PHOTOGUIDE.JP Japan Blog

He was a cousin of the Emperor and an all-around good guy. So what a shock it was to hear of his sudden and untimely death on Nov. 21. After playing squash at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, his heart just stopped beating. In the hospital, he was put on a heart-lung machine, but died several hours later. It was

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The biggest news in Japan this month was of course the homecoming of the five Japanese who were abducted by North Korea in 1978. Can you imagine being kidnapped and taken to a foreign, dictatorial country and being forced to make a life there and coming to like it there? And to not see your family and relatives and your

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