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LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
Feb 23, 2014

Sakki-kara damarikonde-shimatte

Today we introduce some usages of the verb u8fbcuff08u3053uff09u3080 (to be crowded) and related vocabulary. u8fbcu3080 describes that a place is crowded, as in: u96fbu8ecauff08u3067u3093u3057u3083uff09u304cu8fbcu3093u3067u3044u3066u3001u3059u308fu308cu306au304bu3063u305f (The train was too crowded to get a seat).
EDITORIALS
Feb 21, 2014

Abe guts constitutional government

People should realize that Japan's prime minister has a shallow understanding of constitutional government. Shinzo Abe thinks he is the 'highest responsible person' for interpreting Japan's right to a collective self-defense, and that's dangerous.
LIFE / Language / COMMUNICATION CUES
Jan 26, 2014

Asada, Takahashi book Sochi Olympic tickets

Japan's former world figure-skating champions and Olympic medallists Mao Asada and Daisuke Takahashi booked tickets to the Sochi Olympics on Dec. 23, despite their disappointing performances at the national championships over the weekend.
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Dec 27, 2013

Mao must let the triple axel go for shot at gold in Sochi

Enough already. It is time for two-time world champion Mao Asada to give up the triple axel.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 4, 2013

Japanese collectors take a conceptual turn

Echoing the choice of Koki Tanaka — a conceptual artist — for the Japanese pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale this year, "Why Not Live For Art? II: 9 collectors reveal their treasures" at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery suggests that art collecting in Japan has taken a conceptual turn.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 7, 2013

Can a battery jolt economy?

In a windy town in Hokkaido, an experiment is about to begin with a battery designed to transform the way electricity is supplied and at the same time boost Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic rescue plan.
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 14, 2013

Last refuge of weak leaders

Why have anti-Japanese sentiments resurfaced in China and South Korea in 2013 — just as Japan is trying to recover from two lost economic decades
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / WEEK 3
Mar 17, 2013

How an American collector brought Jakuchu to Tohoku

Including loans from each of Japan's six national museums as well as the Imperial Household Agency, 'Jakuchu's Here!' represents to a gift from Japan's art establishment to an audience that it has neglected for decades.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / CHUBU CONNECTION
Mar 2, 2013

Russia meteor explosion shines light on Aichi's 'cape of stars'

The second-oldest meteorite in Japan, the Minamino, is housed in Yobitsugi Shrine in Nagoya.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Feb 22, 2013

Tokyo literary festival writes its opening chapter

Every time David Karashima took a Japanese author to New York or London to do a reading, the local audiences would ask two questions: "Who's the next Haruki Murakami?" and "Why isn't there an international literary festival in Tokyo?"
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Jan 13, 2013

How Japan's teens can avoid sleep demons

Have you ever woken up but been unable to move; felt a powerful pressure holding you down, gripping you tight? Haruki Murakami has, and he describes it like this: "I was having a repulsive dream — a dark, slimy dream. ... After I awoke, my breath came in painful gasps for a time. My arms and legs felt...
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Nov 26, 2012

Russian pair triumphs at NHK Trophy

Russia's Vera Bazarova and Yuri Larionov won the pairs with a steady performance in the free skate on Sunday at the NHK Trophy.
Japan Times
JAPAN / IMF-WORLD BANK IN TOKYO
Oct 12, 2012

Exploring, rediscovering fine arts

While much has changed since Japan last hosted the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group in 1964 — a year that symbolized the nation's achievement of reconstruction after World War II through the hosting of the meeting and the Summer Olympics — art has always reflected,...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 22, 2012

'Seesaw'

Many Japanese indie films never achieve the grail of a theatrical release, and some arrive on theater screens here only after a long journey on the festival circuit. Seeing the latter on a distributor's lineup years after shooting wrapped, I feel like saying otsukare-sama ("job well done") to the filmmaker...
CULTURE / Music / STRANGE BOUTIQUE
May 31, 2012

Perfume needs to walk a fine line on its path overseas

As Japanese pop culture is increasingly dominated by insular subcultural groups with little interest in what's happening outside Akihabara's otaku haven or Shibuya's gyaru mecca, the news that electro-pop trio Perfume had moved to major label Universal and made its music available online to overseas...
CULTURE / Art
Apr 27, 2012

Representing Japan at Art Kyoto

In the wake of the recently held Art Fair Tokyo, Kyoto is following up with its own alternative in Art Kyoto. Organizers will, however, eschew the international art fair model seen in Tokyo and do what Kyoto does best — represent Japan.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 27, 2012

Representing Japan at Art Kyoto

In the wake of the recently held Art Fair Tokyo, Kyoto is following up with its own alternative in Art Kyoto. Organizers will, however, eschew the international art fair model seen in Tokyo and do what Kyoto does best — represent Japan.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Apr 25, 2012

Japan's return to Fed Cup World Group brings new challenge

Japan's 4-1 victory over Belgium in their Fed Cup World Group playoff last weekend will put the host nation back into the event's top tier next year for the first time since 2007.
BUSINESS
Apr 24, 2012

Clean energy rates may get boost

Japan may announce preferential price rates this month for electricity generated from renewable energy in a program that will start in July to encourage investment in plants driven by nonfossil fuels.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Apr 23, 2012

In-form Japan secures return to Fed Cup World Group

Ayumi Morita clinched victory for Japan with a 7-5, 6-2 triumph over Belgium's Tamaryn Hendler in the opening reverse singles match of their Fed Cup World Group playoff on Sunday.

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