Current events/Archive 1

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Contents 1 2005-04-27 2 2005-04-22 3 2005-04-14 4 2005-04-13 5 2005-04-09 6 2005-04-06 7 2005-04-05 8 2005-04-04 9 2005-04-03 10 2005-04-01 11 2005-03-30 12 2005-03-25 13 2005-03-17

2005-04-27

• Osaka Koi no Uta, the 26th single from Morning Musume, is released.

2005-04-22

• In an address to the ongoing conference of Asian and African nations Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi offered apologies for the suffering caused by Japanese aggression in the 30s and 40s of the 20th Century. Wikinews, Japan Today

2005-04-14

• Yaguchi Mari suddenly resigns from Morning Musume after a tabloid publishes photos of her and her boyfriend, the actor Oguri Shun [1], out shopping. See: official announcement, translation, alt translation, news coverage torrent. She may continue with a solo career. As to the leadership of Morning Musume, since Ishikawa Rika is already scheduled to graduate on May 7, Yoshizawa Hitomi is the new leader and Takahashi Ai the new sub-leader.

2005-04-13

• A Tokyo District Court ruled as unconstitutional a provision of the Nationality Law that requires the parents of a child seeking Japanese nationality to be married. asahi.com

2005-04-09

• Thousands of Chinese protest against Japan's newly approved history textbooks, which according to critics, whitewashed Japanese wartime atrocities. Wikinews, Japan Today

2005-04-06

• Japan unveils plan to send humans to the Moon in ambitious 20-year plan. MSNBC Space.com

2005-04-05

• The government of South Korea complains to the Japanese government about a revised set of official Japanese history schoolbooks. The complaint alleges the textbooks whitewash Japan's imperialist past, and question Korean sovereignty of the disputed Liancourt Rocks. (Korea Herald)
• Tokyo train adds women-only cars to deal a high incidence of groping during the morning rush hours. The Seattle Times

2005-04-04

• TV show Musume DOKYU! begins.

2005-04-03

• Episode #253 of Hello! Morning celebrates five years with a 5th Anniversary Special.

2005-04-01

• TV show Musume Document 2005 ends.

2005-03-30

• Special Generation, the sixth single from Berryz Koubou, is released.
• Sakuranbo ~Encore Press~ by Otsuka Ai is released and debuts at #2 on the daily Oricon charts.

2005-03-25

• Expo 2005 opens in Aichi, Japan. Okinawan-American artist, DAHLIA chosen to sing the expo's theme song. Wikinews, Official site

2005-03-17

• The World's Patrick Cox reports on discrimination against foreigners in Japan. (WMA, 8 min)