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Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 7, 2015

'Sayoko Yamaguchi: The Wearist, Clothed in the Future'

April 11-June 28
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Apr 4, 2015

Bouldering, a remedy to climbing the walls

I emerged from Mitake Station, on the Ome Line, just after 10 a.m. on a Sunday morning amid a throng of day-tripping hikers easily identifiable by their heavy boots, seam-busting backpacks and seemingly standard issue trekking poles.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Apr 3, 2015

Pigeondust seeks out the story in a sample

When Chiba-based hip-hop producer Yuta Yamaoka, better known as Pigeondust, isn't busy flipping through crates of dusty vinyl at used record shops, he's at home dissecting and connecting bits and pieces of sounds, lifted from those records.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Mar 31, 2015

Translation tech gets Olympic push

Japan may not be the best in the world when it comes to speaking English, but it remains a pioneer in developing cutting-edge translation technology.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 30, 2015

Tunisian forces kill nine militants, including suspected museum attack plotter, before world leaders attend 'Bardo' march

Tunisia forces killed nine Islamist militants, including a top commander, during a raid late on Saturday, the government said, hours before world leaders were due to march in Tunis in solidarity after an attack on the Bardo museum this month.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos
Mar 22, 2015

So you want to be a really smart shopper? Look stateside

"Never buy anything unless it is on sale!" — that's the first rule of an American shopper.
CULTURE / Books
Mar 21, 2015

Mendeleev's Mandala

"Mendeleev's Mandala" is the most recent collection of poetry from Kansai-based writer Jessica Goodfellow.
CULTURE / Books
Mar 21, 2015

Lizard Telepathy Fox Telepathy

After randomly reading some pieces in this esoteric collection of poems and photography by Yoshinori Henguchi one might question why they picked up the book to begin with, or even their own existence.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 19, 2015

Tunisia attack shatters nation's image among Japanese as safe travel destination

The death of three Japanese and wounding of three others at the hands of armed gunmen wearing military uniforms shattered the image among many Japanese of Tunisia as a comparatively safe tourist destination.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 18, 2015

Nissan's 600-horsepower, $150,000 GT-R tops insurance costs

When it comes to auto insurance, speed costs.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 16, 2015

Suspect, 20, charged in shooting of Ferguson police officers

A 20-year-old man was charged on Sunday with first-degree assault for last week's shooting of two police officers during a protest in the troubled city Ferguson, Missouri, a crime that fueled a national debate on race and policing.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Mar 14, 2015

Japan still building for Premier 12, WBC

Atsunori Inaba knows a thing or two about the highs and lows of international competition.
Japan Times
JAPAN / UN WORLD CONFERENCE ON DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
Mar 14, 2015

Helping cities brace for disaster

Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Mar 13, 2015

Put on your fashion face and get ready for Tokyo fashion week

One of the hottest fashion items to come out of Japan recently isn't what you may expect it to be. Moisturizing face masks, a long-time part of Japanese women's beauty routine,have been getting a makeover. While most still resemble plastic-surgery post-op gauze, now you can also find ones that make you...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Mar 13, 2015

A law unto itself: Thai junta churns out new rules

It usually meets just twice a week, and many of its 220 members have little or no experience of making laws. But that hasn't slowed down Thailand's interim parliament, which was installed by the military junta that seized power last May.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 13, 2015

Police swarm home in St. Louis suburb after 'ambush' of two Ferguson cops

The shooting of two police officers in Ferguson, Missouri, during a protest rally sparked an intense manhunt on Thursday and ratcheted up tensions in a city at the center of a national debate over race and policing.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Mar 11, 2015

Going where Terayama's rare spirit lives on

The avant-garde stage and film director, poet, critic, author and founder of the experimental theater group Tenjo Sajiki, Shuji Terayama (1935-83), influenced theater the world over with his iconoclastic plays such as "Mink Marie," "Heretics" and "Directions to Servants."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Mar 7, 2015

Memories of Mount Qilai: The Education of a Young Poet

Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Mar 6, 2015

After 10 years, On: Design columnist Jean Snow signs off — with style, of course

Build up a good desk space
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 5, 2015

'Bodhisattvas: Symbol of Salvation and Support'

March 7-April 6
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 5, 2015

'Celadon Now: Techniques and Beauty Handed Down From Southern Song to Today'

March 7-May 24
WORLD
Mar 2, 2015

U.S.-backed Syria rebel group dissolves itself after losses

One of the main western-backed rebel groups announced on Sunday that it had dissolved itself and joined a larger Islamist alliance, weeks into a battle that saw it lose ground and men to more powerful al Qaeda insurgents.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Feb 28, 2015

A winter world of monkeys and men

My overnight bus from Ikebukuro, Tokyo, packed full of bleary-eyed college students on holiday, rolled into Shiga Kogen around dawn and began making stops along the belt of 21 interconnected ski resorts that make up Japan's largest ski area.
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Feb 28, 2015

Gamba blank Reds to usher in season

Gamba Osaka added another title to their bulging collection with a 2-0 win over Urawa Reds in the Fuji Xerox Super Cup on Saturday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 26, 2015

Nihonga didn't ignore the West

From the early 1880s, painting in Japan became bisected. Yōga was used to categorize works in oils that were inspired by European painting movements and nihonga became the umbrella term for a whole array of earlier Japanese painting traditions that were later modernized.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 26, 2015

NASA investigating helmet water leak after spacewalk

Two U.S. astronauts finished a 6½-hour spacewalk on Wednesday to prepare parking spots for new commercial space taxis, and then discovered water had leaked into a spacesuit helmet, a problem that led to the near-drowning of another astronaut in 2013, officials said.

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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