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COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Apr 19, 2014

Unclear on the concept

Middle-aged woman: How do I get to that far intersection? This crossing only goes over there and it looks like I'd have to wait in the middle for another loop before the signal turns green?
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Apr 19, 2014

Good health keys Pena's torrid start

After hitting his ninth home run of the year a few hours earlier, Wily Mo Pena insisted there was nothing special behind his hot start to the year.
Reader Mail
Apr 19, 2014

Stigma comes with treatment for depression

This is in response to Michael Hoffman's April 13 Big in Japan column, " 'Big Pharma' manipulating the market? Now that's depressing." The role of pharmaceutical companies aside, we feel that the article does little to accurately discuss the complicated issue of depression and its treatment, or to dispel...
Reader Mail
Apr 19, 2014

Cultural rhetoric clouds policies

Regarding the April 16 article "Diet members dine on whale meat in defiance of ICJ ruling": Symbolizing the blatant bare-faced aggressiveness of the government, the report that Liberal Democratic Party members fed on their own hostility leaves a bitter aftertaste in the mouth.
Reader Mail
Apr 19, 2014

Does Japan think it has 'friends'?

It's small wonder that in the family of nations there are few countries today that would sincerely call Japan a "friend." Trade partner maybe, friend never.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 18, 2014

Hara delivers game-winning double in 10th against Lions

The Orix Buffaloes just keep finding ways to win games early in the season.
BASKETBALL / ONE-ON-ONE WITH ...
Apr 18, 2014

Aomori's Ocitti appreciates fans' unbridled support for first-year franchise

The Japan Times features periodic interviews with players in the bj-league. Stanley Ocitti of the Aomori Wat's is the subject of this week's profile
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Apr 18, 2014

Key adviser: GPIF should sell ¥25 trillion in JGBs

The world's largest retirement fund should seek to sell ¥25 trillion in Japanese government bonds as soon as possible, said the head of a panel that advised the government on overhauling pension investments.
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 18, 2014

GSDF to militarize remote Yonaguni

The government is sending 100 Ground Self-Defense Force members and radar to its western-most outpost, a tropical island off Taiwan, in a deployment that risks angering China with ties between Asia's biggest economies already hurt by a dispute over nearby islets they both claim.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / JAPAN WEB WATCH
Apr 18, 2014

Apps take new lead from social games

On Japanese TV, you may notice that a lot of commercials for smartphone social games emphasize the word muryō (free). Consumers have been purchasing digital content on their phones for years, even since the clam-shell cellphone days. Now, more and more Japanese people are migrating to the sort of smartphones...
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 18, 2014

Restoring balance to LBJ's presidential record

Although only 20 percent of polled Americans rate Lyndon B. Johnson an above-average president — a lower ranking than George W. Bush or Jimmy Carter — the 36th president left a civil rights and medical welfare legacy that changed the fabric of today's society.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 17, 2014

Casual pot use among young alters brain's motivation region: study

Young, casual marijuana smokers experience potentially harmful changes to their brains, with the drug altering regions of the mind related to motivation and emotion, researchers have found.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 17, 2014

Toyota ratchets up 'green car' race with 2015 fuel cell vehicle launch

In 1997, Toyota caught its competitors by surprise with the revolutionary Prius, the first commercially successful gasoline-electric hybrid car. Now it is trying to do the same with a technology that seems straight out of science fiction.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 17, 2014

Confronting unending lies

Perhaps what is most amazing and regretful about the situation in Russia is the nearly complete absence of truth and objectivity in the mass media covering Ukrainian events.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 17, 2014

Tortured POW meets his Japanese tormentor

"He is most interested in having contact with you for he has lived with many unanswered questions all these years, questions to which perhaps only you can help him to find the answers." So wrote Patricia Lomax in a letter sent from her home in England to Takashi Nagase, who at the time lived in Okayama...
MORE SPORTS
Apr 16, 2014

Japan makes changes for game against Philippines

The two veteran receivers who starred in Saturday's exhibition game against Germany are out, and a couple new faces are in as the Japan national team prepares to face the Philippines on April 26 in the Asian qualifying game for the 2015 world championship, the Japan American Football Association announced...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Apr 16, 2014

Obokata mentor, co-author: STAP cells just a ‘hypothesis’

Though evidence points to the existence of STAP cells, they are still only a hypothesis worthy of study, a co-author of the papers on the revolutionary but unproved method to create pluripotent stem cells says.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 16, 2014

Shibuya Station to be rebuilt

East Japan Railway Co. says it will start laying the groundwork for wholesale renovations of Shibuya Station in Tokyo that will take more than a decade to complete.
CULTURE / Stage
Apr 16, 2014

Could England's lead cultural agency offer a long-term template for Japan as a whole?

Arts Council England, generally referred to as the Arts Council, is a national agency which, in its own words, "champions, develops and invests in artistic and cultural experiences that enrich people's lives."
EDITORIALS
Apr 16, 2014

Avoid setting dangerous precedent

The Abe administration is trying to kill — by a mere Cabinet decision alone — a constitutional interpretation barring collective self-defense that has been backed by Diet debates for decades.
Reader Mail
Apr 16, 2014

Future disasters on Abe's hands

As a man living in a prefecture that hosts nuclear plants, Fukushima, I was very interested in the April 12 editorial "Energy plan looks to the past."
Reader Mail
Apr 16, 2014

Confused by energy conclusion

I am slightly confused over Jeff Kingston's April 6 Counterpoint article, "Lessons of Fukushima: Reactor restarts are unwise". It focuses on the findings of an online report by Kingston's colleague Kyle Cleveland, titled "Mobilizing Nuclear Bias: The Fukushima Nuclear Crisis and the Politics of Uncertainty."...
Reader Mail
Apr 16, 2014

High hopes for special schools

Regarding the April 10 article "Ministry funds programs to hone high schoolers": The idea of Japan's education ministry injecting money into specially designated schools in line with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's growth strategy is an interesting one that, I believe, has a great deal of potential.
Reader Mail
Apr 16, 2014

Pakistan's investment potential

We regret to observe that the March 29 Mai Yamani article titled "Saudi Arabia's diplomatic pilgrimage to Pakistan" is unfounded and based on speculation and conjecture.
Reader Mail
Apr 16, 2014

Don't judge Malaysia by tragedy

I worry that William Pesek's April 12 commentary on Malaysia, titled"How Malaysia can limit harm from lost Flight 370," is encouraging international readers to view the nation's strengths and weaknesses through the tiny prism of the lost Malaysia Airlines flight. Certainly let's call this situation what...
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Apr 16, 2014

Russia modifies Crimea playbook for benefit in east Ukraine

There are important differences between Russia's intervention in Crimea and the events unfolding this week in eastern Ukraine that suggest Moscow has adapted its Crimean playbook and may be pursuing a different outcome.
JAPAN
Apr 15, 2014

Hyogo blocks release of nuke crisis study data

Hyogo officials are blocking the release of data from a simulation run last year predicting what would happen to surrounding prefectures in the event of a meltdown crisis at one of Fukui Prefecture's four atomic plants.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 15, 2014

Stargazers see 'blood moon' in total lunar eclipse

Parts of the world saw a rare celestial event Tuesday when the Earth's shadow fell across the moon, turning it orange.
Japan's inheritance tax is high, unforgiving and sometimes avoidable
The National Tax Agency at the Ministry of Finance, Kasumigaseki, Tokyo. Japanese tax authorities can bill foreign residents in Japan for assets inherited globally.
The United States imposes 15% 'reciprocal' tariff on most Japanese goods
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the White House on Wednesday.
U.S. backtracks on Japan tariff calculation, taking effective rate lower
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's chief tariff negotiator, said the U.S. made a clerical error in not including a “reciprocal” tariff rate ceiling for Japan in the trade deal.
How Pakistan shot down India's cutting-edge fighter using Chinese gear
An Indian Air Force pilot gets out of a Rafale fighter jet during its induction ceremony at an air force station in Ambala, India, September 2020.
Biggest drop in Japanese nationals seen alongside record high in foreign residents
A street in Tokyo's Shinjuku district on Wednesday
Cheer with caution: Expert advises sports fans have game plan for extreme heat
A Cardinals fan fans himself during the seventh inning of a game against the Pirates in St. Louis, Missouri, in June 2022.
Australia's warship selection signals Japanese defense industry's arrival
The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mogami-class frigate. Australia's selection of an upgraded version of the Mogami-class warship for its next frigate class could prove to be a watershed moment for Japan’s defense industry.
Japan's inheritance tax is high, unforgiving and sometimes avoidable
The National Tax Agency at the Ministry of Finance, Kasumigaseki, Tokyo. Japanese tax authorities can bill foreign residents in Japan for assets inherited globally.
Will the movement seeking Ishiba’s resignation succeed?
Liberal Democratic Party youth division head Yasutaka Nakasone (center) and other members speak to reporters in Tokyo on July 25.
Photographer Bleg Bayraktar is winning social media with politeness
A video on Bayraktar's Instagram account of the Belgian photographer approaching an elderly worker in Tokyo's Shibuya has gone viral, garnering almost 9 million views.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Koichi Tagawa’s diary entry from Aug. 9, 1945, describes the day of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
The horrors of Nagasaki, in first person
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