Last essay by late Japanese writer who lost classmates in Hiroshima A-bomb published
April 12, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
Japanese nonfiction writer Chieko Seki is seen in photo taken in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2015. (Mainichi/Kimi Sorihashi) TOKYO The final work of Japanese nonfiction writer Chieko Seki, who lost most of her classmates in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, has been published following her death in February this year. The essay, Zoku: Hiroshima Taiwa Zuiso (Essays on Hiroshima dialogue: Part II), published in March by Nishida Shoten, is based on letters Seki exchanged with 90-year-old writer Shiro Nakayama, a long-time friend and A-bomb survivor. The 14-year-old Nakayama was in the middle of work demolishing buildings in Hiroshima, 1.5 kilometers away from the hypocenter, when the bomb was dropped.
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As criticism rages over Tokyo Olympic chief s sexist remarks, officials defend his post The Mainichi
TOKYO The public backlash over sexist remarks by Yoshiro Mori, president of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games organizing committee, to the effect that meetings with many women drag on, has shown no signs of abating in Japan or abroad.
At home, a signature drive calling for Mori s resignation, among other demands, advanced mainly by young people via social media, has collected more than 85,000 names so far.
Some Japanese government officials and those within the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee defended the 83-year-old Mori on Feb. 5, but media and other parties overseas underscored the criticism.
Baby Asian elephant at Tokyo s Ueno zoo given Thai name Arun
December 17, 2020 (Mainichi Japan)
A young Asian elephant, who was recently named Arun, is shown in this photo taken on Dec. 13, 2020, provided by the Tokyo Zoological Park Society. TOKYO A male Asian elephant born at the October at the Ueno Zoological Gardens in the capital s Taito Ward has been named Arun, following a public vote. The young elephant s name is a Thai word, apparently meaning dawn or daybreak, as his parents were born in Thailand. The zoo called on the public to choose between three names in voting that took place online and at the zoo between Nov. 26 and Dec. 13. Arun gathered the highest number of votes with 12,044, followed by Tawan, which means sun in Thai, which collected 7,554 votes, and Atsadong, which means setting sun, or sunset, which received 1,381 votes.