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David McNeill
David McNeill is a Tokyo-based writer from Ireland. He writes for several international publications and teaches political science at Sophia University. His new co-authored book is "Strong in the Rain: Surviving Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster."
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Aug 4, 2009
Party offers a third way: happiness
As a historic general election looms on Aug. 30, Japan's long-suffering electorate faces a clear choice: vote for the conservative party that has virtually monopolized power since 1955, or opt for its more liberal but untested rival, which promises long-awaited reform. For those with a taste for the...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 22, 2009
Lifer freed by a single smuggled hair strand
In the end, Toshikazu Sugaya may owe his freedom to a single strand of hair. As he languished in prison on a life sentence for a murder he did not commit, his lawyer told him there was only one way out: disprove the false DNA evidence that had put him inside.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jun 9, 2009
Rumpus on campus
Illegal arrests, forced expulsions, "kidnappings" by security police and beatings by hired thugs. No, it's not another dispatch from a violent banana republic. Those accusations come from the leafy back-streets of Ichigaya, Tokyo, home to a branch campus of the prestigious Hosei University.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
May 5, 2009
Mean streets feared under Tokyo's new safety law
Last month a group of activists called Dystopia Tokyo called a protest against what they described as a "Draconian" new city ordinance by conservative Gov. Shintaro Ishihara.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Apr 14, 2009
'A battle for Japan's future'
Despite being Japan's most densely populated area, Warabi rarely causes a blip on the national media radar.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Mar 3, 2009
Rape victim fights for justice against U.S. military, Japan
Around the nondescript Tokyo suburb where she lives with her three children, Jane is a well-known face. Foreign in an area crowded with Japanese, she has taught English for years here among neighbors who greet her warmly on the street. Few know that her life is consumed by a fight against one of the...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Feb 10, 2009
A young life in legal limbo
For years, Arlan and Sarah Calderon fretted over when to tell their daughter, Noriko, that she was different.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CLOSE-UP
Jan 4, 2009
Japan's 'Mr. Television'
Picture the world's busiest television presenter, and imagine yourself squinting through the glare of high-wattage celebrity, struggling to breathe in air perfumed with pampered showbiz egos.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Jan 4, 2009
Monta Mino: Japan's 'Mr. Television'
Picture the world's busiest television presenter, and imagine yourself squinting through the glare of high-wattage celebrity, struggling to breathe in air perfumed with pampered showbiz egos.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 19, 2008
Singing the bluefin tuna blues
IKI, Nagasaki Pref. — On a gloomy day pregnant with rain and the weight of past expectations, Minoru Nakamura is welcomed back to port like a conquering hero.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Dec 9, 2008
'Tokyo Two' fight to clear names
Six months ago Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki were ordinary men looking after young families. But in June they were arrested by a large group of uniformed police, taken to a detention center in Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan, and held for 26 days.
JAPAN
Oct 11, 2008
1,500 fed-up Kyushu citizens sue to evict yakuza HQ
KURUME, Fukuoka Pref. — The yakuza's reputation for unpredictability and violence keeps journalists away, but a deadly turf war between two rival gangs in Kyushu has made the mob reluctant media fodder.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WEEK 3
Aug 17, 2008
Akihito Ito: Keeper of the tales of a nuclear hell
Has George W. Bush ever heard of Akihito Ito? Dismayed at Pentagon plans to develop a new generation of "tactical" nuclear weapons — so-called mini-nukes — Ito sent Bush a gift: a box of CDs carrying the recorded voices of 284 atomic-bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Japan Times
Reference / Special Presentations / WITNESS TO WAR
Jul 2, 2008
Finding Papua war dead a vet's life
20th in a series
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jun 24, 2008
Not everyone is celebrating the Ogasawara Islands' anniversary
It is one of Asia's earliest and oddest ethnic melting pots, with citizens boasting names like Savory, Webb, Gonzales and Chaplin. The first piece of Far East territory to fall under U.S. control, local landmarks include the Yankeetown, the Charlie Brown and the Church of St. George, and old-timers speak...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
May 20, 2008
Tachikawa Three claim ruling marks 'crisis for Japan and its democracy'
Prisoners of conscience, communists, antiwar activists, martyrs for Japan's tottering pacifist Constitution: Toshiyuki Obora, Nobuhiro Onishi and Sachimi Takada have been called many things since February 2004, and worse besides.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 16, 2008
Sex slaves struggle to keep plight in focus
SEOUL — They're the dwindling survivors of a war crime who have fought 17 years for justice. Now amid a gathering revisionist movement in Japan, they live out their final days in the South Korean countryside with the worst fear of all: that the world will forget what happened to them.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Apr 15, 2008
Method in the madness?
In November, Japan became only the second country in the world (after the United States) to introduce mandatory fingerprinting and photo-taking at all international entry points, as part of beefed-up "antiterrorism" measures by the Ministry of Justice.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Apr 8, 2008
Dancing with the devil over 'Yasukuni'
One of the great mysteries of life in Japan is the presence of the ultra-right. Loud, threatening and occasionally lethal, the shaven-headed patriots seem immune to police powers. "Why doesn't someone do something about those guys," is a fairly common response by the first-time foreign visitor. A strong...
LIFE
Jan 27, 2008
Citizens routinely denied legal rights
The contrasts between constitutional provisions for crime suspects in Japan and their actual treatment are stark, say critics of the system.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
Ruling coalition and DPP strike last-minute deal over economic policy
DPP policy chief Makoto Mahaguchi speaks at the party's policy gathering in Tokyo on Wednesday.
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.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.

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