to demand increases in solar power and the jobs it provides. …
Two Years After The Earthquake, These Nepali Schoolchildren Are Still Without A Classroom
HuffPost — May 2, 2017 — Sometimes hope knows no boundaries or walls. NUWAKOT — Sita Paney teaches 3rd grade students at Shubha Adarsha Modern Academy in Nuwakot in central Nepal. Every morning, her students, 8-year-olds Simran, Prayush and Krisha, gather with 250 others in the school yard. The four-classroom school defies the word “modern” …