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MULTIMEDIA
Dec 11, 2018

[VIDEO] Tokyo Comic Con 2018

ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Dec 10, 2018

China gene-editing scientist's project rejected for WHO database

The global medical community is distancing itself further from the researcher whose controversial gene-editing work has been condemned by scientists and the Chinese government.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 10, 2018

Report that Carlos Ghosn planned to oust Nissan CEO Hiroto Saikawa brings relationship into focus

Almost three weeks after his shock arrest, former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn's relationship with his former protege is emerging as key to determining what may have triggered the investigation that has put the car industry titan in a Tokyo jail cell.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 10, 2018

Japan corporate bankruptcies up 6.1% in November

The number of corporate bankruptcies nationwide in November rose 6.1 percent from a year earlier to 718, up for the first time in three months, Tokyo Shoko Research Ltd. said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 10, 2018

Theresa May calls off key vote on Brexit deal to avoid huge defeat, source says

U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May is calling off a crucial vote in Parliament on whether to approve her Brexit deal, according to a person familiar with the situation.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 10, 2018

Japan, look in the mirror called Germany

Germany today reflects Japan's future.
EDITORIALS
Dec 10, 2018

Accepting more foreign workers brings challenges

Unless the government ensures immigrants get the support necessary to have a decent life, it will lose the growing competition among countries to attract foreign workers.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 10, 2018

More data exposing the U.S. income stagnation myth

Debate over wage growth must reflect solid realities, not politically convenient sound bites.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 10, 2018

New Zealand grapples with China's influence and intimidation

In April 2010, there was a scandal over the Confucius Institute at Osaka Sangyo University in Osaka. During meetings discussing a proposed relocation of the institute between campuses, the director of the University Affairs Board denounced it as a "cultural spy agency" for China and "a 'soft landing'...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 10, 2018

U.S. has Huawei in cuffs; China has U.S. in chains

Here's a vision of how things might look if Beijing decides to retaliate by leveraging its dominance of the supply chain for American companies.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 10, 2018

The phony America-China truce

The U.S. and China have very different views of what they had signed up for in the truce.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Dec 10, 2018

With debate on constitutional reform sidelined, has immigration law been a pyrrhic victory for Abe?

As the extraordinary Diet session wrapped up, Abe found himself no closer to fulfilling his longtime ambition of amending the nation's postwar Constitution.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 10, 2018

Waseda's newly elected president aims to make university a top-notch global draw for scholars

Perhaps he won the presidency thanks to his specialized knowledge of voting behavior and public opinion, or maybe it was his casual tweets in conversations with students, his use of mocking buzzwords or his adoption of slang used by his pupils.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Dec 10, 2018

Crashed Ice makes Asian debut in Yokohama

Four skaters, all wearing hockey gear, brace themselves in their starting gates on the lip of a 22-meter drop atop a long course covered entirely in a layer of ice about 20 cm thick.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Dec 10, 2018

Bug business: Cockroaches corralled by the millions in China to crunch waste

In the near pitch-dark, you can hear them before you see them — millions of cockroaches scuttling and fluttering across stacks of wooden boards as they devour food scraps by the ton in a novel form of urban waste disposal.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language
Dec 10, 2018

The third-wave coffee boom has resulted in a new wave of java-related Japanese vocabulary

Coffee talk is more than just cream and sugar when it comes to cafes that specialize in third-wave coffee.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
Dec 10, 2018

Watch what you say when offering your boss a coffee

When trying to figure out what someone wants in Japanese, your relationship with them is as important as their request.
LIFE / Language / NEWS IN NIHONGO
Dec 10, 2018

Hanyu victory parade brings ¥1.85 billion in benefits

A parade to celebrate 23-year-old Yuzuru Hanyu achieving the first back-to-back wins in 66 years in men's figure skating at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, was held in his hometown of Sendai and had an economic effect of an estimated u00a51.85 billion, an organizing committee announced Nov. 30.
JAPAN
Dec 10, 2018

Despite pushback and online petition, JR East unwilling to rename new Takanawa Gateway station

A growing number of people say they dislike the name of a new station in Tokyo, set to be called Takanawa Gateway, and are calling for the station's name to be changed after its recent announcement by railway operator East Japan Railway Co.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Dec 10, 2018

Chinese police detain prominent Protestant 'house' church leaders and attendees in Chengdu

Police have detained dozens of churchgoers and leaders of one of China's most prominent Protestant "house" churches, congregation members and activists said, in the latest government action against unregistered religious groups.

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