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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 26, 2018

Is Japan heading for a leadership vacuum?

The lack of an LDP heir apparent and the absence of a credible opposition force means that Japan may face a leadership vacuum when Abe's tenure ends.
EDITORIALS
Sep 26, 2018

Keeping elderly workers in the labor force longer

if society needs its senior citizens to work longer, an overhaul of the system for their employment should be carried out.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 26, 2018

Trump's U.N. speech almost adds up to a doctrine

The U.S. president makes his best case yet for the importance of American sovereignty.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Sep 26, 2018

Views From Tokyo: What is it that makes someone — like Naomi Osaka — Japanese or not?

In the wake of Naomi Osaka's historic triumph in the U.S. Open, The Japan Times asked people what they think makes a person Japanese. Is it parentage, language, culture or a combination of factors?
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2018

'Outrageous prejudice': Publisher suspends publication of Shincho 45 following furor in LGBT community

Shinchosha Publishing announced its Shincho 45 magazine will effectively fold after carrying articles that its president said contained “outrageous prejudice” against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Sep 26, 2018

Seiko Oomori: J-pop's reigning rule-breaker

Pop music often opts for positivity rather than confronting the uncomfortable, but Seiko Oomori has never really adhered to J-pop norms.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 26, 2018

'My Dad is a Heel Wrestler': A body-slamming celebration of a spandex brotherhood

Movies about pro-wrestling seldom star actual pro wrestlers. Instead we get Mickey Rourke ("The Wrestler") or Ryuta Sato ("Gachi Boy: Wrestling with a Memory"). But the ascent to Hollywood stardom of Dwayne Johnson, who wrestled professionally as "The Rock," has inspired New Japan Pro-Wrestling, Japan's...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Sep 26, 2018

Declaring an end to the Korean War: A possible — and controversial — next step in denuclearization talks

U.S. President Donald Trump spoke of "a bold and new push for peace" with nuclear-armed North Korea during his speech before the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, in a hint at the direction his administration is heading as he gears up for a second summit with Kim Jong Un.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 26, 2018

Free trade and strengthening ties: Abe's speech to U.N.

The following is a translation provided by the Foreign Ministry of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's address to the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 26, 2018

Okinawa residents urged to vote in advance of Sunday's election with Typhoon Trami on the way

With Typhoon Trami predicted to pass over Okinawa Prefecture this weekend, candidates for Sunday's gubernatorial election are making efforts to get voters to the polls early out of concern over the effect the storm could have on the final result.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 26, 2018

Elon Musk's SpaceX secures second Japanese client for lunar rover mission

Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp. signed its second Japanese customer in as many weeks — but the payload this time will be lunar rovers rather than a group of space tourists.
Japan Times
Sep 26, 2018

TSUNEISHI SHIPBUILDING Launching Ceremony Will Open to the Public on November 28th, 2018

TSUNEISHI SHIPBUILDING Co., Ltd. (HQ: 1083 Tsuneishi, Numakuma-cho, Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Japan; President: Kenji Kawano) scheduled its next launching ceremony which will be open to the public.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 26, 2018

Carlos Ghosn vows to stay as Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance nears a crossroads

Carlos Ghosn, who built the three-way union of Renault, Nissan. and Mitsubishi Motors, said overseeing the group is a job he isn't looking to relinquish.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2018

Shrinking applicant pool: Japan's Self Defense Forces struggling to recruit amid population crisis

As a Self-Defense Forces recruiter sat patiently at a booth outside a supermarket in Tokyo one recent weekend, she welcomed a rare visitor, high school student Kazuaki Matsumura.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2018

Google, Facebook and Twitter agree to code of conduct to fight fake news in EU

Alphabet Inc.'s Google, Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and other tech and advertising companies have committed to implementing new measures and investing in new technologies to fight the spread of hoax news online in Europe, according to a draft of the agreement.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Sep 26, 2018

In polluted city above Russian Arctic Circle, prisoners of Putin's pension reform

Russian railway worker Andrey Bugera had a singular goal: get to pension age so he can leave the polluted, frigid coal mining town above the Arctic Circle where he works and move south to live out even a brief bit of retirement in comfort.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2018

Jeff Sessions hears from states on privacy threat from tech firms amid alleged bias

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with a group of state attorneys general on how to protect consumers from dominant technology companies, though they didn't decide to open an investigation.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 26, 2018

Trump calls allegations against his top court nominee a 'con game being played by the Democrats'

President Donald Trump, fighting to shore up his nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court in a divided U.S. Senate, on Tuesday called sexual misconduct allegations against the judge "a con game being played by the Democrats."
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2018

Japan and U.S. agree to expanded trade framework ahead of Abe-Trump summit

Japan and the United States agreed on Tuesday to create a framework for expanding trade between the two countries.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 25, 2018

Buffaloes manager Junichi Fukura won't lead team next season

Junichi Fukura will step down as manager of the Orix Buffaloes at the end of this season, the 58-year-old revealed Tuesday.
EDITORIALS
Sep 25, 2018

Trump ups the ante in trade war

A trade fight between the world's two largest economies will be titanic, with spillover effects no matter how it is resolved.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 25, 2018

Thucydides's fallacy, not a trap

The real question is not whether China poses a strategic threat to the United States, but whether Washington has a consistent and realistic strategy to deal with Beijing.
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Sep 25, 2018

Yuzuru Hanyu and Rika Kihira top podium in season debuts

Yuzuru Hanyu and Rika Kihira continued Japan's winning ways over the weekend by claiming the Autumn Classic International and the Nepela Trophy in varying fashions.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 25, 2018

The hard work of constructing a Liberalism 3.0

A look back by The Economist shows that the problem is not the past, it's the future.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 25, 2018

How China is losing the world

Beijing's overreach risks creating a well-spring of resistance to its global ambitions.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 25, 2018

Japan's economy is starting a new chapter

Look what happened over two decades while the world was distracted by China.
Workers say corporate South Korea was warned about questionable U.S. visas before Hyundai raid
Activists holding signs that reads "No one is illegal!" protest against a huge immigration raid last week in the U.S. state of Georgia, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on Tuesday.
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.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Goldman sells Tokyo office area to JR East for over ¥50 billion
GranTokyo South Tower (center). East Japan Railway has bought the 14th to 18th floors of the office building at a price of more than ¥50 billion from Goldman Sachs Group.
Ed Sheeran teams up with Tokyo’s Oedo Line
The “Oh! Ed! Collaboration Campaign,” launched on Tokyo's Keio Line to celebrate the Friday release of Ed Sheeran’s latest album, “Play,” includes a eight-car train dedicated to the pop star's music and trivia related to his career
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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