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BASKETBALL
Mar 29, 2019

Memphis Hustle rookie Yuta Watanabe shines as fill-in point guard

Yuta Watanabe's rookie season provided another memorable chapter on Wednesday.
EDITORIALS
Mar 29, 2019

The challenge of governance reform at Nissan

Nissan needs to ensure that the proposed changes to its governance structure will not end in nominal reforms but effectively revamp the way the company is run.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 29, 2019

The consequences of global uncertainty

A broad economic slowdown should come as no surprise.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 29, 2019

I told you so: Only idiots believed in Russiagate

Whatever credibility U.S. media still had after pimping those imaginary Iraqi WMDs and 'experts' repeatedly reporting that Trump had no chance of winning, now lies in tatters.
Reader Mail
Mar 29, 2019

Police street checks are going too far

I've been staying in Japan for four years now and I plan to live here much longer. I'm an engineer who pays 23 percent income tax and I try to follow Japanese etiquette with utmost care. I don't get why Japanese police keep frisking me in public.
Reader Mail
Mar 29, 2019

Sympathy for the Korean public will

Philip Brasor's Media Mix column in the March 17 edition was very enlightening. To my shame, I learned about the March 1 Movement in Korea in 1919 only at my age of 71. Brasor tells us that Japanese media as well as the government never mentioned the grave incident that occurred in the Japanese colony...
Reader Mail
Mar 29, 2019

Who's reading of history is faulty?

Unlike the author of the letter titled "A faulty reading of history" in the Feb. 17 edition, I am no fan of Brahma Chellaney. However, what Chellaney was writing about this time is something most Indians feel strongly about, and many Indian and British historians have written extensively about this topic...
Reader Mail
Mar 29, 2019

Offer homestays for Rugby World Cup

So here we go again, another Rugby World Cup and another hotel "rip off" season. This happens all the time to sports fans. I am coming to Japan for RWC 2019 and hotels in the host cities are charging four and five times their normal rates for the couple of nights surrounding the matches (that's if you...
Reader Mail
Mar 29, 2019

Can rail survive only in big cities?

Reading the article "Train driver on Tokyo's Yamanote Line lives out childhood dream" in the March 21 edition, I felt mixed emotions. The Yamanote Line, a poster child for prosperous Tokyo, has been improved to the point where they plan a new train with AI, while local rail networks like JR Shikoku and...
JAPAN
Mar 29, 2019

Probe reveals 759 cases of suspected abuse and 171 deaths of foreign trainees in Japan

The Justice Ministry's probe into the Technical Intern Training Program confirms growing concerns about a link between the trainees' working conditions and their growing disappearances from companies.
Japan Times
Rugby / ADDING THE EXTRAS
Mar 29, 2019

Future of Sunwolves in doubt after Super Rugby

Sunwolves CEO Yuji Watase put on a brave face last week despite clocking up air miles in the wake of the announcement his team would be not be part of the Super Rugby competition post 2020.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 29, 2019

As China pushes traditional medicine globally, illegal wildlife trade flourishes

Chinese traditional medicine is rapidly expanding worldwide as a key pillar of the country's "Belt and Road" initiative, but conservation groups say demand for treatments using animal products is driving a surge in illegal trafficking of wildlife.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Mar 29, 2019

Taiwan's Zhuilu Old Road hike: A thin ledge, and then a sudden drop

A day trip from Taipei, the Zhuilu Old Road in Taiwan's Taroko National Park is considered to be one of the country's best hikes, though is only for those with a strong head for heights.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 29, 2019

Campaigns kick off across Japan for prefectural and metropolitan assembly elections

Campaigning began Friday across Japan for prefectural and major metropolitan assembly elections set for April 7, with economic policies, aging, population decline and assistance for the elderly and working mothers the broad issues of concern for voters and candidates.
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 29, 2019

Censorship pays: the Chinese Communist Party's newspaper expands lucrative online scrubbing business

People.cn, the online unit of China's influential People's Daily, is boosting its numbers of human internet censors backed by artificial intelligence to help firms vet content on apps and ads, capitalizing on its unmatched Communist Party lineage.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Mar 29, 2019

Vietnamese nun in Tokyo prays for compatriots who lost lives at work in Japan, fearing more to come

Rows of wooden mortuary tablets inscribed with names line an altar at a Buddhist temple in Tokyo — silent testimony to Vietnamese people who died after coming to Japan to work or study.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 29, 2019

The complex fortune growing inside Bytedance, the world's most valuable startup

Software engineer Zhang Yiming started out producing apps for sharing jokes before focusing on news aggregation. That pivot proved lucrative.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 29, 2019

AstraZeneca bets $6.9 billion that Daiichi Sankyo therapy will transform cancer treatment

Britain's AstraZeneca's biggest deal in recent memory give it access to the Japanese drugmaker's promising but difficult to pronounce cancer treatment: trastuzumab deruxtecan.
‘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’

Longform

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?
By Alex K.T. Martin

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