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Japan Times
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Jun 25, 2018

Let's discuss having more than one job

Japanese workers are signing up for second jobs in record numbers to earn extra cash as wages stagnate, stirring hopes of a rise in consumer spending but adding to fears of overwork.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 25, 2018

Fighting nears center of Yemen's main port of Hodeida as Houthi missiles are intercepted over Riyadh

The Iran-aligned Houthi movement launched missiles on the Saudi capital Riyadh on Sunday, and reinforced Yemen's main port city of Hodeida as an Arab coalition moved closer to the city center in the largest offensive of the war.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 24, 2018

Rediscovering the promise of nuclear power

Fears about radiation are vastly exaggerated, and the potential of nuclear power is unmatched by other renewables.
JAPAN / KANSAI PERSPECTIVE
Jun 24, 2018

Kansai entities team up on U.N. development goals as Japan angles for World Expo

When the Group of 20 summit takes place in Osaka a year from now, the bulk of media reporting and commentary will no doubt emphasize what the presidents and prime ministers say about the international financial or geopolitical crisis of the moment, and what dramas are taking place among world leaders...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Food Sustainability in Japan
Jun 23, 2018

Is farming in Japan on its last legs?

With a declining agricultural workforce, there are concerns about how Japan will tackle food self-sufficiency and maintain its landscapes, cultural heritage and vitality of its countryside villages.
EDITORIALS
Jun 23, 2018

Step up war on plastic pollution

Japanese businesses and consumers should strive to reduce plastic waste by cutting back on the use of disposable plastic products.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 23, 2018

Trendy bans on plastic straws are bunk

Skipping straws may be hip. But there are much better ways to fight pollution.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 22, 2018

New graduates hope for work-life balance rather than boardroom role

Working long hours to move up the job ladder is a lower priority for newly employed graduates in the nation, according to a recent survey published by the Japan Productivity Center (JPC).
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 22, 2018

Despite Trump order, border child separations could go on, legal experts say

The much-vilified U.S. policy of separating children from parents who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border could continue under certain circumstances because of ambiguous language in President Donald Trump's order meant to end the practice, legal experts said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Jun 22, 2018

Peace doesn't pay: How foreign companies have lost a fortune in North Korea

Months before the first summit between the leaders of the two Koreas in 2000, South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Inc. invested $730,000 in Pyongyang's top computer lab. North Korean programmers there would develop online chess games and food recipes for Samsung to sell outside the North.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 21, 2018

Caterpillar, Volvo and Komatsu linked to mining abuses in Myanmar: report

Caterpillar, Volvo and Komatsu contribute to abuses in Myanmar by selling machinery used by domestic mining companies implicated in land expropriation, environmental destruction and armed conflict, according to a report published on Wednesday.
WORLD
Jun 21, 2018

Over 20 nations unite to toughen climate goals as leaked report suggests warming may exceed key threshold by 2040

More than 20 nations ranging from Germany, France and Britain to Pacific island states said on Thursday they would try to limit their greenhouse gas emissions more than already planned under the Paris climate agreement by 2020.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League / B. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Jun 21, 2018

Earthfriends Tokyo Z hand coaching reins to Satoru Furuta

Less than a year after being dismissed as Yokohama B-Corsairs head coach, former Japan national team center/power forward Satoru Furuta is back as a sideline supervisor.
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2018

App helps non-Japanese find multilingual medical service

Are you on the hunt for an English-speaking doctor in Tokyo? A handy smartphone app aims to help foreign residents and visitors easily find multilingual medical services.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 20, 2018

Success with North Korea still needs Japan

Tokyo could play a role far beyond writing checks for an agreement.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 20, 2018

'One Cut of the Dead': A zombie flick that brings indie filmmaking back to life

Both budgets and box-office prospects for Japanese indie films have been declining for years. As the former approaches the zero mark, so do recognizable actors and other standard indicators of quality. Audiences, smelling amateurism, stay away.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 20, 2018

Kumamoto company turns to brown rice paste in bid to revive Japan's abandoned farmland

Alarmed by an increase in abandoned rice paddies amid the Westernization of the Japanese diet and a graying population, a Kyushu dealer of major agricultural machinery-maker Kubota Corp. began producing rice flour in 2010 as an ingredient for bread and pasta to make up for declines in rice consumption....
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 20, 2018

Trump's migrant child detentions mean $458 million for nonprofit minder

The Trump administration plans to pay a Texas nonprofit nearly half a billion dollars this year to care for immigrant children who were detained crossing the U.S. border illegally, according to government data.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 20, 2018

Saudi-led coalition captures large part of Yemen's Hodeida airport as fighting rages with entrenched Houthis: UAE

Arab coalition troops stormed the airport in Yemen's main port Hodeida on Tuesday and captured large areas of the compound in battles with Iran-aligned Houthis, a Yemeni military source, the UAE news agency and local residents said.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 19, 2018

Mercari's IPO raises over ¥60 billion on Mothers, putting Japanese flea market app in spotlight

Mercari Inc., Japan's first unicorn to go public, made its debut Tuesday on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Mothers section, becoming the largest IPO this year.
JICA to designate four Japanese cities as 'hometowns' for African nations
The Japanese flag (left) with the flag of the African Union
103-year-old remembers Soviet attack right after WWII
Shoichi Takahashi holds a photo of himself when he was younger, in Otaru, Hokkaido, on May 17.
Schools get students involved in revision of unreasonable ‘black rules’
At Yawata Junior High School in Nagoya, there are no more rules on clothing and hairstyles. Students are free to wear either the school's uniform or clothes of their own choosing.
Tokyo crowned No.1 'workation' spot
Workations were a burgeoning trend in the corporate world for years before the COVID-19 pandemic turbocharged it.
Japanese man suspected of ordering double murder in Manila
Two suspects arrested over the killing of two Japanese last week are held in restraints in Manila on Tuesday.
Tokyo crowned No.1 'workation' spot
Workations were a burgeoning trend in the corporate world for years before the COVID-19 pandemic turbocharged it.
Atsushi Kitagawara’s exhibition finds poetry in architecture
The inverted cone, one of Atsushi Kitagawara’s six signature elements in architecture, is a key feature of the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection museum building.
Candidates preparing to make final pitches for Sawamura Award
Hawks pitcher Livan Moinelo has a 1.13 ERA in 19 starts this season.
Winning warship bid gives Japan confidence boost as Tokyo eyes more exports
Australia’s decision to select Japan's upgraded Mogami-class warship, seen in this computer-generated image, has been “well received across Japanese industry," a Defense Ministry official said.
In Paris, chefs Chizuko Kimura and Kei Kobayashi make their mark
Chef Kei Kobayashi is France's only Japanese chef with three Michelin stars.

Podcast

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

Longform

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
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