Pino Cazzaniga

As islanders become increasingly unwilling to put up with US base, the crisis deepens. Some 90,000 people rally against the installation. The Japanese prime minister’s plan for the base faces major hurdles. The situation has major domestic and international implications.

Popularity rating drops from 71% to 25%. The Japanese disappointed incapacity of government and Prime Minister and problems with the U.S.. But the opposition is also at its lowest popularity: 14%. It is a crisis of politics.

On the eve of her eightieth birthday, the religious sister who has been in Seoul since 1959, can not go into "retirement" because she was asked to answer a new call Missionary: Mongolia.

The testimony of the president of Toyota before a congressional committee highlights the differences in corporate cultures. In Japan, the head of a corporation is expected to ensure harmony among employees and boost morale rather than be an economic expert.

Thousands of young women, driven by hunger, are sold into marriage with Chinese or to work in brothels in the South. The new slave trade involving Chinese and North Korean border guards, ethnic Koreans and managers of hotels and the entertainment industry.

A report published after three years of research by scholars from both countries. A significant endeavour, though it does not speak, for political reasons, of the last war. The publication deferred to this year at Beijing’s request.

Chiara Lubich's successor, is on her first trip to Asia. Over a month she will visit South Korea, Japan, Philippines, Thailand. Encounters in the sign of the testimony of Christ and of interreligious dialogue with the Buddhist world. An interview with our correspondent.

A man who lived to sow the Catholic faith in the apparently barren soil of his country. The visit of John Paul II and the beatification of the martyrs in Japan. At his funeral, the speech of Niwano, head of Risshokoseikai, a lay Buddhist association of which the cardinal was spiritual director.

They want to take up the legacy of the late Card. Stephen Kim: overcoming the hostility of the past of war and champion the poor.

For decades, the authorities have denied that nuclear weapons were present in Japan; yet it allowed United States to stockpile and transport them on Japanese soil. The credibility of the Liberal Democratic Party, now in the opposition, sinks further.

The Chrysanthemum Throne is the oldest existing dynasty. There is still much affection for the symbol of the nation, but young people know less and less about its history.

Popular sovereignty, subsidiarity and openness to other culture are (Christian) topics the prime minister addressed in his maiden speech to the Japanese Diet, ushering in a revolution and a “new era” for Japan. Critics view him as too much of an idealist, without his feet on the ground.