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Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jun 15, 2018

JAAF promotes Marathon Grand Championship as vital preparation for 2020 Olympics

Japan's runners who earn spots for the Summer Olympics will gain significant experience running on a nearly identical course during the trial for the 2020 Tokyo Games on home soil.
BUSINESS
Jun 15, 2018

Tokyo pushes surplus goal forward to 2025 fiscal year in latest economic policy outline

The move could further fuel concerns over the long-term fiscal soundness of the already debt-ridden national coffers.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 5, 2018

About that tritiated water: Who will decide and when?

Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant's storage tanks already hold 850,000 tons of contaminated water, the amount is rising daily and space is running out.
EDITORIALS
May 31, 2018

Face up to harsh reality of fiscal consolidation

As the government struggles to put together a credible road map to fiscal consolidation, the public should also grapple with the question of how the nation's fiscal health can be regained.
JAPAN / KANSAI PERSPECTIVE
May 27, 2018

Osaka frets over illegal minpaku ahead of G-20 summit

Imagine a headline splashing out news of tourists being killed by a fire at an illegal short-term lodging facility during the Group of 20 leaders' summit in Japan.
JAPAN / History / Defining the Heisei Era
May 26, 2018

Defining the Heisei Era: Japan indulges in excess

The Japan Times presents the first installment of a monthly 12-part series that looks back at the leading issues of the past three decades.
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BUSINESS / Companies
May 17, 2018

Sharp's lens unit CEO sees path to defying smartphone slowdown

The mobile phone industry may be in a midst of a slump, but a unit of Sharp Corp. is forecasting growth thanks to the race by smartphone makers to wow customers with high-quality photos.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
May 7, 2018

EU defense structure after Brexit starting to take shape

A broad European military strategy involving Britain after Brexit has started to take shape with France at its center, often in negotiations far from the Brussels spotlight and, in one top-level EU meeting, without the U.K. defense minister.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
May 7, 2018

Ichiro ahead of curve as usual in new position for Mariners

Ichiro Suzuki saw Shohei Ohtani coming.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 1, 2018

Countermeasures could cut impact of tax hike on households by ¥2.2 trillion: Bank of Japan

The financial impact on households of a planned October 2019 consumption tax hike could be reduced to ¥2.2 trillion if the government implements countermeasures, including lower tax rates for certain food items, according to the Bank of Japan's recent estimate.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 18, 2018

Bank of Japan likely to enjoy greater policy freedom if Abe quits, says former board member Kiuchi

The Bank of Japan will likely find it easier to make its inflation target less binding if recent scandals throw Prime Minister Shinzo Abe from power, according to Takahide Kiuchi, a former board member at the central bank.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Apr 15, 2018

Advice on HIV tests, Japanese pensions, rugby and reuniting with kids

Lifelines works through a selection of topics that have come our way recently.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 11, 2018

Good news is no longer unspeakable in Japan

The central bank has been too obsessed with reassuring investors that stimulus would continue.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 29, 2018

Airbus urges EU to let Britain stay in Galileo space project despite Brexit as U.K. firms face shutout

The chief executive of aerospace firm Airbus said Britain should not be frozen out of the European Union's Galileo space program after Brexit, calling on both sides to find a long-term solution in the interest of security.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 23, 2018

New post-Brexit British passport to be made by Franco-Dutch firm De La Rue

The new blue British passports that Prime Minister Theresa May called "an expression of our independence and sovereignty" after Brexit will be made by a Franco-Dutch firm, the boss of the British company which lost the contract said Thursday.
JAPAN
Mar 17, 2018

37% of Japanese public wants to know name of next era by year's end: survey

A recent survey shows 37.1 percent of the public believes the name of the era to be launched by Crown Prince Naruhito's accession to the Chrysanthemum Throne in 2019 should be announced by the end of this year.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional voices: Chubu
Mar 5, 2018

Chubu Electric tests mobile payment app as prelude to blockchain-based energy marketplace

Chubu Electric Power Co. has developed a mobile payment app for virtual currencies, and has started testing it in-house with employees using it to purchase coffee.
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 2, 2018

At Diet, Kuroda touches on exit strategy for easing once 2% inflation is reached

The central banking chief tells the Diet that 2 percent inflation might soon be within reach and that he is even toying with an exit plan.
LIFE / EVENTS AND INFORMATION
Mar 1, 2018

RWC ticket sales kick off

Applications for priority tickets have begun for the 2019 Rugby World Cup, to be held in Japan in September and October next year.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 27, 2018

Japan asks wrong question about Olympic Games

Only bold reforms, not sporting events, will ensure the big wins that Abenomics promises
JAPAN / Society
Feb 24, 2018

Cabinet adopts bills targeting hurdles to e-book use in schools

The Cabinet has adopted a bill that would allow digital textbooks to be used at elementary, junior high and high schools.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 24, 2018

U.S. ready to open Jerusalem embassy in May

The United States said on Friday it will open its embassy to Israel in Jerusalem in May, a move from Tel Aviv that reverses decades of U.S. policy and is bound to trouble U.S. allies that have already objected.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 21, 2018

More than 60 British lawmakers demand May deliver Brexit with full autonomy: BBC

More than 60 lawmakers in Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party have signed a letter demanding that she deliver a Brexit that ensures "full regulatory autonomy" for Britain after it leaves in March 2019, the BBC reported.
How Takaichi won the LDP’s leadership race
Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, poses in the party leader's office after the LDP leadership election in Tokyo on Saturday.
Asahi ships beer using paper and fax after ransomware attack
Drinks produced by Asahi at a liquor store in Tokyo. Retailers in Japan are warning customers of possible Asahi Super Dry beer shortages after a cyberattack paralyzed production and distribution at the major brewer.
Retro-wrapped trains mark 100th anniversary of Tokyo's Yamanote Line
Trains decorated to resemble the 103 (left) and 205 series of trains that formerly ran on the Yamanote Line, in Tokyo on Saturday.
Americans and Canadians unite in battling 'eating machine' carp
A Fisheries and Oceans Canada team patrols the Grand River in Dunnville, Ontario, in search of invasive grass carp specimens on Sept. 25.
Suzuki eyed for LDP secretary-general, reflecting Aso’s growing influence
Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi (center) speaks to reporters on Sunday after meeting Taro Aso, the party's supreme advisor, at the party's headquarters.
Takaichi, the LDP’s first female president, is far from an ‘overnight success’
Newly-elected Liberal Democratic Party chief Sanae Takaichi greets her fellow LDP members on Saturday at party headquarters.
‘We have drawn lessons,’ Indian Army chief says of brief clash with Pakistan
Indian Army chief Upendra Dwivedi waves as he arrives to attend the ceremonial reception of Defense Minister Gen Nakatani in New Delhi in May.
How a family-run landscaper turned the Osaka Expo green
The team at Ryokukou Garden consists primarily of a single family, including Toshiki Tanisaki (second from right), who led the company's efforts at the Osaka Expo, Chikako Tanisaki (fifth from right), who performs daily maintanence at the expo, and Takeshi Tanisaki (fourth from right), who added a nursery to the family farm more than 50 years ago.
Eat your balloons: The culinary theater of Grant Achatz comes to Tokyo
Avant-garde chef Grant Achatz and his team from Alinea are in Tokyo for a three-week residency.
Japan’s first foreign wine investor plants its roots in Hokkaido
Intrigued by Japanese wines, Burgundy winemaker Etienne de Montille decided to explore Hokkaido's wine scene, eventually setting up his outpost in Hakodate in 2017.

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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Growing families are being priced out of Tokyo’s condo market, forced to choose between downtown convenience and suburban space.
Is living in central Tokyo still affordable?
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