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WORLD
Mar 13, 2018

Meghan Markle carries out first royal engagement with U.K.'s Queen Elizabeth

Prince Harry's American fiancee, Meghan Markle, on Monday took part in her first official royal engagement with Britain's Queen Elizabeth since the couple announced they were getting married last year.
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Mar 8, 2018

Sweet and savory White Day treats

Tower's bar Bellovisto on the 40th floor of the Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward, is offering guests its White Day Plate Sakura until March 14.
CULTURE / Film
Feb 24, 2018

Entertainer Mari Natsuki confronts her biggest challenge in a new film role

Mari Natsuki has faced a number of challenges throughout her diverse career but her latest role asked her to attempt something she's never confronted before — portray an ordinary person.
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CULTURE / Film
Jan 24, 2018

'Bamy': Slightly barmy but spooky as hell

Expect to see plenty of umbrellas in Jun Tanaka's 'Bamy,' which is heavy on strangeness and the creep factor.
JAPAN
Jan 22, 2018

Tokyo hit by heaviest snow since 2014

Tokyo saw its heaviest snow in four years on Monday, with authorities urging evening commuters to hurry home and prompting those behind the wheel to brace for traffic disruptions.
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COMMUNITY / Voices / COMMUNITY CHEST
Jan 7, 2018

Much for Japan Times Community readers to crow and squawk about in year of the rooster

A selection of unpublished letters about Community stories from the first half of 2017.
JAPAN / Society
Dec 28, 2017

Japan's first 'official' same-sex couple announce separation

Japan's first official same-sex couple terminated their partnership on Christmas Day.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / TELLING LIVES
Dec 24, 2017

Tony Cetera, 'Lone Ranger' of Tokyo's homeless, calls for a good deed a day

Tony Cetera is 79 years of age and has bad legs, but that doesn't stop him helping the homeless whenever he can.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / KYOTO RESTAURANTS
Dec 9, 2017

Hyoto Kyoto: Shabu-shabu with dashi to die for

Before you set foot in Hyoto you can divine that they want to elevate shabu-shabu from a 'great party dish' to a fine dining experience.
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CULTURE / Books
Dec 9, 2017

Off the beaten track with Isabella Bird

Isabella Bird was a tenacious traverser of continents, prolific Victorian era writer and the first woman awarded membership to the U.K.'s Royal Geographical Society.
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JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Dec 2, 2017

Women in Japan too tired to care about dating or searching for a partner

While Japanese society and the media continue to exhort — nay plead — with women to find marriage partners, 60 percent of eligible women say they cannot feel relaxed enough to get interested in renai (love relationships), according to a Yomeishu survey picked up by cocolini jp.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 17, 2017

BayStars unveil plans for Yokohama Stadium expansion, renovation

Since taking over as the operator of Yokohama Stadium before the 2016 season, the Yokohama DeNA BayStars have hammered out a grand plan to transform the venue into a more attractive community ballpark.
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CULTURE / Music / Sound Off
Nov 9, 2017

Former SMAP stars find freedom online

When a wrecking ball fell on and destroyed a car, I was hooked on a 72-hour live stream starring three former members of pop group SMAP.
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CULTURE / Film
Nov 9, 2017

'Goodbye, Grandpa!' shows us how funerals are quintessentially Japanese

Want a glimpse into the dynamics of a Japanese family? Head to a funeral. That other big family function, the wedding, is a time for putting on a brave face and meeting the in-laws in a spirit of celebration. But, funerals? Those are like emotional detonating switches: Festering resentments erupt, buried...
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BUSINESS
Oct 30, 2017

Sharing-economy boom slow to take off in Japan at just 0.005% of GDP

Feel like sharing? Japan might not be your place.
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JAPAN / OKINAWA BEAT
Oct 13, 2017

Okinawa innkeeper transforms 'love hotel' into castle with a floral view

Hotel Sha La La is one of Okinawa's newest hot spots, enticing tourists with its castle-like structure.
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CULTURE / Stage / Backstage Pass
Oct 12, 2017

Dance forms mix in pair of shows

Like many art forms in our rapidly shrinking world, dance is constantly experimenting with variants of the cross-cultural, extending and blending boundaries into innovative re-imaginings of genre. Choreographers such as Akram Khan, an English dancer of Bangladeshi descent, have found great success by...
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Oct 7, 2017

Monk Kaishun Nishigaya's voyage from Japan to Seattle, Alaska and Saipan

Nishigaya was offered a resident ministry at Seattle Nichiren Buddhist Church and, undeterred by the 14-day journey by ship to reach the United States, snapped it up.
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CULTURE / Stage
Sep 28, 2017

Festival/Tokyo director Sachio Ichimura looks to a new generation

At the end of his speech in July announcing details of this year's Festival/Tokyo running from Sept. 30 to Nov. 12 mainly at venues around Ikebukuro, its director, Sachio Ichimura, dropped a bombshell.
JAPAN
Sep 28, 2017

Japanese abductee believed to be woman in photo provided by Seoul-based group for kidnap victims

The government received a wedding-day photograph of a woman thought to be a Japanese abductee to North Korea, provided on Wednesday by a Seoul-based advocacy group for the families of South Korean civilians thought to be kidnapped by the North.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 24, 2017

Parched nations tap cloud seeding

Threading through clouds, often with shaky turbulence and occasional thunder, 71-year-old pilot Gary Walker burns the flares on his plane's wings, releasing chemicals as he flies.
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COMMENTARY / World
Sep 4, 2017

The Trump administration's economic potential

The U.S. faces serious political challenges, but economically it remains on sound footing.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Aug 31, 2017

Sotheby's set to auction Vivien Leigh's diaries recording Olivier romance, GWTW notes

Diaries and a ring tracing the love affair between "Gone with the Wind" star Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier are going up for auction in London next month, providing a glimpse into one of Hollywood's most notorious relationships.
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LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Aug 28, 2017

Let's discuss fashion-sharing services

The fashion industry in Japan has begun offering people the option of renting clothes instead of buying them.
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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Aug 24, 2017

Luxury hotels set to welcome Olympic guests

In 2020, Marriott International Inc. will open for the first time in Japan two "high-grade luxury lifestyle hotels" with the EDITION Toranomon and EDITION Ginza.
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BUSINESS
Aug 18, 2017

Japan's budding fashion rental services proving popular with working women, moms

Satoshi Amanuma recalls his wife standing in front of her closet full of clothes before they went out, muttering she had nothing to wear.

Longform

Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes