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CNN
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
What happens when an octopus engages with art?
When the Japanese artist Shimabuku was 31 years old, he took an octopus on a tour of Tokyo. After catching it from the sea with the help of a local fisherman in Akashi, a coastal city over 3 hours away from the Japanese capital by train, he transported the live creature in a temperature-controlled tank of seawater to show it the sights of Tokyo before returning it safely to its home the same day. 'I thought it would be nice,' the artist, now 56, said about the experience, over a video call from his home in Naha, Japan. 'I started to travel when I was 20 years old. But octopuses, maybe they don't travel so much — and when they do, they are just going to be eaten. I wanted to take an octopus on a trip, but not to be eaten.' Documenting it on video, Shimabuku took the octopus to see the Tokyo Tower, before visiting the Tsukiji fish market, where the animal 'reacted very strongly' to seeing other octopuses on sale, the artist said. 'Octopuses are smart — maybe he told his experience to his octopus friends in the sea (after returning).' The interspecies day trip, resulting in the 2000 video work 'Then, I Decided to Give a Tour of Tokyo to the Octopus from Akashi,' kickstarted a series of projects Shimabuku has undertaken over the decades that engage with octopuses in playful, inquisitive ways. A portion of this work is currently on show in the UK, in two exhibitions that explore humanity's relationship with nature and animal life: 'More than Human' at the Design Museum in London (through October 5) and 'Sea Inside' at the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich (through October 26). Fascinated by what the sea creatures might think, feel, or like, Shimabuku has documented their reactions to various experiences, from the city tour of Tokyo to being given specially crafted artworks. 'They have a curiosity,' he said. 'For some other animals, it's only about eating and making love. But I think octopuses have time to wander — time for hobbies.' When he lived in the Japanese city of Kobe, Shimabuku would go on fishing trips with local fisherman, taking the opportunity to learn about octopuses. 'Traditionally we catch octopuses in empty ceramic pots — that's my hometown custom,' he said. Fishermen would throw hundreds of pots into the sea, wait two days, then retrieve them — finding octopuses inside. 'Octopuses like narrow spaces so they just come into it,' explained Shimabuku. When he saw the animals within the pots, he discovered they were 'carrying things': shells, stones, even bits of broken beer bottles. He began to save the small objects the octopuses had gathered — 'a collection of a collection,' he said. In light of the creatures' collecting habit, Shimabuku started to think, 'maybe I can make sculptures for them,' the artist recalled. In his 2010 work 'Sculpture for Octopuses: Exploring for Their Favorite Colors,' Shimabuku crafted a selection of small glass balls and vessels, in various colors. At first, he went out in a fishing boat and threw the sculptures in the sea, 'like a present to the octopuses.' But then he wanted to see how the animals were reacting to the objects. Collaborating with the now-closed Suma Aqualife Park in Kobe, he repeated the effort in a large water tank, where he could film the reaction of octopuses. 'They played with them, and sometimes they carried them,' said Shimabuku. Does he know why? 'Maybe they have too many hands — so they want to grab something,' the artist reflected. 'They keep touching, touching.' The resulting film, and photographs, show the octopuses wrapping their tentacles around some of the glass objects, grabbing and rolling them across the sand, and even holding them in their suckers as they move across the side of the tank. In 2024, Shimabuku had a landmark solo show at Centro Botín in Santander, Spain. Specially for the exhibition, he collected an assortment of glass and ceramic pots to offer to local octopuses. Some of the vessels were made by the artist and others were from 'second-hand shops and eBay.' Off the coast of the Spanish city, Shimabuku dropped the vessels on to the sea bed, subsequently diving down with a film camera to see how the octopuses there reacted to the vessels. As expected, some had climbed inside. Although octopuses are colorblind, Shimabuku wanted to see through these projects whether they were attracted to objects of certain colors. 'What I heard from fishermen is that octopuses like red,' he said. 'Long ago in Kobe, I found an octopus in a red pot, so I believe they like red.' Perhaps more so than the hue, Shimabuku is convinced that octopuses are drawn to very 'smooth, shiny' glass objects. He doesn't have evidence to back this up, but then again Shimabuku's projects are not intended as scientific experiments. Here, a man entranced by eight-legged mollusks is dedicating his time to engaging with them through art.
CTV News
25-06-2025
- CTV News
Japanese court convicts a U.S. Marine in sexual assault, sentencing him to 7 years in prison
Judicial members including Judge Kazuhiko Obata, center back, for a sexual assault case of a U.S. Marine sit at the Naha District Court in Okinawa prefecture's Naha, southern Japan, Tuesday, July 24, 2025. (Japan Pool/Kyodo News via AP) TOKYO — A Japanese court has found a U.S. Marine guilty of sexually assaulting a woman on Okinawa and sentenced him to seven years in prison, in a case that has triggered anger and safety concerns on Japan's southern island, which has a heavy American troop presence. The Naha District Court said Lance Cpl. Jamel Clayton, 22, of Ohio, was sentenced in the case on Tuesday. Clayton was found guilty of attacking the woman in her 20s in the Yomitan village on the main Okinawa island in May, 2024, chocking her from behind, sexually assaulting her and causing her injuries. In sentencing, Judge Kazuhiko Obata said the victim's testimony, provided remotely and anonymously, was highly credible even though the defendant denied his charges brought by the prosecutors, who demanded 10 years in prison, according to Kyodo News. 'This behavior does not reflect the values of the Marine Corps nor does it exemplify the standards the overwhelming majority of our Marines uphold daily,' Capt. Kazuma Engelkemier, spokesperson for 3rd Marine Division, said in a statement confirming Clayton's conviction emailed on Wednesday. Engelkemier said the U.S. side monitored the trial proceedings without interfering in the Japanese judicial process. 'We cooperated fully with the investigation process,' he said. The Marine has been in Japanese custody since his indictment that followed the allegation, he added. The case was one of a string of sexual assault cases last year in which the arrests of the suspects were initially withheld by local authorities on grounds of protecting the victims' privacy, triggering anger and criticisms of coverups. Okinawa, where one of the fiercest battles of World War II was fought 80 years ago and under U.S. occupation until 1972, remains home to the majority of about 50,000 U.S. troops stationed in Japan under a bilateral security pact. The island, which accounts for only 0.6% of Japanese land, hosts 70% of U.S. military facilities. Frustration runs high on Okinawa because of its continued burden with the heavy U.S. presence that includes noise, pollution, aircraft accidents and crime related to American troops. Defense Minister Gen Nakatani, who attended Monday's 80th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa, raised concerns about recent sexual assault cases involving U.S. service members when he met with Lt. Gen. Roger Turner, the commander of III Marine Expeditionary Force, requesting discipline and preventive measures. There has been growing calls for a revision to the Status of Forces Agreement that gives the United States the right to investigate most accidents and crimes that occur on Japanese soil. Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba 's Cabinet on Tuesday adopted a statement showing that the Japanese prosecutors dropped criminal cases against more than 300 U.S. service members in the last decade between 2014 and 2024, including a sexual assault case in Okinawa in 2020. ___ Reeno Hashimoto in Tokyo contributed to this report. Mari Yamaguchi, The Associated Press
Economic Times
11-06-2025
- Business
- Economic Times
Small and largecaps attractive, midcaps require caution: Aniruddha Naha
The capex cycle or the investment-oriented businesses, investment cycle oriented businesses do very well over a period of time Synopsis Aniruddha Naha of PGIM India AMC remains positive on Indian markets, particularly financials, citing strong macro fundamentals and reasonable valuations. He anticipates FII inflows to initially benefit largecaps, eventually spreading to mid and smallcaps. Naha favors financials (especially NBFCs), capital goods, and discretionary consumption, driven by rate cuts, liquidity, and improved consumption trends. "The macro fundamentals look to be very strong out here. And financials as you pointed out, I think so that is one space where there is reasonable amount of opportunity to build a good long-term portfolio and valuations are quite reasonable out there. So, remain positive on markets, remain positive on financials," says Aniruddha Naha, PGIM India AMC. ADVERTISEMENT Firstly, help us with your take on the markets because the last week has been quite an eventful week for the Indian markets. We finally managed to break out of the range and not just that it was the big RBI bazooka as well. I am sure you must also be liking the financial space, but what is your overall take on the markets right now? Aniruddha Naha: So, we have continued to remain positive. I mean, we turned positive somewhere in the month of February, March and our view is whether it is short-term, medium-term, long-term, we remain reasonably positive on markets. Because the smallcaps have seen a reasonable amount of rally of almost 20%, can there be a pullback? There can be. But over the period of time, I mean, into the next couple of years, three years, it is a good time to build portfolios. The macro fundamentals look to be very strong out here. And financials as you pointed out, I think so that is one space where there is reasonable amount of opportunity to build a good long-term portfolio and valuations are quite reasonable out there. So, remain positive on markets, remain positive on financials. Well, yes as far as the positive momentum is concerned for the market, we do see a lot of positive news coming in as far as the inflows are concerned, the FIIs have already bought $1.7 billion of inflow in the month of May and the DIIs have bought $7.9 billion. Also, looking at the SIP numbers that are sitting at all-time highs, there is still that positivity in the market. We have been very-very range bound. But from here on, when we move up like you said you are very bullish on financials, but given that the FII flows might return to India specifically after the rate cuts, do you see the largecap basket benefiting from that? Aniruddha Naha: See, our sense is FIIs as you mentioned is at about 16% ownership. This has very little downside and incrementally as fundamentals for India look comparatively far-far better than what we see in a lot of other markets, invariably you are going to see FII flows coming into India. Will it be towards only largecaps? Yes, largecaps have that liquidity space to accommodate more money, but whenever that happens even domestic investors get positive and that is where you will see the HNI families, the family offices, even retail coming back and that will fill into the midcap, smallcap, microcap. So, yes, the initial rally on the FII side could lead to a largecap rally out there, but we continue to believe that money will flow to places or segments of market where valuations are reasonable. And we see valuations especially in the small, microcap space and the largecap space to be reasonably good. It is only the midcap where we will have to wait and see how things play out given that valuations are a little steep out there. ADVERTISEMENT Help us with your sector preferences as well. Any sector you believe is at an inflection point because we just got done with the earning season as well so any sector which looks promising to you right now? Aniruddha Naha: So, a few sectors which get linked, one is the rate cuts and the liquidity that has come in will definitely see financials participating especially the NBFC segment and probably a quarter or two quarters down the line even the MFIs, their asset quality gets addressed and that will flow through. The second thing as you have got liquidity and your cost of capital goes capex cycle or the investment-oriented businesses, investment cycle oriented businesses do very well over a period of time. 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NHK
05-06-2025
- General
- NHK
Japan's Imperial family pay respects at Tsushima Maru monument in Okinawa
Japan's Emperor and Empress and their daughter have paid their respects to the victims of a ship that sank in a US attack while evacuating hundreds of children from Okinawa during World War Two. Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and Princess Aiko began their trip to the southwestern prefecture on Wednesday to offer their condolences to the war dead. This year marks 80 years since a fierce ground battle in the prefecture toward the end of the war. On Thursday, the Imperial family offered flowers at the monument in Naha City dedicated to victims of the August 1944 attack on the vessel that was making its way to Kyushu. Close to 1,500 people were killed, including at least over 780 school children. The family also visited the Tsushima-Maru Memorial Museum and were guided by the head of the facility. Among the items on display are photographs of more than 400 victims, including children and their teachers, along with belongings such as pencil cases. They spoke with survivors and families of the victims, including Takara Masakatsu, who survived the attack but lost nine family members. The Emperor Emeritus and Empress Emerita -- Emperor Naruhito's parents-- visited the monument and museum in 2014, a year before the 70th anniversary of the end of the war. Later on Thursday, the Imperial family will visit an exhibition marking the 50th anniversary of the Ocean Expo, which was held to mark the return of Okinawa to Japanese rule from the United States in 1972. They will also inspect the reconstruction work at Shuri Castle, a prefectural landmark that was destroyed in a fire six years ago. On Wednesday, the Imperial family visited Itoman City, the site of the final battle in Okinawa. They spoke with survivors, bereaved family members and young people working to pass on memories of the war.
NHK
26-05-2025
- NHK
Okinawa police arrest US Marine allegedly involved in hit-and-run accident
Police officers in Okinawa have arrested a US Marine who is believed to have been involved in a hit-and-run accident in the southern Japanese prefecture. The officers say 20-year-old Marine Lance Corporal Ivan Garciamartinez is stationed at the Marine Corps' Camp Hansen. They say he was driving a car that collided with another passenger vehicle in Naha City at around 10:30 a.m. on Sunday. Four people in the passenger car, including a 7-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl, sustained minor injuries. Garciamartinez allegedly abandoned the car and fled the scene. The police officers searched for the suspect in nearby areas. They spotted the US serviceman and arrested him about one hour after the accident. The suspect told investigators that he did cause the crash, but he denied some of the allegations. He claimed that he did not fail to provide first-aid. The police officers say the suspect's alcohol level was about double the legal limit. Investigators suspect he was driving under the influence of alcohol.
