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BUSINESS
Aug 2, 2017

As manga goes digital via smartphone apps, do paper comics still have a place?

Japan's famed manga industry is turning the page to an unknown chapter.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2017

Japan's medical support system falls short amid influx of foreign tourists, residents

A high number of surveyed medical facilities noted language and communication issues, which they said could lead to inappropriate diagnoses or mistreatment.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Aug 1, 2017

Abe's dream of amending Constitution slipping away

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has achieved much of his conservative security agenda since taking office in 2012, but unless he can revive his flagging popularity, his goal of revising the pacifist Constitution is likely to elude his grasp.
BASKETBALL
Jul 30, 2017

Japan beats Uruguay to hand coach Lamas first win

Slasher Makoto Hiejima racked up a game-high 16 points as the Japanese men's national team cruised past Uruguay 72-57 in the second game of a two-game exhibition series at Aoyama Gakuin University on Sunday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Jul 29, 2017

Enoshima: An island in the spotlight

Enoshima, a small land-tied island in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, is a major tourist destination that welcomes 7 million visitors a year.
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Jul 26, 2017

Yokozuna Hakuho showing no signs of letting up anytime soon

Hakuho continued to defy time, as well as a host of up-and-coming young fighters, winning the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament with a 14-1 record. That came two months after he took the Summer Basho without a loss.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 25, 2017

Mirai sales looks bleak in U.S. states lacking hydrogen-fueling stations

Toyota Motor Corp., off to a slow start selling its car of the future on one U.S. coast, is struggling even to get started on the other.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 22, 2017

Low-key Kishida seen as rising prospect to replace Abe

Low-key Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida emerges as a potential prospect to replace brash Prime Minister Shinzo Abe next year.
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Jul 21, 2017

Hakuho's place in pantheon of greats continues to grow

On Dec. 24, 2000, a skinny, dejected young Mongolian kid, near the end of his two-month stay in Japan, had seemingly failed in a bid to join sumo. Weighing just 60 kg and barely 180 cm tall Davaajargal Monkhbatyn had been unsuccessful in finding a stablemaster willing to take him in.
JAPAN
Jul 4, 2017

Ministry unveils plan for facial recognition to speed up airport entry/exit process

The Justice Ministry expects the plan, which doesn't require advance registration, to work better than a fingerprint-based system launched in 2007
EDITORIALS
Jul 1, 2017

Bad decision on passive smoking

The government should be ashamed of knuckling under to the tobacco industry and deciding not to crack down on smoking in public places.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / OSAKA RESTAURANTS
Jun 24, 2017

Kinki Daigaku Suisan Kenkyujo: Take the farm-grown bluefin tuna taste test

Some fish swim in universities. Or university-run fish farms, to be exact, and upon graduation they end up as sashimi served over a bed of crushed ice.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 19, 2017

Panasonic cranks up market exposure for home fuel of the future

Panasonic Corp. will begin selling its residential fuel cell systems in the U.K. and Austria this year as it seeks to solidify its lead in a product category that some see as a stepping stone to harnessing hydrogen as the fuel of the future.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 16, 2017

After decades-long run, McDonald's ends Olympic sponsorship deal early

U.S. fast-food giant McDonald's has ended its 41-year-long Olympic Games sponsorship deal three years early, the International Olympic Committee said on Friday.
EDITORIALS
Jun 15, 2017

'Conspiracy crime' bill railroaded through the Diet

The ruling coalition's decision to ram the contentious legislation through the Diet hardly seems like the right way to gain the public's support for it.

Longform

A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami