Word: shimbun
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...traditionalists, for whom the paternal line of succession is a defining characteristic of Japan's imperial legacy, started to protest. Echoing the shifting mood, on Feb. 4 the Asahi Shimbun, Japan's most liberal major newspaper, said that "Revision of the law must be considered through calm discussion." At a rally on Feb. 1, 173 Diet members signed a petition opposing a "premature submission of the bill...
...pension reform and slashing Japan's fiscal deficit, could be left on the shelf. And Koizumi's mandate is still fragile. Although the election aligned the LDP on postal reform, the party is far from united on other issues. A survey of lower-house members by the Mainichi Shimbun revealed huge rifts in the LDP on everything from education funding to nuclear armament...
...executive vice president of the People’s Daily Online in Beijing, China; Mary Ann Jolley, a producer/reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney; Guillermo E. Franco Morales, content manager of new media and editor of eltiempo.com in Bogota, Colombia; Takashi Oshima, a reporter, for The Asahi Shimbun in Tokyo, Japan; Altin Raxhimi, a producer-editor for Top Channel T.V., and correspondent for Transitions Online, in Tirana, Albania; and Alice Tatah, a producer/presenter for Cameroon Radio and Television in Yaounde...
...continued unabated?the average citizen can rattle off superhero names and special powers like a bona fide comic-store geek. "It's a matter of pride for Japan to keep up with the U.S.," says Atsushi Ohara, a manga and anim? critic for the daily Asahi Shimbun. "When it comes to superheroes, we don't like to be in second place...
...subject with no benefit to the public interest. Few critics of the district court's decision defend the Tanaka story as being in the public interest, but many find the drastic action over such an innocuous revelation a blow to free speech. While an editorial in the Asahi Shimbun newspaper condemned the magazine story as intrusive and sensationalistic, it simultaneously called the injunction "a radical and dangerous departure" from the "rigorous restrictions on courts banning publications...