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WORLD
Jun 11, 2015

Migrants race through Italy to dodge EU asylum rules

Last month, Dejen Asefaw was rescued with hundreds of other migrants in the Mediterranean Sea and brought to Sicily. The 24-year-old graduate from Eritrea, who endured forced military service and prison at home, hopes to be granted asylum in Europe.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 10, 2015

New twist in Hong Kong's democracy movement

Not only do many young people in Hong Kong no longer care about building democracy in China, they don't even care about China.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 10, 2015

Surviving flamboyantly in a super-aged society

The older you get, the more you need to live in the city. Simone de Beauvoir once said that to her biographer, and it's probably true. As an iconic presence on the streets of Paris until her death in 1986, de Beauvoir showed that city living was one of the secrets to aging well and living life to the...
JAPAN / Politics
May 27, 2015

Onaga leaves on U.S. trip to lobby against Futenma base relocation

Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga departed Wednesday for a 10-day trip to Hawaii and Washington, where he hopes to take his case against relocating U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to skeptical lawmakers, policy experts and the American public.
ASIA PACIFIC
May 25, 2015

China lodges complaint with U.S. over Spratlys spy plane flight

China said on Monday it had lodged a complaint with the United States over a U.S. spy plane that flew over parts of the disputed South China Sea in a diplomatic row that has fueled tension between the world's two largest economies.
Japan Times
Reference / SO WHAT THE HECK IS THAT
May 23, 2015

Change trays

Dear Alice,
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
May 20, 2015

Know the way of the sword, know thyself: a kendo primer

With Tokyo poised to host the world championships for the first time since the inaugural competition in 1970, here's all you need to know to get the most out of the bouts.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
May 14, 2015

Maya Inoue makes a play to refine her father's theatrical legacy

Hisashi Inoue's death at the age of 75 on April 9, 2010, at his home in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, was a major event in the postwar Japanese theater world. It moved many dramatists to stage works by the great author and playwright who combined comedy and searing social and political commentary into...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
May 11, 2015

A woman's job in Japan: watch kids, care for parents, work late

Hiromi Nakasaki remembers working past midnight on New Year's Eve and during holidays as a business systems consultant in Japan's notoriously harsh work environment. Last summer, at the height of her career, she quit.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
May 9, 2015

It's all fun and games until war breaks out

Not far from where I live is a kind of amusement park where you can play soldier. It has a lot of chain-link fences and gray structures that look like bombed-out buildings. On weekends, men, and sometimes women, dressed in camouflage and armed with replica air rifles, re-enact the kind of military operations...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
May 9, 2015

Micaela Braithwaite: 'Follow your intuition and it will lead you to the things you love'

YouTuber on sticky rice, the Japanese work ethic and being the 'mayor' of a ward in Fukuoka.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS / OLYMPIC NOTEBOOK
May 2, 2015

Vizer's attack may be costly

Playing political hardball with the IOC is not a winning proposition.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Apr 25, 2015

Ladybeard: 'Once you have decided exactly what you want to do, do it with everything you've got'

Ladybeard on Cookie Monster vocals and Japanese schoolgirl sailor outfits
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
CULTURE / Film
Apr 15, 2015

The trauma of becoming exceptional

Long before it won three Oscars and was nominated for best picture, "Whiplash" — about the mesmerizing and often inexplicable relationship between a music student and his demonically obsessive teacher— had created a big stir in Japan. Media darling and California-based film critic Tomohiro Machiyama...
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 14, 2015

In Russia, Hillary Clinton would already have lost

If Hillary Clinton had just announced her candidacy to run for president in Russia, rather than in America, she'd already be in deep trouble.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Apr 11, 2015

Josh Parkin: 'No matter what ... I'm right and you're wrong'

Luthier Josh Perkins on starting his own guitar-making business and sticking with his own excesses
EDITORIALS
Apr 11, 2015

Kids in poverty need better diet

The government is planning a nationwide survey on how income affects child health, but what it really needs to focus on is making sure kids in low-income households can eat properly.
CULTURE / Music
Apr 9, 2015

Charli XCX hits her J-pop groove

"I've tried to immerse myself in Japanese culture," says Charli XCX, international hit maker and Britain's next big pop-star-in-waiting. Of course, that's the sort of comment you might expect the 22-year-old to make on the eve of her first headline shows in the country this week, bringing her breakthrough...
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 8, 2015

Rand Paul can't change the Republican Party

Republicans have been the party of social conservatism, nationalism and free-markets, and that isn't going to change — no matter how well Rand Paul does next year.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 31, 2015

BOJ should play mysterious

Arguably no central banker in the world has been bolder and more aggressive about quantitative easing than Japan's Haruhiko Kuroda.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 25, 2015

Understanding the truth about medical consent

Obtaining patient consent is a vital but often overlooked skill for doctors.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Mar 23, 2015

Spare a thought for the Western men trapped in Japan

Japan can be the best place in the world for some, but for others it can be a trap — especially for Western men.
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Mar 22, 2015

Hanyu strives for second straight world title

Yuzuru Hanyu will attempt to become the first Japanese to win consecutive world titles this week after a most unusual past few months. The Olympic champion has been training without coach Brian Orser since the Japan nationals in December.
JAPAN
Mar 21, 2015

Security blanket: Should Japan beef up its anti-terrorism measures?

On Nov. 27, 2005, an unidentified terrorist group attacked the Mihama nuclear power plant on the Japan Sea in Fukui Prefecture, damaging the facility and creating fears of a radiation leak.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Mar 14, 2015

Japan still building for Premier 12, WBC

Atsunori Inaba knows a thing or two about the highs and lows of international competition.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 8, 2015

Cameron's disappearing act

A German newspaper is leading a chorus of cruel comments about how British Prime Minister David Cameron shines nowadays by his absence on the international stage.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 2, 2015

Terrorism is low on the list of dangers threatening Japan

The history of the U.S. and other Western democracies since the terrorist attacks of 9/11 has been a depressing tale of massive over-reactions to a very limited threat.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 28, 2015

Local Politics: Heading for extinction?

"All politics is local."— former U.S. House Speaker Thomas "Tip" O'Neill
JAPAN / Society
Feb 21, 2015

Apologizing in Japan: Sorry seems to be the hardest word

Dressed in a light-gray suit with her hair pulled back tightly into a bun, McDonald's Holdings Co. (Japan) Chief Executive Officer Sarah Casanova walked stiffly into a news conference on Feb. 5 and addressed a throng of reporters.

Longform

After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan