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Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Mar 18, 2017

Backstop Kobayashi plays big role for Japan

There's a thanklessness to catching in baseball. Catchers do a lot of the dirty work, and their efforts end up being both extremely challenging and easy for the casual observer to accidentally overlook.
EDITORIALS
Mar 17, 2017

Step to trim overtime falls short

A new legal cap on overtime will hardly serve as a guarantee to stop the excessively long work hours from causing the deaths and suicides of overworked employees.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 16, 2017

Trump is already losing to China in technology

U.S. President Donald Trump's policies offer a road map for how not to compete with China.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 16, 2017

Is America's Democratic Party destined to split?

Growing friction between liberal Democrats and the party's center-right corporate leadership caste could spur a divorce.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 16, 2017

U.S. may find tough negotiator in fiery minister Aso

In his presidential campaign last year, U.S. President Donald Trump promised to scrap trade deals that gave unfair advantages to other nations and replace them with new ones that would revitalize the U.S. economy and bring jobs back home.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 15, 2017

The unintentional causes of 'abandonment'

Six years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated the Tohoku region, leaving more than 18,000 people dead or missing, and triggering meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant that has left a deeply embedded mistrust of nuclear power in the Japanese consciousness....
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 15, 2017

Millennial movers revive Japanese mountain towns amid depopulation

High-speed broadband. An award-winning brewpub built with recycled materials as part of a "zero waste" mission. An artist-in-residence program. Organic pizza from a wood-fired oven.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 14, 2017

The best way to ensure aid to Africa is effective

It is critical to help African countries improve governance before providing financial assistance.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 14, 2017

BOJ tapering fears overdone

Ultra-loose policy is the glue holding the economy together, but arguably the BOJ should be even bolder.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 13, 2017

Relief camp in China swells as thousands flee conflict in Myanmar

Within earshot of mortar fire echoing from beyond a ring of hills, a sprawling relief camp in southwestern China is swelling steadily after fighting erupted last week between a rebel ethnic army in Myanmar and government troops just across the border.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 13, 2017

Europe or anti-Europe?

The eurozone is stuck in a semi-permanent economic malaise, which could destroy it.
WORLD / Society
Mar 13, 2017

To encourage more births, Chinese lawmaker proposes lowering nation's high marriage age

China should further ease population controls by lowering one of the world's highest marriage ages to encourage more births as the nation grows old, according to a lawmaker.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 12, 2017

Trump could be handing a big gift to China

A turn toward protectionism by the United States could well be a blessing in disguise for China.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Mar 11, 2017

BayStars look to replicate Carp's 2016 success

Can the Yokohama BayStars become this year's Hiroshima Carp?
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 9, 2017

A U.S.-China currency deal can avert trade war

A new Plaza Accord can benefit both the U.S. and China, and deliver Trump his first foreign policy victory.
Japan Times
JAPAN / AFTEREFFECTS OF MARCH 2011
Mar 8, 2017

In tsunami-hit Kesennuma, fishing industry recovers but scars remain

A stranger visiting the fishing port of Kesennuma today may not realize that six years ago it suddenly became the scene of massive, deadly devastation.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 7, 2017

China commits $3.4 billion for Philippine infrastructure projects

China has committed to finance at least three infrastructure projects in the Philippines worth $3.4 billion, two of which could be rolled out in the first half of this year, trade officials from both countries said on Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 7, 2017

Former envoys urge Asia to go ahead with regional trade deal without U.S.

Asian countries should pursue a Pacific trade pact even after the U.S. walked away, and its standards should be incorporated into other regional deals, argues a report authored by half a dozen former trade envoys.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 6, 2017

American politics in the new age of disbelief

Millions of Americans no longer believe what they once believed. There is a loss of faith in old orthodoxies and the established 'experts' who championed them.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2017

Trump protectionism threat reuniting rest of word, EU vice president says

U.S. President Donald Trump's protectionist stance may propel Asian, Middle Eastern and Latin American economic powers into market-opening alliances with the European Union, a top EU official said.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Mar 4, 2017

No free ride for U.S. auto manufacturers

Anyone who was around in the 1980s will remember the turmoil caused by the U.S.-Japan trade imbalance, especially in the automotive field. In order to maintain their growing position in the American market, Japanese car manufacturers knew they would have to move some of their operations to the United...
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COMMENTARY / World
Mar 3, 2017

Why it matters when artists criticize Trump

It is often the arts, serious or satirical, that expose the tragic absurdity of repressive leadership. And the worse Trump behaves, the more demand there will be for artists who oppose him.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 2, 2017

SoftBank Robotics plans app store for humanoid Pepper robot

The team behind Pepper, the humanoid robot from SoftBank Robotics, are planning a platform for the machine where developers create applications for everyday use, such as guarding your home or vacuuming the floor.
EDITORIALS
Mar 2, 2017

Trump gets presidential

Donald Trump managed to sound presidential in his first address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, but his narrowly focused message should concern the world.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 2, 2017

Confucius blocks change in South Korea

At the 'chaebol,' Confucian reverence for the 'emperor' translates into obedience to company founders and their families, who are treated like royalty.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 1, 2017

The poverty of thought in our welfare systems

Sometimes I want to look up from whatever I'm doing (usually when I'm staring at a screen) and send up a prayer of thanks that at 81 years old, filmmaker Ken Loach continues to be who he is.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Mar 1, 2017

Hong Kong's trafficked bar girls forced into sex and drugs

As she smiles at customers and makes small talk with regulars in a Hong Kong bar, Kat's every move is being watched by an older woman, a pimp who answers to the name "Mama-san."
Japan on edge but prepared for tsunami after huge Kamchatka earthquake
Police officers ask a man to evacuate from an empty beach following a tsunami warning, in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Wednesday.
Japan to start new residency system for foreign workers
Students hoping to work in Japan attend a Japanese class at a job placement company in Hanoi in October 2022.
Last soldiers of Imperial Japanese Army have a warning for younger generations
Kunshiro Kiyozumi, 97, who was the youngest crew member of the Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-58 in World War II, on his way to a restaurant to have lunch in Matsuyama, Japan, on April 29.
Japan marks highest-ever temperature of 41.2 C in Hyogo
Japan's temperature soared to a record 41.2 degrees Celsius in Tanba, Hyogo Prefecture, on Wednesday, surpassing the previous high of 41.1 C.
Japan should take all possible measures to raise wages, white paper says
Prolonged high prices for food and other goods have pushed down consumer sentiment and real wages, according to the Annual Report on the Japanese Economy and Public Finance for fiscal 2025.
How the Japanese TV industry is changing
Fuji TV headquarters in Tokyo's Minato Ward. Fuji TV came under fire over the manner in which it handled a case of “sexual trouble” involving former boy band member Masahiro Nakai and a female announcer.
Last soldiers of Imperial Japanese Army have a warning for younger generations
Kunshiro Kiyozumi, 97, who was the youngest crew member of the Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-58 in World War II, on his way to a restaurant to have lunch in Matsuyama, Japan, on April 29.
Why Ishiba refuses to quit even amid intense pressure for him to go
Supporters of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba take part in a rally across the street from the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.
Behind the scenes at the Baseball Hall of Fame's new Yakyu/Baseball exhibit
“Yakyu / Baseball: The Transpacific Exchange of the Game” is set to remain on display in Cooperstown for at least five to 10 years — and possibly indefinitely.
Boys’ love dramas from Thailand make waves in Japan
Wakana, a Japanese fan of Thai BL, visits a temple in Thon Buri, Bangkok featured in the Thai adaptation of the Japanese series “Cherry Magic.” Her media consumption kindled an interest in Thai culture and language, and ultimately led her to relocate to Thailand. “I fell in love with the whole country,” she says.

Podcast

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

Longform

Ichiro Suzuki, one of the most iconic players in NPB and MLB history, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame with 99.7% of the vote.
With Hall of Fame induction, Ichiro makes himself heard loud and clear
By Jason Coskrey

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