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May 10, 2013
Justice Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki denounced the spread of hate speech being used at demonstrations across Japan but stopped short of proposing any legal action against...
April 30, 2013
A sidewalk in Tokyo’s Ginza district was crowded with people waving Hinomaru rising-sun flags and jockeying for the best position to yell their insults and curses.
March 30, 2013
Anti-nuclear activists gathered outside the prime minister's office on March 29 to call for an end to Japan's dependency on nuclear power and mark the one-year anniversary of...
March 30, 2013
Dozens of senior high school and college students staged a demonstration outside the National Diet building in Tokyo on March 29 to demand legislation to fight child poverty.
March 26, 2013
Protests against South Koreans with violent and racial undertones are being met by a rapidly growing number of counter-protesters, who are refusing to idly stand by and ignore...
March 16, 2013
The chants of "Kill Koreans," "Shoot 'em dead" and similarly threatening slogans being shouted at radical demonstrations across Japan are fueling debate over the need to...
March 11, 2013
Galvanized on the eve of the second anniversary of an earthquake and tsunami that triggered the world's worst nuclear disaster in 25 years, protesters turned out in full force...
March 09, 2013
Hundreds of people rallied in a Tokyo park March 9, demanding an end to atomic power, and vowing never to give up the fight, despite two years of little change after the...
February 18, 2013
BEIJING--Small, apparently unsanctioned protests broke out in China on Feb. 16 by demonstrators denouncing North Korea's leadership for conducting a third-ever nuclear test...
January 12, 2013
In their first mass protest this year, anti-nuclear protesters rallied outside the prime minister's office Jan. 11 and denounced the Shinzo Abe administration for failing to...
December 22, 2012
Anti-nuclear protesters who have been gathering for months each Friday near the prime minister's office continued expressing their opposition Dec. 21 in an effort to underscore ...
November 12, 2012
Anti-nuclear protesters turned out in droves Nov. 11 to mark 20 months since the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
September 29, 2012
Anti-nuclear campaigners have demonstrated outside the prime minister's office weekly for six months now, bringing their message to the heart of government.
September 19, 2012
I was asked, during an appearance on a TV news show, to comment on the flap caused by a group of Hong Kong activists who illegally landed on the disputed Senkaku Islands in...
August 28, 2012
Public security officials in eastern China say they have uncovered no evidence that local police officers roughed up an Asahi Shimbun reporter during a demonstration last month.
August 23, 2012
There were no smiles. There were no handshakes.
August 11, 2012
MUMBAI, India -- Police say they fired guns in the air to disperse thousands of Muslims who threw rocks and damaged about a dozen buses and police vans in India's financial...
August 11, 2012
A rally outside Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's office in Tokyo drew about 90,000 protesters demanding an end to the government's push to reopen nuclear power plants on Aug. 10,...
August 04, 2012
Tens of thousands of anti-nuclear protesters who have been gathering noisily outside the prime minister's office in Tokyo the past months on Friday evenings will get to make...
July 30, 2012
SHANGHAI -- Bad decision-making was the main reason for a violent environmental protest in eastern China at the weekend, a state newspaper said in an unusually mild reproach...