Taipei's Songshan-Haneda flights resume after 3 decades

Taipei's Songshan-Haneda flights resume after 3 decades

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan Premier Wu Den-yi (5th from R in rear row) and Japan's representative to Taiwan, Tadashi Imai (4th from R in rear row), attend a ceremony at Taipei's inner-city Songshan airport on Oct. 31, 2010, marking the resumption of flight services between Songshan and Tokyo's Haneda airport after almost 32 years.

Man convicted in 1963 Sayama murder case still seeking retrial

Man convicted in 1963 Sayama murder case still seeking retrial

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuo Ishikawa (L), who was given a life sentence and spent almost 32 years in prison over a 1963 murder in Sayama, Saitama Prefecture, before being released on parole, meets the press with his lawyer (R) after filing his third petition for a retrial with the Tokyo High Court on May 23, insisting he is innocent. Ishikawa, 67, was convicted of the murder of a 16-year-old female high school student in the city near Tokyo in a case that became known as the ''Sayama Incident.''

I feel enthusiastic to live here: Italian professor in China

STORY: I feel enthusiastic to live here: Italian professor in China DATELINE: Nov. 19, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:32 LOCATION: TIANJIN, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (English): ROCCO LACORTE, Associate professor at Nankai University STORYLINE: SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ROCCO LACORTE, Associate professor at Nankai University "I've had the rare privilege of working in three different foreign countries. As I come from Italy, I worked in the United States for almost 10 years, in Brazil for almost 10 years. And now I'm starting working in China." Subtitle 1: What impresses you the most about China's development? SOUNDBITE 2 (English): ROCCO LACORTE, Associate professor at Nankai University "The thing that most impacts me is the will of the Chinese people to deal with all these matters and to solve the problems related to these matters. Obviously, I've noticed that there was a big effort to alleviate poverty. They solved the question of absolute poverty, hundreds of millions of Chinese people where freed

Man convicted in 1963 Sayama murder case still seeking retrial

Man convicted in 1963 Sayama murder case still seeking retrial

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuo Ishikawa (L), who was given a life sentence and spent almost 32 years in prison over a 1963 murder in Sayama, Saitama Prefecture, before being released on parole, meets the press with his lawyer (R) after filing his third petition for a retrial with the Tokyo High Court on May 23, insisting he is innocent. Ishikawa, 67, was convicted of the murder of a 16-year-old female high school student in the city near Tokyo in a case that became known as the ''Sayama Incident.'' (Kyodo)

Taipei's Songshan-Haneda flights resume after 3 decades

Taipei's Songshan-Haneda flights resume after 3 decades

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan Premier Wu Den-yi (5th from R in rear row) and Japan's representative to Taiwan, Tadashi Imai (4th from R in rear row), attend a ceremony at Taipei's inner-city Songshan airport on Oct. 31, 2010, marking the resumption of flight services between Songshan and Tokyo's Haneda airport after almost 32 years. (Kyodo)