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JAPAN
Jul 15, 2015

Website give rookie protesters tips, as large rallies against security bills expected at Diet

As demonstrations opposing a pair of government-backed security bills continue to grow, the rallies are attracting a number of fresh faces, prompting veteran protesters to take to the Web to offer valuable tips for newcomers.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / A TASTE OF HOME
Jul 10, 2015

Britain's food revolution hits Tokyo

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that, generally speaking, English meals are bad." So begins Nozomu Hayashi's best-selling 1991 treatise on British food, "Igirisu wa Oishi" ("England is Delicious").
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 9, 2015

Akiko Kikuchi thinks you can go home again in nostalgic new flick

In a restless country where it's common to work overtime, a bit of the slow life is needed now and then, even if it's via the silver screen.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / GENERATIONAL CHANGE
Jul 5, 2015

Life's ups, downs lift manga artist Misako Rocks! to success

Manga artist Misako Rocks! is a challenger and a woman of passion.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jul 4, 2015

On mountain peaks and tourist trash

Discussing Mount Hayachine, ethnologist Kunio Yanagita observed that it stood on, "a somewhat different plane from the normal world." This could be a description of mountains in general, a landscape where we may experience nature in the raw, and even at times, a numinous presence.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 30, 2015

America can learn from Israel's gun culture

Despite the hundreds of thousands of guns legally and illegally owned in Israel, Israelis kill each other with firearms at a small fraction of the rate of Americans.
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CULTURE / Music
Jun 28, 2015

Keep up the hunger to find new music

Have you heard or had this conversation recently?
LIFE / Digital / ON: GAMES
Jun 27, 2015

Releases that will make you re-think your gameplay

Here comes a devlish re-release
BUSINESS
Jun 25, 2015

BOJ's chief economist pushes for CPI changes that could boost inflation

The Bank of Japan's chief economist urged the government to adjust consumer price data to better reflect housing costs, a change he estimates would boost the inflation rate by as much as 0.2 percentage point.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 24, 2015

Jailed N.Y. prison worker's husband breaks silence, says breakout included him getting drugged

The husband of a female prison worker charged with helping two New York inmates escape spoke out on Tuesday, the 18th day of a massive manhunt, saying the breakout plan called for her to slip him knockout pills.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 23, 2015

Germany should buy — and show — Hitler's art

The German government should exhibit Adolf Hitler's artwork publically to help people better undersand what happened to Germany in the 1930s and '40s.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 21, 2015

Residents of South Carolina town once home to Charleston shooting suspect say they are not like him

At Dooley's Bait shop in Lexington, South Carolina, the talk around the worm bins and minnow tanks was dominated by one subject: Dylann Roof, a previously unremarkable local young man now accused of one of most shocking murders in state history.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jun 19, 2015

LLLL, Envy, Taka Goto and Mr. Children albums among best of the year so far

With the arrival of Line Music this month, and the possible arrivals of Spotify and Apple Music on the horizon, Japan's powerful CD industry could see some arguably necessary shakeups. Up until now, though, 2015 has been much the same in terms of sales.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / THE KIDS' TABLE
Jun 19, 2015

Eat and play the rainy days away at Cafe Annteana

Rain — it's enough to strike fear into the heart of the most seasoned parent, as you madly scramble for ways to entertain a child cooped up indoors. Coming to the rescue this rainy season is Cafe Annteana in Tokyo's Daikanyama neighborhood, an establishment that caters to the 12-and-under crowd in...
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BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 19, 2015

Sony, Panasonic cling to TVs, betting on halo effect of premium sets

Japan's once-mighty electronics-makers have lost billions of dollars from TVs, but Sony Corp. and Panasonic Corp. won't quit, saying retreating from the world's living rooms would close the door to more promising businesses.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jun 18, 2015

50 years for Hotel Toba Kowakien; beer in the forest by the bay; summer desserts at The Hyatt Regency

50 years for Hotel Toba Kowakien
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ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jun 16, 2015

In Myanmar's election year, radical Buddhism heightens tension

When religious violence erupted in Meiktila in central Myanmar two years ago, local politician Win Htein spoke up for the minority Muslims who bore its deadly brunt. Many of his fellow Buddhists have never forgiven him.
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WORLD
Jun 15, 2015

Islamic State's Iraq propaganda blitz takes to widescreen TV

Islamic State militants have set up giant television screens in the Iraqi city of Ramadi and are using them to proclaim that they will seize more Iraqi territory after capturing the provincial capital last month, residents said.
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LIFE / Lifestyle / CHILD'S PLAY
Jun 13, 2015

Take on the samurai in Edo Period Toei

When my parents were young, action movies were about gunslingers, sheriffs and saloons. For my in-laws in Osaka, however, cinema was more about swords and samurai.
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LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Jun 13, 2015

The halycon days of summer fashion

Game, set and match Fred Perry and Mintdesigns
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JAPAN
Jun 12, 2015

Shibuya might close streets to cars on weekends again

Tokyo's Shibuya Ward said Friday it may resume its old custom of closing two main streets to cars on weekends in hopes of invigorating the area in the lead-up to the Summer Olympics in 2020.
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LIFE / Food & Drink
Jun 12, 2015

Cronut master is concocting new pastries for Tokyo store

Cronut fans in Japan can swap local imitations for the real thing when the creator of the croissant-doughnut hybrid, pastry chef Dominique Ansel, opens his new bakery in Tokyo on June 20.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 12, 2015

Woods near prison focus of manhunt for escaped killers

Hundreds of law enforcement agents hunting for two upstate New York prison escapees focused their search on Thursday on a heavily wooded area just a few miles from the maximum security facility where they broke out last week, police said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 12, 2015

NBC News reports female prison worker, in love, agreed to drive escapee getaway car but got cold feet

A female prison worker being questioned by police, who are hunting two escapees from an upstate New York prison, thought she had a romantic relationship with one of them and had planned to drive the getaway car, NBC News reported on Thursday.
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CULTURE / Film
Jun 10, 2015

Surviving flamboyantly in a super-aged society

The older you get, the more you need to live in the city. Simone de Beauvoir once said that to her biographer, and it's probably true. As an iconic presence on the streets of Paris until her death in 1986, de Beauvoir showed that city living was one of the secrets to aging well and living life to the...
WORLD
Jun 10, 2015

New York prison break was killer's third escape attempt, second to succeed, son says

A daring weekend escape from a New York state maximum-security penitentiary, the facility's first prison break, marked at least the third time convicted murderer Richard Matt had moved to bust out from behind bars.

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