Mari Yamaguchi

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Energy and Environment

Big threat to Japan whaling: Declining appetites

Mari Yamaguchi · March 27, 2014 7:29 am

Japan’s biggest slum not on maps or in film fest

Mari Yamaguchi · March 23, 2014 8:16 am

Japan lab weighing retraction of stem cell paper

Mari Yamaguchi · March 12, 2014 12:02 am

Energy and Environment

Japan marks 3rd anniversary of tsunami disasters

Mari Yamaguchi · March 11, 2014 11:16 am

Japan sees future business in Fukushima cleanup

Mari Yamaguchi · March 8, 2014 2:28 am

In this July 26, 2011 photo, former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama speaks at a symposium in Beijing, China. Murayama said Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014 that the landmark 1995 war apology carrying his name is an international pledge that Japan must not change, amid speculation that the current conservative leaders want to revise it. During his rare public speech in Tokyo since his retirement in 2000, Murayama said that Japan should also keep another apology over forced prostitution before and during World War II, and urged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to stand by both statements. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT

Author says Japan’s 1995 war apology should stand

Mari Yamaguchi · February 28, 2014 3:33 am

FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2011 file photo, the Unit 4 reactor building of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station is seen through a bus window in Okuma, Japan. Japan unveiled its first draft energy policy since the Fukushima meltdown three years ago, saying nuclear power remains an important source of electricity for the country. The plan presented Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014 to the Cabinet for approval in coming weeks, says Japan's nuclear energy dependency will be reduced as much as possible. But it says reactors that meet new safety standards set after the 2011 nuclear crisis should be restarted. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, Pool)

Energy and Environment

Japan plan keeps nuclear as key energy source

Mari Yamaguchi · February 25, 2014 6:05 am

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 15, 2013 file photo, former South Korean comfort woman Kil Un-ock, center, who was forced to serve for the Japanese troops as a sexual slave during World War II, shouts slogans during a rally against the recent comment of Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto in front of Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea. Japan's top government spokesman said Thursday that Tokyo would consider re-examining a 20-year-old study that led to a landmark apology over its forced prostitution in World War II. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Japan may review probe on WWII sex slavery

Mari Yamaguchi · February 20, 2014 12:41 pm

FILE - This 2011 file photo shows Mamoru Samuragochi. Samuragochi, the man once lauded as Japan's Beethoven, said he can partially hear in a new disclosure Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, following the stunning revelation last week that his "Hiroshima" symphony and other famed musical compositions were ghostwritten. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, File) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT

‘Japan’s Beethoven’ says partly faked hearing loss

Mari Yamaguchi · February 12, 2014 11:41 am

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Conservatives push agenda at Japan’s public TV

Mari Yamaguchi · February 9, 2014 5:03 am

Panel: Japan should lift ban on collective defense

Mari Yamaguchi · February 5, 2014 4:38 am

Hundreds sue makers of Fukushima nuclear plant

Mari Yamaguchi · January 30, 2014 3:14 pm