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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 23, 2019

Putin took the Mideast, the U.S. can get it back

Thanks to Obama and Trump, Russia the 'regional power' has added a new region.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 5, 2017

How Japan needs to change to welcome immigrants

If managed wisely, immigration can be a boon for Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Nov 24, 2016

Japan leaves unapproved asylum seekers and kids born in-country with dire choices

Visa please fall on deaf ears as justice ministry insists on executing deportation orders.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Jan 4, 2014

Kenya Hara: the future of design

Sitting at a plain white table in a meeting room high up on the 12th floor of a narrow building in central Tokyo, product designer Kenya Hara asks me to picture a shallow plate in my mind. "Now imagine a slightly deeper plate," Hara says, "that gets deeper and deeper and eventually becomes a bowl."
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jan 29, 2012

In disparity-ridden Japan, don't mind the gaps — just get out of them

This is a nation of gaps.
Japan Times
Events / WHERE IT'S AT
Aug 2, 2011

Embassies, educational groups get 'stamp' of approval from students

If you're a Japanese student interested in studying at a foreign university, it might be best to start preparing early.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Jan 3, 2010

Jake Adelstein: Insider reaching out

Author Joshua "Jake" Adelstein supposes that if he'd stayed home in rural Missouri and had never come to Japan, he'd probably have become a small-town lawyer or a very happy detective on the local police force.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / BY THE GLASS
Oct 9, 2009

Introducing the Californian dream

Swilling an elegant Pinot around your glass, the landscape before you, verdant with vines, undulates in the soft evening light. The little wine you've imbibed sets your senses aglow as you contemplate the cinematic beauty of California's wine country.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / PLAY BUTTON
May 25, 2003

Classic country without the hair spray

Neko (pronounced like Nico) Case certainly has the tresses to make it in Nashville. Her long luxurious auburn locks would need only a little coaxing and a lot of hair spray for a Loretta Lynn do.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Aug 23, 2001

Look, mum, what I got playing for my country

Maybe it was the passing of yet another birthday; maybe it was the fact that I had just become the proud father of a healthy son and heir but the last few weeks have seen me getting more and more nostalgic.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 27, 2023

Finally, a serious offer to take Putin off Russia’s hands

The International Criminal Court just made it easier for any successor to get rid of Vladimir Putin.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Jan 30, 2023

North Korea could get a vital lifeline from arms sales to Russia

While Washington said the weapons won’t do much to alter the battlefield, the sales would open a new stream of revenue to a country isolated from much of world trade.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 20, 2023

How COVID’s bitter divisions tarnished a liberal icon

In a part of the world where coronavirus restrictions lingered, Jacinda Ardern struggled to get beyond her association with pandemic policy.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Aug 19, 2022

A year of the Taliban: Afghanistan’s tragedy continues

The past year has been hard on the Afghan people. The country's economy has collapsed and many citizens have been pushed into poverty.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 6, 2021

COVID-19 vaccine shots are finally arriving, but Africa can't get them all into arms

A shortage of funds, medical staff and equipment, as well as vaccine hesitancy, could exacerbate the challenges the continent already faces.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Jul 22, 2020

Sign of the times: Helping deaf people get by in Japan

Attempts are being made to enhance the visibility and availability of sign language across the nation.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 7, 2020

Iran is not the country most people think it is

No other people in the world are more temperamentally similar to Americans than Iranians, but thanks to Trump the religious government will probably remain in place for the foreseeable future.
TENNIS
Jul 13, 2016

Nishikori hopes to get full experience at Rio Games

The ultimate goal for a professional tennis player is to win a Grand Slam event. But the Olympics, says Kei Nishikori, the world's sixth-ranked player, is an different animal, and provides a special motivation.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jan 3, 2015

In Kawabata's footsteps to 'Snow Country'

"The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country."
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 1, 2014

An Iraq in peril struggles to hold together

Salman Khaled has already lived through Baghdad's sectarian disintegration; with Iraq now splintering into Shiite, Sunni Arab and Kurdish regions, he says this time the survival of the country is at stake.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jun 28, 2014

A life of lettuce has its benefits

Lettuce. Let us raise a glass to lettuce.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Dec 24, 2013

Why world's newest country is nearing civil war

It was considered one of the world's great successes when South Sudan became an independent nation on July 9, 2011. After many unhappy years as a region of Sudan, the new country declared its independence with crucial support from the outside world, particularly the United States.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Mar 10, 2012

Cambodia experience facilitated aid effort in the Tohoku region

Cathy Hirano says it was "so painful to feel powerless in the face of such a huge disaster," recalling the day a year ago that the Pacific coast of Tohoku was hit by the huge earthquake and tsunami.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Oct 1, 2011

Not just cats — will dogs also get nine lives?

They say cats have nine lives, but dogs? With the help of the Japan Earthquake Animal Rescue and Support, dogs may soon get nine lives too.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Sep 7, 2010

U.S. Navy 'Friendship Festival' draws line at the French

Could it be that the Friendship Day festivals held at the U.S. Navy Negishi Housing Base are not as friendly as the name suggests?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jun 22, 2010

Can't vote? No problem, you're empowered!

What are you planning to do with yourself this summer? If you're Japanese, have you given any thought to the country's upcoming Upper House elections?
CULTURE / Film
May 1, 2009

'Burn After Reading'

"I know what you represent," sneers John Malkovich, playing an ex- CIA operative confronting one of his blackmailing tormentors in the Coen Brothers' latest, "Burn After Reading" — "you represent the entire idiocy of today!"
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jan 18, 2009

Finding the fabled Snow Country

"The special delights of the hot spring are for the unaccompanied gentleman," states the introduction to Yasunari Kawabata's "Snow Country," instantly seizing the attention.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Oct 12, 2003

Australia living up to its 'lucky country' nickname

TOWNSVILLE, Australia -- Talk about living up to your nickname!
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 22, 2023

Hedge funds pushing for Japan returns get help from Tokyo exchange

The number of proposals submitted for this year’s shareholder meetings has jumped about 60% from the same time last year.
Takaichi poised to become Japan's first female PM after winning LDP poll
Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, holds a news conference after the LDP presidential election in Tokyo on Saturday.
A Japanese ski resort town is roiled by a debate over immigration
A Swedish snowboard instructor works at the Niseko ski resort area on Hokkaido, in Kutchan, in December 2022
Tokyo's newest stationery store sells 'a slower, more human rhythm'
Plotter's signature customizable leather binder is just one of many products contributing to the ongoing boom in the popularity of Japanese stationery.
One dead, one missing in Japan after bear attack
A bear warning sign. More and more wild bears have been spotted in Japan in recent years, even in residential areas, due to factors including a declining human population and climate change.
Japan’s jobless rate edges up to highest in over a year
August’s unemployment figures showed a slight tempering of Japan's job market, but the data still points to overall firmness amid an ongoing labor shortage.
The summer kabuki came roaring back
Kabuki has been trying for years to attract a new generation of fans. One way to do this has been to adapt manga and anime franchises, such as “Naruto,” for the stage. 
Tea ceremony experts see matcha boom as a big opportunity
Atsuko Mori, founder and director of Kyoto-based tea salon Camellia Tea Ceremony, prepares matcha during a tea ceremony in Kyoto.
Japan's far-right party courts Trump allies and vows not to get 'wacky'
Sanseito party leader Sohei Kamiya speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Sept. 25.
How Ohtani has boosted Japan's soft power and made LA even more baseball-obsessed
Fans at Dodger Stadium pose in front of a mural highlighting the Dodgers' Japanese stars from past and present during a game earlier this year.
Japan faces fresh energy challenge as it seeks to expand power-hungry data centers
Data storage tapes at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center facility in Berkeley, California. Data centers consume massive amounts of electricity and water, and that will only rise as generative artificial intelligence takes off in earnest.

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