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Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Apr 20, 2015

Migrant deaths may shame EU over 'Fortress Europe' policy

The outrage Europe's leaders face over the deaths of hundreds of refugees trying to reach its shores may force a shift in a policy critics decry as letting people drown to deter others in desperate need.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Apr 20, 2015

Hope fades for Gulf oystermen five years after BP oil spill disaster

Five years after the largest oil spill in U.S. history spewed millions of gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico, many Louisiana oystermen are fearful that a once-bountiful population of the mollusks may never recover.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / BLACK EYE
Apr 19, 2015

Meeting Miss Universe Japan, the 'half' who has it all

Progress occurs when people of substance assume the mantle of leadership, and it appears Ariana Miyamoto is equal to the task.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Apr 19, 2015

Historically, Japan is no stranger to blacks, nor to blackface

I am a black Japanese half. I was bullied because of my skin color in elementary school, so I have a strong complex about my skin color. If Japanese truly adored blacks, it wouldn't bother me. But do Momokuro really adore blacks? I think if you asked them if they wished they had been born black, they...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Apr 18, 2015

Kochi doesn't need to fish for compliments

The fire is supposed to be searing my skipjack tuna, but I feel as if it's my cheeks that are cooking instead.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Apr 18, 2015

Porn is in the iPhone of the beholder

"Her lips languorous like a loose-wound spool, the fragrance of her perfume reaching to the skies. And how lovely when she moves, swaying back and forth. ... When compared to this creature, a man's wife can hardly seem more than a salted fish past its prime!"
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Apr 18, 2015

'At Kasetsu' and the poetry of everyday life in temporary housing

Four years have passed since the evacuees displaced by the Fukushima nuclear disaster moved into kasetsu (temporary housing). Many are unable to return home as their houses are still contaminated.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Apr 17, 2015

Miyavi explores his 'Others' side on new album

Playing a sadistic real-life villain in the Angelina Jolie film "Unbroken" clearly took its toll on Takamasa Ishihara, who admits he wept and threw up as he prepared for his final scene. Now back in a more familiar role as the enigmatic musician Miyavi, the man known as the "Samurai Guitarist" is flying...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Apr 17, 2015

China's incredible shrinking factories

Eight years ago, Pascal Lighting employed about 2,000 workers on a leafy campus in southern China. Today, the Taiwanese light manufacturer has winnowed its workforce to just 200 and leased most of its space to other companies: lamp workshops, a mobile phone-maker, a logistics group, a liquor brand.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 17, 2015

Most refugees snubbing Australia's offer for Cambodia resettlement

Australia is struggling to convince refugees held in offshore detention to voluntarily resettle in Cambodia under a bi-lateral deal, a refugee advocate group said on Friday, despite the government insisting that the first transfers are imminent.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 17, 2015

New Yamanashi liberal arts college seeks to put students in 'zone' of critical thinking

Michael Lacktorin, founding dean of a unique new college at Yamanashi Gakuin University in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, says his most important role as an educator is to help students discover where their passion lies, and to find out what they really want to do with their lives.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Apr 17, 2015

'Force Awakens' trailer to 'Star Wars' fans: 'Chewie, we're home'

"Chewie, we're home."
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 16, 2015

Bubble-era missteps shape Tokio Marine's property strategy

Tokio Marine Holdings Inc., one of the nation's oldest insurers, is joining its Chinese peers in investing in property overseas — but with a twist.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 16, 2015

Rizap gym owner seeks to triple profit by shrinking waistlines

For Kenkou Corp., slimmer waistlines mean fatter profits.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 16, 2015

Canadian diplomat's teenage son charged with first-degree murder in Florida

A Florida grand jury charged the 15-year-old son of a Canadian diplomat with murder on Wednesday in connection with a drug-related shooting that killed his brother and a suspected drug dealer, according to state prosecutors in Miami.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Apr 15, 2015

Northern Ireland's Troubles hold a deadly lesson for Okinawa

Like in Northern Ireland in the 1960s, protests over the planned U.S. base at Henoko run the risk of spiraling out of control if islanders' views are ignored.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 15, 2015

Japan needs geopolitical skills

As long as Japan lacks a resolute strategy and prudent foreign policy, it risks becoming a strategic pawn in someone else's game.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 15, 2015

Adaptation of Banana Yoshimoto's 'Asleep' is heavy with depression and Eros

Sleep is the great restorer, one we frazzled moderns eternally need, desire and lack. But for Terako (Sakura Ando), the sleepy-eyed heroine of photographer and director Shingo Wakagi's "Shirakawa Yofune" ("Asleep"), the bedroom is a battleground of the spirit.
WORLD
Apr 15, 2015

A quick walk to high ground could save thousands on West Coast if tsunami hit, study finds

Thousands of people living along the U.S. Pacific coastline from Northern California to Washington state could survive powerful tsunami, as long as they are prepared to walk briskly to higher ground, a researcher said on Tuesday.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 14, 2015

Have we seen the end of the U.S. tax revolt?

With only 1 percent of Americans rating taxes as the nation's top problem, it appears that the U.S. tax revolt is all but over.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 14, 2015

Hiroshima hibakusha determined to keep memory of atomic bombing alive, 70 years on

Hiroshi Harada remembers how his leg sank into one of the bodies blocking a narrow Hiroshima street 70 years ago, as he fled the spreading fire ignited by the atomic bomb.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 13, 2015

America's political system is broken

The fact that U.S. presidential candidates must adjust their positions to conform to the banal, the uninspired, the illegal, with total disregard for the will or the greater good of the people, demonstrates that the American political system is broken.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Apr 13, 2015

To pay for WWII commemorative activites, groups tap crowdfunding spigot

An increasing number of citizens' groups in Japan trying to document firsthand accounts of the tragedies of World War II, which ended 70 years ago this year, are turning to crowdfunding, a popular way of raising funds via the Internet, to pay for cash-strapped projects.
BUSINESS
Apr 13, 2015

Huttenlocher's Myriad said to start Japan reflation fund

Carl Huttenlocher's Myriad Asset Management has set up a hedge fund focusing on opportunities arising from Japan's efforts to end deflation, people with knowledge of the matter have said.
Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years
The Agency for Cultural Affairs is recommending replacing the government’s long-standing Kunrei system with more widely used Hepburn-style spellings.
Women-only communities flourish in China
Chen Yani (right), nicknamed "Keke," eats lunch with friends and guests in a female co-living space she founded called "Keke's Imaginative Space" in Hangzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, on July 14.
JR East cancels luxury train run over crew's boozing
East Japan Railway said Thursday that it will cancel one trip of a luxury overnight sleeper service, which was originally scheduled to depart from Ueno Station in Tokyo on Aug. 30, after crew members were found to have been drinking alcohol on duty.
Man arrested over deadly stabbing of woman in Kobe
Masashi Tanimoto, 35, the suspect in the deadly stabbing a 24-year-old woman, is taken into custody in Kobe on Friday night.
Japanese city proposes two-hour daily limit for smartphone use
The Toyoake Municipal Government in Aichi Prefecture is planning to enact an ordinance to urge all smartphone users in the city to limit screen time to two hours a day outside work or school.
Alicia Keys closed Summer Sonic, but J-pop owned it
Summer Sonic’s 2025 lineup demonstrated its strength, showcasing the latest in J-pop, including “new kawaii” act Fruits Zipper.
Is the LDP’s catch-all approach to politics still effective?
Former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi visits Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15. Political commentator Toru Hashimoto has suggested that Takaichi ought to lead a group of like-minded hawkish politicians out of the Liberal Democratic Party and form their own party.
Fingers sore from too much phone time? You might have ‘sumaho yubi.’
A catch-all term for tendonitis and arthritis caused by excessive smartphone use, 'sumaho yubi' may be difficult to treat for gadget-crazy Japan.
As farm minister, Koizumi is held ‘hostage’ by Ishiba
Farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi (center) attends a Lower House session on Aug. 1. Locking Koizumi into the Cabinet is Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s way of turning a potential rival into a team player, according to one expert.
Big burgers and bigger ambitions for Japan's Burger King
Kazuhiro Nomura, president of BK Japan Holdings, which operates Burger King in Japan

Podcast

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

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past
By Alex K.T. Martin

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