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Japan Times
LIFE / Language / NEWS IN NIHONGO
Aug 26, 2019

Japan's jobless rate improves as women enter the market

We look at rising numbers of female workers in Japan and the country's unemployment rate.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Aug 25, 2019

The U.S. wants Japan's help to close its 'missile gap' with China. Is Tokyo up for it?

After formally withdrawing from a landmark arms-control treaty earlier this month, the United States now hopes it can better counter its geopolitical rival China by closing what experts characterize as a yawning "missile gap" with Beijing — and it may look to Japan for help.
Japan Times
Rugby / ADDING THE EXTRAS
Aug 23, 2019

New No. 1 ranking for Wales means little before RWC

The rugby number crunchers have been out in full force in the past week both in terms of what goes on off the field and on it.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 23, 2019

Abe tied as longest-serving postwar Japanese leader with great-uncle Sato at 2,798 days

Saturday will be Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's 2,799th day in office.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 22, 2019

South Korea decides to exit intelligence-sharing pact with Japan

South Korea's decision is “extremely regrettable,” a Japanese government source was quoted as saying.
JAPAN / History
Aug 22, 2019

Pioneering Japanese interpreting team opened nation's eyes to disabled athletes at '64 Paralympics

Foreign residents and wheelchairs — much less Paralympic athletes — were a rare sight in Japan in 1964.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 22, 2019

On Iran, Japan faces a difficult decision

Tokyo is being pulled in several different directions when considering whether to join a U.S.-led coalition in the Strait of Hormuz.
Japan Times
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Aug 21, 2019

Australia's decision to join U.S.-led maritime mission off Iran likely to heighten pressure on Japan

Australia's prime minister announced his country will join the U.S.-led mission to protect shipping in the Strait of Hormuz amid ongoing tensions with Iran, albeit under Australia's operational control.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 20, 2019

CDP and DPP to 'join hands' in Japan's Diet in bid to thwart Abe's plans

In a move to counter the ruling bloc, Yukio Edano and Yuichiro Tamaki agreed Tuesday to merge their kaiha parliamentary groups in both houses of the Diet.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / NEWS IN NIHONGO
Aug 19, 2019

Popular girls' manga wins U.S. award

We look at Japanese-language coverage of the Will Eisner Awards.
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Aug 19, 2019

Let's discuss Tokyo's Olympics plans

An official from the International Olympic Committee's Coordination Commission for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics wants Japan to think long-term.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 17, 2019

Giants' Hayato Sakamoto sets personal record with 32nd homer in triumph over Tigers

Just like the weather outside of the relatively comfortable and cool confines of Tokyo Dome, the Yomiuri Giants are starting to heat up again.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 15, 2019

Marines starter Chihaya Sasaki, reliever Toshiya Nakamura blank reeling Fighters

A trip to visit the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters was just what the doctor ordered for Chiba Lotte Marines pitcher Chihaya Sasaki.
EDITORIALS
Aug 14, 2019

No cause for optimism over economy's course

Decelerating global growth is testing Japan's efforts toward sustained growth driven by domestic demand.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 9, 2019

Giants' Yoshiyuki Kamei delivers sayonara sacrifice fly in 10th to down Swallows

The Yomiuri Giants got knocked down.
Rugby / ADDING THE EXTRAS
Aug 9, 2019

Risk of injury real concern before final squads named

With less than three weeks to go before the 2019 Rugby World Cup coaches name their final squads, and 41 days before the tournament kicks off in Tokyo, it is a nervous time for players.
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.
Japan to launch broad review of immigration policies amid rise in foreign nationals
Foreign tourists at Narita Airport in June. A report released Friday stresses that Japan is at a turning point and that current ad-hoc measures on immigration are no longer sufficient.
Top Japan trade negotiator canceled U.S. trip over rice, report says
Ryosei Akazawa
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.
Most Trump tariffs are not legal, U.S. appeals court rules
Workers hang a large poster of U.S. President Donald Trump on the facade of the Department of Labor headquarters building in Washington on Wednesday.
Japan to launch broad review of immigration policies amid rise in foreign nationals
Foreign tourists at Narita Airport in June. A report released Friday stresses that Japan is at a turning point and that current ad-hoc measures on immigration are no longer sufficient.
Japan is warming up to tattoos — just not permanent ones
Tattoos have a complex history in Japan, but new types of temporary ink are letting locals curious about body art experiment without the commitment.
YouTube Music Weekend is where Japan’s internet-born performers go global
Headlining the second day of YouTube Music Weekend is Vocaloid artist Kikuo, who, with 1.46 million YouTube subscribers, is one of the most popular artists in the genre.
Japan looks to build drone ‘shield’ in record defense budget request
A group of Ground Self-Defense Force service members discuss drone operations and capabilities at a joint static display during the Orient Shield 24 opening ceremony at the Yausubetsu Training Area in Hokkaido in July last year.
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.

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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