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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 12, 2016

North Korea ready for another nuclear test, report says

North Korea has completed preparations for another nuclear test, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Monday, citing South Korean government sources who said the North may use a previously unused tunnel at its mountainous test site.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Sep 10, 2016

Producer Christian Storms: 'The currency of my life is experiences, not money'

American actor/director on the differences between Japanese and Hollywood productions and working as a guide.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Sep 10, 2016

Countryside games add challenges, concerns for NPB teams

Japan's schedule of countryside games (those played away from the home franchise stadiums of the 12 Central and Pacific League teams) has concluded for the season. The last scheduled game, where the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters were to have played the Chiba Lotte Marines on Tuesday at Asahikawa was rained...
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2016

Fund started to help Fukushima thyroid cancer patients cover expenses

The 3/11 Children's Fund for Thyroid Cancer will start accepting donations from Sept. 20, aiming to raise at least u00a520 million.
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Sep 8, 2016

Course menus to celebrate 10 years; commemorative anniversary dinner; enjoying hot springs in natural setting

Course menus to celebrate 10 years
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 8, 2016

Colombian's memoir reveals deceptions that pulled her into Japan's sex trade in 1990s

Mother Marcela Loaiza tells tale of how she was lured to Tokyo for dance work only to wind up in the hands of the yakuza.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 8, 2016

Isolated Russian outpost Kaliningrad withers under confrontation with West

The Baltic Sea outpost of Kaliningrad was once touted as Russia's future Hong Kong: separated from the mainland, with a special status that would allow it to thrive through trade.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Sep 7, 2016

China to offer 'free screening' for travelers from Zika-hit countries

China will offer Zika health screenings for travelers from Singapore and other affected countries, the quarantine bureau said Wednesday, without explaining whether the tests would be compulsory.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LEARNING CURVE
Sep 7, 2016

Surviving Japan on an international student's budget

Current and former international students in the capital share some of their experiences and offer advice that might help incoming students save some yen.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 6, 2016

Japan's TOP museum sees the big picture

After being closed for two years for major renovations, Tokyo's best-known photography museum in Tokyo's fashionable Ebisu neighborhood reopened on Sept. 3, just in time to celebrate its 20-year anniversary. The venerable facility now boasts a new look, improved exhibition spaces and a new name in English:...
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 5, 2016

At Clinton Foundation, access equals corruption

More than half of the people who managed to score a personal meeting with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state donated money to the Clinton Foundation.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Sep 3, 2016

Messi to miss Venezuela game with groin injury

Lionel Messi's triumphant Argentina comeback has been tempered by a groin injury that has forced his withdrawal from Tuesday's World Cup qualifier in Venezuela.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 2, 2016

Economic shift leaves many Chinese adrift

The yawning gap between winners and losers is making life much harder for a government seeking to boost growth and maintain stability.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Sep 1, 2016

Fine French fare high above the city; N.Y. chef brings talents to Tokyo; reopening sees accommodation plan

Fine French fare high above the city
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 31, 2016

Kremlin blindsides Tokyo with premature announcement of Putin visit

The Kremlin on Tuesday announced a visit by President Vladimir Putin to Japan that was news to Tokyo.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 30, 2016

Subtle messages lie hidden in a corporate collection

Tokyo Station Gallery is showing a pick 'n' mix exhibition, "12 Rooms 12 Artists," comprising a variety of modern and contemporary art acquisitions from the UBS art collection. There is no explicit curatorial imperative to connect or compare the works, so you're free to enjoy the visual confections in...
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 30, 2016

During Asia visit, Obama faces test over trade pact amid U.S. opposition

When President Barack Obama travels to Asia next week, he will try to reassure leaders in the region that he still has the clout to deliver U.S. approval for the sweeping Trans-Pacific Partnership, even though the two candidates vying to succeed him and a congressional leader have said the 12-nation...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2016

A ski resort success, Niseko defies rural Japan's demographic decline

Japan's shrinking population has weighed on the world's third-biggest economy, alarmed government forecasters and turned some rural communities into veritable ghost towns.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Aug 27, 2016

Long Belts and Thin Men

Japan's postwar years were marked by raw needs and wounds, as well as great societal change. A glimpse of the era is offered in this collection of stories by Nobuo Kojima (1915-2006), most of which appear in English for the first time.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Aug 27, 2016

Italian chef Massimo Bottura: 'Never forget where you came from'

Owner of the world's best restaurant on the influence of culture in cuisine
EDITORIALS
Aug 27, 2016

'Big data' and privacy protection

The government has some hard choices to make when it comes to implementing changes in the law on privacy protection.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 26, 2016

With ¥130 billion war chest, Line hunts for acquisitions to jazz up content, technology

Line Corp. plans to use part of the ¥130 billion it garnered from last month's initial public offering to bankroll acquisitions of content and technology, transforming its messaging service into a one-stop shop for Asian social media users.
Japan Times
JAPAN / TICAD VI SPECIAL
Aug 26, 2016

Transfer to heavy industry is critical to future expansion

The significance of the industrial sector to national and regional development is very clear. Industrial enterprises diversify the economic activity of the agrarian-dominated production structure of our African countries that is mostly at a subsistence level. The share of the industrial sector, including...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Aug 25, 2016

New hotel offers relaxed stay in Ginza; 'British Fair' honors queen's birthday; seeing summer off in style

New hotel offers relaxed stay in Ginza
JAPAN
Aug 24, 2016

SDF get green light to train for new peacekeeping roles

The Self-Defense Forces are given the green light to train for new duties added under security legislation introduced last year.
Japan to resist Trump efforts to form trade bloc against China
As Japan gears up for the trade talks, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is also seeking to cushion the blow that the U.S. tariffs may have on the domestic economy.
Japan doubles down on stimulus to counter effects of Trump tariffs
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks about U.S. tariffs in Tokyo last week.
Tokyo court fines Amazon Japan ¥35 million over counterfeit products
Takahiro Fujii (center), the president of Try and E, and his lawyers speak during a news conference on Friday in Tokyo after a ruling was handed down in a case against Amazon Japan.
Francis laid to rest as 400,000 mourn pope 'with open heart'
Pallbearers carry the coffin of Pope Francis at the end of the funeral ceremony in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican on Saturday.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
Crow meat, goat tartare: Mauvaise Herbe raises its game
Crow meat, shaped into a ball and attached to a foot of the bird, is one of the peculiar offerings of game at Mauvaise Herbe.

Podcast

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

Longform

Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.
By Tomoko Otake

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