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Scilla Alecci

Japanese Language Co-Editor

Stories

February 4th, 2010

Governance , Media

Former Yomiuri Shimbun journalist Jake Adelstein writes of his experience as crime reporter in Japan in two juicy entries titled Everything I Ever Really Needed to Know I learned From The Yakuza or The Cops 1 & 2 [en].

January 25th, 2010

East Asia

Godo Chillida published a photo reportage on the final day of the Tokyo Grand Sumo Tournament.
The photographer captured intense pictures of the wrestlers and the decisive match.

January 21st, 2010

Japan: Differing viewpoints on the US base relocation issue

Scilla Alecci · 14:44 · East Asia

lingua → pt

The southern Japanese island of Okinawa, the first colony of Japan in the 19th century and the site of one of the bloodiest battles in the WW2, has become in the past months both the symbol and the object of a diplomatic dispute between Japan and the U.S. It began ... 1 comment · read »

January 17th, 2010

Japan: Remembering the Great Hanshin Earthquake

Scilla Alecci · 14:46 · East Asia

lingua → bn · fr

As images from Haiti circle the globe, people in another part of the world are remembering an earthquake which wreaked havoc in their own country. On January 17, 1995, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit Kobe and surrounding areas. 15 years later, we today give voice to those who experienced the disaster. 1 comment · read »

January 11th, 2010

East Asia

Nipponnews presents pictures of this year Coming-of-age Day.

January 8th, 2010

East Asia

Blogger Huixing ~~assisted to~~ witnessed a Tibetan sky burial [en] in Litang. At his blog [ja] a sequence of pictures document the traditional funerary practice wherein a human corpse is exposed to birds of prey.