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EDITORIALS
Oct 21, 2017

Slow regional revitalization

The demographic challenges confronting the nation are indeed enormous, but the regional revitalization policy of the Abe administration has so far accomplished little.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 20, 2017

Laundry-folding robot maker will represent Japan at startup competition

A Tokyo-based startup recognized for its laundry-folding robot has gained entry to an international competition for venture firms, and hopes to represent Japan as a country of innovation.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Oct 20, 2017

Man City's De Bruyne in a league of his own

To death and taxes as the only certainties in life can, for managers on Planet Football, be added a blunder in the transfer market that comes back to haunt them.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 20, 2017

Nissan says unauthorized checks continued at four plants

Nissan Motor Co.'s latest revelation that improper quality checks performed by unauthorized staff continued at its factories after initial claims it had resolved the issue shows that the car manufacturer has a long way to go to clear up its compliance problems.
EDITORIALS
Oct 20, 2017

The Kake and Moritomo scandals and the bureaucracy

Even if Prime Minister Shinzo Abe survives the election, he shouldn't forget he still owes the people a full explanation of the Kake Gakuen and Moritomo Gakuen scandals.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 20, 2017

Scandal-hit Aichi candidate Shiori Yamao still in the race on the strength of popular support

Before allegations of an extramarital affair surfaced less than two months ago, Shiori Yamao had been a rising star expected by many of her colleagues to reinvigorate the Democratic Party, then the main opposition force.
JAPAN / Politics / Decision 2017
Oct 20, 2017

Anchored by Edano's underdog charm, CDP turning into formidable force ahead of election

Yukio Edano was the face of Japan during the unprecedented nuclear crisis that hit Fukushima Prefecture in 2011, leading numerous news conferences as the government's top spokesman.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Oct 20, 2017

Ines Rau, Playboy's first transgender 'playmate,' hopes to 'pave way for all women'

Playboy magazine has featured its first ever transgender playmate centerfold in its November issue, a move that the model hopes will pave the way for "all women — trans or otherwise — in fashion and other sectors."
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Oct 20, 2017

Kurdish officials say up to 100,000 have fled Kirkuk since Iraqi army takeover, fearing reprisals

Kurdish officials said on Thursday thousands of their people had fled the Kirkuk region fearing persecution since Iraqi armed forces retook it following a referendum on Kurdish independence that was rejected by Baghdad.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 19, 2017

Beck: 'I wanted to put out a giant positive wave of sound'

"It's actually surreal that it's finally out," Beck Hansen says of his 13th album, "Colors." "It's the longest time from inception to release I've ever had. It's been like a rebirth."
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Oct 18, 2017

Ushering in a new, kinder era for Japan's zoos

Lack of legal regulation means the worst facilities continue to taint Japan's image abroad.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 18, 2017

Elections, abductees, nuclear weapons and North Korea

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's unusual election call was designed to head off Diet questioning that could have put him in serious trouble.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 18, 2017

Nissan admits improper safety inspections continued after president's public apology

Nissan Motor says that improper safety inspections performed by unauthorized staff continued at one of its assembly plants even after the scandal came to light last month.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 18, 2017

Toyota targets 1,000-km driving range with fuel cell concept car

Toyota Motor Corp. is set to unveil a fuel cell concept car that aims to offer 50 percent more driving range than its current hydrogen-powered sedan in a technology push that defies a rising wave of battery-powered vehicles.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Oct 18, 2017

Islamic State's defeat in Raqqa brings U.S. new challenge to commit to a strategy for region

The defeat of the Islamic State group in its de facto capital of Raqqa, Syria, may be only the start of a wider struggle by the United States to contain any insurgency launched by the militants and to stabilize the region as Washington struggles to define a comprehensive strategy in Syria.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 18, 2017

CIA says it mistakenly 'shredded' U.S. Senate torture report — then it is found

The Central Intelligence Agency thought for months that it had mistakenly shredded a massive U.S. Senate report on its use of waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation techniques" before suddenly discovering that its copy had not been lost after all, an agency official said Tuesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Oct 18, 2017

Too racy for Louvre, sex sculpture 'Domestikator' finds home at Pompidou Centre

In the end it was just too kinky for the Louvre.
EDITORIALS
Oct 17, 2017

Economic promises versus the record

Before casting their ballots, voters should review the nearly five years of Abenomics and what changes it brought to the economy and their lives.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 17, 2017

Austria's millennial hope walks a fine line

If Sebastian Kurz fails to control the scary forces bubbling under the Freedom Party's surface, both Austria and the EU will regret that he got his chance to run a nation as early as he did.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 17, 2017

Sino-Japanese rivalry deepens as Abe and Xi look set to consolidate grips on power

Asia's two biggest economies both have their most powerful leaders in decades — and neither one has much incentive to mend a relationship that has long been volatile.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Oct 17, 2017

A divided Iraq tests U.S. influence as fight against Islamic State wanes

After years of focusing divided Iraq on a shared fight against the Islamic State group, the United States is now straining to leverage its limited influence to avoid a full-blown conflict between the Iraqi and Kurdish forces it has armed and trained.
JAPAN
Oct 17, 2017

U.S. preservation group puts Kenzo Tange-designed Kagawa gym on monuments watch list

World Monuments Fund, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization aiming to preserve imperiled cultural heritage sites, has named the Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium, designed by the late renowned architect Kenzo Tange, on its 2018 World Monuments Watch list.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 17, 2017

Supreme Court agrees to rule on U.S. demand for Microsoft email data stored abroad

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to resolve a major privacy dispute between the Justice Department and Microsoft Corp over whether prosecutors should get access to emails stored on company servers overseas.
Japan ruling bloc loses majority in Upper House after election drubbing
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who serves concurrently as president of the Liberal Democratic Party, leaves at the party's headquarters following announcement of Upper House election result projections in Tokyo early Monday.
‘Japanese First’ Sanseito emerges as powerful force after Upper House poll
Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya in Tokyo on Sunday night
Foreign residents closely follow Japan's election and party pledges
A police officer walks past posters of Liberal Democratic Party candidates, as well as one showing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, outside the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Sunday. As Japan’s foreign population continues to rise, one of the talking points during Sunday’s election was how the country should deal with the increase of international residents.
Japan’s top brands get tied up in the great sunscreen debate
A coral reef in Okinawa in July 2022. Some jurisdictions around the world have moved to ban certain sunscreens in a bid to protect coral reefs, but some say the impact on reefs is far from clear.
Hitomi Obara, 2012 Olympic champion in wrestling, dies at 44
Hitomi Obara competes at the London Olympics in August 2012.
Japan’s top brands get tied up in the great sunscreen debate
A coral reef in Okinawa in July 2022. Some jurisdictions around the world have moved to ban certain sunscreens in a bid to protect coral reefs, but some say the impact on reefs is far from clear.
Pentagon looks to unleash ‘military drone dominance’
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hosts a drone demonstration at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on July 10.
‘Noto Democracy’ and the slow work of civic change
Yukio Iokibe’s “Noto Democracy" centers on Motoyuki Takii, a former junior high school teacher who publishes a handwritten newspaper every month to encourage the residents of Anamizu, Ishikawa Prefecture, to engage in local politics.
In microbes we trust: Embracing the nature of fermented food
You don't need an oven to make Kenji Morimoto's easy and delicious Miso Sticky Toffee Crepe Cake.
Touring the Silk Road — without leaving Tokyo
One of the entrances to Pao Compound, a nine-story Silk Road-inspired complex in Tokyo's Higashinakano neighborhood

Podcast

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

Longform

In 2020, 38% of all households were single-person. That figure is projected to rise to 44.3% by 2050.
The rise of AI companionship in a lonely Japan
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