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BUSINESS / Economy / Longform
Feb 20, 2023

Unpacking Japan’s great wage conundrum

With inflation running at a four-decade high, the world’s third-largest economy’s famously stagnant salaries are finally showing signs of rising. Can the momentum be sustained?
Japan Times
PODCAST / deep dive
Feb 15, 2023

Living with disaster: Building the cities of the future

We speak to professor Hitoshi Abe, an architect who has some ideas on how to start designing our cities to better deal with such inevitable disasters.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hokkaido
Feb 13, 2023

Side-job matching app becomes popular in Sapporo amid labor shortage

Workers being engaged include housewives and part-timers, with some company employees workin on the side at night.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Feb 10, 2023

Justin and Kaori Sereni: 'Provide warm rooms, serve delicious food and choose comfortable beds'

It was a long time coming but in 2020 Justin Sereni realized a dream when he opened his own boutique lodge with wife, Kaori. The result is a cozy getaway on the border of Niigata and Nagano.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA
Feb 9, 2023

Jordan vs. LeBron debate continues as NBA's scoring record falls

'We can enjoy one without tearing down one,' the late Kobe Bryant tweeted about the Jordan-James debate in 2018. 'Don't debate what can't be definitively won by anyone.'
Japan Times
PODCAST / deep dive
Feb 8, 2023

I can't believe it's not meat! Is lab-grown beef on Japanese menus?

This week, Oscar Boyd gives us a review of his cultured chicken meal and runs down the environmental implications of such an endeavor, while Tomoko Otake gets us caught up on where Japan stands in the great race to replicate beef.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2023

Renault and Nissan agree on landmark deal to reshape alliance

Renault will cut its holding in Nissan to 15% from 43% to re-balance lopsided capital ties, resolving a cause of friction that slowed cooperation at a crucial time.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Kyushu
Feb 6, 2023

Gaming disorder among youths surging amid smartphone use and pandemic

“Patients are having difficulties in their lives and are feeling lonely, and they turn to games to relieve such feelings,” said the director of a psychiatric hospital.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / BLACK EYE
Feb 6, 2023

Through good times and bad, the community you create will be your lifeline

What would Tyre Nichols' life had been like if he were living in Japan? It's a sad thought to imagine at this point, but a question worth asking nonetheless.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 2, 2023

Superheroes need not apply for the BOJ’s top job

The challenges facing Kuroda’s BOJ successor look almost conventional. There’s no sense of national peril this time.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB
Jan 25, 2023

Looking ahead at the Baseball Hall of Fame class of 2024

Scott Rolen became the 18th third baseman inducted and a 19th might be on the way in 2024 when hot corner standout Adrian Beltre hits the ballot for the first time.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Longform
Jul 17, 2023

After last train in Tokyo, a second city comes to life

Partying tourists, a busy fish market and and global businesses all play a part in a world most of us sleep through.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Jul 16, 2023

Refugee soccer team breaking boundaries with globetrotting tour

Formed just months ago in Utah, Team SheBelongs aims to promote acceptance and change the global conversation surrounding refugees and displaced persons.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / THE LIVING PAST
Jul 16, 2023

Japan’s Nero? The shogun who dabbled in art while Kyoto burned

As Kyoto tore itself apart, Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa busied himself with art in his sanctuary. His indifference may have birthed today's Japan.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 6, 2023

China took her husband. She was left to uncover his secret cause.

Whether her husband was Program Think is virtually impossible to confirm. He was, however, proudly nonconformist — refusing to use social media or buy new clothes — and intensely private.
CULTURE / Film
Jul 6, 2023

Ahead of a new Studio Ghibli film, critics are asking, 'How will we live without Hayao Miyazaki?'

The creative force behind Japanese animation has teased retirement before, but owing to his age and pace of output, we may finally be seeing the final Studio Ghibli film next week.
Japan Times
PODCAST / deep dive
Jul 5, 2023

Would you spend the night in a coffin … for art?

Want to know what it’s like to spend the night in a coffin? Culture critic Thu-Huong Ha joins us to discuss her night in artist Marina Abramovic’s nightmare-inducing Dream House.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Jun 27, 2023

Kenyan legend Eliud Kipchoge sets sights on Olympic marathon treble

A third gold at the Paris Olympics in 2024 would make Kipchoge the undisputed marathon giant at the Games, and bring him a victory steeped in symbolism.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 22, 2023

Workplace friendships are worth the awkwardness

Research suggests forging personal connections at work matters more than financial success.
MORE SPORTS
Jan 17, 2023

Japanese football given chance to measure progress at Dream Bowl

When the Japanese team takes the field for the Japan-U.S. Dream Bowl at Tokyo's National Stadium on Sunday, it will offer a brief look at the nation’s collective football might in international competition.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 16, 2023

Japan marks three years since first COVID case

With experts saying that the mortality rate for omicron is lower than that of seasonal influenza, the government is currently discussing reviewing the classification of COVID-19.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Jan 16, 2023

China boost for flagging world economy set as reopening starts

The growth impulse will be felt through services sectors such as aviation, tourism and education as Chinese people pack their bags for international travel.
JAPAN
Jan 15, 2023

Russia-Hokkaido relations another casualty of Ukraine invasion

'If the prefecture continued to promote exchanges with our Russian counterparts now, there would be the risk of a public backlash,' one official said.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Destination Restaurants
Jan 15, 2023

L’Atelier de Noto: Peninsular cuisine with a French accent

Located about two hours from tourist-heavy Kanazawa, this modern French restaurant tucked away in tranquil Wajima takes full advantage of the Noto Peninsula's bounty of land and sea.
Japan Times
CULTURE / TV & Streaming
Jan 15, 2023

Streaming changed TV. Is TV changing streaming back?

A decade of bingeing has transformed storytelling and viewing habits. But we may be starting to hit that transformation's limits.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Jan 14, 2023

The Setouchi islands eager to get stuck between a rock and a hard place

Locals hope the boulders and cliff faces overlooking the Seto Inland Sea can bring a breath of fresh air to struggling rural towns.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Jan 14, 2023

‘I feel like I got duped': Tesla price drop angers current owners

The company's more expensive models took the biggest hit, with Model Y base prices down 20% to start at $53,000.
Japan Times
Special Supplements / Davos special 2023
Jan 14, 2023

Racing toward a new tech-driven vision of capitalism

This year’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, known as Davos 2023, takes place from Jan. 16 to 20 in Davos, Switzerland, under the theme “Cooperation in a Fragmented World.” Over 2,500 leaders across government, business and society will gather to discuss how to drive solutions that leverage...
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COMMENTARY / World
Jan 13, 2023

Pope Benedict and the art of strategic retirement

Joseph Ratzinger wasn't supposed to be pope. As pope emeritus, he was supposed to go quietly into history. He may be more influential after death.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 12, 2023

How India's ruling party is tightening its grip on Kashmir

India's ruling BJP Party hopes to get rewarded at the polls for scrapping policies that denied millions of people in Jammu and Kashmir many of the same rights as other Indians.

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