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Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Mar 9, 2015

Tokyo firebombing survivor fears Japan starting down road to war again

Katsumoto Saotome was 12 the night he ran for his life through a sea of flames, jumping over smouldering railroad ties along a train track as U.S. B-29 bombers rained incendiary bombs down around him.
EDITORIALS
Mar 8, 2015

Learning from a sunken battleship

The discovery of the sunken battleship Musashi — the Imperial Japanese Navy's biggest warship — by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen last week should serve as an opportunity for anybody to contemplate the real face of war.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 8, 2015

The guiding principles of economic prosperity

It would be a mistake to assume that Germany's economic performance vindicates its policymaking today, for its current economic dominance has been built on a policy framework that stands in direct opposition to that championed by the father of its post-World War II 'economic miracle.'
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Mar 7, 2015

The problems and pleasure of publishing the horrors of the 3/11 tsunami

At a symposium on "Trauma and Utopia" held in Tokyo in October 2014, photographer Naoya Hatakeyama talked about his work in the aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, a disaster that killed his mother and destroyed his home in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture. During this, he acknowledged...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Mar 7, 2015

Memories of Mount Qilai: The Education of a Young Poet

Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Mar 7, 2015

Maya Onoda: 'I am inspired by the spontaneity of stains'

Installation artist Maya Onoda on yoga, imagination and the spontaneity of stains
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Mar 7, 2015

Nemtsov's friends ask: Where were the police when he was shot?

When Boris Nemtsov was shot dead as he walked across a bridge next to the Kremlin, it took 11 minutes before a police car arrived at the scene, according to the time stamp on closed-circuit television footage.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FOCUS
Mar 7, 2015

Chasing Chinese planes 400 times a year stretches Japan's top guns

Fighter pilot Jun Fukuda sits edgily on the couch in his flight suit, waiting for the call that sends him sprinting to his jet. On any given day, he will chase and warn off Chinese military planes nearing Japanese airspace.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Mar 7, 2015

German parliament approves legal quotas for women on company boards

Germany's lower house of parliament passed legislation on Friday requiring major companies to allot 30 percent of seats on nonexecutive boards to women, and a new survey found that women remain grossly underrepresented in business life.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 6, 2015

Cabinet moves to put SDF officers, civilians on equal footing

The Cabinet approves historic proposals to weaken civilian control over the Self-Defense Forces by giving military officers equal footing with civil servants in planning SDF operations.
JAPAN
Mar 6, 2015

Abe presses forward on collective defense

The Abe administration proposed Friday amending the Self-Defense Forces Law to make it legal to exercise the right to collective self-defense, moving a step closer to the possibility that Japan will use military force even if it is not under direct attack.
JAPAN / Society
Mar 6, 2015

KDDI earns diversity award for Ladies Initiative Program

KDDI Corp. was recognized Friday for its female empowerment efforts, while Nissan Motor Co. saw its winning streak come to an end in the latest round of awards aimed at promoting diversity and inclusion in corporate Japan.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / HOME TRUTHS
Mar 6, 2015

Cheap rural homes come at a price

Though the hollowing-out of population in regional areas in Japan has become a major issue for the central government, it's been a problem for regional governments for more than three decades. Twenty years ago there was a popular promotional method called "I-turn," devised as a supplement to the "U-turn"...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society / FOCUS
Mar 6, 2015

In North Korea's war on smoking, Kim is no poster boy

North Korea executes officials and arbitrarily imprisons those seen as enemies of the state. Its citizens struggle to put food on the table.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 5, 2015

Parasophia to take Kyoto into the now

What goes through your head when you look at contemporary art? Standing in front of, say, Damien Hirst's shark in formaldehyde ("Is this art or taxidermy?"), Tracey Emin's bed ("Anybody could do that"), Jeff Koon's giant balloon-like poodles ("Kitsch," or "preemptive kitsch," as one critic called them)...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 5, 2015

Imagery that sings the praises of the musical

"They're Wooin' and Doin' the Things Boys and Girls Like to Do . . . ." This is the message of many of the posters made for Hollywood musicals currently being exhibited at the National Film Center in Tokyo. Liza Minnelli, Mitzi Gaynor and Gwen Verdon, among others, titillate with unfeasibly thin waists,...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 4, 2015

The End of the World and the Cat's Disappearance: A post-pandemic tale of a heroic webcam idol

At their best, films about the future — sci-fi, fantasy and anything in between — offer up mind-expanding speculations and deep-drilling allegories, if not necessarily accurate predictions. Hardly anything in Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" came to pass by 2001, but its vision of something...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 4, 2015

Frank

Director: Leonard Abrahamson Language: English
SOCCER / J. League
Mar 4, 2015

Gamba looking for more success after glittering 2014

Gamba Osaka surpassed all expectations by winning the treble last season, but manager Kenta Hasegawa believes there is still room for improvement in 2015.
EDITORIALS
Mar 4, 2015

Society failed to save Uemura

Educators, local government officials and police officers need to reflect deeply on what could have been done to prevent the murder of Ryota Uemura.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Mar 4, 2015

Kabuki icon takes Dazzle dancers to new levels

Street dance has been growing in popularity for years among younger generations in "Cool Japan," with displays often attracting crowds of passers-by.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 3, 2015

Jordan tried to toughen up teammates by playing rough in practice

This is the eighth installment from Hall of Fame writer Sam Smith's new book "There Is No Next: NBA Legends on the Legacy of Michael Jordan."
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Mar 3, 2015

Goal hero Yamagishi determined to keep Montedio up

Norihiro Yamagishi is happy to keep talking about the goal he scored to put Montedio Yamagata into last season's J. League promotion playoff final, but the goalkeeper would rather discuss what his team can achieve in its return to the first division.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 3, 2015

The challenge of China's dual-track economy

With China's economic slowdown more apparent than ever, its prospects for avoiding a hard landing are weakening.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 3, 2015

Fact takes post-hardcore to a rawer place on 'Ktheat'

It has been a year since post-hardcore group Fact released an artist photo with the six members' faces revealed. Before then, the band always wore traditional Japanese noh masks.
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’

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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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