NRA makes new reactor safety regimen official

The Nuclear Regulation Authority officially approves new safety requirements for reactors aimed at preventing disasters like the catastrophe at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.

Global warming danger zone

The Japanese general public's interest in the global warming issue has been sagging of late, and few LDP government leaders appear ready to try to prop it up.

Dragons, mist and bouncy clouds await in west Tokyo

About 45 minutes from Tokyo’s skyscrapers, resting in the hinterlands of Tachikawa there is a land of mist and dragons. It’s a place where rolling hills tumble toward an Aztec pyramid, and children bounce on clouds. The place is called Showa Kinen Koen, and ...

Issues | THE FOREIGN ELEMENT

Chatting about Japan with Snowden, the NSA whistle-blower

by Christopher Johnson

Edward Snowden, the fugitive former CIA employee and NSA contractor who leaked secrets about America’s spying operations, often hung out online with foreigners in Japan who shared his interests in anime, video games, martial arts, the stock market and the expat lifestyle. Snowden, who ...

Art

Are we all blinded by our sense of beauty?

by Stuart Munro

Sophie Calle is an enigma. She is an artist, writer, photographer and filmmaker yet doesn’t work exclusively in any of these areas. She has become famous for her work in photography but her objects and later films have drawn equal attention — work that ...

Basketball

Heat survive to force Game 7

LeBron James, Ray Allen and Chris Bosh come up big down the stretch to help the Heat force a Game 7

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cyanide leak

National

NRA makes new reactor safety regimen official

Global warming danger zone

Lifestyle | CHILD'S PLAY

Dragons, mist and bouncy clouds await in west Tokyo

by Jason Jenkins

Issues | THE FOREIGN ELEMENT

Chatting about Japan with Snowden, the NSA whistle-blower

by Christopher Johnson

Art

Are we all blinded by our sense of beauty?

by Stuart Munro

Basketball

Heat survive to force Game 7

National Feb 28, 2013

125,000 lethal doses of sodium cyanide leaked in Iwate