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Japan Times
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.
Japan Times
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.
Japan Times
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.
Japan Times
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.
Japan Times
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.
Japan Times
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...
Japan Times
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.
Japan Times
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.
Japan Times
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.
Japan Times
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.
Japan Times
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.
Japan Times
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.
Japan Times
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.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 23, 2017

There's no brain science to U.S. college free speech

Campus speakers aren't doing violence to undergraduate neurons.
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jul 20, 2017

Renovated hotel offers mountaintop yoga

The Karuizawa Prince Hotel East in Nagano Prefecture reopened on July 12 after the renovation of all 70 rooms, the lobby and its two restaurants.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Jul 9, 2017

Thank you, Jean Pearce, for helping us get things done in Japan

If the U.S. had Ann Landers and Dear Abby, and Britain had Marge Proops, then Japan had Jean Pearce — someone who transcended the title of 'columnist' and became a media icon for generations of readers.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / COMMUNITY CHEST
Jul 9, 2017

Tributes to Jean Pearce, who shaped the foreign community's experience of Japan

Jean Pearce, who for decades helped Japan's foreign community feel more at home in their adopted country through her columns in The Japan Times, passed away peacefully on June 14 at the age of 96 in Washington, D.C.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jul 8, 2017

Abe’s hotel spa and gym visits inflame media speculation

Are Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's weekly "workouts" masking something more ominous?
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 30, 2017

A fitting tribute to the city of Minamata

Suffering and stigma are being transformed into action: The entry into force of the Minamata Convention.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 30, 2017

Trump draws strong rebuke for assailing female TV host in personal terms

U..S. President Donald Trump assailed a woman TV news host in highly personal terms on Thursday, calling her "crazy" and alleging she had been bleeding at one point from a facelift, in a Twitter attack that drew strong criticism including from fellow Republicans.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 28, 2017

'Marriage': Dean Fujioka evokes sympathy for the con man

Marriage scammers in the movies may be masters of deception, but their motives are usually clear enough. In Charlie Chaplin's "Monsieur Verdoux" (1947) the title character weds and murders widows to support his family. In Miwa Nishikawa's "Dreams for Sale" (2012), a husband and wife resort to serial...

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