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Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 28, 2017

Big impressions live in the details

Distracted by the frenzy of today's hyper-connected world, many of us can easily overlook the everyday incidents that encourage smiles or offer simple affirmations of life being lived.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 28, 2017

Coutelas: Outside the outsiders

Robert Coutelas (1930-85) was born into a poor French family who lived in a single room, and he died in a similar, pathetically impoverished, way. Nearly every opportunity life afforded he either abandoned or would broker no compromise for the sake of art. Now, 160 small works pay tribute to his vision...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 28, 2017

'The Israel Goldman Collection: This is Kyosai!'

Feb. 23 -April 16
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 28, 2017

Migration: a threat or a necessity?

By targeting immigration control as one of the prime aims of Brexit, the British government may find that it has kicked an own goal.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 28, 2017

Fake news warning from an ex-propagandist

To create the kind of disinformation that changes the world, you need a story that's at least 60, 70 or even 80 percent true.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 28, 2017

Why Dutch sentiment has turned against immigrants

Soon after she moved into her new neighborhood, Ijburg, on the eastern outskirts of Amsterdam, in 2005, Xandra Lammers started a blog about it. Ijburg is a curious place, an architectural wonder, built in the middle of a lake on reclaimed land and partly on water. She still keeps the blog alive, but...
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 28, 2017

Sony, Line eye AI-powered consumer gadgets

Sony Corp. and Line Corp., Japan's most popular messaging service, are considering joining forces to develop devices powered by artificial intelligence.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 27, 2017

Japan's Senkaku challenge

No group of islands poses a bigger challenge for Japan's security than the Senkakus.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 27, 2017

China's top diplomat Yang set to visit U.S. this week

China's top diplomat will visit the United States this week, the most senior Chinese official to do so since President Donald Trump took office on Jan. 20, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 27, 2017

North Korea spy agency runs arms operation out of Malaysia, U.N. says

It is in Kuala Lumpur's "Little India" neighborhood, behind an unmarked door on the second floor of a rundown building, where a military equipment company called Glocom says it has its office.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / KANSAI PERSPECTIVE
Feb 26, 2017

Nippon Ishin no Kai bill targets gambling woes in bid to move casino policies forward

The opposition party Nippon Ishin no Kai is proposing new legislation to deal with problem gamblers, hoping to speed up the debate after a bill legalizing casinos in Japan was rammed through the Diet in December.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Feb 25, 2017

Premium Friday is not about taking a holiday

The anonymous writer of Asahi Shimbun's finance-related Keizai Kishodai column pointed out in the Feb. 18 edition that Japanese people only think of time off on a day-by-day basis, whereas Europeans tend to conceptualize it in week-long blocks, as 'vacations.'
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Feb 25, 2017

Does the nuclear option make sense for Japan?

Becoming a nuclear weapons power won't make Japan safer and won't lighten the U.S. security burden.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / ON: GAMES
Feb 25, 2017

Nintendo is switching it up

It's still early in 2017, but Switch, Nintendo's newest gaming console, is bound to be the most desirable hardware of the year. Both a home console and a handheld, it's being touted as an all-in-one must have. Drop it in its dock and players can game on a television screen. Attach Joy-Con controllers...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Feb 25, 2017

'The Gentleman from Japan': Impersonation and intrigue in China and Europe

"You don't know anything, you like noodles, and you aren't Japanese. Can we put that on your gravestone?"
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Feb 25, 2017

Sake brewer Philip Harper: 'You need to learn humility in the face of nature'

British native on the need for patience during the brewing process.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Feb 25, 2017

Hoop teams using data tools in order to boost analytical capabilities, scouting

In this digital era, basketball is a data-driven sport and those analytics impact the performances of teams and players today.
Japan Times
Rugby
Feb 25, 2017

Sunwolves crushed in Super Rugby opener

The Sunwolves were handed a rude welcome to their second Super Rugby season with an 83-17 thrashing by the defending champion Hurricanes on Saturday.
Philippine bid to acquire used Japanese warships gains steam
Tokyo is looking to transfer Abukuma-class vessels to the Philippines as part of broader efforts to boost the defense capabilities of like-minded neighbors amid growing Chinese military assertiveness in the region.
Japan Post to stop accepting some parcels for shipment to the U.S.
Japan Post's UGX will still be available for many rejected packages.
Japan aims to tighten rules for business manager visas from October
The number of foreign residents with business management residency status had reached a record 41,615 as of the end of 2024.
Tokyo releases AI-generated video of Mount Fuji erupting
A screenshot from an AI-generated video showing what could happen to Tokyo if Mount Fuji erupted
Character-crazed Japan has little appetite for Labubu
A pop-up advertisement for the newly opened Chiikawa Park in Tokyo's Ikebukuro neighborhood demonstrates how the country is chockful of cute characters — to the detriment of trends like Labubu.
Is Kishida plotting a return of the king? Or would he rather stay a kingmaker?
Former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida chairs a plenary session at the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Yokohama on Aug. 21.
Japanese prefectures break with labor ministry on minimum wage
The ministry of labor has suggested a 6% minimum wage increase, but most prefectures reporting so far are opting to go slightly higher.
Philippines quietly deepening ‘unofficial’ defense ties with Taiwan
Filipino soldiers take part in a flag-raising ceremony on Mavulis Island during a visit by the Philippines' Armed Forces chief of staff, in Batanes, the Philippines, in June 2023. Batanes, a group of idyllic islands at the country’s northernmost tip, sits about 160 kilometers from Taiwan.
Are 'coolcations' the answer for Japan's heat-weary tourists?
Hikers on a trail in Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture. As extreme heat continues to grip Japan, a tectonic shift may be underway in the nation’s summer tourism scene as more people gravitate toward cooler destinations.
Germany's first sakemaker offers a bold brew of ideas
Reigen, Germany's first sake brewery, makes a diverse, nontraditional range of sake that includes fruit-flavored sips and wine barrel-aged renditions.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past
By Alex K.T. Martin

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