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Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 20, 2018

I want to drink your blood: Vampire bat's genetic secrets revealed

If you want to know how vampire bats can survive on a diet that — as everyone knows — consists exclusively of blood, the answer is simple. It's in their genes.
BUSINESS
Feb 19, 2018

In apparent bid to woo voters, May launches review of high U.K. university fees, promising fairer deal

Britain could reduce the burden of university fees on students and bring back grants for their living expenses, Prime Minister Theresa May will say on Monday, under pressure to lure younger voters a year after they cost her parliamentary majority.
EDITORIALS
Feb 18, 2018

Brexit begins to bite Britain

Despite the promises of Brexit supporters that exit would benefit Britons, evidence is mounting that it will instead leave them much worse off.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 16, 2018

Longtime Harvard Japanese teacher Yori Oda dies at 82

Yori Oda, a decorated teacher who taught Japanese at Harvard University for 35 years, died earlier this month after a recent illness. She was 82.
COMMUNITY / Beyond Omotenashi
Feb 14, 2018

Rowdy tourists and grumpy monks of Mount Koya could do with a dose of Kukai's wisdom

Could the lessons of the sacred founder buried on Mount Koya bring harmony between foreign visitors and their local hosts?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 8, 2018

Thaw won't warm South Koreans to unity

Younger South Koreans are either apathetic about or hostile toward North Korea.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 3, 2018

Protein buildups in woodpecker brains may indicate damage — or protective mechanism

Slamming your head full force into a tree trunk could knock you silly. Yet woodpeckers do this untold thousands of times during their lives, and these birds have thrived for 25 million years.
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 1, 2018

Despite Trump's climate change denial, Pentagon says warming threatens half of U.S. military sites

Nearly half of U.S. military sites are threatened by wild weather linked to climate change, according to a Pentagon study whose findings run contrary to White House views on global warming.
BUSINESS
Jan 31, 2018

Coal firms plead to courts and Trump for West Coast export terminals amid snub by states

The ailing U.S. coal industry is ramping up its political and legal offensive to win approval for West Coast export terminals that could provide a lifeline to lucrative Asia markets.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 29, 2018

Japan's three structural challenges

To ensure its future prosperity, Japan must resolve its demographic, productivity and fiscal dilemmas.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 26, 2018

Israeli cave yields oldest Homo sapiens remains outside Africa, possibly dating back 194,000 years

A partial jawbone bearing seven teeth unearthed in a cave in Israel represents what scientists are calling the oldest-known Homo sapiens remains outside Africa, showing that our species trekked out of that continent far earlier than previously known.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 24, 2018

Water management is health management

Some 2.1 billion people worldwide lack access to safe, readily available water at home, severely undermining health outcomes.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jan 11, 2018

Dramatist Oriza Hirata has a vision for theater

Travel around around 150 km northwest from the hustle and bustle of Kyoto and another, far more peaceful world awaits in the compact onsen (hot-spring) town of Kinosaki nestled on the Sea of Japan coast in a quiet corner of the largely rural city of Toyooka in Hyogo Prefecture.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 10, 2018

Scientists point to Paris climate accord, say warming oceans could scupper marine food system

Failure to rein in global temperature rises could cause the marine food web to collapse, devastating the livelihoods of tens of millions of people who rely on fisheries for food and income, scientists have warned.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 8, 2018

Food science caught between the head and the heart

'Heart-healthy' foods could be bad for the brain, new research suggests. What's a careful eater to do?
JAPAN
Jan 7, 2018

Scholar plumbs postwar polls to challenge Japanese Constitution 'myths'

Shiro Sakaiya is an associate professor of political science at Tokyo Metropolitan University. His study has recently drawn keen attention from scholars and media people, as the constitutional revision advocated by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is likely to dominate the Japanese political scene throughout...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Dec 31, 2017

Riken-backed group targets hair changes as new way to gauge human health

A group including state-affiliated research institute Riken has started a joint study to develop technology to analyze human health based on changes in people's hair shape and components.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 30, 2017

Benjamin Franklin's guide to spotting quacks

Benjamin Franklin's classic test of 'mesmerism' was an early win for experimental psychology.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 27, 2017

Tokyo's Kabutocho financial district gets creative in bid to revive its quiet streets

It's a Monday night in late November and Ryutei Ichiya, a kimono-clad 34-year-old rakugo comic raconteur, is performing a skit in front of a crowd of over 100.
Japan Times
CULTURE / CULTURE SMASH
Dec 24, 2017

Foreign anime artists still face a long haul

In an interview with Buzzfeed two years ago, American animator Henry Thurlow, who had moved to Tokyo from New York six years earlier, summed up his dilemma. "When I was working as an animator in New York, I could afford an apartment, buy stuff and had time to 'live a life,'" he said. "Now (in Japan)...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Dec 23, 2017

Yokosuka native Haruna Kamezaki attains the American dream

Kamezaki was born in the mid-1980s and grew up in a household 'full of American records and movies, because my parents — and especially my dad — loved American culture.'
WORLD / Society
Dec 22, 2017

Over 220,000 women were groped, kissed, sexually harassed on French public transport in 2015-'16, crime agency finds

More than 220,000 women were sexually harassed on public transport in France over two years, the national crime statistics agency said in its first report on the subject, describing it as a "conservative estimate."
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 21, 2017

U.S. EPA says glyphosate not likely to be carcinogenic to people

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has said that glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto Co.'s top-selling weed killer Roundup, is not likely to be carcinogenic to humans, contradicting a World Health Organization panel.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 20, 2017

What the world can learn from Japan's factories

Countries hoping to revive their manufacturing sectors should look east for answers.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Dec 16, 2017

Solitary mosaic artist Takako Hirai chips away at expression

In a cramped studio in Ravenna, Italy, Takako Hirai runs her finger along the cracks in a mosaic artwork depicting dappled light in a park. The spaces between the tiles, she explains, determine the flow and movement of a mosaic, even more than the arrangement of the pieces themselves — as if meaning...
CULTURE / Art
Dec 12, 2017

Bohemia along the Sumida: In search of cultural capital

On paper, the Japanese government supports the arts, which are considered important vehicles for promoting Japanese culture globally, enhancing the country's image as a tourist destination and stimulating declining regional economies. But, where does the content for Japan's increasing number of art festivals...
Britain responds after Expo 2025 afternoon tea brews outrage
The café space at the Osaka Expo's British pavilion
Why are rice prices still high in Japan?
Amid shortages, the price of a 5-kilogram bag of rice during the week of April 14 was ¥4,220.
Inflation and high hotel prices curtail Golden Week travels
Travelers in front of a flight information panel in a departure hall at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on April 26
Police arrest man after body of ex-girlfriend found under his home
Hideyuki Shirai (center) at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Saturday
Japan ranks 66th in press freedom, lowest among G7
Japan climbed four positions from last year, with Reporters Without Borders noting that "the principles of media freedom and pluralism are generally respected" in the country.
Japan’s ‘tabi’ sock mecca runs on thread and memories
A seamstress at Kineya Tabi sews together split-toe "tabi" socks, once a major industry for the town of Gyoda, Saitama Prefecture.
Despite shifts in Japan's political landscape, constitutional revision still far off
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has been a staunch advocate for constitutional reform.
'Ukiyo-e in Play' showcases traditional art carved anew
The Adachi Institute has been working on creating brand new ukiyo-e prints in collaboration with contemporary artists such as Yayoi Kusama, whose “Mt. Fuji in Seven Colours: When life boundlessly flares up to the universe” (2014) can be seen on display at “Ukiyo-e in Play.”
Ishiba hears advice from across the aisle on how Japan should handle Trump
Prime Minister Shigaru Ishiba and CDP head Yoshihiko Noda at a parliamentary session in Tokyo on April 23.
Don't send in the clones: AI event nixed as Alt accounts get reality check
A screenshot from the website for Alt's AI conference, which was canceled after the company disclosed an investigation into its sales figures.

Podcast

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

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Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.
A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan
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