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BASKETBALL
May 10, 2016

Australia women's squad completes three-game sweep of Japan

The Japan women's basketball team gave world No. 2 Australia a huge fright before succumbing to an 84-73 loss to suffer a series sweep on Tuesday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
May 10, 2016

Duterte's South China Sea stance could shake up security ties with Japan, U.S.

Take a breath. Tough-talking Philippine president-elect Rodrigo Duterte is unlikely to ride a jet ski to plant a flag on a China-held island, as he promised in a stump speech.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 3, 2016

The Korean roots beneath Japan's folk art movement

The folk craft movement in Japan owes a great debt to Soetsu Yanagi (1889-1961), who coined the term "mingei" ("folk crafts") in 1925. Yanagi pioneered the notion that Japan's vernacular crafts had their own intrinsic artistic worth, and should be valued, collected and curated. His desire to share an...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 29, 2016

Japan looks to reform rigid tour guide exams as part of wider tourism push

As Japan begins to adapt to the unprecedented influx of foreign visitors, the tightly regulated tour guide industry prepares for major reform.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Apr 27, 2016

Agent Orange and Okinawa: the story so far

Five years after The Japan Times first revealed the U.S. military's use of toxic defoliants on the island, new evidence continues to come to light.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Apr 26, 2016

Gaines gets to work with Japan's women's hoop team

Japan's Olympic-bound women's national basketball team has entered its second training camp in Tokyo, with Phoenix Suns assistant Corey Gaines as a guest coach.
BUSINESS
Apr 25, 2016

BOJ seen quietly snapping up big stakes in Japan Inc. via ETFs

They may not realize it yet, but Japan Inc.'s executives are increasingly working for a shareholder unlike any other: the nation's money-printing central bank.
Japan Times
CULTURE
Apr 24, 2016

'Cool Japan' needs to listen to its target market

As far as awards ceremonies go, the Sugoi Japan Awards were a fairly flashy affair. Held on March 22, the prizes recognized recent titles in anime, manga and fiction that an online poll of Japanese fans wanted to do well overseas.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 22, 2016

Japan Post to fight negative rates with shift to risk assets

Japan Post Holdings Co. will shift more of its $2.6 trillion investment portfolio to riskier assets to boost profitability as negative interest rates shrink income from government bonds.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 20, 2016

Canberra all but rules out Japan sub bid: report

Canberra has all but eliminated the much-hyped Japanese bid to build the country's 50 billion Australian dollar fleet of new submarines, a report by the Australian Broadcasting Corp. said Wednesday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 17, 2016

Five lessons from Japan's negative-rate experiment

Japan's experiment with negative interest rates suggests the need for even greater qualifications to the already cautious assessments of unconventional monetary policies.
BUSINESS
Apr 14, 2016

Japan Inc. faces biggest Abe-era profits drop on strong yen

For the past three years, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe could usually count on surging corporate earnings to back up the case that his policies were turning around Japan, but that is no more.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Apr 13, 2016

Suns assistant Gaines to guest-coach Japan

Corey Gaines, a Phoenix Suns assistant who formerly played in Japan, will be invited to coach the Japanese women's national team, team assistant Tom Hovasse revealed on Tuesday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 11, 2016

Win or lose, Trump will impact Japan-U.S. ties

Japan's leaders will need to acclimate themselves to more unpredicatability in American politics.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Apr 11, 2016

Japan confirms swimming team for Rio Olympics

The Japan Swimming Federation officially announced its national team for this summer's Rio de Janeiro Olympics on Monday.

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Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers