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JAPAN
Nov 24, 2000

Cabinet adrift as Mori goes to Singapore

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori departed for Singapore on Thursday to attend a summit of 13 Asian countries, leaving his administration in a fragile condition.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Remembering 3/11
Mar 11, 2021

Olympic torchbearer aiming to remind the world of 2011 disaster

Kenichi Kurosawa survived the earthquake and tsunami, and has been constantly encouraging his neighbors to stay strong ever since.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 21, 2017

Inada resists calls to resign over alleged SDF activity log cover-up

Defense chief Tomomi Inada denies participating in the alleged GSDF log coverup, clinging to her position ahead of a Cabinet reshuffle in which she is widely expected to exit.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 10, 2013

Joe Biden asked the right question about women in Japan's workforce

The real disgrace isn't U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's 'gaffe,' but how little is changing for Japanese women even under a prime minister who has pledged to empower them as never before.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 2, 2010

Vernacular photography — a means to avoid an end

A woman in a corseted, white-lace dress stares straight ahead as she unveils a framed funerary portrait of another young woman. This sepia-toned 19th-century photograph is historian and curator Geoffrey Batchen's choice for the very first image of "Suspending Time: Life - Photography - Death" at the...
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Apr 26, 2008

Liverpool facing uphill climb against Chelsea

LONDON — If John Arne Riise believes there is a football god, the Liverpool substitute will have prayed to it every night since his stoppage time own-goal handed Chelsea a 1-1 draw in last Tuesday's Champions League semifinal, first leg.
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Feb 12, 2007

Mum's the word, Mr. Yanagisawa

Keeping mum has never been a strong point of politicians. Hakuo Yanagisawa, the beleaguered health, labor and welfare minister, seems especially bad at keeping mum on the subject of mums. In his world, mums are machines. Their sole function is to breed.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 8, 2022

Adidas and Nike must pick up the pieces after antisemitism ruins deals

The road back to normalcy will be much rockier for Adidas than for its longtime rival.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Jun 30, 2022

BOJ's public relations crisis forces rethink on inflation message

Public anger has been particularly strident, with tabloids and television programs criticizing 77-year-old BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda as someone earning a fat salary and being out of touch.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Apr 22, 2019

Abe likely to use upcoming big events to distract Japanese public from election routs, experts say

The Liberal Democratic Party's defeat in two by-elections on Sunday is likely to prompt the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to use upcoming diplomatic events to deflect domestic attention from recent political setbacks, as he looks ahead to a key Upper House election in the summer, experts...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 2, 2017

Anti-missile missile system missing the point in South Korea

THAAD offers little protection to South Korea, while greatly exasperating ties with China.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 1, 2016

Extravagant gamble of Rio's mayor

The Olympic Games could make or break the career of Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Apr 4, 2013

U.K. immigration critical to success of anti-EU party

For the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), defeat has never looked this much like victory.
JAPAN
Jan 3, 2012

New year could prove daunting for Noda

In the four months since winning the Democratic Party of Japan presidential election, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has survived by taking a cautious approach to governing, managing to compile the 2012 budget and several bills to finance restoration of the disaster-hit Tohoku region.
COMMENTARY
Aug 27, 2008

Showcasing best of China

It's been like watching the coverage of the Beijing Olympics on a split screen. Much of the Western media comment in the main news and opinion pages has been written up by the "nattering nabobs of negativism," in the immortal words of Vice President Spiro Agnew (albeit written by William Safire). The...
JAPAN
Dec 1, 2000

Mori weathers storm but warned against further gaffes

The 72-day extraordinary Diet session comes to a close today with Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori clinging to power despite a series of challenges that could have ousted him from office.
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Dec 13, 2017

Taunts, tweets and tough talk: Japan's quotes of 2017

Soundbites tell the story of a roller-coaster year for Japan, from its Diet to its dohyu014d.
LIFE
Sep 13, 2009

Winning was the easy part for Hatoyama's DPJ

After generations of rule, the Liberal Democratic Party was trounced by the Democratic Party of Japan in last month's Lower House elections. Jeff Kingston weighs what went wrong, what went right — and what now for a nation whose voters are sick of 'politics as usual'?
EDITORIALS
Nov 20, 1999

Only disconnect

Way back in the Orwellian year of 1984, James Cameron's movie "The Terminator" gave us a glimpse of a future swarming with cyborgs -- machines that have taken on a life of their own and turned against human beings.

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Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.
A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan