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COMMENTARY / World
Mar 4, 2018

Putin wants modern weapons, not a modern Russia

The Russian president's key speech last week was full of unfunded promises and thinly veiled threats.
JAPAN
Mar 3, 2018

Fukushima looks to ease blanket radiation checks on rice starting in 2020

The lack of tainted rice in recent years is raising hopes the labor-intensive procedure can be reduced to random inspections, at least outside the 12 hot zones.
MORE SPORTS
Mar 1, 2018

Disgraced Luis Nery records second-round TKO against Shinsuke Yamanaka

The ex-world champ faced a harsh reality.
PRESS / Events
Mar 1, 2018

アマモ再生と里海作りで「豊かな海」に尽力する田中丈裕氏をゲストに迎え、第四回Satoyamaカフェ 2018年3月2日開催

Japan Times Satoyama推進コンソーシアム（代表：末松（神原）弥奈子、株式会社ジャパンタイムズ・代表取締役会長）は、2018年3月2日（金）に「第四回Satoyamaカフェ」を開催します。
EDITORIALS
Feb 28, 2018

CCP once again embraces the strongman model

Japan and other governments must prepare to deal with a Chinese leader full of self-confidence heading a system of centralized power.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 28, 2018

China faces the downsides of dictatorship

The period of term-limited presidents corresponded with unprecedented growth. Now Xi Jinping is changing the rules
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 28, 2018

Kazuo Hara returns to form as a documentary filmmaker with 'Sennan Asbestos Disaster'

Kazuo Hara became famous — some would say notorious — for the documentaries he made about individuals who defied Japanese social norms and laws.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 28, 2018

In Tokyo, Tibetan leader urges pressure on China to free his homeland

Japan and the international community should pressure China to find a peaceful solution to its long-standing conflict with Tibet, the president of the Tibetan government-in-exile told The Japan Times in a recent interview in Tokyo.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 28, 2018

GOP-led Congress to focus on gun-buyer background checks after Florida school massacre

Republican leaders of the U.S. Congress on Tuesday said they were focused on improving background checks for potential gun buyers, less than two weeks after 17 people were killed at a Florida high school by a teen with an AR-15 assault-style rifle.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Feb 27, 2018

SMAP star's Instagram foray reflects weakening grip of Japan TV ads

Shingo Katori commanded the adoration of millions of fans across Asia as a member of SMAP, one of Japan's most successful boy bands. After decades as a ubiquitous TV presence, he finally decided in November it was time to get an Instagram account.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Feb 26, 2018

In Japan's Diet, is there such a thing as too much time for questions?

It may be hard to find a workplace more rife with inefficiency and inertia than the national Diet.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 26, 2018

NRA pushes back on Trump's modest gun control plans after Florida massacre

The National Rifle Association pushed back on Sunday against modest proposals by President Donald Trump and other Republicans to change U.S. gun laws in the wake of a school shooting in Florida that killed 17 students and staff.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Feb 25, 2018

Yumi Katsura's mission to popularize the everyday kimono

Yumi Katsura is synonymous with wedding dresses in Japan and, after her most recent show, may also become equally known for boosting the popularity of kimono across the globe. A historic and recent first, Katsura is the only designer ever to be allowed to show at the opulent Akasaka Palace, demonstrating...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 25, 2018

The future of Putin's illusion

How Russia's president will prepare for 2024, when he will be constitutionally barred from running again?
Japan Times
JAPAN / KANSAI PERSPECTIVE
Feb 25, 2018

Kyoto executives consider making nightlife in Kyoto more tourist-friendly

As residents and tourists in Kyoto complain more about higher prices, hotel shortages and crowds at train stations, shrines and temples, Kansai's corporate leaders are searching for ways to keep visitors coming.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Feb 24, 2018

Japan bobsled makers miss out on Olympic games glory

On Feb. 17, the BBC reported that the Jamaican women's bobsled team would compete in its “preferred sled” at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea “after a beer producer purchased the craft and donated it” to the team. The main concern had been the departure of the team’s German coach,...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 23, 2018

Sunday's Tokyo Marathon will cause road closures, officials warn

Tokyo residents and visitors to the capital will face road closures starting early Sunday morning due to the 12th annual Tokyo Marathon.
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2018

Scenarios abound for Japan getting dragged into a U.S.-China conflict: expert

Could a few tiny islets in the East China Sea help light the fire that sparks a wider conflagration in East Asia? What about preventive strikes on North Korean nuclear and missile sites? A collision near one of Beijing's man-made islands in the South China Sea?
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 21, 2018

China's next ideological front

Beijing is tightening the screws on poliical dissent, and Americans are growing more uneasy about the nature of Chinese influence abroad.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 21, 2018

'Herbivore' investor Haruhiro Nakano takes on lions of Japanese finance

In a tiny, windowless meeting room high above the streets of Tokyo, Haruhiro Nakano starts to cry. The rail-thin, 54-year-old fund manager, who looks like a faded former J-pop star, has just shared his investing pitch, which sounds so deceptively simple you may not appreciate just how radical it is:...
EDITORIALS
Feb 20, 2018

Challenges for Kuroda in his second term

In his second stint, BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda will face as many challenges as in his first term.
Nissan clinches $4.5 billion bond deal after orders soar
Nissan Motor has raised $4.5 billion through a junk bond sale in U.S. dollars and euros, part of which carries a record-high coupon rate.
U.S. urges clarity on Japan’s role in potential war over Taiwan, report says
A Ground Self-Defense Force member conducts a military drill with an anti-ship missiles unit, at the GSDF's base on Miyako Island in Okinawa Prefecture in April 2022.
Tokyo hit by torrential rainfall at rush hour
People line up at Shibuya Station in Tokyo as they try to avoid the heavy rain on Thursday.
Osaka police crack down on crime ring over underage prostitution
Osaka Prefectural Police headquarters
Foreign drivers in Japan to face tougher license conversion rules from October
According to the National Police Agency, there were 75,905 people who converted their foreign driver’s license to a Japanese one in 2024, up from 48,885 in 2019.
U.S. urges clarity on Japan’s role in potential war over Taiwan, report says
A Ground Self-Defense Force member conducts a military drill with an anti-ship missiles unit, at the GSDF's base on Miyako Island in Okinawa Prefecture in April 2022.
Tourists in Japan have telemedicine options before calling 119
Foreign tourists at Tsukiji Outer Market in Tokyo. More than 1 million international visitors have a medical issue in Japan every year.
Is Japanese skin really ‘too smooth’ for Hideo Kojima’s games?
Hideo Kojima, the leading auteur in Japanese video games, has skirted controversy in the wake of the release of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
An emoji used to say it all. Now it might say too much.
Apple’s Craig Federighi shows off a set of emoji at a conference on June 13, 2016. While the small pictures have proved helpful in conveying nuance in our texts, younger people are using them less often.
‘Our ultimate goal is to save every single Japanese video game’
After nearly shuttering earlier this year, the Tokyo-based Game Preservation Society continues its work to save the early history of Japanese gaming.

Podcast

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

Longform

After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan
By Megha Wadhwa

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