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Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Feb 9, 2018

Twenty years on from the Olympics, Nagano is still the home of Japan's winter sports

Nagano Prefecture's bountiful snow continues to be the stuff of ski and snowboarding legend, with classic Olympic resorts such as Hakuba Happo-one, Nozawa Onsen and Shiga Kogen.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Oct 13, 2015

Japan may empower courts to handle more cross-border divorce suits

After 18 months of deliberations, the Legislative Council of the Justice Ministry has drawn up an outline for legal revisions aimed at resolving a problem many failed marriages face: whether the Japan-based spouse can file for divorce here rather than overseas.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 22, 2004

One country, many systems?

SINGAPORE -- China is said to be changing fast and profoundly, but three recent issues highlight best the changing concept of regionalism in China:
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 15, 2022

Akito Watabe takes bronze behind Joergen Graabak's gold in Nordic combined

Just as he did last week, Graabak sat back in the field and timed his charge perfectly to edge compatriot Jens Oftebro, who also came from deep to take silver.
Japan Times
Switzerland report 2019
Jan 22, 2019

Bridging Cultures: Turning cross-cultural complexity into high-performance vitality

“Cross-border mergers and acquisitions often lead to unexpected organizational challenges,” said Peter Sorg, partner with EurAsia Competence AG.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Dec 21, 2018

Migrants brave Bosnia's bitter winter wilderness, and wolves, to cross into EU

Their shoulders hunched against the bitter cold, dozens of migrants tramped towards Bosnia's border with Croatia, trying to cross illegally into the EU along a route that days earlier almost claimed the lives of a similar group.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 15, 2018

Pyeongchang 2018 Olympics Day 6: Silver and smiles

Japan's silver streak continued Wednesday with Ayumu Hirano in the men's half pipe and Nao Kodaira in the women's speed skating 1000m event.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 11, 2018

Pyeongchang 2018 Olympics Day 2: And the first medal of the games goes to . . .

Germany and the Netherlands zoom to the top of the medal leaderboard, with cross-country skier Charlotte Kalla taking the first gold of the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 9, 2014

Records broken in biathlon, speedskating events

Norway's Ole Einar Bjoerndalen tied a Winter Olympics record with his 12th medal by taking gold in the biathlon 10-km sprint.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 2, 2011

'The Mill and the Cross'

Bombarded as our brains are with visual images from digital screens that dominate most aspects of life, an encounter with "The Mill and the Cross" triggers a kind of shock reaction.
EDITORIALS
Feb 27, 2002

New IOC regime's shaky start

The new president of the International Olympic Committee, Mr. Jacques Rogge, no doubt spent some sleepless nights in his bed in the athletes' village at Salt Lake City. It was his first Olympics since taking over from Mr. Juan Antonio Samaranch, and Mr. Rogge had made an extraordinary decision to stay...
MORE SPORTS
Oct 28, 2000

Ogiwara not fazed by change in rules

Japan's two-time Nordic combined World Cup skiing champion Kenji Ogiwara said Thursday that he's ready for the upcoming season, despite a change in the rules.
JAPAN
Sep 24, 1998

Red Cross doctor to help out in Afghanistan

The Japanese Red Cross Society will send a doctor to Afghanistan today on a one-year mission to support and widen public health services and maternity education, it was announced Thursday.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 21, 2022

Olympics making progress on gender equality, but gap remains

The Beijing Games have been described by the IOC as the most 'gender-balanced” Winter Games in history.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2021

China’s unavoidable financial rise

Many economists in the West did not see China's massive growth coming, and its influence is now becoming impossible to ignore.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2013

WEF chief does more than talk the talk

As a child growing up in Germany during the war, Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, witnessed the consequences of all-out conflict, and the stark contrast between war and peace.
COMMENTARY
Sep 4, 2004

China favored in cross-strait tug-of-war

HONG KONG -- When Singapore's then Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong visited Taiwan in July on what was described as a "private and unofficial" trip, China reacted angrily. Among other things, it canceled a visit by its top banker to Singapore and warned darkly of "grave consequences" for which "the...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 23, 2021

Rich countries’ double standards on taxation

By refusing to pay their fair share of taxes, the world's wealthiest actors rob poorer countries of the revenue they desperately need to confront the pandemic.
Reader Mail
May 15, 2020

Japan Red Cross lacks English ability

Regarding the May 7 story “Japan Red Cross seeks donors as blood and bone marrow supplies run low,” my husband and I tried to donate blood at a Red Cross location in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, but were turned away because our Japanese isn’t very good. They didn’t want to bother trying to explain everything...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Nov 16, 2019

Yoshi Shimizu: Curiosity and the camera

Taking an elective course on photography while studying business in California changed the whole course of Yoshi Shimizu's career.
Ukrainian servicemen drive an infantry vehicle near the Russian border in the Sumy region on Saturday.
WORLD
Aug 11, 2024

Russia pushes back at Ukraine’s cross-border assault, but Kyiv presses on

The assault surprised both Moscow and Washington, as well as other Western partners and analysts who follow the war’s troop movements.
Japanese regulations determine which hunters can handle certain firearms based on the individual's experience and the level of rifling in a long gun's barrel.
LIFE / Lifestyle
Feb 3, 2024

Hokkaido hunters say more firepower means more humane kills

A revision to Japan’s firearms laws would mean new hunters would be temporarily limited to less potent shotguns.

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A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami