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CULTURE / Art
Aug 14, 2013

'Aichi Triennale 2013'

The theme of this second Aichi Triennale is "Awakening — Where Are We Standing?" and it aims to make us rethink the role of art as Japan continues to recover from the Great East Japan Earthquake and following disasters.
Reader Mail
Aug 14, 2013

Remembering the end of the war

We hear today that the majority of Japan's population doesn't know about the Pacific War firsthand. I belong to the minority that does know, as I heard the end of the war announced on the radio on Aug. 15 (1945) when I was a first grader in a small village of Nagano Prefecture. We had been evacuated...
Reader Mail
Aug 14, 2013

Can't wait for lab-grown meat

Taste-testers in London recently sampled the world's first laboratory-grown hamburger and proclaimed it a virtual success. The Dutch scientist who created the burger predicts that in vitro meat could be commercially available in as little as 10 years. Although I don't eat meat — and I don't miss it...
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WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 13, 2013

Running may actually protect against osteoarthritis, keep joints healthy

While out on a run recently, I passed a hiker on the trail. "My knees hurt just watching you," he told me, shaking his head. It was a variation on a comment I hear over and over: Keep running like that, and you'll give yourself arthritic knees.
BUSINESS / NOTEBOOK
Aug 13, 2013

See how a huge chandelier is cleaned; Yokohama to host more conferences

EVENTS
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 13, 2013

Mexico opens oil sector to investment

President Enrique Pena Nieto proposes historic changes to Mexico's state-run energy sector, cracking open the door for global oil giants such as Exxon Mobil and Shell to invest in Mexico's lethargic 75-year-old state oil monopoly.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 13, 2013

Surge of brain activity may explain near-death experiences

You feel yourself float up and out of your physical body. You glide toward the entrance of a tunnel, and a searing bright light envelops your field of vision.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Aug 12, 2013

Color-changing fashion, Hedi Slimane's first Saint Laurent collection, 99%IS' unusual "macs" and newcomers to Harajuku

'A Color Un Color,' the second show in a 'Philosophical Fashion' series of exhibitions at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, is featuring one of the most exciting brands to come out of Japan in the past decade: Anrealage.
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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Aug 12, 2013

Ainu fight for return of plundered ancestral remains

Shigeru Kayano, one of the most well-known and respected Ainu figures of modern times, writes in his autobiography "Our Land Was a Forest" about the loathing he felt as a young man for the shamo (Japanese) researchers who used to visit his village and family home.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 12, 2013

Newspapers need connoisseur patrons for now

The central challenge for a serious journalistic enterprise is how to get people to pay for the work. For now, we're relying on patrons to save a great newspaper.
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COMMUNITY / Voices / HOTLINE TO NAGATACHO
Aug 12, 2013

Radiation fears forced me to postpone Japan visit by U.S. students

Dear Minister of Education Hakubun Shimomura,
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Aug 11, 2013

An "Unknown Escape" and an explanation of the LDP's Constitution plans; CM of the week: Potenon

In June, 11 Japanese people whose family members died shortly after the end of World War II in the area now called North Korea traveled to the communist country to carry out memorial services for their kin. It was the first time they'd ever done so on North Korean soil.
CULTURE / Books
Aug 10, 2013

Three versions of the 'good wife' in Japan

Once upon a time, not so long ago, it was unusual for a Japanese woman to aspire to be anything other than a "good wife and wise mother"— an aspiration so predominant that the Japanese for it, ryosai kenbo, is a set phrase in the language.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 9, 2013

Enough of America's hypocritical foreign policy

Every new White House administration, irrespective of party, ignores the reality that the U.S., although wealthy and powerful, still cannot micro-manage the globe.
SOCCER / J. League
Aug 9, 2013

FC Tokyo's Watanabe embracing challenges he faces

FC Tokyo striker Kazuma Watanabe is excited to be leading a new wave of Japanese goal scorers in the race for this season's J. League golden boot, but that does not mean he is about to sit back and let his countrymen beat him to the prize.
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JAPAN
Aug 9, 2013

Tepco starts pumping groundwater at Fukushima No. 1

The Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant faces another crisis as an estimated 300 tons of highly radioactive water reach the Pacific Ocean every day.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Aug 9, 2013

Suarez not worth trouble for Arsenal

It is difficult to decide which to dislike most about Luis Suarez.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 9, 2013

Subaru's record surge leads FHI to debate staying niche player

Which carmaker's stock has risen the most — some fivefold — since the beginning of 2012, besides Tesla Motors Inc.? Subaru producer Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd.
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 9, 2013

A first: Nation's debt tops ¥1 quadrillion

The national debt exceeded ¥1 quadrillion for the first time, underscoring the case for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to proceed with a sales tax increase to shore up government finances.

Longform

Ichiro Suzuki, one of the most iconic players in NPB and MLB history, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame with 99.7% of the vote.
With Hall of Fame induction, Ichiro makes himself heard loud and clear