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BUSINESS
Jun 24, 2016

Activist short-seller Glaucus ready to take on Japan

Activist short-seller Glaucus Research Group says it's planning to target Japan Inc.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 24, 2016

Supreme Court rejects white woman's challenge to Texas school's affirmative action stance

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the consideration of race in college admissions, rejecting a white woman's challenge to a University of Texas program designed to boost the enrollment of minority students.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 23, 2016

Arora's SoftBank walkout returns focus to succession woes at Japanese firms

The surprise departure of Nikesh Arora, heir apparent at SoftBank Group Corp., highlights a problem many Japanese companies face: passing the reins to a successor.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 23, 2016

Family's pain over 2006 Yokosuka murder reflects desire for SOFA rethink

Justice has been a long time coming for Masanori Yamazaki, whose common-law wife was murdered by a drunk U.S. sailor in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, 10 years ago, in an unprovoked assault.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Jun 23, 2016

Bahrain's launch of Shiite crackdown jeopardizes its security

Bahrain aims to end years of instability with a crackdown on Shiite political parties, but it could be a gamble that risks further destabilizing the Western-allied kingdom and the wider Middle East.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 23, 2016

Nose job: Smells are smart sensors' last frontier

Phones or watches may be smart enough to detect sound, light, motion, touch, direction, acceleration and even the weather, but they can't smell.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 23, 2016

China to launch cruises to hotly contested Spratly Island chain

China will begin operating regular cruise ship visits to the disputed Spratly Islands in the disputed South China Sea before 2020, state media reported Wednesday — a move likely to exacerbate already frayed ties with other claimants to the waters.
EDITORIALS
Jun 22, 2016

Abenomics and the Upper House election

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe keeps trumpeting his economic policies. It's time for voters to give him their report card.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 22, 2016

The vicious cycle of jihadism

It is time for the Western powers to reconsider their regional strategies and focus attention on attacking the ideology driving terror.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 22, 2016

Keeping it real: Naomi Kawase on filmmaking

Naomi Kawase has always been an outlier in the Japanese film world, if a very successful one. Born and raised in Nara Prefecture, the site of Japan's ancient capital, she started making documentaries while a student at the Osaka School of Photography in the late 1980s, taking as subjects her natural...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 22, 2016

'Extraction': Mourning the career of Bruce Willis

Will Bruce Willis ever make it back to the fold of respected Hollywood action stars? Judging from his antics in his latest outing, "Extraction," the short answer to that is a huge "No." The long answer involves a private eulogy to an illustrious action career, and a tearful ode to all that was wonderful...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 22, 2016

'Twisted Justice': Gangster black comedy is a shade off

In 2003, a Hokkaido cop named Yoshiaki Inaba was sentenced to nine years in jail, on charges including drug use and possession with intent to supply. During his trial, the former police inspector revealed that his impressive career record had involved an unhealthy degree of collusion with contacts in...
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 22, 2016

LDP grandee Kunio Hatoyama dead at 67

The death was announced Wednesday of veteran lawmaker and former internal affairs minister Kunio Hatoyama. He was 67.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 22, 2016

Superhero Ultraman thwarted by JR Meguro Station staff

Superhero Ultraman was spotted around JR Meguro Station in Tokyo last week and again on Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / DECISION 2016
Jun 22, 2016

Abe plays economic card but opposition targets his 'hidden' agenda in Upper House election battle

The poll could pave the way for Abe to revise the U.S.-drafted Constitution nationalists see as a humiliating remnant of WWII.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 21, 2016

Central banks on the brink

The BOJ's Haruhiko Kuroda can offer the Fed's Janet Yellen a lesson: When cutting rates to zero, you need a clear exit plan.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jun 21, 2016

Muslims in U.S. fear Trump rhetoric has pulled prejudices, violent urges into open

About three months ago, Sarah Ibrahim's son came home from his fourth-grade class at a Maryland school with a disturbing question.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 20, 2016

South Korea trains next generation of keyboard warriors

In one college major at Seoul’s elite Korea University, the courses are known only by number, and students keep their identities a secret from outsiders.
BUSINESS
Jun 20, 2016

Beyond any turmoil linked to Brexit, central bankers dread long shadow of possibilities

Finally, a financial flare-up that the world's central banks will have seen coming.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Jun 19, 2016

How to block a nonconsensual 'divorce by consent' from abroad

'I am married to a Japanese male and am worried my husband might file a divorce notification paper without my knowledge,' writes a 'desperate' reader.

Longform

After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan