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LIFE / Travel
Jan 7, 2017

Tokyo hotels luring guests with traditional approach

When Tokyo first hosted the summer Olympic Games in 1964, many Western-style hotels opened one after another to accommodate the increasing number of foreign visitors. Now that the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo is in sight, hoteliers have started to offer Japanese-style accommodation and hospitality for those...
EDITORIALS
Jan 6, 2017

A crucial year for Koike

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike's honeymoon period is drawing to a close and she must start producing policy results.
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JAPAN
Nov 18, 2016

Koike postpones decision on fate of Tsukiji relocation until summer

The governor says the relocation will take place sometime between winter 2017 and spring 2018, if it takes place at all.
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CULTURE / Film
Nov 3, 2016

Holocaust comedy snares grand prize at 29th Tokyo International Film Festival

Philippine trans people, Scandinavian reindeer herders and a romantic comedy about the Holocaust dominated the closing ceremony of the 29th Tokyo International Film Festival on Thursday.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 3, 2016

Hashimoto to be guest lecturer at Tokyo Gov. Koike's new political school

Nippon Ishin no Kai head and Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui confirmed that Toru Hashimoto, the former Osaka governor and mayor who helped found the Ishin movement, will be a speaker at the new political school founded last month by Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 17, 2016

Why hasn't the CEO of Takata Corp. been fired?

The longer Shigehisa Takada keeps his job, the more investors will roll eyes at claims Japan is 'open for business.'
BASKETBALL / B. League
Sep 23, 2016

Alvark rout Golden Kings, complete two-game series sweep

The Alvark Tokyo jumped out to a big lead in the first quarter and held on for a 74-53 victory over the Ryukyu Golden Kings on Friday night in the B. League.
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JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Sep 12, 2016

Aichi firm mining used gadgets to make Tokyo Olympic medals

Renet Japan Group Inc., a major dealer in second-hand goods based in Obu, Aichi Prefecture, is stepping up efforts to collect and recycle mobile phones and computers so it can forge Olympic medals out of recycled goods.
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JAPAN
Aug 30, 2016

Tsukiji fish market relocation facing delay by new Gov. Yuriko Koike

The famed Tsukiji fish market may not be moving to its new site in November after all.
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 31, 2016

Abe's tax debate is an ill-timed distraction

Raising the consumption tax would once again treat the symptoms of Japan's economic malaise, not the causes.
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JAPAN
May 18, 2016

Future of learning on display at Tokyo's Educational IT Solutions Expo

From robotics to virtual reality technologies to 3-D printers, advanced, cutting-edge technology was on display at this year's Educational IT Solutions Expo, which kicked off Wednesday in Tokyo's Koto Ward.
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LIFE / Lifestyle
Apr 23, 2016

Making hay while the sun shines: Should Japan adopt daylight saving time in summer?

How many times have you been jolted awake in summer at 4:30 a.m. by rays of sunlight streaming through your flimsy curtains? Conversely, how many sunsets have you missed because you've been stuck in an office until it's officially time to go home?
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Mar 26, 2016

Designer Jotaro Saito seeks to free the kimono from the confines of tradition

Jotaro Saito has been showcasing his kimono brand at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo since 2006, almost a decade before the eyebrow-raising appearance of X Japan frontman Yoshiki Hayashi's Yoshikimono brand at the event last October.
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COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Mar 9, 2016

Five years on, Fukushima evacuees voice lingering anger, fear and distrust

Some of the thousands of uprooted Fukushima residents speak out about the ordeal that began five years ago and continues to exact a toll to this day.
JAPAN
Feb 12, 2016

Tokyo's Ota Ward approves first short-term, Airbnb-style home rentals

An online travel service provider gets government accreditation to start renting out private homes on the model popularized by Airbnb.
COMMUNITY / Issues / JUST BE CAUSE
Jan 3, 2016

Battles over history, the media and the message scar 2015

A rundown of the top 10 human rights issues of the past year as they affected non-Japanese residents.
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LIFE / Lifestyle
Dec 24, 2015

Meiji Shrine: grounds to ring in the year

As a relatively new place of worship, established less than a century ago in 1920, Meiji Shrine was originally based around the concept of wakonyu014dsai — a belief that treasured the Japanese 'soul,' while still embracing influences from the West. Its unusual omikuji, therefore, is not the only unique feature of the shrine.
BUSINESS
Dec 8, 2015

BOJ dooms credit analysts as foreign banks let Tokyo posts lapse

Foreign brokerages are leaving credit analyst positions in Tokyo unfilled as record central bank bond-buying stimulus makes it hard for them to make profits.
JAPAN
Oct 28, 2015

Koto Ward office building eyed for children's 'English village' learning center

The idyllic-sounding "English village" planned by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government as a learning tool to help local children overcome their apprehension about speaking English may be erected in an office building in Koto Ward near the waterfront in 2018.
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JAPAN
Aug 28, 2015

Tokyo native looks to put innovation, not money, into creative sports open to all

While Japan looks forward to hosting the world's biggest and glitziest sports event five years from now, a Tokyo man is promoting a series of innovative, quirky sports that are played simply for the fun of it.

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past