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ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 17, 2020

Hong Kong shutdown is a lesson to the world in halting the coronavirus

As the world struggles with the rapid spread of COVID-19, Hong Kong appears to be having success controlling it — in part because the memory of a similar virus in 2003 prompted a public outcry early on.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 16, 2020

A made-in-China pandemic

Only by loosening China's grip on global supply networks — beginning with the pharmaceutical sector — can the world be kept safe from the country's political pathologies.
JAPAN / History
Mar 14, 2020

The 1970 Osaka Expo: Looking back at the past to gauge where Japan sits in the present

The 1970 Osaka Expo laid down a bold statement about Japan's future. Fifty years later, has the country been able to live up to its promises?
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LIFE / Travel
Mar 14, 2020

In the footsteps of Okinawa's forgotten priestesses

Utaki (sacred sites) are scattered throughout the islands of Okinawa. Historically the purview of priestesses and kings, these sites have recently seen an uptick in visitors interested in exploring their own history.
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WORLD / Politics
Mar 13, 2020

New Peruvian political power broker leads secretive Christian group

In Peru's capital, a group dressed in biblical-style robes, veils and sandals gathered one recent Sunday night to celebrate an unlikely victory: their congregation had overnight become a major force in Congress.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 12, 2020

Dinosaur prints from mysterious middle Jurassic Period found in Scotland

On a crag of rock called Brother's Point on Scotland's Isle of Skye, scientists have identified two bustling footprint sites that reveal an abundance of dinosaurs that thrived 170 million years ago including an early member of a celebrated group.
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COMMENTARY / World
Mar 10, 2020

Viewing history through the lens of gender

More women need to be visible in historical narratives, but equally more girls and women need to be empowered with the technical skills to write their own narratives in the digital age.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Mar 7, 2020

Altered perspectives: The 'interactive' Okinawan garden

If Japanese landscape gardeners looked toward mountains and river valleys for inspiration in creating the rock arrangements that form the power grids of their gardens, infusing natural elements with Taoist and Buddhist principles, it is likely that Okinawans cast their eyes over the seas that surround...
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Mar 7, 2020

From Tokyo teen rebel to New York designer

For wild-boy Jimi Yui, a stint in a U.S. monastic school was just what he needed to set him on the track toward becoming a New York kitchen designer.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Women of Taste
Mar 7, 2020

Elizabeth Andoh: Writer, chef, world-renowned washoku expert

Elizabeth Andoh's decades-long passion for cooking and Japanese cuisine had an unlikely catalyst: A bowl of awful udon noodles.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Mar 7, 2020

The resurgence of Yoko Tajima's personal feminist ideology

On Feb. 17, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe apologized for a remark he made in response to a comment from opposition lawmaker Kiyomi Tsujimoto during a Lower House Budget Committee meeting in the Diet. Tsujimoto was talking about what she perceived to be corruption in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Abe...
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 7, 2020

Nothing is the end of the world

The physicist's optimism wasn't always politically correct, but it sure made a nice contrast to the doom and gloom.
Japan Times
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / 'Terrace House Tokyo 2019-2020' Recaps
Mar 6, 2020

Ep. 35 'The Monster in the Hallway'

I have to hand it to Toshiyuki, aka "Shacho," he knows how to steal the spotlight.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 6, 2020

Wanted: A strategy to narrow Japan's widening gender gap

Now is the time for Japan to adopt forward-thinking inclusive policies and practices that empower and enable women to thrive in the new economy.
Japan Times
JAPAN / First Person
Mar 5, 2020

Day 4 of Japan's Great Teleworking Experiment: Distractions aplenty but 'co-workers' are cute

Today is my fourth-straight day working from home and, consequently, the fourth day of my living nightmare.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2020

All shinkansen to have spaces for wheelchairs, Japan ministry says

The transport ministry said Tuesday that all of the country's shinkansen trains would create spaces for wheelchair users.
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COMMENTARY / World
Mar 3, 2020

The coronavirus end game

The disease will eventually become an endemic nuisance rather than a terror.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Mar 3, 2020

'Emergency' Japanese can help build fluency

One trick to improving your fluency in Japanese is to keep a list of stock phrases that can be deployed in multiple situations.
LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
Mar 3, 2020

Talking about other people in Japanese using the 'garu' structure

You can tack 'tai' on the end of a verb to express what you want to do, but if you're going to speak for someone else then it's best to get a handle on the 'garu' ending.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Mar 3, 2020

'All our dreams are gone': Desperation deepens for Syrians as conflict intensifies

At a maternity hospital in northwest Syria, an alarm flashes at the main entrance to alert staff. It's not patients en route to the hospital. It's warplanes.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 2, 2020

CDC teams race to catch up to spread of coronavirus in U.S.

The experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention huddled in a room with Bela Matyas, health officer of Solano County, California. They had a raft of questions about a milestone case in the spread of the coronavirus: the first U.S. victim with no known connection to travel in Asia....
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / The Big Questions
Mar 1, 2020

An ongoing pursuit of collaboration, innovation

For Italian Ambassador Giorgio Starace, the partnership between Japanese and Italian companies is a natural fit.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Feb 29, 2020

Classic kicks: Japan’s sneaker obsession rebounds

The 1990s sneaker craze eventually cooled off, but over the past four or five years a new wave has risen, towering over anything that came before.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 29, 2020

Men should help fight overwork

A new survey paints a portrait of silent male suffering, and the way in which male silence and female openness conspire to maintain the status quo.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 28, 2020

Working Japanese parents react with shock to Abe's total school closure request

Double-income and single-parent households are confused, frustrated and scrambling to make arrangements.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 28, 2020

World economy risks worst year since 2009 as hopes fade of rapid rebound from virus

The world economy may be heading for its worst performance since the financial crisis, more than a decade ago, as the spread of new virus that causes COVID-19 increasingly dashes hopes of a swift rebound.
Reader Mail
Feb 28, 2020

A history lesson from Hawaii

Kuni Miyake, in his Feb. 11 opinion piece, "Japan and the former Kingdom of Hawaii," did what he calls a "quick study" of the history of Hawaii. Finding out that King David Kalakaua had undertaken an unprecedented world tour in 1881 and had met with Emperor Meiji, he shoehorned the extraordinary event...
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COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Feb 27, 2020

One day he was teaching English in Japan, and the next day, he was blind

'If you start to feel disoriented, you're getting it,' is how one writer describes the process of losing his sight at the age of 29. And after the disorientation comes the process of rebuilding a life in a foreign country.

Longform

Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight