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BUSINESS
Mar 22, 2017

Ex-BOJ member says government must allay pension jitters before reflating economy

Former Bank of Japan Policy Board member Sayuri Shirai says the central bank has done about all it can do to end the nation's deflationary mindset.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 22, 2017

After six years, Assad now secure but country is carved up as war thunders on

More than six years since the start of the uprising against President Bashar Assad, he is winning on the battlefield but Syria's civil war is far from over, with his once stable country broken into fiefdoms ruled by rebels and warlords.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 21, 2017

Tokyo returns to world's 10 priciest cities as Asia dominates list

Tokyo returned to the ranks of the world's 10 costliest cities in 2017 as Asia's representation expanded, reflecting the region's rising clout in the global economy.
EDITORIALS
Mar 21, 2017

SDF peacekeepers' logs fiasco

Public trust in the Self-Defense Forces will be undermined if it turns out the SDF intentionally concealed its South Sudan peacekeeping records.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 21, 2017

Why people still live, and die, on garbage dumps

In the developing world, huge open dumps loom as one of this century's most pressing health and environmental challenges.
CULTURE / Stage
Mar 21, 2017

Modern dramatist's 'dark and gorgeous' kabuki tests famed brothers

Life and death are major themes for artists, and for dramatists no less.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Mar 21, 2017

Indonesia police say Interpol issues red notices for 3 Sinopec executives

Indonesian police said Tuesday that Interpol has issued red notices, the closest to an international arrest warrant, for three Chinese executives suspected of fraud linked to a more than $800 million Sinopec oil terminal development in Indonesia.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Mar 21, 2017

Ousted Park taps 'bullet-proof vest' lawyer, other loyalists for defense

A lawyer known as her "bullet-proof vest" is on former South Korean president Park Geun-hye's legal team. So are two failed candidates for parliament from her ruling party.
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Mar 20, 2017

Jansen excited to join Dutch team at WBC

Kenley Jansen was back in the stadium he's called home for his entire MLB career and preparing to go practice with players he's known for most of his life.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 19, 2017

Once seen as invincible, Abe beset by scandal on two fronts as questions swirl

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, now in a rare fifth year as leader, is battling scandals on two separate fronts as questions swirl about his ties to a nationalist school involved in a murky land deal and his defense minister faces calls to resign.
Japan Times
CULTURE / CULTURE SMASH
Mar 18, 2017

Breaking the comic book glass ceiling

Four years ago, Chinese-American writer Marjorie Liu had a simple but persistent idea: create an epic fantasy comic book series about a classic Japanese kaijū (strange beast) movie monster that has a connection to a girl.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Mar 17, 2017

Pogba's disappointing season comes at heavy price

The reason Paul Pogba joined Manchester United in a world record £89 million transfer last summer is the same as why he left Old Trafford for Juventus as an 18-year-old in 2012) — Mino Raiola, his agent.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 17, 2017

China planning 'monitoring station' on hotly contested South China Sea shoal

China is planning to build an "environmental monitoring station" on a hotly disputed reef at the center of an ongoing territorial row over the South China Sea, according to a top official who administers Beijing's regional island claims.
Reader Mail
Mar 16, 2017

Abe is not a nationalist or a revisionist

In William Pesek's March 8 commentary piece, "Abe's nationalism hurts Japan" and Jeff Kingston's March 12 column, "Abe's revisionism nets own goals at home and away" the authors argue that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's "nationalism" or "revisionism" damages Japan.
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 16, 2017

U.S. group Sierra Club seeks probe of EPA's Pruitt over CO2 comments

U.S. environmental group the Sierra Club has asked the Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general to investigate whether the agency's head, Scott Pruitt, violated internal policies when he said he did not believe carbon dioxide was a major contributor to climate change, according to a letter...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 15, 2017

'Slavemen': Men enslaved by juvenile fantasies

Noboru Iguchi would seem to be in the enviable position, at least to his mostly male fan base, of doing exactly what he likes and never having to grow up. A veteran director of low-budget exploitation films, Iguchi has an unabashedly adolescent obsession with short-skirted schoolgirls, spandex-clad superheroes,...
EDITORIALS
Mar 15, 2017

South Korea must now move on

South Korea's next leader faces several daunting challenges.
BUSINESS
Mar 15, 2017

Workers at top companies get meager 2017 pay hikes in Abenomics setback

Major firms offered the lowest base-pay hike in four years, a setback for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's campaign dubbed “Abenomics” to spur the long-sluggish economy.
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 14, 2017

Nobel economist's ideas seen giving justification to delay Japan's consumption tax hike

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration has a habit of co-opting Nobel Prize-winning economists when it lays the groundwork for contentious policy decisions.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 14, 2017

Kushner family's business set to get over $400 million from Chinese firm

A company owned by the family of Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, stands to receive more than $400 million from a prominent Chinese company that is investing in the Kushners' marquee Manhattan office tower at 666 Fifth Ave.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Mar 13, 2017

Nagoya venture taps researcher's reagent to make quick work of synthesizing proteins

A Nagoya-based venture has started selling a reagent that allows researchers to significantly reduce the time needed to synthesize proteins, supporting the development of medicines including one that can control the growth of cancer cells.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Mar 12, 2017

Seeing Ainu as they want to be seen

Portrait project on show in Tokyo is the result of months spent living as part of Hokkaido village community.

Longform

Sumadori Bar on Shibuya Ward's main Center Gai street targets young customers who prefer low-alcohol drinks or abstain altogether.
Rethinking that second drink: Japan’s Gen Z gets ‘sober curious’