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ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 10, 2016

Spyware attacks Vietnamese government sites amid South China Sea dispute

The spyware used in cyberattacks on Vietnam's major airports and national carrier last month is now also suspected of having bombarded many more official sites amid tensions with China over territory in the South China Sea.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 8, 2016

Nomura-Keio fund boosts investment target for domestic startups

Keio University and Nomura Holdings Inc. increased the fundraising goal for their venture-capital partnership by 50 percent to ¥15 billion after demand from Japanese financial firms during the first phase of financing exceeded expectations.
EDITORIALS
Aug 6, 2016

Ensure medical needs are met

The system for training doctors is worsening the disparity between medical care in urban and rural areas.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 25, 2016

The death of Turkish secularism

Will President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continue to pursue his authoritarian path or will he reach out to his opponents and attempt to bridge the deep fissures in Turkish society?
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 20, 2016

Police, judges, teachers among over 50,000 targeted in Erdogan purge after failed Turkish coup

Turkey vowed to root out allies of the U.S.-based cleric it blames for an abortive coup last week, widening a purge of the army, police and judiciary on Tuesday to universities and schools, the intelligence agency and religious authorities.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 18, 2016

Dhaka police nab four who rented property on sly to cafe attackers

Police in Dhaka on Saturday arrested three people and another on Sunday, including a university professor, for failing to register information about tenants renting property who later attacked a cafe in the city, killing 20 people.
EDITORIALS
Jul 16, 2016

Getting youths to the ballot box

Teachers and students alike should be encouraged to express their political opinions and discuss concrete issues while refraining from imposing their views on others.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 7, 2016

DeNA to launch driverless bus service in Chiba next month

DeNA Co., best known as a mobile video game maker, said on Thursday it will launch a driverless bus service at a park in Chiba Prefecture from next month.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices
Jul 6, 2016

Views from Tokyo: What do you think about the 'Brexit,' and how might it affect the future?

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COMMENTARY / World
Jul 6, 2016

Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel’s humble nobility

Elie Wiesel set himself just one task: to become the cenotaph of his countless mates in the death camps.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 1, 2016

Bureaucratic blockage in Japanese society

Japan has kept the external appearances of social dialogue, but politicians and managers have failed to adapt institutions to the new social realities.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Jun 30, 2016

Facebook rolls out suicide alert system for users in Japan

The tool offers a way for those in despair to be noticed and given a sympathetic ear.
Japan Times
JAPAN / THE JAPAN TIMES FORUM ON TICAD VI
Jun 30, 2016

Africa outlook seeing shift from assistance to investment

The sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) will be held in Nairobi on Aug. 27 and 28, where political and business leaders from around the world will discuss various issues facing the continent.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jun 21, 2016

Dramatist speaks up for the downtrodden and new thinking in Japan

Fifty-three year-old Oriza Hirata unexpectedly arrived early for our 9 a.m. interview in a Tokyo family restaurant one recent Sunday morning. Not only that, but the famed playwright and director turned up alone without the squad of minders such people's managers generally send along to stop them making...
LIFE / Language / COMMUNICATION CUES
Jun 20, 2016

Japan to take 150 Syrians as students

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says that Japan will accept 150 Syrians over five years, treating them not as refugees but university students.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 19, 2016

Why it pays off to hire women as managers

Research suggests that women can be better at making managerial decisions than men, a lesson Japan can benefit from.
JAPAN
Jun 18, 2016

Japan's first lady, Akie Abe, speaks her own mind

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has outlasted those that scoffed at his return to power as leader of the conservative Liberal Democratic Party in 2012. And yet while the prime minister appears to have established himself as an increasingly dominant force in domestic politics over the past decade, the most...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 15, 2016

'Irrational Man': The muddled world of Woody Allen

In the manner of Captain Renault in "Casablanca," I was shocked — shocked! — to find so much dialogue in a modern-day movie. But then "Irrational Man" is a Woody Allen venture and, apparently, Allen is unaware, or has chosen to ignore, that couples today do not talk incessantly with each other the...
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 13, 2016

Cloistered nun gets PhD in rocket engines

A nun in India has received a PhD for her study of scramjet engines, devices that can be used in space craft, news reports said.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 10, 2016

Kowtowing L'Oreal shows lure of Chinese market

Sacrificing values is the price multinationals pay to access China's growing market of middle-class consumers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 10, 2016

Computer programming seen as key to Japan's place in 'fourth industrial revolution'

The life of Emi Morikawa, 17, changed dramatically after she learned computer programming.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Jun 8, 2016

Views from Tokyo students: How will you decide how to vote in next month's election?

Hosei University students about the issues that could determine how they vote in July's House of Councilors election, the first in which Japanese 18- and 19-year-olds will be able to cast ballots.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 8, 2016

Google, ANA top workplace list for millennials; work-life balance also important: survey

Global internet giant Google, along with local firms All Nippon Airways and Toyota Motor Corp., have emerged as the ideal workplaces for Japanese millennial talent, according to a new survey that has spotlighted the nation's shifting work culture.
Reader Mail
Jun 3, 2016

Tread carefully on dual-use research

The article "Science panel rethinks arms R&D ban" in the May 31 edition noted that the "government is pushing for more civilian-military dual-use technology," which is an important and increasingly complex topic and one that requires careful rules and oversight before actions are taken.

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