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LIFE / Food & Drink
Aug 12, 2017

Long a hit in Kyoto, hearty 'hamo' eel finds home in Tokyo restaurant

The Gion Matsuri came to a close at the end of July, but there's still time to enjoy one of the dishes most closely associated with that famous festival. Hamo, called dagger-tooth pike eel in English, has long been one of the Kansai region's summer specialities, especially in Kyoto, where the city's...
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JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Aug 12, 2017

The role of rules in a 'moral education'

Human beings are born amoral. Infants know no rules, and obey none. They learn a few at home, then go to school and learn more. Everyone agrees rules are necessary. On what the rules should be there is less agreement; less still on the degree of obedience rules call for. There are times and places where...
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CULTURE / Books
Aug 12, 2017

'Inheritance From Mother': Tackling the taboo of caring for elderly parents

"Mother, when are you ever going to die?"
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 11, 2017

Iceland could give Google a lesson on gender policy

The valid points in the fired Google worker's gender diversity manifesto shouldn't be drowned out by a chorus of condemnation.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Aug 9, 2017

Of guns and cutlery: Memories of the war, from the Netherlands to Japan

A chance rediscovery leads an author to reflect on the lessons to be learned from the devastation of two continents.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 8, 2017

Asia's evolving security order

Along with closer economic cooperation in recent years, Japan and Vietnam have been strengthening their strategic ties.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 7, 2017

The LDP's tobacco addiction tells a much bigger story

If Prime Minister Abe and his party were less beholden to vested interests, his efforts to defeat deflation would gain more traction.
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JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Aug 5, 2017

Parsing gender stereotypes in Japan's media landscape

Tomomi Inada's resignation as defense minister ended a tenure that often made reporters wonder if her transgressions had more to do with ignorance than with incompetence. It would be wrong to associate her failures with her sex, though there were some in the media who harped on her fashion sense or supposed...
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 5, 2017

Give Los Angeles the Olympics for good

Rotating the Olympic Games between a few select cities would be better than risking having none at all due to spiraling costs.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 1, 2017

Big data offers big promise in medicine

In handling some kinds of life-or-death medical judgments, computers have already surpassed the abilities of doctors.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 31, 2017

How Japan can get Pyongyang's attention

Japan can send China a wake-up call on North Korea by hosting a series of THAAD missile defense system.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Jul 30, 2017

Don't be fooled, pests are a problem — no matter how cute they appear

I recently went out to my friend John Harris' country home in the Isumi district of Chiba Prefecture, about 100 kilometers southeast of Tokyo. His house is midway down the Pacific coast of the Boso Peninsula, close to the small town of Onjuku, which is known for its surfing and its (formerly) bare-breasted...
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JAPAN
Jul 30, 2017

Image analysis reveals North Korea may have planned to send first ICBM test much closer to Japan

A new imagery analysis obtained exclusively by The Japan Times sheds light on how North Korea views Japan and Tokyo's American protector as it seeks to master the technology for a long-range missile.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 29, 2017

Strategic approach: Washington's shifting nuclear policy in the Asia-Pacific region is putting Japan in a difficult position

A global ban on nuclear weapons was approved earlier this month at the U.N. headquarters in New York. A total of 122 countries signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. None of the signatories, however, possesses a nuclear bomb.
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JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jul 29, 2017

Death: We all have to go sometime

"In Japan today, talking about death is taboo," Kobe University medical professor Yoshiyuki Kizawa told the Asahi Shimbun earlier this month.
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CULTURE / Books
Jul 29, 2017

'Japanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation': War through the eyes of everyday Oita citizens

The deafening report of war is such that the cries of its victims are often hard to hear, even decades later.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Jul 29, 2017

Dabiz Molinero: 'Imagination pushes art and makes it limitless'

Spanish artist on the insight behind chocolate.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 29, 2017

Asteroid mining finds an unlikely champion

Luxembourg of all nations is a leading player in the drive to gain economic benefits from space.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 28, 2017

China's weaponization of trade

China is exploiting states' economic reliance on it to compel their support for its foreign policy objectives.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 28, 2017

Make Japan Inc. great again

Japanese firms must acquire a taste for startup mergers and acquisitions, if the nation is to regain its global competitive advantage.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 27, 2017

Takatoshi Ito, who sold Kuroda on inflation targets, now contender for top job

During countless shared lunches and impromptu meetings, Takatoshi Ito made a detailed and persuasive case that sold Haruhiko Kuroda on the inflation targeting regime he's pursued relentlessly as governor of the central bank. That was back in 1999, when Kuroda ran Japan's currency policy at the Finance...
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 25, 2017

Why not give the BOJ's governor a promotion?

Abe's choice is clear: Show Kuroda the door, or open his Cabinet to new thinking by a man who's seen considerable action in the economic trenches.
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COMMENTARY / World
Jul 24, 2017

What China's Himalayan warmongering reveals

The Sino-Indian crisis has underscored the centrality of propaganda in China's foreign policy.
CULTURE / CULTURE SMASH
Jul 23, 2017

Crunchyroll takes anime to a live level

Summer is high season for live celebrations of Japan's pop culture exports. The two largest events in the West, Japan Expo in Paris and Anime Expo in LA, drew hundreds of thousands earlier this month. August will see the U.S. East Coast's biggest anime convention, Otakon, move from Baltimore, Maryland,...
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Jul 23, 2017

Filling the void: Disseminating 'blackness' in Japan

I decided it was time to find out about the true state of scholarship in Japan pertaining to Africans and the African diaspora, and the people behind it.
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COMMENTARY / World
Jul 23, 2017

It's high noon in the Himalayas

New Delhi's faceoff with Beijing is a sign of the future.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 23, 2017

There's no brain science to U.S. college free speech

Campus speakers aren't doing violence to undergraduate neurons.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 21, 2017

Championing TPP 2.0 could give Abe his global moment

To save his political hide, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should do something arguably no Japanese leader has done in decades: project strength and leadership abroad.
BUSINESS
Jul 21, 2017

Popular manga 'One Piece' to be remade into live-action TV drama

Popular manga "One Piece" will become a live-action TV drama through a collaboration with a Hollywood production team, according to the firm that publishes the series.

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A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami