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Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 25, 2015

Julianne Moore takes on a role that her peers would avoid in 'Still Alice'

Julianne Moore says she was surprised to learn that people in some parts of the world have mistaken "Still Alice," her film about Alzheimer's disease, as "science fiction" and even "horror-comedy."
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jun 25, 2015

Art fair at Hotel Granvia Osaka; summer BBQ at Hilton Tokyo Narita; fine French fare at Cerulean Tower

Art fair at Hotel Granvia Osaka
WORLD
Jun 23, 2015

Australian IS militants who displayed severed heads reportedly killed in Iraq

Australia is close to confirming the reported death in Iraq of two home-grown militants who shot to infamy last year after being photographed holding the severed heads of Syrian soldiers, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 22, 2015

For Mie, 2016 summit chance to enhance area's tourism appeal

Mie Prefecture sees next year's Ise-Shima Summit as the best opportunity to build infrastructure and nurture human resources to welcome more foreign tourists, hoping to achieve sustainable regional growth beyond 2016, Mie Gov. Eikei Suzuki said.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jun 20, 2015

Dive into the culture of Minamiboso

It is just after sunset and hundreds of people have gathered around the docking bays of Minamiboso on the southern edge of Chiba Prefecture. As men bang away on taiko drums, dozens of women emerge from a hilltop shrine. Dressed head-to-toe in white outfits and wearing goggles on their heads, they carry...
Japan Times
CULTURE / CULTURE SMASH
Jun 20, 2015

Can #socialmedia boost music sales in Japan?

Last week, Line Corp.'s, the operators of Japan's most popular messaging app, launched an in-app music streaming service called Line Music. Japan is the second-largest music market in the world after the United States, but its consumers have so far been global outliers, clinging to physical products...
BUSINESS
Jun 18, 2015

Smaller carry-ons placed on hold after U.S. carriers balk

Frequent fliers can rest easy. Your carry-on bags are safe for now.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jun 18, 2015

50 years for Hotel Toba Kowakien; beer in the forest by the bay; summer desserts at The Hyatt Regency

50 years for Hotel Toba Kowakien
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 16, 2015

Tragedy should prompt a zoo rethink

The Tbilisi zoo tragedy should make governments reconsider the rules for keeping wild animals in captivity.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 16, 2015

Boeing bests Airbus, bags $18 billion in jet orders, commitments at start of Paris Air Show

Boeing Co. grabbed an early lead in orders and commitments at the Paris Air Show over Airbus Group SE, piling up a haul valued at almost $18 billion with help from a surprise surge in wide-body demand.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 14, 2015

China to drop entry permit requirement for Taiwan residents

China plans to drop the entry permit requirement for Taiwan residents visiting the mainland, the official Xinhua News Agency cited a senior Chinese politician as saying on Sunday.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jun 12, 2015

Women in jungles and deserts; George Clooney and super-fabulous people; CM of the Week: Daiwa Securities

This week's special two-hour "life with ups-and-downs" edition of the travel show "Sekai Naze Soko ni Nihonjin" ("Why Are Japanese People in That Part of the World?"; TV Tokyo, Mon., 9 p.m.) focuses on two women, one working in a tropical jungle, the other living in the desert.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jun 11, 2015

Lunch, stay at Asakusa View Hotel; evening beer at Tokyo Prince Hotel; Fauchon at Shangri-La Hotel, Tokyo

Lunch, stay at Asakusa View Hotel
WORLD
Jun 11, 2015

Migrants race through Italy to dodge EU asylum rules

Last month, Dejen Asefaw was rescued with hundreds of other migrants in the Mediterranean Sea and brought to Sicily. The 24-year-old graduate from Eritrea, who endured forced military service and prison at home, hopes to be granted asylum in Europe.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jun 6, 2015

War and peace on Okinawa's Iejima Island

Beside their coastlines, there are other insistent geographical features that identify islands. In Okinawa, there is the great escarpment of Tindahanata on Yonaguni-jima Island, while Ishigaki Island has the strangely occult form of Mount Maapee, shaped like a sorcerer's hat.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
Jun 6, 2015

Osamu Dazai's travel guide 'Return to Tsugaru' is more concerned with people than place

In the northernmost reaches of Honshu, Japan's largest island, lies Tsugaru, an area isolated even from its neighbors in Aomori Prefecture, let alone the rest of Japan. As a celebrated author and son of Tsugaru himself, Dazai Osamu must have seemed the perfect choice for this 1944 volume in Oyama Shoten's...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 5, 2015

'Cool Japan' complex envisioned in Saitama

Publisher Kadokawa Corp. has unveiled a vision to turn Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, into a hub for the "Cool Japan" movement by creating a cultural complex that it claims Japan has never seen the likes of before.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jun 5, 2015

South Korea reports third MERS death as alarm grows

South Korea on Thursday confirmed that a man who died a day earlier had been infected with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), the third fatality in a virus outbreak that has caused growing alarm in the country.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jun 4, 2015

Kyu Karuizawa Hotel re-opening; lunch at the Century Southern Tower; ANA offers taste of South America

Kyu Karuizawa Hotel re-opening
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 3, 2015

Fix fundamental TPP flaws to fit 21st century

The TPP is fatally flawed, and would allow big corporations to run roughshod over national regulations, flattening workers and family farmers alike.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 3, 2015

Kin press Congress to gain release of Americans held by Iran

Relatives of four Americans missing or detained in Iran told Congress on Tuesday of milestones missed — weddings, graduations, birth of grandchildren — and asked U.S. officials to push for their release in negotiations with Tehran on a nuclear deal.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 31, 2015

Sexism no barrier for Japanese exile building India subways

A daring civil engineer blocked from working in Japan is giving Indian women not only a role model, but safe transportation in the city known as the rape capital.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
May 30, 2015

Angela Ortiz: 'I'd like to see Tohoku contributing to Japan and the world'

NGO founder on aid initiatives and the Knights in White Lycra.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / BACKSTREET STORIES
May 30, 2015

Flora, fauna and fellows on the river

With summer's heat punching in early this year, I'm already angling for riverside relief. I trundle down to Ota Ward's Rokugodote, the southernmost train station in Tokyo's 23 wards, and a stone's throw from the Tamagawa (Tama River). The 138-km-long Tamagawa, which in this location divides Tokyo from...
Haneda Airport security staff arrested over theft
Tokyo police have arrested a 21-year-old security inspector at Haneda Airport after he allegedly stole cash from a passenger during a baggage inspection.
Japan's elderly population down at around 36.2 million
The estimated number of people age 65 or older in Japan stands at 36.19 million as of Monday, accounting for record 29.4% of the country's total population, according to the internal affairs ministry.
SDF spots China’s biggest aircraft carrier for first time
The Fujian aircraft carrier is seen in Shanghai in May 2024 as it leaves for its first sea trial.
White House threatens broad crackdown on liberal groups
FBI Director Kash Patel (right) listens to senior White House adviser Stephen Miller speak in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Monday.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Japanese athletes inspired by raucous home fans at World Athletics Championships
Fans cheer on the home favorites during the women's marathon at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Sunday.
Pole vault rivals in awe after Duplantis has another historic night in Tokyo
Sweden's Armand Duplantis competes in the men's pole fault final during the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium in Tokyo on Monday.
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.
Tara Davis-Woodhall leaps to gold and finds redemption at world championships
Tara Davis-Woodhall celebrates after winning the women's long jump final at the World Athletics Championships at Tokyo's National Stadium on Sunday night.
An aesthetic escape to Hakone’s art-drenched hills
Between traditional examples of fine art and sleek, modern exhibitions that blend with nature, Hakone offers a unique escape from Tokyo's urban sprawl.

Podcast

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

Longform

Sumadori Bar on Shibuya Ward's main Center Gai street targets young customers who prefer low-alcohol drinks or abstain altogether.
Rethinking that second drink: Japan’s Gen Z gets ‘sober curious’
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