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LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Jul 27, 2015
Let's discuss scorching weather in Japan
At least three elderly people died and hundreds were taken to the hospital as Japan continued to bake under scorching temperatures.
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Jul 20, 2015
Let's discuss the plan for a new National Stadium in Tokyo
The complicated design of Tokyo's new National Stadium meant only a limited number of contractors could tackle the project and was the biggest cause of its budget blowout.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2015
Tokyo Olympics' national stadium mutates into a meme
Due to its high price tag and controversial design, the New National Stadium, slated to host events of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, has received a lot of heat this year. A meme emerged in which netizens vented their discontent ... and showed off their mad Photoshop skills. Here are some highlights:
Reader Mail
Jul 16, 2015
Thailand doing all it can for refugees
I deeply regret that the column "Rohingya Refugee crisis shames Southeast Asia" by Pavin Chachavalpongpun in the May 22 edition does very little to contribute to putting the issue in its proper perspective.
Reader Mail
Jul 16, 2015
Help Greece by giving them the Olympics, permanently
How about this partial solution for the Greek crisis and for economies worldwide: Give the Olympics back to Greece. Greece started the Olympics, let's give it back to them and save billions of yen in the process.
Reader Mail
Jul 16, 2015
The true lesson of Sugihara's heroism missed
Almost every summer the newspaper regales us again with commemorative stories about the humanitarian heroism of Chiune Sugihara ("Chiune Sugihara: man of conscience," July 12).
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Jul 13, 2015
Let's discuss safety on trains
There were calls for security checks to be instituted on users of bullet trains nationwide after a self-immolation on Tuesday left the perpetrator and one other passenger dead, and two people seriously injured.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 10, 2015
Japan interested in joining NATO anti-ship missile consortium
Maritime Self-Defense Force officers traveled to a NATO meeting in The Hague in May to learn more about the consortium, says Reuters, citing unnamed sources.
Reader Mail
Jul 10, 2015
Sushi chefs should keep their hair tidy
On the July 5 article "Female chefs are giving sushi a new lease on life," only one of these female chefs looks like someone I would want preparing my food (Yumi Chiba). Her hair is neatly and professionally tidied under her chef's cap.
Reader Mail
Jul 10, 2015
Thailand is a land of free expression
Regarding the article "Lese Majeste brings despair to Thai families" by Marion Thaibaut, an AFP-Jiji reporter based in Bangkok, in The Japan Times on May 25, I wish to clarify the following:
Reader Mail
Jul 10, 2015
Beef up pensions, not bullet-train security
Regarding the story "Bullet trains get rude wake-up call" in the July 5 edition, it was surely only a matter of time, after such a long record of years of virtually trouble-free operation, that eventually something should happen on the shinkansen.
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Jul 6, 2015
Let's discuss changing child care laws
This week's featured article
Reader Mail
Jul 4, 2015
One solution for the Greek debt crisis
Regarding the story "Tsipras seeks public vote against new bailout deal" in the June 28 edition, here's a solution to the Greece debt problem: decide upon a ratio of responsibility for the debacle that acknowledges mutual culpability by the borrower and the lender.
Reader Mail
Jul 4, 2015
The world should ditch nuclear arms
I was really sad to read the editorial "Disappointing NPT conference" in the May 27 edition because I had really hoped that all countries would abolish their nuclear weapons.
Reader Mail
Jul 4, 2015
Yoga has benefits for everyone
The article of "Modi leads Yoga Day amid skepticism" (June 28, 2015) tells us that June 21 is the International Day of Yoga. It is good news since people all over the world can know yoga and enjoy a better health by doing yoga. I myself have been healthy for many years thanks to yoga practices. Even...
Reader Mail
Jul 4, 2015
Correct definition of 'singularity'
The Big in Japan column titled "Humans face singular concern over AI jobs" in the June 28 edition contains an error which needs to be corrected.
Reader Mail
Jul 4, 2015
Storm in a teacup over Toyota exec
William Pesek makes some salient points in his article titled "Toyota's drug problem, and Japan's" in the June 28 edition.
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Jun 29, 2015
Let's discuss NHK in the news
This week's featured article
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 29, 2015
Meet Shabani, the new alpha male role model
Photos and videos of Shabani, a male Western Lowland Gorilla currently living at the Higashiyama Zoo in Nagoya, are going viral. A look at what people are saying suggests that his charm goes deeper than just his good looks. Here are some highlights of this new social media sensation.
Reader Mail
Jun 27, 2015
Increase fertility via better aid for young moms
Regarding the article entitled "The true cost of fertility treatment in Japan" in the June 21 edition, the difficulty and time-consuming nature of these treatments, their costs, and the anguish that is often experienced by the couples who resort to them will ensure that they can be little more than a...
Foreign tourists with unpaid medical bills in Japan to be denied entry
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during ministerial meeting meeting on foreign residents in Japan on Friday at the Prime Minister's Office.
Japan eyes tougher rules for foreign residents and tax hike for tourists
A tax-free shop in Kyoto in April 2024. Last week, members of a Liberal Democratic Party study group drafted a proposal seeking to scrap the country's tax-free shopping system altogether.
Accidents raise concern over how Japan vets foreign drivers
Keita Ueno (right), the owner of Kiki Driving School and an instructor who supports both foreign nationals and Japanese citizens returning from abroad in getting their foreign driver’s licenses converted, is worried about the current lax system for the process.
Japan won’t wait for G7 summit for possible U.S. trade deal
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top negotiator in tariff talks with the U.S. speaks to reporters at the Japanese Embassy in Washington on Friday.
From ridicule to redemption: Rice crisis returns Koizumi to the spotlight
Agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks to the media as he inspects a warehouse storing stockpiled rice in Kanagawa Prefecture on May 30.
What can Kenji Yanobe’s cosmic cats teach us about humanity?
Kenji Yanobe’s spacesuited cats are the main characters of “Ship’s Cat Island,” the inaugural exhibition at Hyper Museum Hanno in Saitama Prefecture.
From ridicule to redemption: Rice crisis returns Koizumi to the spotlight
Agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks to the media as he inspects a warehouse storing stockpiled rice in Kanagawa Prefecture on May 30.
New Naoshima museum bets on Asia, not the West
Detail of Takashi Murakami, “Rakuchu-Rakugai-zu Byobu: Iwasa Matabei RIP” (2023-25)
Japan’s prison reform focuses on rehabilitation
Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Friday. Suzuki said preparations for the changes that will focus more on rehabilitation are being actively made at each correctional facility.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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After the asset-price bubble crash of the early 1990s, employment at a Japanese company was no longer necessarily for life. As a result, a new generation is less willing to endure a toxic work culture —life’s too short, after all.
How Japan's youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic
By Alex K.T. Martin

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