For Yuri Kageyama's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
It's drawing time at this suburban nursery school in Saitama Prefecture, but instead of crayons, tiny fingers are tapping on colors on iPad screens and taking selfies. Digital schooling has arrived in a nation long known for its zealous commitment to the "three R's ...
An actress who won a settlement after being sexually harassed plans to use the money to start a Me Too group for Japan’s entertainment industry.
Robots that can weld, lift and bolt are being developed to help bridge labor shortages at domestic construction sites, though their use will be limited to night shifts when no human workers will be nearby due to safety and regulatory concerns. Major construction firm Shimizu ...
When her stay at the glamorous Grancreer residence turned into a nightmare of disrupted sleep and difficulties with the staff, retired harpist Yumi Makino opted out, and after a two-year legal battle got her deposit money back in a rare victory over a big ...
The children, gathered in rows on a school field in Tokyo, crouch and then reach up in unison, waving red, white and blue banners to form a North Korean flag as the school band plays an emotional rendition of a song for their "motherland." They ...
Whether at rooftop beer gardens or at fireworks extravaganzas and wood-paneled craft breweries, Japanese seem to quaff an awful lot of beer in the summer. But beer consumption has been tanking for five years straight in Japan, as the younger generation shies away from the ...
How much did Nintendo pay to land that dream marketing opportunity at the Rio Olympics closing ceremony, where Japan's prime minister popped out dressed as the red-hatted plumber Super Mario? Zero. The Japanese video game maker behind "Pokemon" and "Zelda" got the coveted stage that corporate ...
An American sailor has tapped a cloud-based technology for mobile phones to make it easier to have volunteers take turns driving inebriated friends home, an initiative that has curtailed drunken driving among the navy ranks. The effort, tested at the Naval Sea Systems Command in ...
Japanese auto parts maker Takata Corp. is expecting a loss instead of a profit for the fiscal year that ended in March because of ballooning costs from a massive global air-bag recall. Tokyo-based Takata, which is set to give its earnings report Wednesday, said Monday ...
Coping with the vast amounts of groundwater flowing into the broken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant — which then becomes irradiated and seeps back out — has become such a problem that the country is building a ¥35 billion "ice wall" into the ground ...
