The Colors Within review: The story of a socially awkward Catholic student and her friends
Naoko Yamada’s gentle animated drama has all of the yearning and discomfort of adolescence
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Forget the gym: Here’s four fitness lessons from around the world
From exercise parties to walking wherever you can, it is possible to stay healthy without signing up for a gym
Qing dynasty vase among Asian and Middle Eastern treasures to go under the hammer in Laois
It’s time for decluttering, which means there are plenty of gems to be found in auctions around the country
Toyota turns up at Las Vegas electronics show CES not with a car but with a new city
First residents of the car maker’s Woven City, near Tokyo, will move in this year. The company views it as an experiment and a start-up hothouse
World’s oldest person, Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka, dies aged 116
Supercentenarian who loved bananas and a Japanese drink called Calpis was born on May 23rd, 1908
We need to think again about what the ‘A’ in AI signifies
Looking at the technology through a different cultural lens casts its threat and promise in a new light
Nomura chief apologises after ex-employee charged with clients’ attempted murder
Former wealth management staff member arrested after allegedly setting customers’ house on fire
Ireland needs a major housing reset and this will discommode many. It has to
Just to keep up with present demand for housing, we require to build a city the size of Waterford every year for decades
Asian art: Arm yourself with knowledge of Japanese Kobudo before Adam’s sale
With a spotlight on Vietnamese art, the auction also features more than 100 Japanese prints in the Ukiyo-e style
Woman suffered anaphylactic shock during lunch break on first day of new job in Tokyo, Dublin inquest told
Aika Doheny flown home in air ambulance to Dublin where she died a day later
Japan’s reliable, stable democracy has been shaken by snap election gamble
Worldview: Dissatisfaction with democracy and a return to recession has left Japan’s mighty Liberal Democratic Party floundering
Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba licks wounds after snap election gamble backfires
Counting on Sunday night showed opposition parties, led by the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan(CDPJ) making strong gains
Nobel Peace Prize: Nihon Hidankyo group is the moral heart of the world anti-nuclear movement
Japan’s official position, sheltering under the US nuclear umbrella while paying lip service to survivors, is often uncomfortable
Chongqing, one of the world’s biggest cities, offers window into Sino-America relations
Temporary capital during wartime engaged American military aviation advice and training for the Flying Tigers to fend off aerial bombing by the Japanese
Who is Japan’s new prime minister-elect?
Veteran conservative Shigeru Ishiba, who advocates an Asian version of Nato, has repeatedly feuded with ruling party over political differences and corruption
Japanese man (88) believed to be world’s longest-serving death row inmate exonerated
Iwao Hakamada was originally convicted of a quadruple murder in 1966 on the basis of what his defence lawyers say was a forced confession and fabricated evidence
Japan: At least six killed in Typhoon Shanshan with landslide and flood warnings issued
One person missing and more than 100 injured as 35,000 homes without power, authorities say
Japan: Typhoon Shanshan brings torrential rains, travel turmoil
Storm prompts warnings for flooding and landslides hundreds of miles from event centre
At least four killed and millions face evacuation orders as Typhoon Shanshan hits Japan
Authorities warn storm could be one of strongest to ever hit country’s southwest region
Japan’s prime minister Kishida to resign, paving way for new leader
Kishida succumbs to public disaffection over political scandals and rising living costs marring three-year term
Nagasaki atomic bomb memorial ceremony overshadowed by snub to Israel
Ambassadors from US and Britain stayed away in protest at snub, which the city’s mayor denied was political in nature
Nine injured as powerful earthquake strikes off southern Japan, triggering tsunami advisory
Nuclear Regulation Authority says 12 nuclear reactors, including three currently operating, on Kyushu and Shikoku islands remained safe
Global markets bounce back a day after slumping
Tokyo equities surged 9% following Monday’s global rout but US and European recoveries were more muted
Beijing accuses US and its allies of threatening peace and stability in South China Sea by fuelling tensions
US and Japan agree joint military structure in response to ‘evolving security environment’
Who is Colin O’Sullivan, the Irish author behind the big Apple TV show Sunny?
Haven’t heard of the Irish writer? He moved to Japan to teach English for a year. That was more than 20 years ago. His life there gives him lots of time for his fiction, he says
Robots, a mini-pig cafe and an ancient sense of order: Japan really is a world apart
Whether shopping in the presence of live deer, riding the bullet train to Kyoto or remembering the past in Hiroshima, Japan accommodates extremes with apparent ease
Sunny review: excellent paranoia-soaked thriller based on novel by Killarney writer Colin O’Sullivan
Television: Full points to Apple for achieving peak menace from a standing start
Japan and Philippines sign defence deal as China tensions continue
Pact sets the stage for ‘interoperability exercises’ between the two nations
Blue Lock The Movie: Episode Nagi review – Football reimagined as a heightened form of futuristic warfare
Strange deconstruction of beautiful game believes ego is the defining characteristic of a special striker. You don’t get that in Escape to Victory
Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World: Mariners and commodities as a map of history
Roger Crowley explores how ‘restless Europeans’ such as Spain and Portugal created a global ‘maritime belt’ of trade and empire
What will €275,000 buy in Japan, Norway, Spain, the Bahamas and Carrick-on-Shannon?
A studio in Ibiza, a geodesic dome in Eleuthera, a ski cabin in Rena, a condo in Chiba or a converted farmhouse in Battlebridge
Tokyo Letter: ‘Pacifist’ Japan is tooling up for war
Japan will soon have the third-largest defence budget in the world after the US and China
Japan’s native population declines at record rate as births plunge
Latest data shows number of Japanese nationals falling by almost 100 an hour on average despite government efforts
Science must salute the link between physics and the mystical
Despite the pursuit of hard fact, the nature of reality is illuminated by Eastern thought as much as it is by atomic theory
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