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Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Aug 24, 2019

Japan's homemakers are using art history classics to illustrate daily struggles on Twitter

Homemakers in Japan have been using classic artworks to describe their daily routines — much to the delight of those on social media.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Aug 24, 2019

'Perfume: In Search of Your Signature Scent': Up the distinguished nose of an olfactory detective

Neil Chapman's passion for scents has taken him all over the world and incited him to write 'Perfume,' a 'scent atlas' that takes the form of a gorgeous 288-page guidebook.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 24, 2019

World needs to end risky reliance on U.S. dollar, BoE's Mark Carney says

Bank of England Gov. Mark Carney took aim at the dollar's "destabilizing" role in the global economy on Friday and said central banks might need to join together to create their own replacement reserve currency.
Reader Mail
Aug 23, 2019

What about the 1965 treaty?

To clarify the current Japan-South Korea feud, there's one question I want to ask.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 22, 2019

Japan and G7 peers brace for fractious summit in France

Japanese media outlets had reported that this year's G7 was unlikely to issue a joint statement for the first time in its history.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 22, 2019

Tokyo FM Broadcasting admits fiddling the books to hide subsidiary's losses

Tokyo FM Broadcasting Co. said Wednesday that it engaged in improper accounting practices to hide a subsidiary's losses.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Aug 22, 2019

Trump's snub of Denmark over Greenland shows disregard for a model U.S. ally

President Donald Trump is coming to Europe. And not for the first time, he has embarrassed a U.S. ally and reached out to Russia's Vladimir Putin before even boarding a plane.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 21, 2019

Tomoa Narasaki climbs to gold at world championships, punches ticket for 2020 Olympics

Tomoa Narasaki entered the world championships vowing to not only shoot for an Olympic berth but for the gold medal as well.
Japan Times
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Aug 21, 2019

Australia's decision to join U.S.-led maritime mission off Iran likely to heighten pressure on Japan

Australia's prime minister announced his country will join the U.S.-led mission to protect shipping in the Strait of Hormuz amid ongoing tensions with Iran, albeit under Australia's operational control.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 21, 2019

It's time for Summer Sonic to think beyond the music

Summer Sonic 2019 featured the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sakanaction and Babymetal. With the music under its belt, what's next for the festival?
EDITORIALS
Aug 20, 2019

Japan's falling food self-sufficiency

The government needs to review whether food self-sufficiency should be maintained as a key yardstick in its agriculture policy — and if so, what should be the practical level necessary to secure the nation's food supply.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 20, 2019

Don't let giant clams start World War III

These shells are worth a fortune, but the price in environmental damage and heightened military tensions in the South China Sea is vastly higher.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Aug 20, 2019

U.S. test of previously banned missile raises fears of new nuclear arms race

The U.S. military has conducted a flight test of a type of missile banned for more than 30 years, under a treaty from which it bolted earlier this month, the Pentagon said Monday, in a move experts said was likely to have been closely watched by China, Russia and even North Korea.
EDITORIALS
Aug 19, 2019

Expand discussion on prenatal diagnostic testing

Upcoming discussions at the health ministry should cover various aspects of the medical technology, including any possible ethical issues.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 19, 2019

How to deal with the Trump tantrum?

The dichotomy of the Trump administration is here to stay.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 19, 2019

To meet China challenge, the U.S. has to fight climate change

U.S. global warming policy undermines the geopolitical advances it's making on Beijing.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 19, 2019

The root cause of U.S. mass shootings is the rage of alienation

The only thing surprising about mass shootings is that they don't happen more frequently.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 19, 2019

Chinese missile arsenal could embolden Beijing to seize Senkakus and force U.S. from region, report claims

The study by the University of Sydney says a decade of “delayed and unpredictable funding” for the U.S. defense budget has seen Washington lose its primacy in the Western Pacific.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos
Aug 18, 2019

Plan your response before taking on passive prejudice at the office

What should you do when one of your Japanese colleagues makes a problematic comment? Sometimes it's best to keep things light.
EDITORIALS
Aug 17, 2019

Real cost of scrapping reactors

Tepco's recent decision to decommission its Fukushima No. 2 nuclear power plant highlights one of the big challenges for both the power industry and the government — which has pushed for nuclear power as a matter of state policy — in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. Combined with...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 16, 2019

Cathay Pacific CEO Rupert Hogg out as Chinese scrutiny mounts; Augustus Tang takes helm

Cathay Pacific Airways CEO Rupert Hogg resigned in a shock move on Friday, amid mounting Chinese regulatory scrutiny of the Hong Kong carrier over the involvement of its employees in the city's anti-government protests.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 16, 2019

Why normal times will not return

The tiny silicon chip has placed power in mass hands to an unprecedented degree, and drastically weakened old political hierarchies in both democracies and autocracies alike.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Aug 16, 2019

As rains lead to thousands of school meals being binned, Hiroshima weighs how to cut waste

A 30-year-old female reader in Hiroshima contacted the Chugoku Shimbun one day to convey her frustration that school lunches are thrown away when schools shut down due to heavy rain.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 16, 2019

As population ages, Japan's convenience stores find future in funerals

It might escape the notice of a passerby that Davius Living Yamato, a one-story building standing unassumingly on a street in Kanagawa Prefecture, is a funeral parlor.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 16, 2019

North Korea fires more 'projectiles' into Sea of Japan and vows not to meet with South

North Korea added insult to injury Friday when, hours after blasting South Korea's leader as "impudent" and vowing not to meet with Seoul officials, it launched two more "projectiles" into the Sea of Japan.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 16, 2019

'Very unusual suicide': Jeffrey Epstein autopsy reportedly shows neck broken in several places

An autopsy of the financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died in an apparent suicide while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, found his neck had been broken in several places, the Washington Post reported late on Wednesday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 14, 2019

Beating the heat at the Tokyo Olympics

Hosting the games will call on the best of Japanese expertise, innovation and imagination to bring out the best in the athletes competing in very challenging conditions.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 14, 2019

History and the logic of empires

Current events in Asia echo the days of British rule.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Aug 14, 2019

A Sophia University student group is building the bridges that refugees need

The Sophia Refugee Support Group offers an opportunity to meet the locals in cafes and classes, and for those in detention centers they provide a sympathetic ear.
EDITORIALS
Aug 13, 2019

President Trump, we are confused

U.S. President Donald Trump must convince Japan and the world that he will not accept a nuclear-armed North Korea and that he remains committed to its allies in this part of the world.
Is America ready for Japanese-style 7-Elevens?
Convenience stores are a fixture of Japanese life and 7-Eleven, a chain that began in the U.S. in 1927, opened its first store in Japan in 1974 — and then became wholly Japanese-owned in 2005 through parent company Seven & I Holdings.
Japan's cutting-edge railgun successfully strikes target vessel
The Defense Ministry’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) conducted a ship-board railgun shooting test from June to early July this year with the support of the Maritime Self-Defense Force.
‘Fairytale’ Shirakawago ranked one of the world’s most beautiful villages
Forbes and Unforgettable Travel Company have ranked Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture as Asia's most beautiful village.
People rush to make furusato nozei donations ahead of tighter rules
A booth from the town of Betsukai in Hokkaido at an Amazon Japan furusato nо̄zei promotion event, on Sept. 5 in Tokyo's Minato Ward.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Strikes on Qatar and Poland shake U.S. sway among friend and foe
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Museum of the Bible in Washington on Sept. 8. Israeli strikes in Qatar and Russian drone incursions into Poland have challenged the U.S. leaders claims of global respect.
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.
An aesthetic escape to Hakone’s art-drenched hills
Between traditional examples of fine art and sleek, modern exhibitions that blend with nature, Hakone offers a unique escape from Tokyo's urban sprawl.
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.

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Sumadori Bar on Shibuya Ward's main Center Gai street targets young customers who prefer low-alcohol drinks or abstain altogether.
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