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JAPAN
Oct 24, 2018

David Rockefeller Jr., scion of powerful U.S. family, calls for action from Japan to improve health of oceans

Japan is moving in a positive direction on its fisheries policy and ensuring the marine ecosystem remains sustainable, said David Rockefeller Jr., an environmentalist and a descendant of one of the most influential business families in the United States, but he noted in an interview with The Japan Times...
JAPAN
Oct 24, 2018

Tokyo confirms Japanese journalist Jumpei Yasuda released after three years of captivity in Syria

The government officially confirmed Wednesday that a man believed to be Japanese journalist Jumpei Yasuda, who was captured by an armed group in Syria three years ago and is now in Turkey, is indeed the kidnapped freelance reporter.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 23, 2018

Ai Fukuhara decided it was right time to step away

There were no traits of a crying baby. Instead of shedding tears, which was her trademark in childhood, Ai Fukuhara kept smiling and repeated the words of appreciation as the 29-year-old table tennis icon spoke to the media on Tuesday, two days after announcing her retirement from competition.
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JAPAN / Internationalization of Japanese Universities
Oct 22, 2018

Waseda's focus on diversity nurtures compassion, mutual respect

Japan often calls itself a shimaguni, or an island country. This is not only due to its physical landscape but it also incorporates the notion of the nation being culturally and ethnically homogeneous. Moreover, Japaneseness, including the ability to read between the lines, is an attribute innate to...
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JAPAN / Internationalization of Japanese Universities
Oct 22, 2018

Timing ripe for pursuing higher education in Japan

There they go, gliding through conversations in flawless Japanese with ease, catching the locals' jokes, even making their own. It all seemed so effortless for them and there I was, struggling away trying to string together a semi-coherent sentence. Just as I had aligned all that tricky grammar into...
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CULTURE / Film
Oct 17, 2018

'Passage of Life': A family drama that treats refugees with respect

Hollywood films about the immigrant experience are common enough (see "The Godfather" and other classic gangster movies for examples), while Japanese films on the same topic are rare, save for those about Zainichi (ethnic Koreans) in Japan. (Among the best is Zainichi director Yoichi Sai's "Blood and...
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CULTURE / Film
Oct 17, 2018

'It's Boring Here, Pick Me Up': A rural road movie with no destination

What passes for countryside in Japan is often a vast sprawl of low-rise development: chain restaurants, big-box stores, gas stations and pachinko parlors. While there's no shortage of films that have tried to capture the ennui of life in such areas, the results are often as uninspiring as the locations...
Oct 17, 2018

TSUNEISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES (CEBU) Gives Support to Landslide-stricken Area in Naga City on Cebu Island

TSUNEISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES (CEBU), Inc. (Abbr.: THI; Location: Balamban, Cebu, Philippines; President: Akihiko Mishima) donated relief supplies to Naga City on Cebu Island, which suffered severe damage due to large-scale landslides that occurred on September 21.
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BUSINESS / INSIDER REPORT
Oct 16, 2018

Reflecting the nation's history, 'sōgō shōsha' are unique to Japan

The sōgō shōsha's organization and business model is unique to Japan. This is, for the most part, because they are a reflection of Japan's own unique economic development, first during the Meiji Restoration's period of rapid industrialization and commercialization aimed at building a strong military...
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BUSINESS
Oct 14, 2018

Japanese tech CEO behind popular 'Monster Strike' in search of new hit

Five years ago, Koki Kimura pulled off an unthinkable turnaround to save his company. Now, he's trying to do it again.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Oct 13, 2018

Natural disasters shake the nation to attention in 2018

You wake to pitch blackness, the house shaking crazily. Nightmare? Yes — a waking one. "Where are my glasses?" You're helpless without your glasses. The shaking gets worse.
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JAPAN / Regional Voices: Okinawa
Oct 12, 2018

Public and private sectors push to revive Okinawa's struggling awamori industry

With young people apparently finding Okinawa's awamori liquor less appealing, the industry has been hit with a decline in shipments for 13 consecutive years.
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ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Oct 12, 2018

As groundwater levels plunge, Lahore begins turning off the taps

Five mornings a week, Saima Azeem helps her children wash and prepare for school. But this week has been different: She has had to use her few bottles of drinking water to get them ready.
EDITORIALS
Oct 11, 2018

Chinese Interpol chief goes missing

China's detention of Interpol Chief Meng Hongwei shows nothing takes precedence over the Chinese Communist Party's self-perceived need to protect itself. Governments around the world, including Tokyo, must take note.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 9, 2018

Students hoping to see friends as they return to school in quake-hit Indonesian city

Children in the Indonesian city of Palu began returning to school on Monday to tidy up their classrooms and hopefully see their friends 10 days after a major earthquake and tsunami struck.
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JAPAN / Media / DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN
Oct 7, 2018

Beware of the ¥10 million business card

Business cards carry a lot of weight in Japan, so much so that they can be used to devastating effect if someone decides to deploy them for criminal purposes.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Oct 6, 2018

Hitomi Hosono: Seeing it all in blue and white

With her unusual approach to traditional sprig designs, Japanese ceramicist Hosono is helping change the face of Wedgwood.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 4, 2018

Foreign aid picks up for desperate Indonesian quake survivors

International efforts to help survivors of Indonesia's devastating earthquake and tsunami gathered pace Thursday as concern grew for hundreds of thousands with little food and water, six days after disaster struck.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 3, 2018

Time running out in search for survivors of Indonesia's quake and tsunami

Time was running out for anyone trapped in the rubble of a devastating earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia on Wednesday, five days after disaster struck, while increasingly angry survivors waited for an aid operation to move into high gear.
JAPAN / History / Defining the Heisei Era
Sep 29, 2018

Defining the Heisei Era: When Japanese games went global

The Japan Times presents the fifth installment of a monthly 12-part series that looks back at the leading issues of the past three decades.
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CULTURE / Books
Sep 29, 2018

Dirt and difficulty: Life as the wife of a Buddhist monk

Tracy Franz's poignant memoir, 'My Year of Dirt and Water,' is full of carefully observed details. Organised by the season and dated like a diary, Franz delves into the solitary year she spent in Japan while her husband was cloistered in a Zen monastery.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / NATURE'S PANTRY
Sep 29, 2018

Bringing shottsuru fish sauce back from the brink of extinction

Shottsuru is a fish sauce made from sandfish in Akita Prefecture. When its commercial production plummeted in the early 1990s, one man made it his mission to revive the local product.
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JAPAN
Sep 28, 2018

U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber sent over East China Sea and Sea of Japan in training with ASDF

The U.S. Air Force has sent a B-52 bomber over the East China Sea and Sea of Japan for a large-scale training mission involving 16 Air Self-Defense Force fighter jets, both countries' militaries said Friday.

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Mount Fuji is considered one of Japan's most iconic symbols and is a major draw for tourists. It's still a mountain, though, and potential hikers need to properly prepare for any climb.
What it takes to save lives on Mount Fuji