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Shrine honors cats at a Japanese island where they outnumber humans
U-T San Diego· 1 day agoOn a small island off Japan’s northeastern coast, visitors make offerings at a shrine for unlikely local guardians: cats. The “Neko Jinja,” or Cat Shrine, mythologizes cats ...
Meant to be? Arizona journey to spread parents’ ashes leads straight to ‘wind phone’
KLAS articles via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIt was a chance encounter … or was it? Looking back on it now, we were drawn into our first...
Applications Being Accepted for TOMODACHI Kibou for Maui Cohort | News, Sports, Jobs - Maui News
The Maui News· 1 day agoThe Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i (JCCH), in partnership with the TOMODACHI Initiative and...
Maui seeks contractor to review MEMA's Aug. 8 response
Honolulu Star-Advertiser· 6 days agoMEMA has produced several after-action reports in recent years, including an internal draft...
Japanese artist Takashi Murakami’s contemporary paintings unearth ancient Kyoto
Stamford Advocate· 4 days agoTakashi Murakami's light and colorful works seem to jump out at the viewer with an overwhelming...
Kim Kyung-Hoon Profile
Reuters· 1 day agoThe earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011 in Japan had the biggest impact on me of any assignment ...
Issei Kato Profile
Reuters· 1 day agoAs a schoolboy I enjoyed mountaineering, so my first experience of taking pictures with an SLR camera was of shooting mountain landscapes. When I began work as a freelance photographer, I came ...
Athit Perawongmetha Profile
Reuters· 1 day agoThe assignment that left the biggest mark on me was covering Red Shirt protests and violence in Thailand in 2010. Covering the 2010 violence in Thailand was very important ...
Japan’s new widowmaker trade may have shorter life
Reuters· 2 days agoFor more than two decades, investors lost their shirts in Japan. In a trade that became known as a “widowmaker”, they sold short Japanese government...
