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COMMENTARY / World
Aug 9, 2015

The EU becomes the disunited bailout union

No one other than the Eurocratic elite believes in the EU. In the future the debate on the continent may increasingly be about how fast and far to roll back 'Europe.'
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 9, 2015

What Greece needs to prosper

The remedy for Greece lies in adopting the right structural reforms, including dismantling corporatist arrangements and practices that obstruct innovation and entrepreneurship.
JAPAN / History
Aug 8, 2015

Truth hurts: censorship in the media

"Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war." — Philip Snowden, July 1916
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Aug 8, 2015

Still waters run deep in Shizuoka's ancient town of Mishima

It was no coincidence that my custard tart, known locally as a Fujisancho cake, had been fashioned in the form of Japan's most sacred mountain.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KYOTO RESTAURANTS
Aug 7, 2015

Kiln: Incredible burgers for wagyu lovers and vegetarians

Kiln takes its name from the oven at the center of its open kitchen, which is surrounded by communal wooden slabs that seat around 10 diners.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 7, 2015

Achieving true reconciliation

It takes two to tango, and to achieve reconciliation.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 7, 2015

Japan experts play down Olympic logo row, as Belgian designer flags legal action against IOC

Although the controversy over the official emblem for 2020 Tokyo Olympics is heating up, experts say it won't turn out to be such a big issue after all.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 6, 2015

Search called off for legendary Russian free-diver who vanished off Spain

One of the world's greatest free-divers, Russia's Natalia Molchanova, is feared dead after disappearing during a dive off Spain's Balearic Islands, officials said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media
Aug 5, 2015

Asahi Shimbun apologizes for 'inappropriate' tweet about Shinzo Abe

Tadashi Tominaga, the newspaper's senior staff writer, had posted a photograph of an ultranationalist rally, writing that the participants were supporters of the prime minister.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2015

Can Singapore save democracy?

The conditions exist for Singapore to move from being a showcase of efficient authoritarianism to an exemplar of that much-invoked but nearly extinct thing: democracy.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2015

Beijing 2022, the surprisingly green Olympics

Beijing stands as the torch-bearer for a new kind of Olympics that are designed to have a minimal impact on their environment.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 3, 2015

Putin would eat President Trump for lunch

Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn't make deals with brash, showy businessmen like Donald Trump. He crushes them.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 3, 2015

U.S., NATO fear Greek fifth column to aid Russia

The paranoid panic that Greece's economic problems could destroy Europe's and America's geopolitical standing should generate a mix of scorn and laughter.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 29, 2015

Volatility of China's stock market is no surprise

The roller-coaster ride of China's stock market is far from over.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 28, 2015

Darker horizons ahead: rethinking the war on IS

The war on Islamic State and other extremist groups cannot possibly be won as long as corrupt, violent regimes remain the only alternative to radicalization and extremism.
JAPAN / History
Jul 25, 2015

Winds of war: Japan's balloon bombs took the Pacific battle to American soil

In May 1945, a pastor from Bly, Oregon, led his wife and a group of children on a day trip near Klamath Falls. They were all looking forward to hours of fishing and picnicking in fine weather. Everyone got out of the car while the Rev. Archie Mitchell was parking along a remote logging road and unloading...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jul 25, 2015

Rightists distort author Park Yu-ha's views on 'comfort women'

Park Yu-ha, an academic at Sejong University in Seoul, is the darling of the Japanese right because of her alleged stance on the "comfort women" system. But their cherry-picking of her writings distorts her views and twists them into support for the revisionists' vindicating and exonerating narrative....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jul 25, 2015

Will 'neurotic' Japan go postcapitalist?

Is Japan on the threshold of postcapitalism? If it is, as Morris Berman suggests in "Neurotic Beauty: An Outsiders Look at Japan," Prime Minister Shinzo Abe doesn't seem to have received the memo.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jul 25, 2015

'Here Comes the Sun' traces one woman's spiritual journey through Japan

With the success of last year's popular NHK drama, "Massan" — a dramatization of the life of Scotswoman Rita Cowan in early 20th-century Japan — it was inevitable that interest in foreign wives in this country would surge.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 24, 2015

Conservatism with a heart? It's called socialism

Sensing their imminent demise, some U.S. Republicans want the party to embrace social and economic values more in line with the views of younger, more ethnically diverse voters.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 20, 2015

Russian billionaire pledges $100 million to find intelligent life in space

Wondering if we are alone in the universe has engaged minds through the ages. Add to the list Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, who announced Monday that he plans to spend $100 million to explore the idea.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 20, 2015

Israelis feel surrounded yet alone after Iran deal

To many Israelis, the Obama administration has become synonymous with betrayal of Israel.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Jul 19, 2015

Women of color bound to Japan by love and family

Part 1 of a series looking at the black women who have taken vows binding their fates — and sometimes that of their children — to Japan, for better or for worse.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 19, 2015

America's why not election

The U.S. presidential election not only has more candidates than ever; it has the highest proportion of any election in memory of aspirants who are flat-out unqualified.
Japan Times
CULTURE / CULTURE SMASH
Jul 18, 2015

Project Anime asks the right questions

More than 90,000 attended the 24th annual Anime Expo (AX), North America's largest Japanese pop culture convention, held at the Los Angeles Convention Center from July 2 to 5. The four-day event featured a concert by idol group Momoiro Clover Z, who were joined onstage by two members of veteran American...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jul 17, 2015

Ten years on, Maltine sticks to its guns on free music

Tomohiro Konuta sometimes imagines an alternate world where he's not running a music label.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 17, 2015

The forgotten nuclear deal

Could the deal with Iran follow the trajectory of the deal with India: a great strategic move, followed by protracted negotiations on follow-up steps, moving goalposts, and the gradual diminution of the original accord?

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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