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Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Sep 30, 2016

Japan governors wear 'pregnancy' vests to urge men to help at home

In Japan, where women do five times as much housework as men, three male politicians have donned "pregnancy" vests in a campaign urging men to help out more at home.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 30, 2016

Toyosu missing-soil probe draws a blank on who changed plans and why

An inquiry into corner-cutting at a polluted site selected to become Tokyo's main fish market has failed to identify who changed construction plans and why.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Sep 30, 2016

Celaravird: Edible works of art from an adventurous chef

Dinner at Celaravird runs to a strict schedule. At 6:30 p.m., guests start to converge on the restaurant. Some climb out of taxis; others make the uphill hike from the nearby train station. By 6:45 they are expected to be at their tables, the buzz of anticipation growing as preprandial drinks are served....
EDITORIALS
Sep 30, 2016

Yokohama hospital murders

Hospitals aren't always the safe places we hope they are, and greater security measures must be put in place.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 30, 2016

Silicon Valley to Japan’s piecemeal startups: first global growth, then IPO

Trace the roots of most modern Japanese tech companies back far enough and there's a good chance you'll stumble across a little-known venture capital firm called Jafco Co.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Sep 30, 2016

Former Guangzhou Communist Party boss handed life term for corruption

A Chinese court Friday jailed for life the former Communist Party boss of the southern city of Guangzhou after finding him guilty of corruption, the latest official to fall in President Xi Jinping's sweeping war on graft.
EDITORIALS
Sep 29, 2016

Toyosu market debacle

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike must identify the people who made the decision to deviate from a plan aimed at eliminating the effects of toxic materials at the new Toyosu wholesale market.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 29, 2016

Messenger closing in on deal with Hanshin

Randy Messenger and the Hanshin Tigers are nearing a deal that will keep the right-hander with the club through 2018, his agent, Matt Sosnick, told The Japan Times on Thursday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 29, 2016

The underground pipeline shaping North Korea's new capitalists

As the United States and other nations grasp for new ways to sanction Pyongyang in response to its latest nuclear test, some North Korean defectors see investment in its rudimentary market economy as a way to foment gradual change from within.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 29, 2016

Fove Inc. to debut VR goggles that track eyeball movements

Virtual reality is on the cusp of becoming mainstream, but one startup in Japan is betting the technology won't really succeed unless it cracks a critical piece of the puzzle: human eyeballs.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 28, 2016

Syria's civil war and the bias in Western media

Is there one standard of morality for our friends and another for those we choose to demonize?
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Sep 28, 2016

China to prosecute former chief in Xinjiang city of Hotan for corruption, abuse of power

China will prosecute a former Communist Party boss in the western city of Hotan, in the troubled Xinjiang region, an anti-graft watchdog said on Wednesday, as President Xi Jinping pushes on with a years-long crackdown on corruption.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Sep 27, 2016

'No refuge could save the hireling and slave'

Is the U.S. national anthem racist or are the lyrics of the third stanza merely misunderstood?
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 26, 2016

Influential former Chinese Foreign Minister Tang meets Kishida amid chilly ties with Beijing

Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and former top Chinese diplomat Tang Jiaxuan on Monday pledged to enhance bilateral relations amid escalating tensions over sovereignty issues in the East China Sea.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2016

Utility venture to promote cheaper electricity payments via bitcoin

A bitcoin startup plans to join Japan's growing ranks of power utilities and accept the cryptocurrency as payment for electricity charges, promising bills four to six percent cheaper than the competition.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 26, 2016

Abe could become Japan's longest-serving leader despite mixed record

LDP lawmakers work to make it possible for Abe to stay in power until at least 2021, the longest stint in the post since WWII.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 25, 2016

Clinton server tech told FBI of colleagues' worries about system

A technician hired by Hillary Clinton to run the private email system she used while U.S. secretary of state told investigators he tried to pass on colleagues' concerns that the system might not comply with records laws, FBI interview summaries show.
EDITORIALS
Sep 25, 2016

Taking on ticket scalpers

Ticket scalping needs to be stamped out, but doing so won't be easy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 25, 2016

Could new drug prevent Alzheimer's disease?

A promising experimental drug called aducanumab could be an important development in preventing Alzheimer's disease.
Tokyo emerges as a top market for global tech talent
Tokyo ranks among the world's top tech talent hubs alongside Beijing, the San Francisco Bay Area, Bengaluru, Paris, New York and Dublin, according to Colliers' newly released global tech markets report.
JSA’s 100th anniversary event is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for sumo fans
Egyptian wrestler Osunaarashi has some fun with children during a special Japan Sumo Association event in 2017.
Tens of millions of yen found at home of Aum Shinrikyo founder's wife
The house of the wife of the late Chizuo Matsumoto, the now-defunct Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult's founder, in Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture, in July
Japan researchers identify gut bacteria strain that boosts anticancer drugs
Researchers at the National Cancer Center Japan say a new type of gut bacteria named YB328 could help unlock the potential of cancer immunotherapy.
Living conditions index hits lowest level in 15 years in Japan
The share of respondents to a Bank of Japan quarterly survey in June who said they have become worse off came to 61.0%, up 5.1 percentage points from the previous survey.
Japan's rice farmers are confounded by Shinjiro Koizumi’s policies
Kiyoshi Shibata stands in front of one of the rice paddies in Murayama, Yamagata Prefecture, where he produces the prefecture's signature rice brand Tsuyahime.
From stalking to death threats, female candidates still face harassment
Mayu Ushida, a former NHK newscaster running for election in the Tokyo electoral district on the Democratic Party for the People ticket, signs an autograph for a voter after a public rally at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Kawaii Lab redefines idol pop for the TikTok generation
Misa Kimura is the main producer for Kawaii Lab, a project by entertainment agency Asobisystem whose groups have found success by pairing a social media-first strategy with a fresh perspective on traditional idol-pop tropes.
Craig Mod's life in motion in a disappearing Japan
Mod's memoir “Things Become Other Things” chronicles his walking trips across the Kii Peninsula, surveying “a graceful end to a certain life cycle.”
With China and Trump, Japan defense report says world entering ‘new era of crisis’
A senior member of a Self-Defense Forces honor guard inspects a formation before the arrival of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for a visit to the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on June 30.

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After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan
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