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Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Nov 8, 2021

Forty years of empowering women in Japan

In the 40 years since its inception, FEW Japan has gone from serving a specific subset of non-Japanese women in the country to broadening its scope to help all women living here.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / OBITUARY
Nov 7, 2021

Joyce Lebra: Trailblazing scholar and witness to Japanese history

The world of academia lost a true pioneer when Joyce Lebra passed away last month. She received the Order of the Rising Sun award in a ceremony a month earlier.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 7, 2021

Chips, coal and property top China traders’ plenum watch list

After a yearlong regulatory crackdown, investors are on high alert for the risk of more policy change as the Communist Party kicks off a major convention this week.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 6, 2021

At least eight dead by being crushed at Texas music festival

People began to fall unconscious, and the mayhem escalated until 9:38 p.m. when a 'mass casualty incident' was triggered.
Japan Times
Figure Skating
Nov 6, 2021

Yuma Kagiyama finishes seventh, Satoko Miyahara fourth at Gran Premio d'Italia SP

Japan's Yuma Kagiyama stumbled to a seventh-place start after the short skate at the ISU Grand Prix Gran Premio d'Italia on Friday in the men's program, while Satoko Miyahara was fourth in the women's event.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Nov 3, 2021

China’s climate goals hinge on a $440 billion nuclear buildout

China's planning at least 150 new reactors in the next 15 years, more than the rest of the world has built in the past 35.
Special Supplements / COP26 special
Nov 1, 2021

Global efforts for a better tomorrow

For almost three decades, the U.N. has worked to bring as many countries together as possible on a regular basis for the global climate change summits known as COP, short for Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. These events have served to focus the world’s...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 29, 2021

Deciphering Biden's remarks on defending Taiwan

Some in Tokyo are wondering if Washington changed its traditional strategic “ambiguity” policy on Taiwan to “clarity.”
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Oct 29, 2021

Shibuya could be the ideal first stop in a new virtual world

Shibuya Ward is once again putting on a virtual Halloween. However, the municipality's experiments in the digital sphere could lead to something more interesting than ghosts and pumpkins.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 27, 2021

Beijing marks 100 days to Winter Olympics amid COVID-19 and rights concerns

Beijing is promising a 'simple and safe' 2022 Games — although preparations are anything but simple as China battles COVID-19 flare-ups and calls from human rights groups for a boycott.
Japan Times
North Rhine-Westphalia report 2021
Oct 25, 2021

Strengthening connections between Duesseldorf and Japan

With over 8,000 Japanese people residing in the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, Duesseldorf is often referred to as “Little Tokyo.”
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Oct 18, 2021

Mikaela Shiffrin hoping to play right cards during World Cup season and Olympics

The 2021-22 campaign is shaping up as a season of big dreams for the 26-year-old American, who is eager to reassert herself as the sport's dominant athlete.
Japan Times
SOCCER / World cup
Oct 13, 2021

FIFA chief Gianni Infantino backs biennial World Cup

Soccer's world governing body FIFA is conducting a feasibility study into the practicalities of staging a World Cup every two years, a move that has been met with fierce criticism.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Oct 11, 2021

Maxwell Powers: 'You have to be competent, yet invisible'

According to his bio, Maxwell Powers is the 'voice guy in Tokyo.' He explains a few of his roles and the perks of being widely heard.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Oct 7, 2021

Women to race with men in 'groundbreaking' shift by SailGP

There have been few routes for top female sailors to progress beyond events such as the Olympics and SailGP has implemented a pathway in an effort to address this gap.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 4, 2021

Christmas at risk as supply chain ‘disaster’ only gets worse

This holiday season might see more frowns than smiles, as the global supply chain faces unprecedented shortages.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Oct 2, 2021

Kyoto Experiment calls on 'unheard voices'

The experimental festival, held at various locations around Kyoto, explores the power of speech in the performing arts.
Most Japanese teens struggling with school find end of summer ‘painful’
Some 93.1% of Japanese teenagers who struggle with school life said they felt like they “wanted to disappear from the world" at the end of summer vacation ahead of the start of a new term, according to a recent survey released by Yokohama-based nonprofit Daisan Kazoku.
Philippine bid to acquire used Japanese warships gains steam
Tokyo is looking to transfer Abukuma-class vessels to the Philippines as part of broader efforts to boost the defense capabilities of like-minded neighbors amid growing Chinese military assertiveness in the region.
Mitsubishi’s wind-power retreat a blow to Japan's alternative-energy goals
Wind turbines in the town of Happo in Akita prefecture. Wind power is a key part of Japan's alternative energy drive.
Can anime carry the memories of World War II?
Many schools in Japan show "Grave of the Fireflies" as educational material to tell the emotionally grueling story of a boy who has no means to prevent his sister from starving to death.
Akazawa's trip to Washington for tariff talks abruptly canceled
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's chief tariff negotiator, had been set to fly to Washington on Thursday.
Mitsubishi’s wind-power retreat a blow to Japan's alternative-energy goals
Wind turbines in the town of Happo in Akita prefecture. Wind power is a key part of Japan's alternative energy drive.
Virtual singer Kaf's music becomes magic in 'Kamitsubaki City Under Construction'
Virtual singer Kaf got her start in 2018 by posting songs and covers to YouTube. Now, after having performed live shows at major venues including Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan, she is turning to voice acting and starring in the new anime series “Kamitsubaki City Under Construction.”
Can anime carry the memories of World War II?
Many schools in Japan show "Grave of the Fireflies" as educational material to tell the emotionally grueling story of a boy who has no means to prevent his sister from starving to death.
In pictures: Koenji Awa Odori 2025
Japan Times
Koshien’s dark summer forces reckoning for high school baseball
Koryo High School players greet their cheering section after beating Hokkaido’s Asahikawa Shiho in the first round of Summer Koshien on Aug. 7. The school withdrew three days later as a bullying scandal enveloped the team.

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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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
By Alex K.T. Martin

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