Tag: #Japan
Articles tagged with #Japan

Imagery, Algorithms, and the Ballot
What Takaichi’s Victory Says About Youth Politics in the Digital Age

A taste of old Nepal in Tokyo
Serving authentic, innovative Nepali cuisine in the Japanese capital

Turbulent Currents, Merging Storms
Increasing interconnectedness of transnational conflicts in Northeast Asia creating a volatile situation akin to the Fujiwhara effect

Lights, shadows and space
All photos: ASHISH DHAKALDuring the day, beams of sunlight push in obliquely through the glass windows at Galley Mcube in Lalitpur, dividing the…

Japanese cosmetics
Japanese cosmetic brands MEISHOKU and MOMOTANI owned by Momotani Juntenkan Ltd have launched their skincare and beauty products in Nepal in…

Made in Nepal peanut butter in Japan
A Japanese social entrepreneur brings skills and income to Khotang’s peanut farmers by finding export market

Japan’s political games begin
Photo: TAKASHI AOYAMA/PROJECT SYNDICATEOn 8 July, the Japanese government declared a state of emergency in Tokyo until 22 August, owing to the…

Vaccines too little, too late for Nepal?
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAThere is breaking news every other day: the United States donates 2 million Moderna shots to Bangladesh and Pakistan.…

Japan to assist Nepali mothers and children
Photo: WFP NEPALThe Government of Japan is to provide assistance worth $3.47 million to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Nepal, to…

Nepal-Japan jobs deal still stuck
Prakash Parajuli at the Tribhuvan International Airport, before boarding his flight to Japan. PHOTO: PRAKASH PARAJULIOn 21 December 2020,…

The vagaries of fate
In her last column, Lisa Choegyal takes us on the Trans-Siberian Railway during the Soviet days

Nepal’s women envoys make a mark
Nepal has a female president and a Constitution that reserves positions in government and legislatures to women, and in the foreign service…

A Himalayan High
Takashi Miyahara was Nepal’s tourism pioneer who founded Himalayan Kanko Kitatsu and built Hotel Everest View and Syangboche Airfield 50 years…

Counting what counts in Nepal
The state of the toilet at Kathmandu airport is a better indicator of progress than the Human Development Index

Back to the future in Nepal
For Nepalis who migrated to New South Wales, it must feel like going from the frying pan into the fire

For Nepal’s migrant workers, good news in small bites
On International Migrants Day, time to reflect on the gains and challenges ahead

Miyahara-san: a life devoted to Nepal
In the lap of Himalaya: Takashi Miyahara is cremated below Everest on Wednesday, 26 November 2019. Photo: SONIA MIYAHARATakashi Miyahara who…

Why Nepalis are flocking to Okinawa
When she is not at university, Anita Sapkota, 27, helps her husband manage and run the Shiva Mahal restaurant in Naha.Five years ago,…

The religion of rugby
The 20-nation 2019 Rugby World Cup will kick off in Japan next month, but many in Nepal will not know it

Modern day Arniko
When he was younger, Manjul Baraili would be chiseling away into stone to create sculptures while his friends played marbles nearby. He dreamed…

HARDWORKING STUDENTS
Photo: GOPEN RAINepal’s Number 1 export has been its people. In feudal times, impoverished farmers fled indebtedness, poverty and discrimination…

Migration Certificate
‘Abroad Study’ has entered the Nepali lexicon. Student out-migration now rivals the medical education industry, overseas contract work, and…

Worker’s widow sues Japan government
A portrait of Nepali migrant worker Arjun Bahadur Singh at a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday in which Japanese human rights lawyer…

Modern Arniko
Ganesh Lamsal in Naya Patrika on 25 JuneTen years ago Manjul Mitteri (Baraili), of Morang, announced he would donate 1000 stone statues to the…
