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Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Nov 15, 2017

A son echoes his father's questions about identity in Japan

'Russo-Japanese' Chuk Besher spent years researching Japan's multicultural history. Much later, son Noah, 8, had a question: 'What does 'half' mean?'
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LEARNING CURVE
Nov 15, 2017

Tokyo campus tie-up between Temple Japan and Showa Women's University could offer model for the future

Showa Women's University and Temple University, Japan Campus have announced a unique site-sharing agreement that could offer a model to other Japanese schools.
EDITORIALS
Nov 15, 2017

Encouraging climate science, discouraging climate politics

The U.S. failure to lead on the issue of climate change gives other governments the chance to do so.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 15, 2017

Jane Goodall urges all U.S. senators to halt push to drill in Arctic wildlife refuge

British primatologist Jane Goodall sent a letter to every U.S. senator on Tuesday urging them to oppose a push in the U.S. Congress to allow oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a region environmentalists say is one of the world's last paradises.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 14, 2017

Drinking age: Oldest evidence of wine-making found near Tbilisi

Oenophiles take note: 5980 BC was a very good year for wine.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Nov 11, 2017

Light designer creates European ambience

From a young age, Stuttgart-born Megumi Ito always felt "a bit different" from people in her seaside home of Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KANPAI CULTURE
Nov 11, 2017

Whirlwind wine romance led to a brand of her own

Early in her career, winemaker Atsuko Radcliffe aspired to brew sake. Fate, however, had other plans.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Nov 11, 2017

On the quest for the holy grail for as long as we live

Is death inevitable? True, everyone born before Aug. 4, 1900, has proved mortal (the world's oldest-known living person, a Japanese woman named Nabi Tajima, was born on that date). But the past is only an imperfect guide to the future, as the effervescent present is ceaselessly teaching us.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 10, 2017

Rape and sexual harassment cut across gender

In the United States, one out of 10 rape victims is male.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2017

For Japan's casinos to work, keep the yakuza out and deal with problem drinking: experts

As the nation debates how to establish and operate casinos via integrated resorts, it must take measures to keep the yakuza out and manage not only problem gambling but also develop a responsible drinking policy for the casino floor, a group of U.S. experts said in two new reports.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 9, 2017

Reimagining China and Asia

China's growing military weight as well as doubts about the staying power of the U.S., exacerbated by White House rhetoric, have caused China's neighbors, including longstanding U.S. allies, to begin to reposition themselves.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 9, 2017

Wounds sustained at night heal twice as slowly, scientists find

Body clocks cause wounds such as cuts and burns sustained during the day to heal around 60 percent faster than those sustained at night, scientists have discovered in a finding that has implications for surgery and wound-healing medicines.
EDITORIALS
Nov 7, 2017

Continuity, with a twist, at the U.S. Federal Reserve

Jerome Powell will provide more continuity than change in policy at the world's most influential central bank.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 7, 2017

'Isamu Noguchi: From Sculpture to Body and Garden'

Nov. 17-Jan. 21
JAPAN
Nov 5, 2017

Recent lack of tainted Fukushima rice raises doubts about blanket radiation checks

The blanket radiation checks conducted on rice grown in meltdown-hit Fukushima Prefecture have recently come under debate because none with radiation levels exceeding the safety limit has been found in recent years.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / Taking the Lead
Nov 5, 2017

Yoshiharu Hoshino: Inn innovator's winning formula born from bubble's crash

Yoshiharu Hoshino describes his experience taking over the reins of his century-old family business in 1991 as a "hard landing."
EDITORIALS
Nov 5, 2017

Anticipating a major Nankai Trough quake

While improving seismic observation systems is important, it is more important to assume a large earthquake can hit at any time and place.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 5, 2017

Inequality is a matter of life and death

Although people are living longer almost everywhere, life expectancy figures in the United States tell a more complicated story.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 3, 2017

Good gut microbes may help immunotherapy drugs shrink tumors

Cancer patients with high levels of good gut bacteria appear more likely to respond to immunotherapy, potentially opening up a new way to optimize the use of modern medicines that are highly effective but only work in some people.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 3, 2017

Venezuela to restructure foreign debt, raising the possibility of massive default

Venezuela on Thursday announced plans to restructure its burgeoning foreign debt, a move that may lead to a default by the cash-strapped OPEC nation whose collapsing socialist economy has left its population struggling to find food and medicine.
BUSINESS
Nov 3, 2017

Women and minorities take more seats in U.S. boardrooms, study says

White men still overwhelm the boardroom but, for the first time, women and minorities together accounted for half of the new independent directors appointed by corporate America this year, a recruitment firm said on Thursday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 1, 2017

Xi's new power won't stop dissent

The Chinese president's choice to strengthen authoritarian rule rather than loosen it will prove to be a large error, for himself, his country and beyond.
EDITORIALS
Oct 30, 2017

A turning point in the war on sexual harassment?

The solution to the problem of sexual harassment lies in lifting the sense of immunity that perpetrators feel.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 28, 2017

Top Philippines chef Margarita Fores chows down like a local in Tokyo

Margarita Fores was recently in Japan to give Tokyoites a taste of her Italian-inflected Philippine cuisine.
BUSINESS
Oct 27, 2017

Apple, GM join coalition lobbying for immigrant 'Dreamers'

Apple Inc., General Motors Co., Best Buy Co. Inc. and others have joined a coalition of top companies lobbying the U.S. Congress for young, illegal immigrants to have a path to permanent residency, the group said on Thursday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LEARNING CURVE
Oct 25, 2017

Bicultural families in Japan take the educational road less traveled

Parents of international children share their diverse stories from inside and outside Japan's state school system.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / A MATTER OF HEALTH
Oct 25, 2017

Cancer and breast density: What are doctors withholding?

October is Pink Ribbon Month: an annual campaign to increase awareness about breast cancer and get more women screened in order to catch the disease in its early stages, which will boost survival rates.
Why are rice prices still high in Japan?
Amid shortages, the price of a 5-kilogram bag of rice during the week of April 14 was ¥4,220.
Police arrest man after body of ex-girlfriend found under his home
Hideyuki Shirai (center) at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Saturday
Dollar’s decline is fueling dislocations across Asian currencies
A worker counts U.S. dollar banknotes at a currency exchange office in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2022.
Tariff talks with U.S. seen influencing Japan's Upper House election
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks to reporters about Japan-U.S. tariff negotiations at his official residence on Saturday.
‘Drop the price’: Behind the pushback on Nintendo’s Switch 2
Excitement for Nintendo's next console is high, but a vocal contingent of fans are voicing criticism over the company's pricing strategy.
Why are rice prices still high in Japan?
Amid shortages, the price of a 5-kilogram bag of rice during the week of April 14 was ¥4,220.
Kotomi Li: 'I refuse to choose death'
Since 2017, Kotomi Li has won some of Japan’s top literary awards and built a formidable career in the face of persistent online harassment. “Authors are tenacious creatures to begin with,” she says.
Want to see the future at the Osaka Expo? Get in line.
“‘Future of life,’ by Ishiguro,” the World Expo pavilion by roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro, displays humanlike androids.
Despite shifts in Japan's political landscape, constitutional revision still far off
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has been a staunch advocate for constitutional reform.
Kawasaki can hold its head high after spirited Asian Champions League effort
Frontale players grimace during the final of the Asian Champions League on Saturday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Kawasaki lost 2-0 against heavily favored Al-Ahli.

Podcast

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

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Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.
A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan
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