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Victims Of Mercury Poisoning Fight To Be Heard 61 Years After Japanese Industrial Disaster
Edit WorldNews.com 21 Sep 2017
Shinobu Sakamoto is one of a shrinking group of survivors from a 1950s industrial disaster in which tens of thousands of people were poisoned after waste water from a chemical plant seeped into southern Japan’s Minamata bay, Reuters reports.The waste contained a toxic organic compound, methylmercury, which can cause severe damage to the brain and nervous system, leading to a condition called Minamata disease....
More than 60 years on, Japan's mercury-poison victims fight to be heard
Edit Reuters 21 Sep 2017
MINAMATA, Japan (Reuters) - Shinobu Sakamoto was just 15 when she left her home in the southern Japanese fishing village of Minamata to go to Stockholm and tell the world of the horrors of mercury poisoning ... ....
Six Decades Later, Japan Victims of Mercury Poisoning Still Fight to Be Heard
Edit Voa News 21 Sep 2017
Shinobu Sakamoto was just 15 when she left her home in the southern Japanese fishing village of Minamata to go to Stockholm and tell the world of the horrors of mercury poisoning. Forty-five years on, she is traveling again, this time to Geneva, to attend a gathering of signatories to the first global pact to rein in mercury pollution. The meeting will begin Sunday ... "There are still so many problems, and I want people to know." ... ....
WIDER IMAGE-More than 60 years on, Japan's mercury-poison victims fight to be heard
Edit This is Money 20 Sep 2017
By Minami Funakoshi and Kyung Hoon Kim. MINAMATA, Japan, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Shinobu Sakamoto was just 15 when she left her home in the southern Japanese fishing village of Minamata to go to Stockholm and tell the world of the horrors of mercury poisoning. Forty-five years on, she is travelling again, this time to Geneva, to attend from Sunday a gathering of signatories to the first global pact to rein in mercury pollution ... ....
The New Yakuza Murders: Inside the Japanese Mafia’s Circle of Death
Edit The Daily Beast 14 Sep 2017
When top Yakuza leaders die, many funerals follow. On Tuesday a ‘revolutionary’ member of the organization was targeted ... As protocol dictates, the current leader of the Yamaguchi-gumi (founded in 1915), the dapper Shinobu Tsukasa, headed to Tokyo from Kobe to pay his respects that morning ... By the time Shinobu Tsukasa, the head of the Yamaguchi-gumi, arrived in Tokyo, the bodyguard to Oda, Kusomoto, was pronounced dead officially ... On Aug....
Film review: Survival Family – Shinobu Yaguchi’s scathing satire on the generational divide in Japan
Edit South China Morning Post 12 Sep 2017
3.5/5 stars A scathing satire on the modern family and the lack of connection between generations, writer-director Shinobu Yaguchi’s Survival Family also speculates humorously about our technological dependency and inability to fend for ourselves in the outside world. Japanese cinema is obsessed with stories that expose the generational divide, reprimanding the young for neglecting traditional values and their cultural heritage....
Provocative new album by Okamoto’s
Edit The Japan News 12 Sep 2017
By Yusuke Tsuruta / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff WriterRock band Okamoto’s has released a new album with the provocative title “No More Music.”. Sho Okamoto, vocalist and leader of the four-man band, came up with the seemingly contradictory title while composing lyrics for the Ariola label album. “I thought, ‘I’m writing music again, but who on earth needs music so much?’” he said during a recent interview with The Yomiuri Shimbun ... + - ... ....
A Few Steps Higher: 14 Unusually Artistic Modern Staircase Designs
Edit Web Urbanist 11 Sep 2017
Stone and Wire in London by Groupwork + Amin Taha ... Atrium Stairs at Moscow’s Dominion Office Building by Zaha Hadid ... This piece is the heart of the home’s ‘kaleidoscope effect.’ Plywood Puzzle Stairs in London House by Tsuruta Architects. This staircase in a London Home renovated by Tsuruta Architects consists of nearly 2,000 plywood pieces slotted together like a puzzle ... ....
Josh Hartnett’s ‘Oh, Lucy!’ Lands at Film Movement for North America (EXCLUSIVE)
Edit Variety 09 Sep 2017
Film Movement has acquired all North American distribution rights to Atsuko Hirayanagi’s feature-length debut, “Oh Lucy!” The comedic drama, which premiered during Cannes Critics Week, stars Shinobu Terajima and Josh Hartnett. “Oh Lucy!” will be released theatrically in the first quarter with digital and home entertainment releases to follow. Terajima portrays a single, emotionally unfulfilled... ....
Japan Is No Place for Single Mothers
Edit The Atlantic 07 Sep 2017
TOKYO—Raising a child alone is hard, no matter where you live. But among developed countries, single parents—and they are usually mothers—may be worst off in Japan ... But working doesn’t mean that these single mothers are doing well, economically ... Shinobu Miwa, a 45-year-old single mother, found her job as a part-time secretary through a government program called Hello Work designed to help the hard-to-employ enter the workforce ... ....
GALLERY: Portrait of lives of Princess Mako, her fiance Kei Komuro
Edit Kyodo 03 Sep 2017
The following are photos showing the lives of Japanese Princess Mako, the eldest granddaughter of Emperor Akihito, and her fiance Kei Komuro, whose engagement was announced Sunday. Princess Mako before her 1-year-old birthday in 1992. (The Imperial Household Agency). Kei Komuro, 3, plays with a toy car at his home in Yokohama in 1994. (Komuro) ... (Komuro) ... Photo taken by photographer Keigo Tsuruta) ... Photo taken by photographer Keigo Tsuruta)....
The Coming Yakuza War
Edit The Daily Beast 03 Sep 2017
The Yamaguchi-gumi is expected to splinter into factions with some gangs supporting current top boss Kenichi Shinoda aka Shinobu Tsukasa, 73, and others supporting a rival group, primarily based in western Japan, that opposes him and his parent faction, the Kodo-kai ... The current leader of the organization, Shinobu Tsukasa, heralds from the Kodo-kai faction, which numbers between 2,000 and 4,000 members....
Japan’s Yakuza Cancels Halloween
Edit The Daily Beast 03 Sep 2017
On Halloween, Japan’s largest organized crime group used to allow children to extort mobsters ... Each Oct ... However, the organization allows yakuza fanzines to photograph events and in October of 2011, the Sankei Shimbun printed an on-the-record interview with the 6th generation leader of the group, Kenichi Shinoda aka Shinobu Tsukasa, in which he explained the rationale of the group’s existence and justified its legality ... ....
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