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Tomohiro Osaki
Tomohiro Osaki is a staff writer in the Domestic News Division. A graduate of Sophia University in Tokyo, he likes to explore under-reported realities of Japanese youth, with a tendency toward the taboo.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / LEADERS SPEAK
Jun 21, 2016
Constitutional revision, security laws shouldn't be election issues: Komeito chief
Neither the Constitution nor the contentious security laws enacted last year should become key issues in the Upper House election, said Natsuo Yamaguchi, president of Komeito, the junior partner in the ruling coalition.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / LEADERS SPEAK
Jun 17, 2016
LDP vows all-out effort to boost Abenomics if it wins election
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party will launch an all-out effort to boost Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Abenomics policy if it wins big in the Upper House election next month, LDP Secretary-General Sadakazu Tanigaki vowed Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 15, 2016
Masuzoe's departure will cost Tokyo residents ¥5 billion for new election
An election committee official says choosing a successor may cost Tokyo taxpayers as much as u00a55 billion.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 10, 2016
TV presenter Kobayashi has advanced cancer, says actor husband Ebizo
Popular television presenter Mao Kobayashi, 33, has been battling "serious" breast cancer for the past 20 months and is undergoing treatment, her kabuki actor husband, Ichikawa Ebizo, said Thursday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 3, 2016
Japanese court issues first-ever injunction against hate-speech rally
A Kanagawa Prefecture bench prevents an anti-Korean activist from holding rallies near a group that supports ethnic Koreans.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 1, 2016
Diet scraps dated marriage-ban law as session wraps up
An amendment ending a six-month ban on remarriage for newly divorced women passes, nixing a century-old tradition.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 31, 2016
Aso falls into line on Abe's tax hike delay
Finance Minister Taro Aso says he will support the expected decision to delay the increase in the consumption tax, backpedaling from earlier criticism that doing so would renege on an election pledge.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
May 30, 2016
LDP grandees fall into line on postponing second-stage tax hike
Despite their earlier opposition, top executives in the Liberal Democratic Party effectively endorse Abe's plan to shelve the planned second-stage hike of the unpopular consumption tax.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 27, 2016
G-7 broadly agrees on ways to spur growth
Leaders agree to better cooperate on fiscal measures, but they remain sharply divided on how much each country should spend.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 27, 2016
G-7 leaders reaffirm commitment to adopting Paris Agreement
Meanwhile, Japan managed to keep the Fukushima nuclear disaster from taking center stage.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / OBAMA VISITS HIROSHIMA
May 26, 2016
Obama's Hiroshima visit reveals progress of reconciliation, disagreements over history
When it comes to hibakusha and the victorious Americans, one can expect a portrait of contrasts.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 26, 2016
NGOs pressure G-7 to take action on Paris climate deal
Nongovernmental organizations fighting climate change on Thursday urged leaders of the Group of Seven countries to swiftly implement the ambitious pledges they made in Paris in December and criticized Japan for thwarting efforts to reduce fossil fuels.
Japan Times
JAPAN / OBAMA VISITS HIROSHIMA
May 26, 2016
Hibakusha recalls horror of bombing, pain of stigmatization and road to healing
It took Tamiko Shiraishi nearly seven decades before she could come to terms with her experience surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in August 1945.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 25, 2016
Tokyo highlights hospitality for media at G-7 summit while restricting access
As part of the government's plan to boost Japan's reputation among the world's journalists, it has opened an International Media Center (IMC) in Ise, Mie Prefecture, for media members covering the Group of Seven summit.
JAPAN
May 24, 2016
Diet passes legislation to revamp Japan's criminal justice system
New legislation increases video recording of interrogations, expands the reach of the wiretap law and introduces plea bargains.
Japan Times
JAPAN / OBAMA VISITS HIROSHIMA
May 24, 2016
Hiroshima A-bomb museum chief hopes Obama will visit displays 'as a father'
Should U.S. President Barack Obama opt to visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum later this week, Kenji Shiga, its director, is adamant that he wouldn't ask too much.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
May 24, 2016
Diet passes Japan's first law to curb hate speech
Japan's first anti-hate speech law passed the Diet on Tuesday, marking a step forward in the nation's long-stalled efforts to curb racial discrimination.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 19, 2016
Japan's Democratic Party reveals new logo to cries of plagiarism and indecency
The main opposition Democratic Party on Thursday unveiled what it calls a “vibrant” new logo that was then assailed by renewed claims of plagiarism and cries of obscenity.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 16, 2016
Head of Japan Olympic Committee defends payment to consulting firm
The president of the Japanese Olympic Committee tells the Diet that payments made by the Tokyo Olympic bid team to a consulting firm in Singapore were clean and legitimate.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 12, 2016
Japan's foreign workers policy riddled with contradictions, says lawmaker
As the government tells it, Japan doesn't accept unskilled foreign labor. Except it does.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

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