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Megan Green
For Megan Green's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 15, 2015
'The Contemporary 2: Who Interprets the World?'
Sept. 19-Dec. 13
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Aug 31, 2015
Drop the 'dasai' and get 'yavai' with high school slang
Keeping up with 'hayari no kotoba' (trending slang) and 'ryu016bku014dgo' (buzz words) is crucial for high schoolers.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Aug 22, 2015
Chie Suzuki: 'I'm always thinking about what to make next'
Wooden clog designer on ukiyo-e, cats and sushi
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Aug 7, 2015
Injury forces famed conductor Ozawa to cancel festival performances
Renowned conductor Seiji Ozawa has been forced to cancel his appearance at this month's Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival in Nagano Prefecture due to a hip injury, festival organizers said.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 14, 2015
'War and Postwar: The Prism of the Times'
July 18-Jan. 31
Japan Times
CULTURE
Jun 18, 2015
Do's and don'ts that will make your night of fireworks a blast
Summer in Japan means hanabi taikai (firework festivals), and if you're unprepared you may find your night quickly fizzling out.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
May 28, 2015
Taicoclub gets bigger with new stages
Taicoclub, the electronic-music event that unofficially marks the beginning of Japan's music festival season, is expanding this year to include a stage sponsored by Red Bull Music Academy.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 21, 2013
EU ruins progress with Cyprus plan
There's nothing like having part of your savings account confiscated overnight to make you feel that your money isn't safe.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 25, 2013
Greek budget surplus could end up playing into the hands of the anti-austerity opposition
Greece reported recently that it has reached a primary budget surplus, the Holy Grail of austerity, meaning that once you exclude interest payments on the country's massive debts, the country is finally taking in more revenue than it spends.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
The 'outsiders' creating some of Japan's greenest spaces
Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Traders spooked by intervention risk trim record yen shorts
Traders edged back from record bets on yen weakness this past week, in a period that included a likely bout of intervention by Japan to prop up the currency.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
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