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Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Sep 16, 2017

Documentary filmmaker Megumi Sasaki learns to live in the moment in New York

For a long time Megumi Sasaki felt that something did not quite fit.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Sep 16, 2017

Fukuoka street stall offers a du jour taste of Europe

Every evening at around 5:30 p.m. in Fukuoka, a curious transformation takes place along the city's main boulevards. Out of secluded parking lots and closed-off garages, wooden food carts emerge, pulled through the streets by their owners to selected locations across the city.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 15, 2017

Russia is an emerging superpower in food supply

Climate change is opening up vast regions in Russia to farming.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 7, 2017

'Congestion pricing' eyed to ease traffic in top tourist spots

The transport ministry plans to test "congestion pricing" in four municipalities with major tourist attractions, including Kyoto and Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture.
CULTURE / Art
Sep 5, 2017

'The Living Treasures of France'

Sept. 12-Nov. 26
BUSINESS
Sep 1, 2017

U.S. charges Chinese-Canadian found at medical tech firm with trade secret theft

A dual citizen of China and Canada has been arrested and charged with trying to steal trade secrets from a Massachusetts-based manufacturer of robotic surgical products by trespassing at its headquarters.
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2017

America-Japan Society recognizes lifetime contributions by U.S., Japanese citizens with new award

The America-Japan Society Inc. recognized on Thursday two people for their grassroots work to foster bilateral friendship between Japan and the United States, honoring the recipients — citizens from each of the two countries — with a new award launched this year.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Aug 31, 2017

Chinese fare on fine china a treat for the senses

Through Sept. 30, The Peninsula Tokyo, in partnership with luxury French porcelain brand Legle France, is offering "RUYI Gastronomy," a contemporary Chinese tableware service and dining experience in its signature Hei Fung Terrace Cantonese restaurant.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Aug 28, 2017

Nagoya group looks to turn disposable diaper waste into fuel

Three men whose companies are involved in the manufacture and sales of disposable diapers — the use of which is expected to increase with the aging population — have started an association in Nagoya to research ways to turn them into fuel.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Aug 28, 2017

An unlikely hurricane hero takes over chaotic Texas storm shelter

When state emergency authorities pulled into the storm shelter in the small city of Rockport, Texas, on Saturday, they asked the obvious first question: Who's in charge here?
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Aug 27, 2017

Japanese design makes its name at home and overseas

In Japanese fashion this month, we see two local designers embarking on international careers by taking over one of Italy's most well-known brands, along with a new two-day fashion and lifestyle market in Harajuku, with attractions for the whole family.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 26, 2017

Reconnecting with our nature: teamLab's digital revolution

An interactive art collective wants us all to connect and experience a world without boundaries.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2017

Government opens multilingual web portal to unify disaster information ahead of Olympics

Accessing reliable information in the aftermath of a disaster is not easy, especially in an era where vast quantities of information are scattered across the internet.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 24, 2017

As Syria's battlefields shrink, U.S. and Russia military hotlines hum

Even as tensions between the United States and Russia fester, there is one surprising place where their military-to-military contacts are quietly weathering the storm: Syria.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 22, 2017

Take a journey into the art of darkness

Terror and tragedy are widely considered entirely disagreeable in principle. But audiences have for millennia taken pleasure in the pain of narrative spectacles in the arts. Fear is popular because it arouses curiosity in addition to revulsion. So, too, does the assemblage of Western works from the 16th...
CULTURE / Art
Aug 22, 2017

'Uemura Shoen and Quintessential Bijinga, Paintings of Beautiful Women'

Aug. 29-Oct. 22
CULTURE / Art
Aug 22, 2017

'Autumn Exhibition: Decorated Urushi — The Beautiful World of Gold and Silver on Black Lacquer'

Sept. 2-Oct. 15
JAPAN
Aug 22, 2017

Osaka's ancient burial mounds eyed for World Heritage status but clear explanations elude

The government's decision in late July to nominate a group of 49 ancient burial sites in southern Osaka Prefecture for UNESCO World Heritage status has raised local hopes for a major boost in international prestige and tourism appeal.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Aug 21, 2017

Japanese war memorabilia pile up at museums, while online auctions of artifacts remain unregulated

More and more people whose relatives lived through World War II are donating inherited personal items to peace memorial museums throughout Japan. Such artifacts offer a lens through which visitors are afforded view of Japan's wartime experience. But many museums face difficulties, including insufficient...
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 21, 2017

Chase cars used to 'catch' American U-2 freshly back from spy mission

It may not sound possible to "catch" an American spy plane while driving a Dodge Charger. But that's precisely what we did on a sweltering August afternoon at Al Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Aug 19, 2017

Gachapon: Tracing the evolution of Japan's colorful toy capsules

Where else but Japan could you buy a miniature version of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" figure crouching over a squat toilet, horror-struck? It's one of thousands of ingeniously designed trinkets you can buy for a pittance from toy machines across the nation. They're subversive, beautifully crafted and...
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Aug 16, 2017

Famed artist Yayoi Kusama to open her own Tokyo museum

Yayoi Kusama, avant-garde artist world-renowned for her obsessive polka dot and net paintings, is opening a museum in the center of Tokyo this fall, the new museum said on its website.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Aug 9, 2017

Of guns and cutlery: Memories of the war, from the Netherlands to Japan

A chance rediscovery leads an author to reflect on the lessons to be learned from the devastation of two continents.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 9, 2017

Budding inventors find encouragement in Sony's Seed Accelerator Program

Sony Corp., which is emerging from five years of brutal restructuring that gutted its workforce and product lineup, wants to show off a few new things.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 8, 2017

'The Botanical Illustrations of Kawahara Keiga: From the Collection of the Russian Academy of Sciences Library — Japan through the Eyes of Siebold'

Aug. 5-Sept. 24
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Aug 5, 2017

George Tokoro: 'An unreliable vintage car will teach you patience'

Singer-songwriter and comedian George Tokoro is no stranger to vintage cars. A self-proclaimed "car guy," he is famous not only as one of the most familiar faces on Japanese television, but also for being one of the country's most high-profile evangelists of automotive culture.
Japan's cutting-edge railgun successfully strikes target vessel
The Defense Ministry’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) conducted a ship-board railgun shooting test from June to early July this year with the support of the Maritime Self-Defense Force.
Thousands without power in Tokyo as heavy rain batters Kanto region
Heavy rain hit Tokyo and surrounding areas Thursday afternoon, causing thousands to lose power, prompting flood warnings, grounding flights and causing transportation issues.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
JAL reprimand over drunken pilots adds to airline’s woes
Japan Airlines President Mitsuko Tottori (right) bows in apology Wednesday in Tokyo over the company's pilots causing flight delays due to drinking alcohol.
‘Fairytale’ Shirakawago ranked one of the world’s most beautiful villages
Forbes and Unforgettable Travel Company have ranked Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture as Asia's most beautiful village.
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.
Shizuoka farmers fight to preserve sustainable tea method that’s steeped in tradition
As of August 2024, the number of confirmed chagusaba farmers had fallen to 302, just over half the 582 reported in 2015, according to the Shizuoka Chagusaba Farming Method Promotion Council.
Search is on for loopholes in Japan’s $550 billion investment pledge
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick argues that U.S. President Donald Trump has sole authority to invest Japan's promised $550 billion.
In rural Hokkaido, the stops and starts of tourism revival on full display
Redevelopment plans for Kawayu Onsen have hit some snags — an example of how bringing tourists back to declining rural communities is far from easy work.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight
By Mai Yoshikawa

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