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LIFE / Food & Drink / JAPANESE KITCHEN
Aug 21, 2015

How yakitori went from taboo to salaryman snack

The grilled chicken skewers known as yakitori are good at any time of the year, but they go especially well with ice-cold beer. They also have an excellent chance of becoming the next big Japanese culinary hit worldwide — after sushi and ramen.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 21, 2015

Russia needs a strategy, not another fake plan

It is advisable for each country to have a sound and realistic economic and social development strategy. At this moment in history, Russia is going through more than one crisis, some of them imposed by the global economic situation and some obviously self-made. So, for this ailing society, a sound strategy...
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CULTURE / Art / Japan Pulse
Aug 21, 2015

Japan celebrates the GIFs that keep on giving

GIFs — which stands for graphics interchange format, don’t you know — have made the Internet an even more enjoyable place than before, and we have the receipts to prove it.
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BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 21, 2015

Economists cut Japan growth view again, widening gap with BOJ

Economists from Nomura Holdings Inc. to BNP Paribas SA lowered their forecasts for the economy this week, making the central bank's growth outlook for this year look increasingly optimistic.
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CULTURE / Entertainment news
Aug 21, 2015

Don't take my life, please, as Pakistan's comics roast nation's woes, try not to bomb, blaspheme

The crowd exploded into laughter as Pakistani comedian Shehzad Ghias Shaikh threw them his final punchline, gripping the microphone as he roasted the dating app Tindr and traditional South Asian family matchmaking.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 21, 2015

Trump's 'traitor' remark condemned by accused deserter Bergdahl's lawyer

The lawyer for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the former Taliban prisoner in Afghanistan charged with desertion, on Thursday chastised U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for calling his client a "traitor."
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 20, 2015

Job only half-done for Japan's working women

Women are entering Japan's workforce in greater numbers, but are still largely being shunted into low-paying, low-benefit jobs.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 20, 2015

'Female Viagra' seen more a pacesetter than moneymaker

The first U.S. treatment for low sexual desire in women, dubbed "female Viagra," is more likely to help build a market for better future rival drugs than achieve the sales seen for Pfizer Inc's famous little blue pill for men, industry experts said.
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BUSINESS
Aug 20, 2015

Worries over Chinese yuan put BOJ in a bind

China's devaluation of the yuan exposes an undefended flank in the Bank of Japan's efforts to jolt its flagging economy out of decades of deflation, which rely heavily on a solid pick-up in overseas demand.
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CULTURE / Film
Aug 19, 2015

'At Home' paints a terrible portrait of crime and family in Japan

So you want to make a movie about a happy family with a burglar dad, swindler mom and three smiling kids who have no problems with what their parents do for a living? Surely the obvious — indeed only — approach to a film like this is to make it a black comedy.
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CULTURE / Film
Aug 19, 2015

Animated antidotes to Pixar-Disney eye candy

Children's animated films, like just about everything else these days, are mostly created by a couple of mega-corporations. Some days it seems like the only animations out there are digitally rendered, hyperactive "Pix-ney" flicks filled with pop-culture wisecracks and supported by a $100 million budget....
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BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 19, 2015

Microsoft says Line's popular Rinna character is new way to engage customers

Microsoft is hoping to revolutionize the way that companies use messaging service Line to promote their products, with the help of an artificial intelligence program last seen posing as a high school girl.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 19, 2015

Immigration crackdown seen as paving the way for state to expel valid visa-holders

After successfully expelling visa overstayers over the past decade, Japan is now shifting its immigration control focus to a new target: people in the country on bogus visas.
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BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 18, 2015

Diamondbacks representatives help promote MLB Cup in Japan

Major League Baseball enlisted a little star power to help announce its latest youth initiative in Japan.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 18, 2015

Nursery schools in Japan face tough choices

Japan has to be careful that the growth in the number of nursery schools does not come at the cost of professional staffing.
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JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 18, 2015

Tepco faces mounting legal woes over Fukushima No. 1 meltdowns

Four and a half years after the Fukushima disaster started, and as the country tentatively restarts nuclear power elsewhere, legal challenges against the crippled plant's operator are mounting.
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MORE SPORTS
Aug 17, 2015

Bubka targets doping fight as IAAF's top priority

Former Olympic champion Sergey Bubka thinks the fight against doping is the main task facing whoever triumphs in Wednesday's IAAF presidential election, a vote he is still confident he will win.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 17, 2015

Japan's economy shrinks as consumption, investment fall

The economy contracted last quarter as consumers and businesses cut spending, putting pressure on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to return his focus to 'Abenomics.'
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ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 17, 2015

South Korea comes full circle in one generation as aging crisis looms

It was only 20 years ago that South Korea was so intent on population control that getting sterilized put young couples on the fast track for public housing. Even the army was in on the act, offering a free pass from annual military training to any man willing to shuffle off for a vasectomy.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 15, 2015

Growing influence of Japan Conference reflects resentment at Tokyo's postwar settlement with Washington

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in April delivered a speech to the U.S. Congress — the first by a Japanese leader — that lauded deepening trade ties and the military alliance with the United States.
JAPAN / View from Osaka
Aug 15, 2015

Antinuclear activists need injection of fresh ideas

One of the basic jobs of any journalist is to cover public demonstrations. Not only do they make for great stories, they also provide the reporter with a chance to play amateur social anthropologist by observing how the individuals and groups involved interact with each other, and the public, before,...
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JAPAN / History
Aug 14, 2015

Full text of Abe's declaration on 70th anniversary of the end of WWII

On the 70th anniversary of the end of the war, we must calmly reflect upon the road to war, the path we have taken since it ended, and the era of the 20th century. We must learn from the lessons of history the wisdom for our future.
JAPAN / History
Aug 14, 2015

Emperor's WWII surrender aired amid turmoil in wartime regime

It was a hot day in Tokyo with a daytime high of 32.3 degrees Celsius 70 years ago when Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa, declared Japan's surrender in World War II.
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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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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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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