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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 21, 2019

Chinese defense chief close to Xi to attend key Asia security forum next month

China's Defense Minister will deliver a "highly anticipated" speech at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue next month — the first time in eight years that Beijing has sent such a high-level official to the annual security gathering, which will include a speech by the acting U.S. defense secretary.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / NEWS IN NIHONGO
May 20, 2019

Chadwick Boseman to play foreign-born samurai in film

The story of a black samurai known as 'Yasuke,' who served under warlord Oda Nobunaga in 16th-century Japan, will be made into a film starring African-American actor Chadwick Boseman, it was decided by May 7 [it was officially announced May 7]. The news was reported by U.S. entertainment media such as Deadline. The release date is undecided.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
May 20, 2019

Let's discuss dangerous driving

A couple of high-profile car accidents raises the topic of traffic safety in the media.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 16, 2019

Shota Hiranuma lifts Fighters with RBI double in seventh, earns first post-game hero interview

For a second, Shota Hiranuma thought he might've hit the first home run of his pro career.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
May 13, 2019

When giving a public speech in Japanese, tears can be your trump card

There are certain occasions in Japan when showing emotion is expected. Deploying a few key phrases can also do the trick.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / NEWS IN NIHONGO
May 13, 2019

Hiroshima museum unveils new atomic bomb-related items

The main building of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum reopened April 25, after it was closed from April 2017 in order to do exhibition renovations and quake-resistance reinforcement work associated with the building's aging.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
May 13, 2019

Let's discuss iPS cells

Learn about English vocabulary that has to do with genetic research and consider the ramifications.
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
May 12, 2019

Memoirs from a Japanese internet cafe

While some people pine for traditions from Japan's ancient past, it might actually be the more modern things that we'll truly miss.
ENVIRONMENT
May 11, 2019

Reading the air: Tokyo still has work to do on air pollution

There are days when Makiko Ishikawa can barely breathe. Indeed, the 62-year-old Tokyoite has been short of breath for decades. In the early 1970s, she began feeling the effects of the miasma of vehicle exhaust along Shin-Ome Road, which ran by her home in the city of Musashimurayama in western Tokyo....
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
May 10, 2019

North Korea's Kim uses 'long-range strike' drill to heap pressure on Trump

North Korea's two launches of short-range missiles in just five days — part of what it said were military drills designed to bolster the nuclear-armed country's "various long-range strike means" — will heap more pressure on U.S. President Donald Trump amid stalled nuclear talks.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 8, 2019

Tariff war renewed? How U.S.-China trade talks could play out after Beijing's backtrack

U.S. President Donald Trump's latest trade gamble has set the stage for a tense round of negotiations this week between the U.S. and China, which has the markets on edge.
JAPAN
May 8, 2019

A century later, Spanish flu pandemic still holds valuable lessons for Japanese and global health experts

On Oct. 26, 1918, just over two weeks before the end of World War I, readers of The Japan Advertiser, as The Japan Times was named at the time, woke up to the headline "Thousands Dying From Influenza Throughout the World," and an accompanying article detailing the havoc it was wreaking in Japan.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 8, 2019

Google debuts privacy controls and principles at its I/O developers event

Alphabet Inc.'s Google business announced new privacy controls Tuesday for its services, including "incognito mode" for Google Maps, and published new privacy commitments for its hardware, showing how increased public scrutiny is forcing greater transparency in Silicon Valley.
COMMUNITY / Issues / LAW OF THE LAND
May 5, 2019

Iwo Jima: Where Japan rules but the memory of war dead still reigns

It is odd to stand at an iconic place few can ever visit. There on Mount Suribachi where the American flag was raised over Iwo Jima, I am embarrassed to report my first thought on looking out across at the military airport we landed at that morning was, "I have to walk back there in the next two hours."...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 4, 2019

Katsuya Kakunaka, Seiya Inoue deliver clutch hits as Marines top Fighters

There was sun, rain, a little hail, sun again and finally a blanket of gray clouds at Zozo Marine Stadium on Saturday.
Rugby / ADDING THE EXTRAS
May 2, 2019

JRFU's bewildering plans for Top League reform spark skepticism, opposition

The news that the Japan Rugby Top League is to undergo reform following this year's World Cup should have been met with heraldic fanfare, given the nation's recent entry into the Reiwa Era.
JAPAN
May 1, 2019

In pictures: Japan's new emperor

Emperor Naruhito ascended to the Chrysanthemum Throne on Wednesday, as the new imperial era — known as Reiwa — began following his father's abdication the previous day after three decades as emperor.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 30, 2019

Dragons close out Heisei Era with victory over Giants

The Heisei Era is over for the Chunichi Dragons and the club finished it off in style.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / NEWS IN NIHONGO
Apr 29, 2019

Naomi Osaka among Time's 100 most influential people

Naomi Osaka was named by Time magazine as one of the world's most influential people. Learn how that news came across in Japanese.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 27, 2019

Giants quash late rally, beat reeling BayStars

The Yokohama BayStars got the performances they needed at the plate and on the mound to beat the Yomiuri Giants.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / Heisei Icons
Apr 25, 2019

Junichiro Koizumi: Maverick reformer left Japan all shook up

Junichiro Koizumi is regarded as the most accomplished politician of the Heisei Era, according to one survey.

Longform

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