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 On July 24, at the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) that was held in Singapore, Foreign Minister Koumura repeatedly asked North Korea’s Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun about the reinvestigation of the abductions, but he did not received a specific answer. Although North Korea promised Japan at the June working-level talks to [...]

Well the first round of feedback on E Mobile’s “Yes, We Change” commercial shown on TBS and TV Tokyo’s World Business Satellite comes from one reader that thinks Black Tokyo harbors a “bitter racist” and from the website Japan Probe:
While I respect everyone’s opinion, let me clear a few things up and respond to comments such as [...]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
Hello BT’ers!
Well it seems like the ugly head of racism has reared its big head again on Japanese television. E Mobile’s new cell phone commercial seems to depict a presidential campaign with “red” supporters (red is E Mobile’s corporate color and not representative of the Democratic Party (blue) in this case) in the background holding [...]

Here is a follow-up to the BT story on the manga produced by US Naval Forces Japan. 
***FREE downloads of CVN 73 in English and Japanese***
An interesting note is that Osaka Shoseki, the company that published the 26,000 CVN73 copies for US$90,000, prints primarily textbooks instead of manga. It is one of the companies in the recent controversy over revisions to Japanese history [...]

YOKOSUKA, Japan — U.S. Naval Forces Japan, based in the city, plans to give away several thousand copies of the manga to people in front of the base from noon Sunday. 
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Source: Kyodo News Service, Posted : Friday Jun 6, 2008 7:49:25 EDT

Be sure to check out the US TV Premiere of ABDUCTION The Megumi Yokota Story on PBS’s award-winning series Independent Lens on Thursday, June 19th at 10 p.m. (Check Local Listings).
Click here to learn more about the Megumi Yokota story.
Anime provided by the Japanese Government aavailable in English, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese.

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — Meet USS George Washington sailor Jack Ohara — the fictitious star of a Navy-created comic book called “CVN-73.”
Ohara is a young third-class petty officer, nervous about coming to Japan on his first overseas assignment. But while Ohara doesn’t really exist, the comic’s plot line about the aircraft carrier’s summer arrival [...]