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Japan: Intense Rain Hits Evening Rush Hour In Tokyo, Trains Suspended 8

Heavy rainfall hit the Tokyo metropolitan area on Wednesday, August 21 disrupting some train services during evening rush hour. Videos posted on social media shows water falling from ceilings like a waterfall inside stations and streets flooded like a river across the city.

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Nobel laureate Oe calls for reducing U.S. bases in Okinawa

TOKYO, Japan - Kenzaburo Oe, the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature, speaks at a meeting of the (Constitution) Article 9 Association in Tokyo on June 19, 2010, with a photo of the late popular playwright Hisashi Inoue hanging above him. The meeting was held on the 50th anniversary of the automatic enactment of the revised Japan-U.S. Security Treaty on June 19, 1960.

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Playwright, peace activist Hisashi Inoue dies at 75

TOKYO, Japan - April 2008 file photo shows playwright Hisashi Inoue speaking during an interview in Tokyo. Inoue, who was also a pacifist and was known for his activities promoting peace as one of the nine founding members of the Article 9 Association died of lung cancer on April 9, 2010, at his home in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was 75.

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Opponents protest info protection bill

TOKYO, Japan - Putting up profiles of people who in the past fought suppression of the freedom of expression, novelist Hisashi Inoue (wearing glasses at center) and other opponents stage a sit-in near the Diet building to protest a bill on protection of personal information introduced by the government of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on April 25.

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Intellectuals protest nationalist-authored history text

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel literature prize winner Kenzaburo Oe (L) and Mutsuko Miki, widow of former Prime Minister Takeo Miki, speak at a press conference in Tokyo on March 16 about their statement urging the education ministry not to approve a junior high school history textbook written by nationalist academics. In addition to Oe and Miki, the statement had the support of novelist Hisashi Inoue, photographer Yoshino Oishi and Yoshikazu Sakamoto, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo.

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Nobel laureate Oe calls for reducing U.S. bases in Okinawa

TOKYO, Japan - Kenzaburo Oe, the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature, speaks at a meeting of the (Constitution) Article 9 Association in Tokyo on June 19, 2010, with a photo of the late popular playwright Hisashi Inoue hanging above him. The meeting was held on the 50th anniversary of the automatic enactment of the revised Japan-U.S. Security Treaty on June 19, 1960. (Kyodo)

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Playwright, peace activist Hisashi Inoue dies at 75

TOKYO, Japan - April 2008 file photo shows playwright Hisashi Inoue speaking during an interview in Tokyo. Inoue, who was also a pacifist and was known for his activities promoting peace as one of the nine founding members of the Article 9 Association died of lung cancer on April 9, 2010, at his home in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was 75. (Kyodo)

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Intellectuals protest nationalist-authored history text

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel literature prize winner Kenzaburo Oe (L) and Mutsuko Miki, widow of former Prime Minister Takeo Miki, speak at a press conference in Tokyo on March 16 about their statement urging the education ministry not to approve a junior high school history textbook written by nationalist academics. In addition to Oe and Miki, the statement had the support of novelist Hisashi Inoue, photographer Yoshino Oishi and Yoshikazu Sakamoto, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo.