Czech President Petr Pavel just took anti-Russian xenophobia to a new level, saying this week that he’s in favor of Russians living in Western countries being “monitored” by authorities, akin to what happened with Japanese people living in the United States during World War II. “All Russians living in Western countries should be monitored much more than in the past because they are citizens... 

After three booster campaigns in 2022, the Japanese are now in a league of their own among mRNA consuming countries, administering far more boosters than countries that had far more coercive vaccination campaigns. Japanese over-65s have done their best to reduce Japan’s 612-million-dose stockpile of mRNA jabs, with third, fourth and fifth jab rates of 91%, 82.5%, and 56%, respectively. But unfortunately,... 

A Japanese man has spent tens of thousands of dollars to live out his fantasy of becoming a dog. The man, known as Toco, spent over two million Yen ($15,000) on a realistic collie costume – after his favorite dog breed – which took the Japanese company Zeppet 40 days to construct. The costume is so realistic it can barely be distinguished from a real collie. “Since childhood, I have had this... 

A Japanese artist, activist and reporter went to Seattle to cover the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) and to show that the protest was non-violent. He left within 15 minutes having been severely beaten up. Oogesa Taro, the organizer of a collaborative social art project called ‘Without Borders’, travelled to the US to explore the ongoing protests that erupted in the wake of the George Floyd... 

Abe’s strategy is working in the short-term. The businessmen are creating monopolies in their industries and will continue to rake in profits as their people age, die and are replaced. But hopefully soon Abe will be forced to answer the most important question of all: does honor have a price? The most recurring story Westerners get about Japan is that their society is old and dying. The latest... 

As Europe tries to sort out the current migrant crisis, there are countries out there which sorely need an influx of much needed labor. Japan is one such country. Radio Sputnik discussed the issue with Japanese-affairs expert Valery Kistanov and Russia’s former envoy to Japan, Alexander Panov. In the coming decades Japan will need 17 million migrants to keep the country working, but changing the... 

Tight squeeze: A Tokyo local shows a Japanese news crew around her tiny ‘coffin apartment’ In one of the most densely populated Asian cities, Tokyo, real estate prices are so undemocratic that a part of the population of the city is forced to live in most bizarre and unusual “apartments.” So-called Internet refugees permanently live in the booths and cubicles of Internet cafe.... 

Right wing acrivists hold national flags and placards to protest against China in Tokyo on September 22, 2012. Anti-China protesters have taken to the streets in the Japanese capital of Tokyo amid an ongoing territorial dispute between the two countries. Demonstrators marched outside China’s Embassy in Tokyo on Saturday, in protest against the presence of Chinese ships near a group of disputed islands... 

The U.S. military presence in Japan acquires special relevance recently due to proposals by Washington to reinstall a base on the island of Okinawa and indecision about Tokyo. According to various data, not even the recent visit to this island by prime minister Yoshihiko Noda has achieved consensus between the two parties, despite a bilateral pact that was in effect, signed in 2006. But the strongest... 

The speech-jamming gun Japanese researchers have invented a hand-held speech-jamming gadget that can painlessly force people into silence. Kazutaka Kurihara of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and Koji Tsukada of Ochanomizu University developed the portable ‘SpeechJammer’ gun that can silence people more than 30 meters (100 feet) away. In their research... 

Japanese scientists in Hasegawa Lab of the Tokyo Institute of Technology have built a robot that is capable of thinking, learning and having human reactions. The robot has been designed based on “unsupervised learning mechanism” called Self-Organizing Incremental Neural Network (SOINN) and enables the robot to estimate future patterns and networks, PC magazine reports. Unlike the robots that... 

Vladimir Zhirinovsky Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the colorful and flamboyant leader of Russia’s LDPR party, has called on Japanese to leave “the dangerous islands” and move to the unpopulated Russian territories, the newsru.com website reported on Sunday. Zhirinovsky, 64, also deputy speaker of the lower house, offered Russian government to start talks with Japan over Japanese nationals’... 

Australian anti-whaling activists Japanese and American officials discussed taking action to weaken a prominent anti-whaling group, with Tokyo insisting that Sea Shepherd’s confrontations on the high seas actually hurt efforts to reduce whaling, U.S. diplomatic cables show. The U.S. representative to the International Whaling Commission, Monica Medina, discussed revoking the U.S.-based conservation... 

This undated handout illustration shows the DNA double helix. A Japanese has joined the elite club of humans whose genetic code has been fully sequenced, according to research unveiled on Sunday. A Japanese has joined the elite club of humans whose genetic code has been fully sequenced, according to research unveiled on Sunday. The unnamed male gave a sample of DNA which has been unravelled to show... 

Chinese hold anti-Japan protests over boat incident on sensitive political anniversary. Protesters in several cities across China marked a politically sensitive anniversary Saturday with anti-Japan chants and banners, as authorities tried to stop anger over a diplomatic spat between the Asian giants from getting out of control. As some chanted “Wipe out the Japanese devils!” and stamped...