As Japan starts to rebuild following the events of March, the management of the crisis and its aftermath has revealed deep-seated problems within the Japanese political system. The country boasts a long list of dysfuncti…
Following the March earthquake and tsunami, NHK, Japan’s public broadcaster, provided the footage that filled the world’s TV screens. Monocle visits the studios to find out what happened when the disaster drill became real…
Italy and the UK’s fall out over a hostage, we talk to traders in Fukushima, and learn why telenovelas are moving from Mexico to Miami.
As Iceland’s Geir Haarde stands trial, we ask how responsible he is for the financial crisis? Plus, Richard Lloyd Parry’s experience at the Fukushima plant.
Sunday 24 July
No amount of publicity could persuade the usual crowd of Tokyoites and overseas tourists to the popular springs in the three hardest-hit prefectures – Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima.
Coverage of the Republican primaries in Florida. Plus, Martin Lindstrom on how advertisers get our cash and we discuss the Fukushima nuclear reactor in Japan.
We see why Germany’s economy is growing while all others suffer, discuss Fukushima’s supposedly mutant butterflies, and hear Rio’s reaction to receiving the Olympic flag.
Richard Lloyd Parry describes his visit to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, we get business news from Paris and discuss the Palestinian film industry.
Our man in Istanbul explains the latest roadblock to hit the Turkish government’s peace deal with the PKK, we head to Caracas for the latest post-Chavez update, and we talk crisis management post-Fukushima with Kay Kitazawa…
Thursday 23 June
The world news agenda might have moved on to new locations, but the aftermath of the earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear disaster in Japan on 11 March continues to make headline news at home. As summer approaches and…
Monday 11 March
Two years after Japan’s largest post-war disaster its recovery has been astonishing but politics is slowing progress.
Monday 14 March
The regular frisson of fear that earth tremors produce in Japan.
Wednesday 16 March
If you happened to have been on any of the crowded bullet trains that left Tokyo for Kyoto, Osaka and Hakata last night, you might have thought that Japan was in the midst of a population boom.
Tuesday 24 April
Japan’s tsunami-triggered nuclear alert has had particular resonance in India, where nuclear power has been widely embraced as an efficient way to meet the country’s leaping energy demand.
Tuesday 17 July
The police said there were 75,000 people; the organisers said the figure was closer to 170,000. Either way, tens of thousands of people gathered in Tokyo to express their opposition to nuclear power.
The magazine store in San Francisco that's bucking the mainstream, a satirical Parisian paper and healthcare, manga-style.
Thursday 25 August
Japanese voters would be forgiven for not remembering who their last prime minister was.
Thursday 31 March
At first it feels reassuringly familiar. The sun is shining in Shibuya, salarymen are rushing around and teens are chatting as they make their way across the famous crossing. But there are telling signs of change.
Shinji Kitada’s trade show, Jumble, is an intimate affair – by expo standards – that favours small and medium-sized fashion labels but which has an impressively global roster to match its international ambitions.
With many of Japan’s businesses cruelly flattened, the rebuilding process must begin, but with energy in short supply and the economy having suffered a huge blow, that’s a big challenge. Monocle looks at 10 badly hit sec…
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