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CULTURE / Books
Mar 18, 2017

'Where They Create: Japan': Glimpsing the minds of creatives through their workspaces

When asked how his design process works, Teruhiro Yanagihara, creative director of the ceramics collaboration project 1616/Arita, says, "My brain is initially 'where I create.'"
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Mar 18, 2017

Playground legend 'Bone Collector' brings his talent back to Japan

Streetball fanatics revel with delight when rattling off names of legends who competed at New York's famed Rucker Park in the 20th century.
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Mar 17, 2017

Seasoned, confident Dutch team focused on winning

These Dutch are hot and dangerous right now.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Mar 16, 2017

Welcome spring among the blossoms

"All things Sakura," celebrating Japan's blossom-filled spring, will take place at The Peninsula Tokyo from March 25 to April 2. Visitors will find themselves in a hanami (cherry-blossom viewing) wonderland immediately upon arrival, as the hotel lobby is decorated with hundreds of cherry trees.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 16, 2017

Tokyo lost and found included ¥3.7 billion in cash last year

In addition to keys and eyeglasses and other commonly lost objects, millions of dollars worth of cash reaches the Tokyo police's lost and found department every year.
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Mar 13, 2017

Israel's Fuld seizing chance to play at WBC with both hands

Team Israel outfielder Sam Fuld is as appreciative as any player in the World Baseball Classic to be able to hit the diamond and play the game.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
Mar 13, 2017

Old, past it, over the hill: expressing aging and old stuff in Japanese

Introduce some Japanese words and phrases that translate to 'old' in English.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 13, 2017

Japan's decluttering guru Kondo now has an app for tidying up

The newest tool for internationally acclaimed organizing guru Marie Kondo in her global battle against messy rooms is an app.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Mar 11, 2017

Measuring the economics behind a shift to streaming

An article in the Feb. 17 issue of the Asahi Shimbun describes a restaurant in Osaka where diners can watch J. League soccer games. The restaurant has three TV monitors hooked up to Sky PerfecTV, one of Japan's satellite broadcast services. At the end of January, however, the J. League shifted its exclusive...
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Mar 11, 2017

Monocle raises its glass to 10 years in Japan

There are precious few publications standing against the accepted status quo that print media has had its day and the future is digital. Taking a stand among their ranks is lifestyle magazine Monocle, which even eschews social media, choosing to address those who seek its singular lens via a 24-hour...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Mar 11, 2017

'Tokyo Nights': Hard-boiled detective fiction set in Tokyo's meaner streets

When 19-year-old Natasha Philips is found drowned, Manchester police attribute her death to "misadventure." But the girl's wealthy father suspects foul play and, convinced the police are incompetent, secures the services of private investigator Colin McCann — against McCann's better judgment.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 11, 2017

A wry squint into the grim future of the U.S.

Novelist Lionel Shriver imagines America slouching into dystopia merely by continuing current practices.
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Mar 10, 2017

Buck Martinez looks back on inaugural WBC, remains pleased with global growth of game

Former Team USA skipper Buck Martinez said he recalls everything from the game in Anaheim, California, where his team and manager Sadaharu Oh's Japan squad squared off in the second round of the inaugural World Baseball Classic in 2006.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 10, 2017

North Korea doesn't belong on state terrorism list

The U.S. and its allies should respond to what Pyongyang is rather than what it isn't.
CULTURE / Film / Wide Angle
Mar 10, 2017

Fukada's filmmaking a breath of fresh air

Koji Fukada's black comedy "Hospitalite" ("Kantai") won best film in the Tokyo International Film Festival's Japanese Eyes section in 2010 and since then he has become accustomed to stepping up on stages to receive prizes for his work.
JAPAN
Mar 9, 2017

Japan will deliver big during Tokyo 2020 Cultural Olympiad, London Games official says

Japan's celebration of culture leading up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will "deliver something inspiring for the people of Japan and the whole world," according to London 2012 Cultural Olympiad Director Ruth Mackenzie.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / FOCUS
Mar 8, 2017

New guidelines tackle misuse of antibiotics amid rise of superbugs

Public health officials have begun tackling the misuse and overuse of antibiotics, as the prevalence of superbugs, or bacteria resistant to antibiotics, reaches alarming levels worldwide.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 6, 2017

The geopolitics of environmental challenges

Allowing environmental issues to fall by the wayside at this time of geopolitical and social instability is a mistake.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Mar 6, 2017

Locals seek to preserve Nagoya park's wartime radio broadcast tower

One of few surviving "radio towers" that were built before and during World War II has been gaining local attention in Nagoya, prompting residents to push for the important legacy to be preserved.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 5, 2017

Yoshiki: 'We had to make our own world'

Yoshiki Hayashi hardly sleeps. The drummer, pianist, songwriter and leader of rock band X Japan has been in and out of the country constantly these past few months, promoting his band's new documentary film, "We Are X." At the same time he has been performing solo concerts, recording and squeezing in...
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 5, 2017

Demands for return of land block German effort to atone for African genocide

Namibia's Herero people are heartened that Germany is keen to atone for the genocide of their ancestors, but they expect something that Berlin says it cannot give.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Mar 4, 2017

Japan's magazines get misty-eyed over Showa Era brothels

Commencing with the death of Emperor Taisho on Christmas Day, 1926, the Showa Era ran for 62 years and two weeks, ending with the death of Emperor Hirohito (posthumously referred to as Emperor Showa) at the age of 87 on Jan. 7, 1989.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Mar 4, 2017

'Pachinko' author Min Jin Lee on how Japan's ethnic Koreans keep beating the odds

"I got lost all the time," says writer Min Jin Lee with a charming laugh, sitting in a hotel lobby in San Francisco's Japantown.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 3, 2017

Controlled blasts heard in sealed-off Brussels district after man 'known to police' arrested with gas bottles

Brussels police detained a man with suspected militant links who was found to be carrying two gas bottles in his car after he was pulled over on Thursday for running a red light, officials said.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 2, 2017

Yo-Yo Ma and Silk Road Ensemble build bridges between cultures one note at a time

Even before the Grammy award for best world music album was announced during a pre-telecast ceremony on Feb. 12, Haruka Fujii was awestruck.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 2, 2017

Uighur Islamic State fighters vow blood will 'flow in rivers' in China

Vowing to plant their flag in China and that blood will "flow in rivers," a new video released this week purportedly by the Islamic State group shows ethnic Uighur fighters training in Iraq, underscoring what Beijing sees as a serious threat.

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Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight