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Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 26, 2018

Abe says he's in contact with North about meeting Kim, suggests in Diet he'd be open to trilateral summit with U.S.

Japan has been communicating with North Korea through “various means” on the possibility of meeting with leader Kim Jong Un.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Mar 26, 2018

Japanese women find strength in Me Too

The Me Too movement has arrived in Japan at last, and more Japanese women are opening up about issues surrounding sexual harassment.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 26, 2018

Seibu ace Yusei Kikuchi refuses to rest on laurels

Yusei Kikuchi has put last year behind him. All the wins, the career numbers and accolades, firmly in the rearview mirror. His brush with the Sawamura Award, now just a fond memory.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Mar 25, 2018

Issey Miyake finds its Kyoto home

With its tiered roof, latticed exterior and exposed beams, the new Issey Miyake Kyoto flagship is more than just a store; it's a celebration of one of Kyoto's best-known traditional structures — the machiya.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Mar 24, 2018

Haruki Murakami: Literary lightweight or global superstar?

You know you've made it as an author when there are week-long conferences dedicated to your work that attract scholars, critics and translators from all over the world and which you, the author, do not feel the need to attend.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 23, 2018

How to unleash Japan's animal spirits

The postwar system that built Japan's formidable middle class is faltering. A two-tiered employment system is needed.
JAPAN
Mar 23, 2018

Education ministry works to curb excessive overtime by teachers

The education ministry has kicked off full-scale efforts to curb overwork among schoolteachers and address a longtime problem for educators.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 23, 2018

No laughing matter: China regulator bans TV parodies amid content crackdown

China's media regulator is cracking down on video spoofs, the official Xinhua News Agency reported, amid an intensified crackdown on any content that is deemed to be in violation of socialist core values under President Xi Jinping.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Mar 22, 2018

It takes one to know one: How YouTuber Chris Okano built an agency to help his fellow J-vloggers

This past week, Japanese YouTube heavyweight Hikakin appeared on NHK's long-running business show "The Professionals" ("Professional: Shigoto no Ryugi") where he discussed the "new job" of being a YouTube content creator.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 22, 2018

Peru's president offers to resign on eve of impeachment

Peru's center-right President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski announced his resignation on Wednesday after vote-buying allegations ensnared him in a fresh scandal on the eve of an impeachment vote, capping months of political turmoil in one of Latin America's most stable economies.
BUSINESS
Mar 20, 2018

Is this legal? Making sense of the world's cryptocurrency rules

Getting your head around cryptocurrencies was hard enough before governments got involved. But now that policymakers around the world are drawing up fresh regulations on everything from exchanges to initial coin offerings, keeping track of what's legal has become just as daunting as figuring out which...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 20, 2018

Koga: A pithy affair with the avant-garde

There are two good reasons to see the exhibition on the short-lived photography magazine Koga, now on at the Tokyo Photographic Art (TOP) Museum. One is that it is full of powerful images that will linger in the memory despite their relative simplicity. The other is that, as the story of art continues...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 20, 2018

'Nude: Art From the Tate Collection'

March 24-June 24
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 20, 2018

Cambridge Analytica CEO offered to ensnare politicians in dirty tricks campaign: report

The data firm accused of harvesting Facebook Inc. user profiles was captured in secret footage bragging about how it could use prostitutes and former spies to ensnare politicians and influence elections.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Mar 19, 2018

In written Japanese, it's punctuation, but not as we know it

Needless to say, Japanese has its own set of punctuation marks, and a number of special rules regarding their usage.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
Mar 19, 2018

Joining up contradictory conditions in Japanese with 'ippo'

Fudan-no seikatsu-wa setsuyaku-suru ippō, o-iwaigoto-wa hade-ni suru. (They economize in their daily lives on the one hand but pull out all the stops for celebrations.)
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Mar 18, 2018

A fuzzy tale of Japan's famous cats in hats

When Ryo Yamazaki picked up a chunk of one of his cat's shed fur and fashioned it on top of his Scottish fold's head in a Trump-esque quiff, he did it for a laugh.
JAPAN / Society
Mar 17, 2018

The other side of crime: 'Victims left behind'

The 1995 Aum sarin gas attacks in Tokyo laid the foundations for the creation of support networks to help protect those affected by the incident.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KONBINI WATCH
Mar 17, 2018

Ministop's 'Adult Tiramisu' a caffeinated delight unsuitable for kids

Ministop often gets overlooked when discussing convenience store chains in Japan. Due to the sheer number of outlets found across the country, the big three — Lawson, Seven-Eleven and Family Mart — tend to hog the attention (including from this column, which last sampled a Ministop exclusive ......
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 17, 2018

Betting side puts odds on H.R. McMaster to exit the Trump White House next

U.S. national security adviser H.R. McMaster is most likely the next official to leave the Trump administration following a string of firings and resignations, according to a betting website that put the odds against him staying, at 3-2.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 16, 2018

May visits U.K. city where Russian double-agent was poisoned

British Prime Minister Theresa May visited Salisbury on Thursday, the elegant cathedral city that became the unlikely backdrop to a chemical attack against a Russian former double-agent this month.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Mar 15, 2018

Dairakudakan's 'unearthly' butoh meets a tortured Russian tale

Following a January press conference in which the New National Theatre, Tokyo, announced that Dairakudakan, one of the world's leading butoh companies, would be staging two performances of "Tsumi to Batsu" ("Crime and Punishment") in March, troupe founder Akaji Maro delivered a triumphant statement....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 13, 2018

The films and the fury of punk moviemaker Gakuryu Ishii

Last year's release of "Blade Runner 2049" and this year's Netflix series "Altered Carbon" have rekindled interest in the futuristic cyberpunk aesthetic, though those works were decidedly more "cyber" and less "punk."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 13, 2018

Turner: The landscaper of art genres

J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) remains among the most adored of British landscapists. His natural draftsman talent, in union with the hard work ethic of his time led to recognition and formal training at the Royal Academy of Arts, where he was elected to become one of the institution's esteemed Academicians...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 13, 2018

'Hokusai and Hiroshige: The Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji and the Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido'

March 16-April 24
Japan Times
Mar 13, 2018

TSUNEISHI SHIPBUILDING Obtains HSE Certification - The First Company-level Certification to be Granted in Japan

TSUNEISHI SHIPBUILDING Co., Ltd. (HQ: 1083 Tsuneishi, Numakuma-cho, Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Japan; President: Kenji Kawano; hereinafter, “TSUNEISHI”) is pleased to announce it has received HSE certification from the internationally recognised Health, Safety & Environment Management System. Nippon Kajii...
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Mar 13, 2018

Women farmers join 'long march' to Mumbai to demand land and forest rights

Thousands of women farmers marched into Mumbai alongside their male peers on Monday demanding the government recognizes their rights over forests and stops the takeover of land for industrial projects.
China’s unbeatable new production model export
China is not merely moving more goods; it is exporting a new, ruthlessly efficient production model powered by automation, AI and state-guided industrial optimization.
Extreme heat in Japan set to peak this week
People shield their eyes from the sun as they walk through a street on a hot day in Tokyo on July 26.
How Pakistan shot down India's cutting-edge fighter using Chinese gear
An Indian Air Force pilot gets out of a Rafale fighter jet during its induction ceremony at an air force station in Ambala, India, September 2020.
Australia announces new warships will come from Japan
The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mogami-class frigate Niyodo sails at an undisclosed location in this image released Tuesday.
Italy's fast fashion hub becomes Chinese mafia battlefield
Signs for fast-fashion factories in Prato, Italy, on Friday. Chinese crime groups in the district thrive on the "Prato system" rife with corruption in the fast-fashion sector.
Australia announces new warships will come from Japan
The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mogami-class frigate Niyodo sails at an undisclosed location in this image released Tuesday.
Fuji Rock's weekend of surprises was one of its best yet
Radwimps lead singer Yojiro Noda threw himself into the rock band’s Green Stage performance ahead of headliner Vampire Weekend.
How Trump is gaslighting on climate change — with Japan’s help
The Bishu Maru LNG tanker, owned by Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, next to the Freeport LNG terminal in Texas
With a new distillery, Suntory makes a spirited move on gin market
A staff inspects a distillation pot still at Suntory's new Osaka Spirits & Liqueurs Craft Distillery, which will focus on gin production and help Suntory capture a bigger slice of the fast-growing gin market.
Junglia brought dinos back to Okinawa. But will it bring tourists?
At Panorama Dining, one of Junglia’s two proper restaurants that also doubles as the rooftop Inifinity Terrace overlook, guests can pay extra to sit in balcony tables made to look like birds’ nests overlooking the park grounds.

Podcast

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

Longform

A mushroom cloud from the atomic bombing on Hiroshima taken from a U.S. military aircraft on Aug. 6, 1945. Copying the photo without permission is prohibited.
80 years on, a Japanese American hibakusha recalls the day the bomb dropped
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