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Japan Times
JAPAN / FOCUS
Dec 11, 2018

Aging Japan: Neighboring suburbs face divergent futures as one grays, another grows

Katsuya Kodama's wife died two years ago, and the 77-year-old keeps her ashes on a Buddhist altar in their suburban home outside Tokyo.
EDITORIALS
Dec 11, 2018

A public-private investment fund grinds to a halt

The future of the Japan Investment Corp. and other public-private funds will remain in doubt until differences over how such entities are run are resolved.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 11, 2018

Normalizing Japan-China ties poses risks

It is impossible for Japan to choose unequivocally between the U.S. and China.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 11, 2018

Google's China problem is America's China problem

How Beijing pressures and deploys Chinese citizens abroad to expand its power and influence is an issue of grave concern.
Japan Times
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Dec 11, 2018

Rika Kihira now the favorite for world title

Rika Kihira's super season continued over the weekend with a decisive victory at the Grand Prix Final in Vancouver, British Columbia. The young star dethroned Olympic champion Alina Zagitova of Russia to take the crown.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Dec 11, 2018

2018 was the year in Japan that saw the stage sing, while contemporary drama barely made a squeak

Musicals have flourished in 2018, with many young stars also helping to sell out straight plays in which they appeared. However, the contemporary drama scene in Japan has been unusually quiet this year in terms of new works and writers.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Dec 11, 2018

While ballet reigned supreme, a range of dance delighted fans in 2018

For a dance-loving country like Japan, every year brings delight in the variety of performances on offer, but the depth and breadth of 2018 on stage has been particularly grand for fans across a wide range of genres and movements.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 11, 2018

Five U.S. Marines missing in aircraft collision off Kochi Prefecture declared dead

Search operations, which included vessels from the Self-Defense Forces, had been underway since a KC-130 tanker plane collided with an F/A-18 fighter jet during training Thursday.
JAPAN
Dec 11, 2018

Japan's two Aegis Ashore anti-missile candidate sites run into local opposition

Located in northwestern Honshu on the Sea of Japan coast, Akita Prefecture has long been thought of in Tokyo and especially western Japan as remote — part of poet Matsuo Basho's famed "The Narrow Road to the Deep North."
Dec 11, 2018

Yamaha Motor Outline of Long-term Vision & New Medium-term Management Plan

IWATA, December 11, 2018—Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo:7272) announced today that it has formulated its long-term vision until 2030, and a New Medium-term Management Plan for the three-year period starting in 2019.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 11, 2018

May takes a gamble that running down the Brexit clock will focus political minds

Faced with a Brexit vote she cannot win, Prime Minister Theresa May appears to be gambling that running down the clock to a no-deal departure might change the arithmetic in Parliament.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 11, 2018

Lawsuit filed against Japan's state-funded ceremonies to mark Imperial enthronement

Members of religious groups and other citizens sued the government on Monday, claiming that planned public spending on ceremonies involving the enthronement of Crown Prince Naruhito next year violates the constitutional principle of separation of religion and politics.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 11, 2018

U.S. automakers group urges Trump to push harder to open Japanese market

The Trump administration intends to start trade negotiations with Tokyo as early as mid-January, after notifying Congress of its plans in October.
Japan Times
Dec 11, 2018

Tottori's "world's most expensive crab" enters Guinness World Records(R)!

Tottori's selected "Itsuki Boshi," the premium brand of Matsuba crab (male snow crab), fetched the highest bidding price of two million yen per crab at this year's first auction held on November 7 in Tottori.
Japan Times
Dec 11, 2018

KOKUYO's "360° Gliding Chair ing" Wins FRAME Awards ORGATEC 2018 in Two Categories

KOKUYO starts European expansion auspiciously with the good designed and health conscious office chair.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 11, 2018

An exasperated British lawmaker just broke one of Parliament's oldest rules

It was all so calm, so British.
Japan Times
PRESS / Publications
Dec 11, 2018

『いぬたん いぬの英単語』発売

Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / FOCUS
Dec 11, 2018

Climate change creates mutant fugu, a deadly Japanese delicacy

The road, hemmed in on one side by empty warehouses and the other by a concrete seawall, ends abruptly in a desolate parking lot. Men step out of their cars and into the darkness, then slip behind the sliding doors of a warehouse. Inside, they huddle under floodlights and wait. A clock on the wall ticks...
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 11, 2018

Saudi crown prince cultivated ties with Jared Kushner and kept up contacts after journalist's slaying: NYT

Jared Kushner, the U.S. president's son-in-law and senior adviser, was wooed by Saudi Arabia's controversial crown prince before Donald Trump took office, and the contacts continued in spite of the leader's links to the brutal murder of a journalist, the New York Times reported.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 11, 2018

Robert Mueller's Russia meddling probe digs deep, leaving Trump open to possibility of post-presidential prosecution

President Donald Trump, protected from criminal charges while in office, is now facing the prospect of indictment when he becomes a private citizen.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 11, 2018

Trump: Hush money payments not campaign finance violations, just 'simple private transaction'

Donald Trump on Monday defended hush money payments reported by his former lawyer a day after Democrats said the U.S. president could face impeachment and jail time if the transactions are proven to be campaign finance violations.
University of Tokyo lands its highest spot ever in global higher education ranking
The University of Tokyo in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward
Ghost of Yotei’s bloodstained fun sidesteps Ainu identity
Ghost of Yotei, the follow-up to 2020's smash hit Ghost of Tsushima, is a violent, vengeful and engaging romp through 17th-century Hokkaido that fails to stick the landing on its most sensitive cultural material.
After ruling bloc breakup, CDP and Komeito eye unified PM candidate
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Yoshihiko Noda speaks to reporters at the Diet in Tokyo on Friday.
As the Osaka Expo comes to a close, what will its legacy be?
After a run-up marked by apathy, organizers soon found they had the opposite problem as crowd control became a concern.
Why Japan's coalition collapsed — and what's next
Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi enters party headquarters in Tokyo on Thursday.
Ghost of Yotei’s bloodstained fun sidesteps Ainu identity
Ghost of Yotei, the follow-up to 2020's smash hit Ghost of Tsushima, is a violent, vengeful and engaging romp through 17th-century Hokkaido that fails to stick the landing on its most sensitive cultural material.
At Osaka Expo, gas giants promote a greener future. But is it a lot of hot air?
The Gas Pavilion had welcomed around 500,000 visitors by the end of August, making it one of the most popular exhibits at the Osaka Expo.
‘Takaichi trade’ starts unwinding as political calculus upended by Komeito exit
Less than a week ago, Sanae Takaichi seemed set to become Japan's first female prime minister.
‘Save the Ring’ calls intensify as Osaka Expo’s end nears
Visitors lounge on the grassy hill on the top of the Grand Ring during the 2025 Osaka Expo in the city of Osaka in May.
A Japanese comedian walks into an Aussie bar … and stays there
Takashi “Waka” Wakasugi stopped by the Tokyo Comedy Bar in Shibuya Ward last month following his stint at Edinburgh Festival Fringe performing his show “Comedy Samurai.”

Podcast

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

Longform

Rock group The Yellow Monkey played K-Arena Yokohama in June as part of a nationwide tour. Concerts are increasingly popular in the age of social media as users value in-person experiences.
Inside Japan’s arena boom: Sports, sound and city-building
By Patrick St. Michel

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