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Traditional arts need public support to carry on

The traditional performing art, Bunraku (puppet theater), will face further cuts in subsidies from the Osaka City government in the coming fiscal year. The whole city should maintain support for this traditional art form despite its lack of profitability.

LDP assemblyman: Crush JCP with power equivalent to A & H bombs

A ruling Liberal Democratic Party member of the Nagasaki Prefectural Assembly on January 23 referred to atomic and hydrogen bombs to call on people to vote against a Japanese Communist Party candidate in the coming gubernatorial election.

Public anger growing at NHK president’s remarks

Momii Katsuto, the new president of Japan’s public broadcaster NHK, told reporters on January 25 that the practice like Japan’s wartime “comfort women” system was “common to any country at war”.

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