The Government of Japan has donated €13.25 million to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Trust Fund to support the organisation’s operations related to the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons program. It is the single largest donation received to date into this… Read More

It turns out that hundreds of copies of the famous diary of Anne Frank have been vandalized in libraries in Japan. More than 300 copies of the diary of Anne Frank and other books related to Anne Frank were found in public libraries in and… Read More

The international jury of the 57th annual World Press Photo Contest has selected an image by American photographer John Stanmeyer of the VII Photo Agency as the World Press Photo of the Year 2013. The picture shows African migrants on the shore of Djibouti city… Read More

Only the father of Dutch documentary maker Frans Bromet was Jewish, but he felt a feeling of home coming when he was filming in Israel in 1990. He decided to make a one hour documentary about Jewish people that returned or will return to Israel…. Read More

Christmas is boom-time for manufacturers and retailers as consumers engage in an annual shopping frenzy that sends profits soaring and can give a much-needed boost to ailing economies. But it’s not just the makers and sellers of the perfumes, handbags and watches we buy who… Read More

Since orthodox Jews only marry and reproduce in their own community, genetic diseases like Tay-Sachs occur relatively often. In the 1980ties Rabbi Joseph Ekstein, based in Brooklyn New York, started an organisation with the name Dor Yeshorim (‘upright generation’), to fight genetic diseases to appear… Read More

It suddenly turns out that not the Pakistani Malala Yousafzai will receive the Nobel peace prize 2013, but the OPCW, the Organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons, which has its headquarters in The Hague, the Netherlands. At a press conference the Nobel committee states… Read More

‘We make war so we are war’. That, some would say chilling quotation, came from Abdelkarim Honing, a young man in the Netherlands who has converted to Islam. He has seen many of his friends leave to take up arms in the bloody conflict in… Read More

The Yong Sheng is the first ever container-transporting vessel sailing transit along the Northern Sea Route. When arriving in the port of Rotterdam the 19,000-ton vessel Yong Sheng will get its place in the history books as the first container-transporting vessel which made it transit… Read More

After years of negotiation a new European rule to ban discarding unwanted fish overboard was agreed upon in May this year. Dutch fisherman and fish dealer Jan Geertsema wants to change the system by promoting fishing in a much more durable way, decreasing the number… Read More

Japan’s Economic Revitalization Minister Akira Amari visits the Netherlands and Denmark. He is hoping to find out how those countries boosted their economies. Revitalizing the agricultural and medical industries is a key part of the growth strategy of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. While in the… Read More

Since the seventies of the last century the fans of the Amsterdam football club Ajax identify themselves with Jews. Although officially Ajax is not a Jewish club, many of the supporters sing and yell ‘Jews, Jews, Jews’ during every match. A Dutch foundation against anti-Semitism… Read More