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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Sep 17, 2015

Experiencing autumnal delights; festival offers global cuisine, wine; fine food presented on fine porcelain

Experiencing autumnal delights
EDITORIALS
Sep 14, 2015

End the nuclear 'safety myth'

The International Atomic Energy Agency's final report on the Fukushima disaster provides a stark lesson on the need to avoid slipping into the same old 'safety myth' surrounding nuclear power.
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BUSINESS / 'SUMMER DAVOS' SPECIAL 2015
Sep 9, 2015

Comfortable, accessible city serves as 'gateway to Asia'

The city of Fukuoka, which the national government designates as a National Strategic Special Zone to attract global startups, is the perfect location for test marketing in Japan.
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Aug 28, 2015

International Sumo Federation needs major reform, new leadership

With all the recent hullabaloo over Tokyo's scrapped national stadium costing too much, and being an over-the-top architectural white elephant (a new stadium budget was unveiled on Friday), few in Japan noticed the decision of the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games to give...
EDITORIALS
Aug 26, 2015

Expanding sports for the disabled

Japan should strive to increase opportunities for disabled people to engage in sports.
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MORE SPORTS / THE DOPING EPIDEMIC
Aug 11, 2015

Conte says coverup protected big stars at Seoul Games

Years before he made the decision to 'go down the slippery slope,' and provide performance-enhancing drugs to elite athletes, BALCO founder Victor Conte, a standout triple jumper in high school, made a name for himself as a self-made expert.
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COMMUNITY / Issues / LAW OF THE LAND
Aug 9, 2015

Is Japan equipped to handle historic decisions that cost lives, limbs and loved ones?

Perhaps calendars should indicate not just holidays, but the dates on which important people in our collective pasts made decisions that caused tremendous harm.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 3, 2015

Beijing to limit cars, factories to ensure clean air for war anniversary

Beijing will limit the number of vehicles on the streets and shut factories to ensure clean air during a commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, the government and media said Monday.
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JAPAN / GENERATIONAL CHANGE
Aug 2, 2015

Getting Japan's youth engaged in disaster preparedness

Even though earthquake-prone Japan has seen numerous warnings that massive, devastating temblors could strike at any time, including in the Tokyo metropolitan area and in the Nankai Trough off the Pacific coast, data shows the nation's youth don't seem to have the same sense of preparing for a disaster...
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SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Jul 28, 2015

Kajikawa using power of sport to improve society

In the increasingly cynical world we live in it seems like true believers are becoming a dying breed. The cold, hard reality of everyday life having taken a toll on optimism and enthusiasm.
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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jul 23, 2015

Flying high at Haneda Excel Hotel; Ritz-Carlton, Osaka offers fun for kids; art at ANA Crowne Plaza Nagoya

Flying high at Haneda Excel Hotel
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CULTURE / Stage
Jul 21, 2015

Performing arts poised to bloom at ETAT 2015

The sixth Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale is set to start July 26 in Tokamachi City and Tsunan Town in Niigata Prefecture, north-central Honshu.
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JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jul 11, 2015

Dark humor won't shield us for much longer

'I hope," read an email from a colleague boarding an Osaka-bound shinkansen in Tokyo last week, "nobody sets himself on fire."
JAPAN
Jun 24, 2015

Japanese city in a dance over pop band that criticized ruling LDP

The municipal government in Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture, is retroactively withdrawing support for a public event after an all-girl pop group performed a song that criticized the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 15, 2015

Will Japan repeat past errors?

A repetition of events in the 1930s is inconceivable but there is much about politics in Tokyo to cause alarm.
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WORLD / Politics
Jun 14, 2015

Clinton courts working Americans at first major presidential campaign rally

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton promised on Saturday to fight for a fairer society for ordinary Americans, staking out a place on the left to cut off any budding challenge for the Democratic nomination.
JAPAN / Media
Jun 12, 2015

Times advisory board meets, offers recommendations

COMMENTARY / World
Jun 8, 2015

Washington should offer to talk to Pyongyang

The possibility of division and dissension in Pyongyang gives Washington a new reason to suggest direct discussions without preconditions, but with the prospect of benefits for a change in direction.
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CULTURE / Books
Jun 6, 2015

Inspiring story of 'the only woman in the room'

"My father came to Tokyo from Karuizawa to meet me," wrote Beate Sirota Gordon in a message to me, which she sent several years before her death in 2012 at age 89. "He looked gaunt and undernourished. ... My mother did not come because undernourishment had caused her to swell up, and she was ill in bed....
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 6, 2015

China says U.S. calls for Tiananmen accounting are 'unprovoked accusations'

China criticized the United States on Friday for "unprovoked accusations" in calling on Beijing to account for the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on prodemocracy protesters.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 3, 2015

FIFA needs a total overhaul

Soccer finds itself in the gravest crisis of its history, and FIFA must be reconstituted from scratch if the beautiful game is to thrive.

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A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami