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JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 10, 2019

Tokyo court orders Aum Shinrikyo cult successor Aleph to pay ¥1 billion to victims of sarin attack

Aleph, the main successor to the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, was ordered to pay more than u00a51 billion in damages to the victims of the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin gas attack.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 10, 2019

Nichii Gakkan says more closures to come after shuttering 50 Coco Juku English schools across Japan

Nichii Gakkan wrote in a statement it decided to close most of the language schools as they were deemed unlikely to turn a profit.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society / GENERATIONAL CHANGE
Apr 10, 2019

Japanese group ACE works to end child labor and foster education across developing world

In 1998, a march to protest child labor involving people in 107 countries made Yuka Iwatsuki realize that the issue, which she had been interested in since college, was a global movement. She also realized that there were no organizations in Japan leading the global fight.
SOCCER / From the Spot
Apr 10, 2019

Sweeping changes needed for J. League Cup

With the J. League season in full swing, it's sometimes easy to forget that the J. League YBC Levain Cup is also in progress.
Japan Times
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Apr 10, 2019

As basho sellouts continue, regional tour offers peek behind curtain

Within 90 minutes of going on sale, tickets for the upcoming Summer Grand Sumo Tournament were all snapped up.
EDITORIALS
Apr 10, 2019

Take steps to curb corporate workers' hours

While the government's new work-style reform measures mark a first step toward curbing the excessively long working hours of many corporate employees, it only sets the baseline from which each firm needs to make further efforts to cut employees' work hours.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 10, 2019

U.S.-China 'Cold War' narrative is misleading

Misreading Chinese public opinion and U.S. intentions is one of the most classic mistakes that Japan tends to make.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 10, 2019

Ghosn is right about Nissan

The automaker's performance has suffered since the former chairman was toppled, suggesting the need for an overhaul at the top.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 10, 2019

Netanyahu claims 'colossal victory' after close contest in Israel, but graft charges could spoil party

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secured a clear path to re-election on Wednesday, with religious-rightist parties set to hand him a parliamentary majority despite a close contest against his main centrist challenger, a vote tally showed.
BUSINESS
Apr 10, 2019

IMF cuts global growth outlook to lowest since financial crisis

The International Monetary Fund cut its outlook for global growth to the lowest since the financial crisis amid a bleaker outlook in most major advanced economies and signs that higher tariffs are weighing on trade.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 10, 2019

Start up, burn out: Services support Japan entrepreneurs' mental health in ultracompetitive culture

Rising entrepreneurs are often treated like heroes, with the media lionizing the way their startups lure sizable investments and how their innovative products might change the world.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Apr 10, 2019

Morgan Fisher and all the (not so) young dudes of Mott the Hoople join forces again

In early March, 35 people gathered on the first floor of a two-story house in Tokyo to listen to the British keyboard player Morgan Fisher reminisce about his days with 1970s rock act Mott the Hoople. This month, Fisher is joining a reunion of the band for brief tours of the U.S. and U.K. Since 1985...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 10, 2019

'Love's Twisting Path': An old-school samurai swashbuckler

Now a spry 84, Sadao Nakajima is one of the few directors from Japan's studio era who is still active. After joining Toei in 1959 and making his directorial debut in 1964, Nakajima shot yakuza actioners and samurai swashbucklers (chanbara eiga) for more than three decades with Toei's Kyoto studio as...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 10, 2019

'A Gambler's Odyssey 2020': A lot of controversy about nothing

Given the timid, committee-driven nature of modern Japanese film production, it's rare for anything to make it into the cinemas with even the slightest whiff of controversy still clinging to it. "A Gambler's Odyssey 2020" is a pungent exception.
JAPAN
Apr 10, 2019

Number of people with disabilities working at Japanese firms tops 500,000 for first time

The number of people with disabilities working at private-sector companies in Japan as of June 1 last year topped 500,000 for the first time, a survey by the labor ministry has showed.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 10, 2019

Green machines? Flying taxis could slash emissions for long journeys

Futuristic electric flying taxis like those in the movie "Blade Runner" could offer a more sustainable — and much faster — way to travel long distances than traditional car journeys, academics at the University of Michigan said on Tuesday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LEARNING CURVE
Apr 10, 2019

Know your rights as a language teacher

Dennis Tesolat is chair of the General Union based in Osaka. Founded in 1991, the organization is part of a national private sector trade union known as Zenkoku-Ippan (the National Union of General Workers), which belongs to a confederation known as Zenrokyo (National Trade Union Council).
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Apr 10, 2019

South Korean leader has work cut out for him in talks with Trump on North Korean nukes

South Korean leader Moon Jae-in heads to Washington for a crucial summit with U.S. President Donald Trump this week in hopes of persuading the mercurial leader to give some ground in his negotiations with North Korea over that country's nuclear arsenal.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 10, 2019

Boeing records zero new 737 Max orders amid global grounding

Boeing Co.’s orders and deliveries sank in the first quarter, with zero new orders for the 737 Max following a worldwide grounding in March in the wake of two fatal plane crashes.
PRESS / Corporate Trends
Apr 10, 2019

ジャパンタイムズ、「Advertising Week Asia 2019」にメディアパートナーとして参加

　株式会社ジャパンタイムズ（本社：東京都千代田区、代表取締役社長：堤丈晴）は、2019年5月28日～5月30日に東京で開催される「Advertising Week Asia 2019」（主催： Stillwell Partners Inc.、Advertising Week Asia 2019 実行委員会）にメディアパートナーとして参加いたします。...
JAPAN
Apr 10, 2019

F-35A fighter jet crashed, Japan's defense ministry says, as hunt for missing pilot continues

According to Air Self-Defense Force, the incident in waters off Aomori Prefecture is the first crash involving an F-35A fighter anywhere in the world.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 10, 2019

First hotel with sleeping capsules opens in Slovenian capital

Tourists who visit Ljubljana can now stay in the Slovenian capital's first sleeping capsules after the city's Central Hotel put up 10 capsules in a former telephone switchboard room.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 10, 2019

Suffering and deaths mount in Libya conflict as Islamic State exploits chaos

Casualties from the battle for Libya's capital mounted on Tuesday while Islamic State killed three people in a desert town, illustrating how jihadis may exploit renewed chaos.
‘We have drawn lessons,’ Indian Army chief says of brief clash with Pakistan
Indian Army chief Upendra Dwivedi waves as he arrives to attend the ceremonial reception of Defense Minister Gen Nakatani in New Delhi in May.
Japanese immunologist among three Nobel medicine prize winners
Shimon Sakaguchi, an immunologist and distinguished professor at Osaka University, attends a news conference after winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in medicine, in Osaka Prefecture on Monday.
Spanish tourist injured in latest bear attack
Shirakawago, a U.N. World Heritage site in Gifu Prefecture
Americans and Canadians unite in battling 'eating machine' carp
A Fisheries and Oceans Canada team patrols the Grand River in Dunnville, Ontario, in search of invasive grass carp specimens on Sept. 25.
Trump hails 'wisdom and strength' of Japan's incoming prime minister
Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, gives a news conference after the LDP presidential election in Tokyo on Saturday.
OpenAI’s Sora 2 is drowning in Japanese 'AI slop'
OpenAI has rolled out a social app powered by Sora 2, its artificial intelligence video generator, which was quickly flooded with videos featuring iconic Japanese intellectual property.
Trump has his eyes on the prize — but a Nobel win looks unlikely
A protester holds a sign with an image depicting U.S. President Donald Trump and the words "Nobel" written on it, as supporters and family members of hostages who were kidnapped during the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas, demonstrate to demand the immediate end of the war and the release of all hostages, outside the U.S. Consulate in Tel Aviv, on Sept. 2.
‘Takaichi trade’ stalls as political reality calls for wait-and-see approach
Tokyo stocks staged a powerful rally on Monday. On Tuesday, they rallied again, then retreated.
‘We have drawn lessons,’ Indian Army chief says of brief clash with Pakistan
Indian Army chief Upendra Dwivedi waves as he arrives to attend the ceremonial reception of Defense Minister Gen Nakatani in New Delhi in May.
How a family-run landscaper turned the Osaka Expo green
The team at Ryokukou Garden consists primarily of a single family, including Toshiki Tanisaki (second from right), who led the company's efforts at the Osaka Expo, Chikako Tanisaki (fifth from right), who performs daily maintanence at the expo, and Takeshi Tanisaki (fourth from right), who added a nursery to the family farm more than 50 years ago.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Growing families are being priced out of Tokyo’s condo market, forced to choose between downtown convenience and suburban space.
Is living in central Tokyo still affordable?
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