Masami is all too aware that she is in a minority. Nearly 90% of 39,000 children in care last year were living in government-run institutions rather than with families, Human Rights Watch said in a report released earlier this year. The rate is the highest among industrialised nations, the report warned, with as few as one in 10 children eventually moving to a family environment through fostering
The game features a cast of "Mii" characters or personalised avatars of real players Nintendo has said it will not allow gamers to play as gay characters in its life-simulation game Tomodachi Life. A fan had launched a social media campaign urging Nintendo to allow same-sex relationships between characters in the game - modelled after real people. Nintendo said it "never intended to make any form
A thick haze of pollution envelopes Beijing - but scientists say the toxic air travels much further afield Air pollution in China and other Asian countries is having far-reaching impacts on weather patterns across the Northern Hemisphere, a study suggests. Researchers have found that pollutants are strengthening storms above the Pacific Ocean, which feeds into weather systems in other parts of the
The Japanese nuclear energy watchdog raised the incident level from one to three on the international scale that measures the severity of atomic accidents. This was an acknowledgement that the power station was in its greatest crisis since the reactors melted down after the tsunami in 2011. But some nuclear experts are concerned that the problem is a good deal worse than either Tepco or the Japane
William Hague: "If there is a missile test, we will advocate further measures to the UN security council" Foreign ministers from the G8 group of nations have condemned in the "strongest possible terms" North Korea's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes. Tensions have risen on the Korean peninsula in recent weeks. Meanwhile, a Pentagon spy report concluded "with moderate confidence" tha
As Japan and China continue to exchange angry words over their competing claims to an uninhabited group of islands in the East China Sea, it's not that easy to get a close look - and sometimes a little deception is required. When you arrive in a new country as a foreign correspondent, the first thing you try to do is figure out how that country works. Japan, where I arrived three months ago, has a
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