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Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 6, 2023

Iceland shows the world how to run on reliable and clean energy

Every home in Iceland is heated with renewable energy, with 90% coming from district heating systems that tap hot water directly underground.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Mar 4, 2023

How to have a sustainable wedding despite extravagant expectations

Can weddings take a step back from decadent celebrations?
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Feb 26, 2023

Anticipation building toward Roki Sasaki's WBC debut

The Samurai Japan pitcher is showing off his heat — and learning from his teammates — ahead of the team's pool campaign at Tokyo Dome next month.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Feb 26, 2023

French documentary and Spanish girl clinch top prizes at Berlinale

The top prize went to a documentary and the best acting award to an 8-year-old actress at a Berlinale awards ceremony full of surprises.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 23, 2023

‘Tocka’: An existential end-of-the-road trip

Yoshitaka Kamada’s drama about a man looking to end his life is bleak, sometimes beautiful and shot through with dark humor.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 23, 2023

‘Red Shoes’: Boxing tearjerker makes for a lightweight entry

Toshiro Saiga’s drama geared toward a mainstream audience tugs at the heartstrings but doesn’t deliver an emotional punch in the way of Sho Miyake’s “Small, Slow but Steady.”
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / THE LIVING PAST
Feb 19, 2023

What makes a good priest — good looks or a knack for violence?

It was a time when the temples owned great tracts of land. The priests who managed them were armed and pugnacious, ready to defend and possibly extend.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Okinawa
Feb 13, 2023

As Japan considers easing virus guidance, Okinawan children fear unmasked life

Even among adults, opinions are divided on how society should handle the coronavirus, including on the issue of whether or not to remove masks — which only adds to unease for children.
Japan Times
LIFE
Feb 12, 2023

Fukui’s dwindling washi makers hold on to paper-thin margins

As a product, washi's beauty is unassailable. As an industry, it's future is in doubt.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Feb 6, 2023

‘Sakura’ musician Masa Takumi wins Grammy for best global music album

The 44-year-old creator, who won for his fifth full-length solo album, is the first Japanese artist to ever win the category.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 2, 2023

Asia is loosening rules on masks. Here’s why people still wear them.

Many other countries dropped pandemic mask requirements months ago. But in places like South Korea, which got rid of its rule this week, masks remain common.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jan 29, 2023

Matsuo Basho's complete works reveal the sensuality and innovation of a master poet

Andrew Fitzsimons offers carefully considered translations of the poet’s works, including his famous haiku about a frog in a pond, in “Basho: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Basho.”
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 25, 2023

Library thrives in Pakistan's 'wild west' gun market town

Literacy in tribal areas is low as a result of poverty, patriarchal values and other issues, but attitudes toward education are slowing changing.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2023

From soup stock to supercrop: Japan shows off its seaweed savvy

Research into new applications for the marine plant — from carbon absorption to reducing methane emissions from cattle — is flourishing.
Japan Times
Film / Reviews
Jul 6, 2023

'One Second Ahead, One Second Behind': Rom-com remake benefits from fantastical twist

A remake of the Taiwanese hit 'My Missing Valentine,' Nobuhiro Yamashita’s rom-com gets decidedly quirkier with a midpoint twist.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jul 6, 2023

South Korean doctors flee pediatrics as low birth rate makes funding unviable

Fewer children combined with a failure of the insurance system to adapt to the situation has left the sector starved of resources, with specialists shunning a field they think has no future.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jul 1, 2023

Five climbs around Tokyo to get your Mount Fuji fix

Crowds dimming your hopes of a Mount Fuji climb this summer? These five peaks around Tokyo may be better options — with or without throngs of tourists.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / Reviews
Jun 29, 2023

‘Mountain Woman’: A steep slope of rural, human cruelty

Co-scripted by Takeshi Fukunaga, the film is set in the latter half of the 18th century with a story inspired by the folklore collection “The Legends of Tono.”
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 24, 2023

Some in China are boycotting Japanese cosmetics over Fukushima water release

The viral campaign began earlier this month when largely unproven allegations that water discharges from the plant are hazardous to health began trending on Chinese social media platforms.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jun 24, 2023

Airbnb’s newest venture is in Japan’s most hidden village

Airbnb has partnered with one rural family to offer two lucky guests a free two-night stay in their traditional thatch-roofed home.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jun 23, 2023

Thanks to Netflix, this tiny Swiss town has more visitors than locals

With pandemic rules subsiding, tourists are flocking to a small town in Switzerland to visit sites from the South Korean TV drama 'Crash Landing on You.'
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 24, 2023

‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ leads the Oscar nominations

Daniel Kwan’s oddball sci-fi movie, 'Everything Everywhere All at Once,” led in sheer number of Oscar nominations, with 11 total.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 24, 2023

Japanese ballet troupe presents its spin on plastic waste

'Plastic,' a new production by renowned Japanese company K-Ballet, aims to draw attention to a global pollution crisis through some unusual set and wardrobe design.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Jan 22, 2023

The Heian and Edo periods couldn't have been more different, which is why it's odd they ended in such a similar way

The transition from Heian Period peace to the war-prone Kamakura Period was a rough one. Surprisingly, the transition from conflict to the boardrooms of modern Japan were just as rough.

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A sinkhole in Yashio, which emerged in January, was triggered by a ruptured, aging sewer pipe. Authorities worry that similar sections of infrastructure across the country are also at risk of corrosion.
That sinking feeling: Japan’s aging sewers are an infrastructure time bomb