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Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2017

Japan tourism group builds social media presence with new Instagram account

The Japan National Tourism Organization is finally turning to Instagram to attract overseas travelers amid an unprecedented tourism boom.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 4, 2017

Cracks appearing in BOJ's glass ceiling as more women take lead roles at Japan's central bank

Some long-closed doors are opening at the Bank of Japan as it seeks to hire and promote more women in career-track positions.
EDITORIALS
Oct 3, 2017

Constitutional amendment as a campaign issue

Voters should scrutinize the positions of each party on the issue of constitutional amendment as they weigh their judgment.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 3, 2017

Entrepreneurs a dying breed?

Maybe America is no longer a 'Shark Tank' nation' after all.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Oct 3, 2017

Puerto Rico would be better off if it became a U.S. state

The hurricane that leveled Puerto Rico last month has given fresh impetus to a decades-old argument on the island: that the U.S. territory would fare better financially as a U.S. state.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 3, 2017

Flying since 1968, U.K.'s Monarch Airlines goes bust, marooning over 100,000 tourists

Britain's Monarch Airlines collapsed on Monday, causing the cancellation of hundreds of thousands of holidays, after falling victim to intense competition for flights and a weaker pound.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 2, 2017

Japan has to spend a little less on its well-off elderly

Lowering pension and medical benefits to well-off elderly people looks like Japan's least-bad option to rein in its debt.
COMMUNITY / Issues / LABOR PAINS
Oct 1, 2017

NS Solutions case is latest battle in long war against sexual harassment

The ruling in the NS Solutions case should say a lot about where Japan stands now on the issue of sexual harassment, nearly three decades after the first ruling on this issue.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Sep 30, 2017

Japan's pensioners are literally getting older

Because of the election announced by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday, the new Cabinet he formed last summer to boost his falling support rate will do no work, since it was launched during the summer vacation and Abe dissolved the Diet as soon as it opened on Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2017

Autonomous vehicles hold promise of brighter future

Naoki Suganuma, the head of Kanazawa University's Autonomous Vehicle Research Unit, gave a lecture in Tokyo on Sept. 15.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 29, 2017

America's new world order is dead

Russia and China were never willing fully to embrace the U.S.-led liberal order, which emphasized liberal ideas that were bound to seem threatening to dictatorial regimes.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League
Sep 28, 2017

High-flying Jets seek to build off preseason success, maintain status as East contender

The Chiba Jets Funabashi are riding a wave of positive momentum.
EDITORIALS
Sep 28, 2017

And the great unwinding begins

Central bankers today must figure out how to end and reverse quantitative easing without triggering the effects they sought to avoid nearly a decade ago.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 28, 2017

Did quantitative easing do any good?

QE probably helped end the Great Recression, though we'll never know for sure.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League / B. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Sep 28, 2017

Challenge awaits Hasegawa in Tochigi

What impact will Kenji Hasegawa make for the defending champion Tochigi Brex in his first season at the helm?
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League
Sep 28, 2017

Nagoya's Burrell key for team in transition

Justin Burrell has distinguished himself as one of the elite basketball players in Japan this decade.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2017

Japan's biz leaders push for raising sales tax beyond 10%

Business leaders have called on the government to raise the consumption tax to more than 10 percent while maintaining its determination to promote fiscal responsibility.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 27, 2017

Osaka court rules tattoo artist's work violated medical law, was not art or expression

An Osaka tattoo artist was found guilty Wednesday of violating the Medical Practitioners' Law in a case that drew international attention to Japan's tattoo culture.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Sep 27, 2017

North Korea's bark may be worse than bite in threat to shoot down U.S. bombers

North Korea has threatened to shoot down U.S. bombers flying near the Korean Peninsula, but it would have difficulty matching its words with action given aging air defense systems mostly dating to the Cold War, military experts said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2017

Fuel shortage looms as Japan fires up biomass energy

As the sun sets on Japan's solar energy boom, companies and investors are rushing into wood-burning biomass projects to lock in still-high government subsidies.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / A MATTER OF HEALTH
Sep 27, 2017

Role-playing video game helps fight against depression for counselor-shy Japanese

It's a role-playing video game that, like many of its kind, allows users to choose and customize their own avatars, including a hairstyle and clothing. Set in a medieval fantasy world, users build up power as their characters travel across "provinces," overcoming obstacles and challenges along the way....
JAPAN / Science & Health
Sep 27, 2017

Saury a day keeps the depression at bay: research

People who often eat fish, including so-called blue-backed fish such as saury, face a lower risk of suffering depression than those consuming less, a team of researchers from institutes including Japan's National Cancer Center has said.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 26, 2017

Beset by visions, artist Yayoi Kusama has no intention of slowing down

Avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama, whose work commands some of the highest prices of any living female artist, said on Tuesday that at age 88, she still fills her days painting and has no intention of slowing down.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League
Sep 26, 2017

Golden Kings counting on veteran Ishizaki

Takumi Ishizaki brings a poised, cerebral presence to the court, and his arrival symbolizes a new era in Okinawa.
Why are rice prices still high in Japan?
Amid shortages, the price of a 5-kilogram bag of rice during the week of April 14 was ¥4,220.
Police arrest man after body of ex-girlfriend found under his home
Hideyuki Shirai (center) at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Saturday
Dollar’s decline is fueling dislocations across Asian currencies
A worker counts U.S. dollar banknotes at a currency exchange office in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2022.
Worker shortage forcing home care providers to turn away clients, survey finds
A survey by a labor union of home care business operators and care managers found that nearly 90% of facility managers had turned down service requests at least once during the past year, citing insufficient staffing.
Tariff talks with U.S. seen influencing Japan's Upper House election
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks to reporters about Japan-U.S. tariff negotiations at his official residence on Saturday.
Why are rice prices still high in Japan?
Amid shortages, the price of a 5-kilogram bag of rice during the week of April 14 was ¥4,220.
Plug and Play wants to help Japanese startups go global
Phillip Vincent (right), Japan CEO of Plug and Play, and Ma Jingqian, head of ventures, at Plug and Play's Tokyo office, last month
Kotomi Li: 'I refuse to choose death'
Since 2017, Kotomi Li has won some of Japan’s top literary awards and built a formidable career in the face of persistent online harassment. “Authors are tenacious creatures to begin with,” she says.
Want to see the future at the Osaka Expo? Get in line.
“‘Future of life,’ by Ishiguro,” the World Expo pavilion by roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro, displays humanlike androids.

Podcast

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

Longform

Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.
A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan
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