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BUSINESS / Tech
May 21, 2013

China tapped Google server secrets

Chinese hackers who breached Google's servers several years ago gained access to a sensitive database with years' worth of information about U.S. surveillance targets, according to current and former government officials.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 21, 2013

Outsider art that comes from within

'Outsider art' is relatively new in Japan and, as a genre, works made by self-taught Japanese artists are still not very well known on the category-delineating, label-loving international art scene.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
May 16, 2013

Thaemlitz's mix tackles antidancing law

It's fitting that I should be meeting Terre Thaemlitz on May 1, International Workers' Day — she wryly refers to herself as a "feminist Marxist" before we begin our interview in proper.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 11, 2013

Obama's Guantanamo hunger strike problem

When the military doctors force-feed Guantanamo Bay detainee Fayiz al-Kandari with a tube shoved into his stomach there are three stages to the pain.
WORLD / Science & Health
May 9, 2013

Hardy words that cross cultures traced

You, hear me! Give this fire to that old man. Pull the black worm off the bark and give it to the mother. And no spitting in the ashes!
COMMENTARY / World
May 8, 2013

U.S. burnishing energy card

As the top natural gas producer outpacing even Russia, the U.S. has an energy card to play. It can decide how much to export, at what price, and to which countries.
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
May 3, 2013

J-blip: The secret behind Disney + Gogo no Koucha

Collect 'em all, kids, and get flipbook-style animation of Mickey and friends.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
May 3, 2013

Cafe 104.5: The delicious upside to urban development

Onward and upward: Tokyo's ever-changing skyline sprouts new high-rise buildings like bamboo shoots in spring.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
May 3, 2013

'Bakumatsu Taiyo-den (The Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate)'

Director: Yuzo Kawashima
EDITORIALS
May 2, 2013

The Boston bombings

Investigators continue to fill in the blanks, but one large question continues to hang over the terror attack during the Boston Marathon on April 15: Why?
COMMENTARY / World
May 1, 2013

New global environment of human hybridization

While Catholic doctrines evolve slowly, the Latin vocabulary has been expanding steadily in recent years, reflecting the surge of neologisms like telephonium.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
May 1, 2013

Defense cuts proving to be a paradox for U.S. liberals

Liberals are increasingly facing a conundrum as the Pentagon experiences the deepest cuts in a generation: The significant reductions in military spending that they have long sought are also taking a huge bite out of economic growth.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 27, 2013

What will allow the last Briton in Guantanamo to come home?

Shaker Aamer remembers the frantic knocking on the door, the voices screaming for him to get out. Outside, in the dark streets of Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan, the soldiers stripped him of his belongings at gunpoint and marched away their latest prisoner.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 25, 2013

As U.S. economy picks up, richest get richer

Wealth inequality widened dramatically during the first two years of the economic recovery, as the upper 7 percent of American households saw their average net worth increase 28 percent while the wealth of the other 93 percent declined, according to a report released Tuesday.
SOCCER / J. League / J. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Apr 25, 2013

Ardija not prepared to fade from memory after day in sun

Omiya Ardija took center stage last Saturday after setting a new J. League record for consecutive unbeaten games, but the unheralded Saitama side can expect plenty more attention if it manages to maintain its impressive start to the season.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Apr 18, 2013

Extruders have a rock epiphany

"Before the gig, we were quite intimidated: a lowly rock band performing in front of a god. After, we found we could do it, and that was the turning point for us."
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 18, 2013

Blame Western 'demonists' for Pyongyang's belligerence

Demonists never sleep. They concoct fantasies almost daily over a North Korea that almost certainly only wants to protect itself from the threat of U.S. attack.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Apr 16, 2013

B-Corsairs prove last season was no fluke

As a first-year franchise, the Yokohama B-Corsairs proved to be one of the bj-league's best clubs last season, advancing to the Final Four and placing third overall at Ariake Colosseum. No easy feat.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 16, 2013

No resting on techie laurels

Only a few years ago, it was forecast that Japan's best growth strategy would be to develop environment-related products. That forecast was off the mark.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Apr 12, 2013

Gunma making progress under Blackwell's leadership

The Gunma Crane Thunders' entire history consists of 46 regular-season games — 12 wins, 34 defeats. A standard of excellence and habits, good or bad, generally take longer to form.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Apr 11, 2013

Fight looms for rival Syria rebel factions

As this remote corner of northeastern Syria fast slides out of government control, many Syrians are bracing for what they fear will be another war, between the relatively moderate fighters who first took up arms against the government and the Islamist extremists who emerged more recently with the muscle...
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Apr 9, 2013

Japan's foreign trainee system said still plagued by rights abuses

Last month, a Chinese trainee went on a stabbing rampage at a Hiroshima Prefecture seafood company where he worked, killing the president and an employee and wounding six others.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 9, 2013

How safe are the EU banks?

The top priority for the EU should be the development of an effective banking union with tough rules and proper enforcement.
BASKETBALL
Apr 8, 2013

Broncos find shooting touch in win over Crane Thunders

It was only fitting that in a city that means green in Japanese, both teams' offense had the perpetual green light in this entertaining, up-tempo bj-league series.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 8, 2013

When Supreme silence is golden in America

As the recent U.S. Supreme Court arguments over same-sex marriage attest, silence plays a role in constitutional law just as it does in ordinary life.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Apr 8, 2013

The life and times of the destitute girl

I was one of those suckers who thought that the seifu (u653fu5e9c, government) might get it right this time.

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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