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Hiroshi Hiyama

Hiroshi Hiyama

International Business Times

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Pacifist Japan Struggles To Boost Troops As China Anxiety Grows

Sporting dark face paint and clutching a gun, teenage soldier-in-training Takuma Hiyane crawls across a field on Japan's Okinawa, the front line of...

02.09.2025 10

International Business Times

Hiroshi Hiyama

Okinawa A Reluctant Host For US Troops 80 Years After WWII

Okinawa resident Hiromasa Iha can still recall the screams of his classmates and teachers after a US military jet crashed into his elementary school,...

16.08.2025 10

International Business Times

Hiroshi Hiyama

Japan Sees Bright Future For Ultra-thin, Flexible Solar Panels

Japan is heavily investing in a new kind of ultra-thin, flexible solar panel that it hopes will help it meet renewable energy goals while challenging...

22.07.2025 10

International Business Times

Hiroshi Hiyama

Bone Collectors: Searching For WWII Remains In Okinawa

Trekking through mud and rocks in Japan's humid Okinawan jungle, Takamatsu Gushiken reached a slope of ground where human remains have lain forgotten...

24.06.2025 10

International Business Times

Hiroshi Hiyama

Nintendo Forecasts 15 Million Switch 2 Sales In 2025-26

Japanese gaming giant Nintendo forecast Thursday that it would sell 15 million units of its hotly awaited Switch 2 console in the current financial...

09.05.2025 10

International Business Times

Hiroshi Hiyama

Japan Victims Voice Fears 30 Years After Sarin Subway Attack

Three decades since Shizue Takahashi's husband and a dozen others were killed with a nerve agent on Tokyo's subway, she fears Japan could see a repeat...

19.03.2025 10

International Business Times

Hiroshi Hiyama

A Fearful New Year In Temporary Homes After Japan Quake

Before the earthquake changed everything, 83-year-old Sueko Naka from Japan's remote Noto Peninsula wished to live out her life at home, watched...

31.12.2024 5

International Business Times

Hiroshi Hiyama

Japan's A-bomb Survivors: From Discrimination To A Nobel

Survivors of the US atomic bombings of Japan will receive the Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday but, after years of anti-nuclear campaigning and showing...

10.12.2024 4

International Business Times

Hiroshi Hiyama