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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 5, 2017

Abe's clean energy opportunity

By supporting new generations of renewable-energy startups Prime Minister Shinzo Abe could create the millions of high-paying jobs that have eluded his Abenomics push.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 5, 2017

Vladimir Putin's geopolitical chessboard

For Putin, the sanctions represent war by other means and a justification for him to make his next moves to countervail American power.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 5, 2017

Mexico's most dangerous profession

The country's crime reporters face a grim choice: dishonesty or death.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Jun 5, 2017

Former Yomiuri star Cromartie still feels at home in Japan

The legacy of Warren Cromartie has endured in Japanese baseball even though it's been decades since the former Yomiuri Giants star laced up his cleats in Japan.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jun 3, 2017

Is Japan slipping into prewar politics?

"The recent flurry of legislation, including a proposed anti-conspiracy amendment to the organized crime law, recalls prewar Japan," Kobe University criminal law scholar Hirofumi Uchida told the Asahi Shimbun in an interview in March.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 2, 2017

Exhibition highlights legacy of U.S.-Japan baseball ties

Warren Cromartie, formerly of the Yomiuri Giants in NPB and the Montreal Expos and Kansas City Royals in MLB, pointed at Masanori Murakami and called him "a hero."
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 1, 2017

Stop calling Indonesia a role model

Indonesia likes to pride itself as a role model — a Muslim-majority democracy that is moderate and pluralistic — but that's no longer true.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 31, 2017

Nuclear war could come with a flub, not a bang

There are no smart ways to start a nuclear war, but there are an infinite variety of stupid ones.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 30, 2017

Trump can learn from Japan's 1986 problem

U.S. President Donald Trump's ignorance of the lessons of Japan's economic travails over the past three decasdes could lead him to make costly policy errors.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 29, 2017

The hidden side of the Japanese-Russian summit

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's approach to Russia is looking increasingly risky.
COMMENTARY / World
May 24, 2017

Money trumps anti-terror task

Donald Trump's embrace of a country he long excoriated for its role in sponsoring terrorism reflects the fact that Saudi Arabia is a cash cow for American defense, energy and manufacturing companies.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
May 23, 2017

Clippers should stay the course despite disappointments

Coach Doc Rivers: Headed back to Orlando where he began his NBA coaching career and where he still owns a home and where his family has remained. To run the Magic franchise.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 23, 2017

China could be the future of the sharing economy

At a time when much of China's economy is slowing or stalling, the sharing sector is booming.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 23, 2017

For Shinzo Abe, an epic buyer's remorse

There's still time for the prime minister to distance himself from a White House in flames
COMMENTARY / World
May 23, 2017

World should think twice before abolishing cash

No one's talking about the real motivations behind demonetization.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
May 22, 2017

The art, and fallout, of the Japanese political gaffe

If there is one way you can count on Japanese politicians, it is their ability to make headlines by putting their foot in their mouth.
COMMENTARY / World
May 22, 2017

Newspapers thrive, in India

While print media struggles to survive elsewhere, India's rising literacy rate is keeping its dailies firmly in the black.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
May 21, 2017

Having trouble wrapping your head around Japan? Help with mental health is at hand

Black Eye speaks with professionals trained to offer guidance to those struggling to cope with a new environment.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
May 20, 2017

The miserable case of unhappiness surging in Japan

This is the happiest time in the history of the world, and Japan is among the happiest of countries.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
May 20, 2017

'Japanese Garden Notes': An informative photo book

"Japanese Garden Notes" is a gorgeous photo book that introduces aspects of traditional Japanese garden design. It walks the reader through the philosophy of "space and passage," "function and art" and "intent and time," explaining why certain details recur and the emotions they are meant to inspire....
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / THE LIVING PAST
May 20, 2017

Hokkaido's ancient place in the modern world

"Even the birds do not fly to Ezo," went a popular 19th-century saying about Japan's northernmost island. "Ezo" means "land of barbarians." Settlement tamed it into "Hokkaido" — "north sea road." But it was a rough passage.
COMMENTARY / World
May 20, 2017

Trump's disability is Dunning-Kruger effect

We're all ignorant, but U.S. President Donald Trump takes it to a different level.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 19, 2017

Do you want to be a cyborg?

Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk is convinced that enhancing human intelligence and memory is our species' only alternative to elimination by our own super-intelligent inventions.
COMMENTARY / World
May 16, 2017

Can the emerging Sino-U.S. coalition stop Kim's game?

The coordinated efforts by the U.S. and China offers the best bet to secure peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and allow the two Koreas to coexist.
COMMENTARY / World
May 16, 2017

Trump voters' message: we exist

Donald Trump hasn't lifted a finger to help Rust Belters as president, but he did far more than the Democratic Party's elites during the election when he acknowledged their existence.
COMMENTARY / World
May 16, 2017

China's hidden pollution oozes to the surface

Xiongan, intended as China's green city of the future, will have to serve as a model of how China can clean up its past.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami
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.
Counting the reasons why there are so few American cars in Japan
Tesla's store in Tokyo's Shibuya district. While sales of American cars in Japan appear to be shrinking, Tesla's presence in the country is growing.
Shohei Ohtani's example could change Japan's views on paternity leave
Shohei Ohtani and Mamiko Tanaka announced the birth of their first child on April 19.
Nearly half of workers in Japan engage in ‘quiet quitting’
"Quiet quitting" is most common among the younger generation, with 46.7% of respondents to a survey in their 20s identifying with the practice, reflecting a less-motivated workforce more focused on work-life balance.
Japan worries Trump tariffs will push countries toward China
Liberal Democratic Party Policy Chief Itsunori Onodera (center) speaks at a think tank event Monday in Washington.
Could this be Japan’s year at the Kentucky Derby?
Christophe Lemaire rides Admire Daytona, who was bred in Japan, during the UAE Derby at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai on April 5.
Counting the reasons why there are so few American cars in Japan
Tesla's store in Tokyo's Shibuya district. While sales of American cars in Japan appear to be shrinking, Tesla's presence in the country is growing.
Shohei Ohtani's example could change Japan's views on paternity leave
Shohei Ohtani and Mamiko Tanaka announced the birth of their first child on April 19.
Nearly half of workers in Japan engage in ‘quiet quitting’
"Quiet quitting" is most common among the younger generation, with 46.7% of respondents to a survey in their 20s identifying with the practice, reflecting a less-motivated workforce more focused on work-life balance.
U.S. secretary of the navy weighs ‘dual-use’ shipbuilding with Japan
John Phelan at a Senate confirmation hearing for U.S. secretary of the navy in Washington in February

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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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
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