Kiuko Notoya

1 month ago | thestar.com.my | Martin Fackler |Kiuko Notoya

KEIKO Itokazu can still remember the day in 1965 when the parachute didn’t open. It was attached to a jeep trailer that was dropped from an airplane, along with US paratroopers training near her home in Okinawa. The plummeting object missed her but hit a nearby house, killing a fifth grade schoolgirl. Already a subscriber? Log in. Save 30% and win Bosch appliances! More Info Billed as RM9.73 for the 1st month then RM13.90 thereafters.

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Kiuko Notoya |Yan Zhuang

The results of a rare, closely watched auction in Japan that ended this week are about to be released. But there were no paintings or antique cars on the auction block. The government is selling 165,000 tons of rice — equivalent to roughly two billion bowls — from its emergency stockpile to make up for over 200,000 tons that some Japanese news media say have “disappeared.”But there’s more to the story. Japan doesn’t have enough rice, a pillar of its diet.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Kiuko Notoya |Mike Ives

Ski resorts in Japan are prized for having some of the deepest, lightest powder around. A winter of exceptionally heavy snow - some areas had more than 12 feet of snowpack this week - should be a skier or snowboarder's dream. The ski terrain in Japan this winter is "super big and super gnarly," the Austrian professional skier Tao Kreibich, 27, said in a video about a recent backcountry excursion in the country.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Kiuko Notoya |Martin Fackler

A film by a Japanese woman about her search for justice from uncooperative authorities after she reported being raped is a contender at Sunday's Academy Awards. Yet, despite being the first full-length documentary made by a Japanese director ever nominated for an Oscar, the movie cannot be seen in her home country. The film, which is up for best documentary feature, premiered in January 2024 at the Sundance Film Festival.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Martin Fackler |Kiuko Notoya

Keiko Itokazu can still remember the day in 1965 when the parachute didn't open. It was attached to a jeep trailer that was dropped from an airplane, along with U.S. paratroopers training near her home in Okinawa. The plummeting object missed her but hit a nearby house, killing a fifth-grade schoolgirl. Until then, Ms. Itokazu, who was then a high school junior, had never thought much about the huge military presence on the semitropical island, which at that time was under U.S. control.