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COMMENTARY / World
Oct 16, 2015

The perverse rise of autonomous killer robots

By allowing killer robots to make life-and death decisions we remove people's responsibility for their actions and eliminate accountability.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 16, 2015

Japan fund on $10 billion quest to discover the next Elon Musk

Toshiyuki Shiga is on a $10 billion quest to discover Japan’s top entrepreneurs, people who can found companies as globally competitive as Tesla Motors Co. and Apple Inc.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 16, 2015

Recent Nobels aside, Japan faces future slide in scientific research

Japan was euphoric last week after Japanese scientists won Nobel Prizes on two consecutive days — first in medicine and then in physics.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 16, 2015

Architect pair tap 3-D printing, ice to share top NASA prize for Mars habitat design

In the coming decades, as humans leave Earth to expand the bounds of space travel, astronauts are sure to find themselves for the first time in habitats other than the International Space Station.
JAPAN / HOTEL SPECIAL 2015
Oct 16, 2015

Andaz Tavern offers rustic Euro cuisine

The Andaz Tavern serves European provincial cuisine made with fresh Japanese ingredients. Seeking to redefine the fine dining experience, the chefs offer up rustic fare from around Europe, preparing wholesome and hearty dishes.
JAPAN / HOTEL SPECIAL 2015
Oct 16, 2015

Prince Park Tower offers taste of tradition

The Prince Park Tower Tokyo's Japanese traditional restaurant Shiba Zakura is offering two course menus to give diners a taste of authentic Japan through March 31.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Oct 15, 2015

Kawasaki gets ready to do the 'Time Warp' again

Moviegoers in Japan are generally expected to take a vow of silence at the cinema — unless the film happens to be "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Oct 15, 2015

Group petitions for revisions to labor laws to help keep new mothers in work

A Tokyo-based nonprofit organization fighting matahara, workplace discrimination against pregnant women and the intimidation of those trying for a child, is seeking revisions to the child care leave law on the grounds that it discriminates against nonregular workers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 15, 2015

Mayor of London urges Japan Inc. to upgrade payments systems, draw on his city's fintech sector

The mayor of London on Thursday urged Japan to embrace more financial innovations such as mobile payments as it prepares for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Oct 15, 2015

Time for NPB to rethink senseless playoff format

Where else but Japanese baseball can a team lose Game 1 of a playoff series and show up at the ballpark the next day down 0-2?
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 15, 2015

New education minister vows to promote LGBT rights and use Olympics to push social issues

A human rights advocate, former teacher and professional wrestler, and now the newly appointed head of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, said Wednesday he plans to promote support for sexual-minority students at schools.
BUSINESS
Oct 15, 2015

Key Manhattan eatery group to drop time-honored U.S. tipping tradition

A restaurant group that includes some of Manhattan's most well-regarded dining spots said on Wednesday it will take the potentially revolutionary step in the United States of eliminating tipping.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 14, 2015

Trans-Pacific Partnership isn't aimed at China

China is an important trade partner for the countries involved in the TPP, and its future participation in the trade bloc can't be ruled out.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 14, 2015

The future of comedy looks bleak in 'Galaxy Turnpike'

Comedy is hard. That's what many comedians say, at least. Think of Charlie Chaplin filming hundreds of takes per immortal gag.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 14, 2015

Atom Egoyan brings the oppression of winter into 'The Captive'

Every parent's worst nightmare plays out in "The Captive," Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan's followup to "Devil's Knot," which opened in Japan last year.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 14, 2015

China's air force extends long-range strike capabilities: military expert

China's air force can launch long-range precision strikes, state media on Wednesday cited a military expert as saying, as the country works to develop its offensive air capabilities.
WORLD
Oct 14, 2015

Cockpit reconstruction tells story of MH17's last moments

The reconstruction of the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 tells its own vivid story of the impact of the missile that destroyed the aircraft last July, killing all 298 people on board.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 14, 2015

Jeb Bush says Putin's Russia should face consequences over Syria

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush vowed on Tuesday to take a more aggressive approach to countering Russia if he is elected president next year, calling Vladimir Putin an "agile adversary" who is exploiting a vacuum of U.S. leadership in Syria and elsewhere.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 13, 2015

Corporations lie, and some get away with it

In the midst of so many contexts where we expect people sometimes to lie — sports, entertainment, certainly politics — it is disturbing that the one place to which we run for truth is private corporations.
EDITORIALS
Oct 13, 2015

Volkswagen cheats

The Volkswagen scandal has also exposed an uncomfortable truth that has long been known but rarely discussed — virtually all automakers 'cheat' on the emissions tests.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 13, 2015

Japan should avoid making suicidal education mistakes

Japan's educational system will suffer greatly if political ignoramuses who know the price of everything and the value of nothing are allowed to have their way.

Longform

Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes