Word: shimbun
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...Adelstein should know. As a rare foreigner working the crime beat at the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's (and the world's) largest-circulation newspaper, he got so close to the yakuza that he found himself buying cigarettes for former gang leaders and being guarded round the clock by a fiercely loyal retired crime boss. This all seems like an unlikely fate for a "goofy Jewish-American" in mismatched socks, as Adelstein presents himself, but his juicy and vividly detailed account of investigations into the shadowy side of Japan shows him to be more enterprising, determined and crazy than most...
...even those figures are well below the prefecture's legal limits, and Taiji fishermen also hunted about half their limit in 2006 and 2007, averaging about 1,430 dolphins a year. In response to The Cove, town-council chief Katsutoshi Mihara told the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, "I don't understand their way of pushing their own values...
...election. A win of 320 seats would give the party a two-thirds majority and the power to pass bills without the support of other parties or even the upper house. Meanwhile, the ruling LDP party is slated to drop to about 100 seats, according to the daily Asahi Shimbun- an anemic one-third of what it held before Prime Minister Taro Aso dissolved the lower house and called elections in July. The expected reshuffle points to the DPJ's strength not only in cities, but also in rural areas that were long considered the seat...
...opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). Both parties want to attract young voters, who are increasingly seen as crucial in winning this month's polls. Recent polls show the DPJ ahead of the LDP by a margin of about 15 points: 34.6% to 20%, according to Tokyo Shimbun; 32.6% to 16.5%, according to Kyodo News. (See pictures of Japan in the 1980s and today...
...year-old member of the New Komeito Party (the LDP's ruling coalition partner), decided to forgo his usual hairstyle - an old-school side-part - for no part. He also widened his stride, which his staff said would make him appear younger, according to local daily Kobe Shimbun. Other politicians have become more technologically savvy with QR codes on leaflets, so that younger voters can access their candidates' homepages - however static they might be - by mobile phone...