Search - author

 
 
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 20, 2017

Arctic seas called dead end for plastic waste floating from U.S., Europe

The Arctic is a dead end for floating plastic waste dumped in the Atlantic Ocean off Europe and the United States and swept north by ocean currents to a polar graveyard, scientists said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Apr 19, 2017

Britain's May betting an early election will buy her more time to hash out Brexit

Nine months after becoming prime minister, Theresa May is learning how to gamble.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 18, 2017

U.N. credibility is at stake

The U.N. is strugging to reaffirm its raison d'etre as the vanguard of international peace and security.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 18, 2017

Time for a real passenger bill of rights

Americans have been mad as hell. Now, it seems, they're not going to take it anymore.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 18, 2017

Overbooking is a problem as old as the airline industry

Overbooking was the solution to the costly problem of 'no-shows' — people who reserved a seat but failed to board — that emerged in the late 1940s.
Japan Times
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Apr 18, 2017

Angelic Mao's legacy will be part of skating forever

The news hit Japan and the skating world like a thunderbolt last Monday night when Mao Asada announced she was retiring from the sport.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 18, 2017

'The Art of Eric Carle'

April 22-July 2
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 18, 2017

'Vagina artist' Megumi Igarashi continues her battle with Japan's definition of obscenity

Artist Megumi Igarashi had never imagined battling investigative authorities over freedom of expression until they claimed she had committed crimes with her works of art.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 17, 2017

Nervous China ramps up religious persecution

If Beijing continues its repressive course against religious believers, it will make political upheaval and the collapse of communist rule more likely.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Apr 16, 2017

Architect builds bridges between the Congo and Kansai

With an otaku's giddiness, Baye McNeil speaks with Nsenda Lukumwena, an authority on Japanese buildings and head of an architectural firm in Kobe.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Apr 15, 2017

Abe's self-inflicted statue wounds fester in Seoul

Abe face-planted by sending back Japan's ambassador to Seoul without resolving the statue issue, one that should never have been made into such a big deal in the first place.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 14, 2017

BOJ's dilemma between price stability and financial stability

It may be time for the BOJ to provide more reasonable projections about the time by which it can achieve 2 percent inflation.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 13, 2017

All in the family: Dinosaur cousin's look is quite a surprise for researchers

Scientists have identified the oldest-known forerunner of the dinosaurs and are expressing surprise at how little it resembled one.
COMMUNITY / Issues / LAW OF THE LAND
Apr 12, 2017

Japanese people v. the United States et al

Stories of the Japanese people whom fate — and, more often than not, citizenship — brought before America's highest court.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 12, 2017

Why Westinghouse was doomed at its creation

The world has spent nearly 60 years trying to make economic sense of nuclear power, with limited success. It may be time to pull the plug.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 11, 2017

Blame Woodrow Wilson for the U.S.' constant wars

It's time for U.S. presidents to work hard for peace rather than take what has become the far easier path to war.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 11, 2017

Russian influence on Nets leaves franchise in disarray

The United States is having a lot of problems with Russia.
JAPAN
Apr 11, 2017

Imperial Rescript on Education making slow, contentious comeback

Once declared incompatible with Japan's postwar transformation into a democracy, a 19th-century Imperial edict on patriotism is slowly making its way back into the nation's education. Spearheading its resurgence is none other than the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Apr 10, 2017

Assad may see U.S. strike as only 'a slap on the wrist'

A U.S. cruise missile attack on a Syrian air base may persuade Syria's President Bashar Assad to be more cautious with some of his tactics, but will not deter him and his allies from pressing a full-throttle military campaign to crush rebels.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Apr 7, 2017

'Nuclear option' fallout means more extreme U.S. justices, experts say

A Republican-backed Senate rule change expected on Thursday could make it more likely that presidents will pick ideologically extreme U.S. Supreme Court nominees with little incentive to choose centrist justices, experts said.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 5, 2017

Will nuclear history repeat itself in Korea?

By continuing to indulge Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions, China's leaders risk finding themselves surrounded by unfriendly nuclear-armed states or with a nasty war on their border.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Apr 5, 2017

How many Japanese are a bit of something else?

Even taking 1965 as a false racially pure 'year zero,' mathematics muddies the homogeneity myth.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 4, 2017

The temptation of Theresa May

If Britain's prime minister concedes too much to the political fringe, she could make it impossible to reach an agreement with Europe that both fulfills her promise to 'leave' voters and ensures Britain's future economic prospects.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 4, 2017

Tillerson goes to Asia

The Trump administration is still falling short on addressing the North Korea issue.
Japan Times
JAPAN / GASTECH JAPAN 2017
Apr 4, 2017

Chiba Prefecture boasts green parks, long history

Inhabited by people since the pre-historic era, Makuhari is today a conference city that — thanks to its proximity to Tokyo — is highly regarded as a convenient site for holding various events and conferences. Makuhari lies in Chiba Prefecture, which has a land area of 5,156 sq. kilometers and a...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 4, 2017

Long-awaited 'Asian century' might not ever come

There may well be an 'Asian century' in the future, but don't hold your breath.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 3, 2017

Koike's plan for Tepco to remove utility poles in Tokyo an Olympian task

Making one of the world's biggest cities beautiful is a task beleaguered Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. is unlikely to relish.
CULTURE / Books
Apr 1, 2017

'Fractures': Putting together the pieces of a story told in verse

"Fractures" is a slip of a book featuring 27 haiku-inspired poems from author and Japan Times contributor Iain Maloney.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Mar 31, 2017

Yoronto: A small island with unique culture where time and space expand

The sea is only as blue as the sky permits. Even in the deep southern islands of the Nansei-Shoto, an overcast day can turn the sub-tropics into a mirror image of some of the more relentlessly dreary resort towns of my own country, England. One thinks of the ingloriously named Minehead, the estuary wilderness...
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 31, 2017

Trump's foreign policy muddle

In contrast to his tough campaign talk, there is little sign that Trump's China approach thus far is different to that of his predecessor, Barack Obama, on whose watch Beijing initiated coercive actions with impunity in the South and East China seas.

Longform

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