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COMMENTARY / World
Oct 26, 2015

Are Americans No. 1? It depends

Americans have long been fascinated with global rankings and where they stand in them, but sometimes the results aren't all that impressive.
WORLD
Oct 26, 2015

Cost to replace, maintain U.K. nuclear deterrent raises eyebrows amid austerity push

The overall cost of replacing and maintaining Britain's nuclear deterrent will reach £167 billion ($256 billion), much more than expected, according to a lawmaker's and Reuters' calculations based on official figures.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Oct 25, 2015

Freak show on parade at the Kawasaki Halloween Parade

People decked out in a variety of costumes participate in a parade in Kawasaki on Sunday during Kawasaki Halloween 2015. The annual event, now in its 19th year, brought together some 2,500 people and stretched for about 1.5 km. | SATOKO KAWASAKISuper Zombie — hopefully not faster than a speeding...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Oct 25, 2015

It's the little things — like ¥10 — that remind me why I'm still here

It's times like these that I chuckle to myself and am reminded why I love living in Japan.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 25, 2015

Inequality debate looks in the wrong direction

What's truly terrible in America isn't that a few people have so much. It's that so many people have so little.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Oct 24, 2015

Tokyo fashion week: Hiromichi Ochiai — man in the middle

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo wrapped up its runway shows at the Hikarie shopping complex in Shibuya Ward on Oct. 17, ending six days of presentations that showcased a wide range of collections for the upcoming 2016 spring/summer season.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 24, 2015

Hiroji Kubota's lens is a witness to history

Photographer Hiroji Kubota believes that "everyone has a great drama to tell." With the release of his retrospective photo book, simply titled "Hiroji Kubota Photographer," now it's his turn to tell his.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Oct 24, 2015

Natsume Soseki goes back to hell in 'The Miner'

Natsume Soseki's 1908 novel "The Miner" has often been regarded as an oddity. It stands aloof both in subject matter and style from the two great "trilogies" Soseki penned between 1908 and 1914.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Oct 24, 2015

Water, water everywhere in Japan, but fewer people to pay for it

Water is relatively abundant in Japan, but there are less people around to pay for the infrastructure that processes it and delivers it to homes.
EDITORIALS
Oct 24, 2015

Newspapers still a vital resource

Despite the proliferation of online sources, good old-fashioned newspapers remain an essential way to obtain information and acquire knowledge.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 23, 2015

Led by first-year managers, Hawks, Swallows chasing Japan Series title

The Fukuoka Softbank Hawks and Tokyo Yakult Swallows have already proven themselves to be the top teams in the Pacific and Central Leagues.
EDITORIALS
Oct 23, 2015

Opposition eyes campaign tie-up

The opposition camp could cut into the ruling bloc's grip on the Diet if the parties can agree to cooperate for next summer's Upper House election.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 23, 2015

Nigerian answer to Spotify lures investors from MTN to Jay-Z

The mansion, the pool, the Bentley, the life-size portrait and the gold medallions are the spoils of a revolution in Nigeria and music superstar D'banj is enjoying them.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Oct 22, 2015

Fuji TV announces Japan-first lesbian drama, but attracts criticism for 'outdated' portrayal

Fuji Television has announced a drama series featuring a lesbian love story as its central theme — a first for Japan.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Oct 21, 2015

Three cases of whine offer lessons in how not to criticize Japan

Novelist John Updike famously declared America to be "a conspiracy to make you happy." I wonder sometimes if Japan is, then, a conspiracy to make you unhappy? Or, if not exactly unhappy, how about uncomfortable, exasperated or confused?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Oct 21, 2015

Jumpin' Jiminy: YoYo the cat finds a new home in Tokyo

The handsome Blanco, first featured here in May 2014, has found a home in the capital with a Canadian resident.
WORLD / Society
Oct 21, 2015

U.N. report shows women inching slowly, unevenly toward equality

Women are more educated, marrying later and living longer worldwide but millions remain illiterate and trapped by work that pays little or nothing, according to a United Nations report on Tuesday assessing progress over the past two decades.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 21, 2015

Season of scandal hits Japan with flurry of corporate confessions

Japan, which prides itself on maintaining propriety and order, has suddenly been hit by a spate of corporate scandals.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 20, 2015

Monet's experiments meet his masterpieces

To anyone familiar with art exhibitions in Japan, it is clear that Impressionism is one of the most well-known and most-loved of all the "isms" and movements of Western art. The name of the movement is believed to have come from a 1872 painting by Claude Monet titled "Impression, Sunrise." When it was...
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WORLD
Oct 19, 2015

As winter looms, Germany struggles to find warm homes for refugees

At a sprawling camp in the German town of Celle, refugees wearing thick sweaters sit around a heater smoking cigarettes as rain beats down on the cramped white tent that has become their home. Some of them are ill and worried it will snow.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 18, 2015

Kero Kero Bonito blend English and Japanese rap into bouncy pop tracks

Sarah Midori Perry remembers checking MixB, an online bulletin board for Japanese expats in London, almost every day ... and feeling underwhelmed.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 18, 2015

Beijing promotes low-paid college graduates to startup CEOs

Quitting her job as receptionist, joining rock bands and chancing her tattoo-sleeved arm at small business ventures would once have branded college graduate Ding Jia as a rebel in China. Now she can claim state endorsement as a "creative."
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Oct 17, 2015

Councilors get loud on library revamps

As testimony to their characteristically low profile, Japan's public libraries seldom make the news, although two recent exceptions come to mind.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Oct 17, 2015

No sex talk please, we're Japanese

The education ministry recently came under fire for supplementary materials it had distributed to high schools this summer. The materials were given out to help girls lead "healthier lives," but a chart about pregnancy included in the literature was found to be misleading.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Oct 17, 2015

Japan's public diplomacy of churlish cluelessness

Enough is enough. How dare UNESCO inscribe primary sources and a wartime video about the Nanking mayhem into global memory? I fully support the Japanese government's threats to withdraw funding from UNESCO to protest its recent decision to include a dossier submitted by China, "Documents of Nanjing Massacre,"...
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / THE LIVING PAST
Oct 17, 2015

True Edo spirit can be found while soaking in a public bath

"Public baths are the shortest route there is to moral and spiritual enlightenment. Careful reflection shows this."
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 17, 2015

Cyberwarfare's vast potential for mayhem

Countries have begun to build up their cyberweaponry, and no one can yet say where this new form of military technology will lead.
WORLD
Oct 16, 2015

Belgian tourist dies after falling into Chilean geyser

A Belgian woman who suffered burns on 80 percent of her body after falling into a boiling hot geyser last week in northern Chile died on Thursday, the Santiago hospital where she was receiving treatment said.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
China warns citizens not to visit Japan as row over Taiwan heats up
Chinese tourists wear kimonos as they visit Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Saturday.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Japan may triple departure tax to tackle overtourism
A plane takes off from Haneda Airport.
Fears rise of rupture in Japan-China ties in wake of Taiwan remarks
Two Chinese tourists wearing kimonos take a selfie as they visit Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Saturday.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
Stablecoins: Boring goes big, and now in Japan
Noritaka Okabe, CEO of JPYC, acknowledges a number of potential risks related to stablecoins.
Shohei Ohtani collects fourth MVP Award with 2025 NL honor
The Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani was named National League MVP for the second straight season on Thursday.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.

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An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
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