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2021-05-07 14:36:36 GMT2021-05-07 22:36:36(Beijing Time) Xinhua English TOKYO, May 7 (Xinhua) -- A Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force minesweeper and a Japanese fishing boat collided off the coast of Saga Prefecture in southwestern Japan on Friday, local media reported. According to Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) and Coast Guard officials, the incident took place at about 3:30 p.m. local time between the minesweeper Takashima and the fishing boat from Kumamoto Prefecture. So far no injuries have been reported among the crew of the two vessels. The collision occurred about 4 km no...

Itoshima – One of the Most Liveable Small Cities in the World Monocle magazine and I agree on a lot of things. Ever since I flipped through its first issue in February 2007, I’ve felt like it’s one of very few Western media that really ‘get’ Japan. I was convinced of that when Monocle first named Fukuoka one of the world’s 25 most liveable cities. The ranking debuted in 2008 – with Fukuoka at number 17 – and the city has featured every year since. The magazine seemed to recognize what I already knew and was trying to tell others. Ever since I moved to Fukuoka in 1990 and launc...

NEW INSIGHTS, NEW FORESIGHTS: Musings on the Performance Curators Initiatives' Virtual International Symposium 2020 Last October, the Performance Curators Initiatives (PCI), a global network of performance curators based in the Philippines, held its second international symposium entitled "Conversations on Curation and Performance in the Time of Halting and Transformation." In partnership with the Japan Foundation-Manila, ASEF Culture 360, and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, the symposium was held fully online and partly streamed publicly via the PCI's YouTube C...