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Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 16, 2019

Trump ally Roger Stone convicted of lying to Congress, obstructing 2016 election probe

A jury convicted U.S. President Donald Trump's longtime adviser Roger Stone on Friday, finding the Republican operative guilty on seven criminal counts of lying to Congress, obstruction and witness tampering.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 14, 2019

'i: Documentary of the Journalist': Japanese press freedom laid bare

Tatsuya Mori follows Tokyo Shimbun journalist Isoko Mochizuki as she attempts to get answers from government officials in this bleak look at press freedom and integrity in Japan
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 12, 2019

How Russia could force a nuclear war in the Baltics

The Kremlin's 'escalate to de-escalate' nuclear strategy could easily get out of hand.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Nov 9, 2019

Nakagin Capsule Tower: Can Tokyo's urban utopian dream secure a new lease on life?

The future of Ginza's iconic building hangs in the balance as architectural enthusiasts attempt to preserve the fading landmark.
CULTURE / Books
Nov 9, 2019

'The Sweetest Fruits': The influential women in Lafcadio Hearn's life

The extraordinary story of Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) is here skillfully brought to life in a sumptuous historical novel told from the perspectives of the most important women in his memorable life.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 8, 2019

Looking overseas to solve Japan's labor shortage

Japan is running out of time. Where will migrants come from when the international competition for Asian workers heats up?
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 8, 2019

'Prepare to die': Prosecutors in Roger Stone trial note threatening texts over WikiLeaks release

Prosecutors on Thursday unveiled threatening text messages by U.S. President Donald Trump's adviser, Roger Stone, to radio host Randy Credico in which Stone urged Credico not to testify about their communications over Stone's efforts in 2016 to learn when WikiLeaks might release more damaging emails...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 7, 2019

Time for a national volunteer registry

Each community has its own registration process, cutting into time that could be used for doing the actual volunteer work.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 6, 2019

The right way to finance disaster recovery

It's unwise to burden a battered economy with higher taxes.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 6, 2019

Jury selection underway in trial of longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone

The criminal trial of President Donald Trump's long-time adviser, Roger Stone, began on Tuesday with the start of jury selection as he faces charges arising from former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation that documented Russian interference to help Trump win the 2016 U.S. election.
Japan Times
CULTURE / CULTURE SMASH
Nov 3, 2019

U.S. anime market matures in 2019

With collaboration between nations increasing, the U.S. is seeing new opportunities in its anime market
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 3, 2019

In South Korea's deadly shipyards, subcontracted workers most at risk

Park Chol-hee was working a holiday shift at Samsung Heavy Industries' Geoje shipyard on Labor Day in 2017 when a giant crane collided with another and crashed to ground, killing six people, including Park's younger brother.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 1, 2019

What Brexit reveals about the EU

The bloc's biggest problem is indifference, not Euroskepticism.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 29, 2019

The scrolls that keep immortal poets truly alive

The Kyoto National Museum brings together the largest number of fragments of the 13th-century scrolls 'Satake Version, Thirty-Six Immortal Poets,' since it was cut up into pieces and dispersed among the wealthy in 1919.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Oct 26, 2019

Tokyo's Jimbocho neighborhood won't close the chapter on books

Thousands of bibliophiles are expected to descend on Tokyo's Jinbocho neighborhood over the next week or so as the city celebrates the 60th anniversary of its largest secondhand book fair.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Oct 26, 2019

The mysterious case of Japan's vanishing bookstores

Decades of writing a column about the country's media industry has imparted me with a strong sense of familiarity with media personalities, companies, publications and sales channels. When they expire, it often hits me hard.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 26, 2019

Sports are feeling heat from climate change

Thanks to deadly heat waves, the Olympic marathon is moving from Tokyo to Sapporo next year. It's a sign of things to come.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Oct 25, 2019

Bicycles and bees on Papersky’s Tour de Nippon

Papersky's Tour de Nippon project combines cycling with other activities, such as gastronomy, hiking and craft workshops.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 25, 2019

Post-apocalyptic fossils show fast rise of mammals after dinosaur demise

A revelatory cache of fossils dug up in central Colorado details as never before the rise of mammals from the post-apocalyptic landscape after an asteroid smacked Earth 66 million years ago and annihilated three-quarters of all species, including the dinosaurs.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Oct 23, 2019

Norway at top, Yemen at bottom of rankings for women's quality of life

Norway and Switzerland are the best countries to be a woman and Yemen and Afghanistan the worst, said research Tuesday that found the state of women's rights is not "all doom and gloom" around the world.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 22, 2019

No excuse for inaction on pension reforms

Restoring the primary balance should not be used as an excuse to avoid enacting pension system reform.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 22, 2019

Where women see bias, men see a 'pipeline' problem

McKinsey's enormous new data set shows diverging opinions on what stalls young women's careers.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 22, 2019

Deeper than tradition: Japan's enthronement illustrates an evolving imperial house

Japan's enthronement combines legend and the spiritual with modernity, similar to coronations used by monarchies worldwide. These ceremonies tend to be described as "traditional" — but the term is overused and rarely properly defined in reference to Japan's enthronement, Sokui no Rei.
JAPAN / Emperor's Enthronement
Oct 22, 2019

With Emperor Naruhito's enthronement, traditional styles adapt to changing times

Emperor Naruhito will formally declare his ascension as Japan's 126th monarch in front of about 2,000 leaders and representatives from over 170 countries and regions at the Imperial Palace on Tuesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / Children's Literature in Japan
Oct 19, 2019

Naoko Takeuchi: 'Sailor Moon's' strong-willed guardian of girls manga

Naoko Takeuchi's 'Sailor Moon' is one of the most popular manga for girls of all time, and 'beautiful guardian warriors' remains a global trend across a wide spectrum of adolescent literature today.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 19, 2019

Southeast Asia has a weight problem

With obesity rates soaring, countries like Singapore and Malaysia are weighing aggressive interventions.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 18, 2019

Planetary 'autopsies' indicate worlds like Earth are common in the cosmos, suggesting life also is

A new way of studying planets in other solar systems — by doing sort of an autopsy on planetary wreckage devoured by a type of star called a white dwarf — is showing that rocky worlds with geochemistry similar to Earth may be quite common in the cosmos.
JAPAN
Oct 17, 2019

Two Japanese make BBC's list of world's 100 most influential women

Two Japanese women, one behind a campaign against women being forced to wear high heels at work under corporate rules and the other a collegiate sumo wrestler, were included in British broadcaster the BBC's 2019 list of 100 influential women from around the world released Wednesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 16, 2019

'The Promised Land': Zeze's latest is far from heaven-sent

Takahisa Zeze unveils his latest feature, an ambitious film based on two short stories by best-selling author Shuichi Yoshida

Longform

Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes