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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 17, 2019

Are China, Russia winning AI arms race?

Artificial intelligence is creating new avenues for war in what could be the century's defining arms race.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 17, 2019

Theresa May's Brexit plan isn't dead yet

In the end, the British prime minister's rejected agreement might seem marginally less unpalatable than, and the only alternative to, a hard Brexit.
Japan Times
Jan 16, 2019

FROSK, Inc.: Support for Korean Mobile App Developers! SmartBeat, the Smartphone App Crash Detection and Analytics Tool, Is Free for 30 Days!

TOKYO – Japan based FROSK, Inc. is offering a special campaign just for Korean app developers, its smartphone app crash detection and analytics tool, SmartBeat, free for 30 days!
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 15, 2019

Germany sees weakest growth in five years amid global protectionism and uncertainty over Brexit

The German economy grew by 1.5 percent in 2018, the weakest rate in five years and markedly slower than the previous year, preliminary data showed on Tuesday, in a sign that exporters in Europe's largest economy are being hit by trade tensions.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 15, 2019

Cherry blossoms in Japan are predicted to arrive earlier than usual again in 2019

Although some parts of Japan have yet to see this year's first snowfall, experts say they already know when spring will come.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 15, 2019

Maduro offers few fresh ideas as Venezuela's economy circles the drain amid seven-digit inflation

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro kicked off his new term with a state-of-the-nation speech on Monday but offered little in the way of fresh proposals to help the increasingly isolated country escape hyperinflationary collapse or a further downward spiral in 2019.
EDITORIALS
Jan 14, 2019

Take steps to restore trust in official statistics

To regain the public's trust in the government's statistics, how officials erred needs to be exposed and measures taken to ensure such problems are not repeated.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 14, 2019

Disrupting multilateral climate finance

For the world to avert climate calamity, multilateral finance institutions must look to large institutional investors as their partners and clients
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 14, 2019

Why China clings to state capitalism

For Beijing to abandon its policies would mean scrapping its whole economic model, and politically, this would be hard to swallow.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Jan 13, 2019

Noble youths of 2019

Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Jan 13, 2019

January 14, 2019

Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / THE HIGH GROUNDS
Jan 12, 2019

35Coffee: An inspired partnership between coffee and coral

35Coffee is using the profits from its coffee sales to plant new coral across Okinawa Prefecture
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jan 12, 2019

Japan's vernacular press coverage tiptoes around tattoo controversy

Before the Olympic Games come to Tokyo in the summer of 2020, Japan will get a chance to prove its mettle as an international sporting events host with the Rugby World Cup this fall. The games will be spread out among 12 stadiums nationwide, which means the whole country will be the focus rather than...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Jan 12, 2019

Aki Fujita Taguchi on life behind the camera

Rock photographer Aki Fujita Taguchi reveals how to snap the essence of a band in just three songs.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Jan 12, 2019

Eagles announce plans to make Rakuten Seimei Park Miyagi world's first cashless stadium

The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles want you to leave your cash at home.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 12, 2019

Brexit: A cultural morphology

How the deep forces of British history, from royalism and classism to nationalism and imperialism, combined to trigger the Brexit moment.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Jan 11, 2019

Naomi Osaka's poise key for success at Australian Open

It's often said that getting to the upper echelon of tennis is the easy part.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jan 11, 2019

In 2019, how hungry is Japan for whale meat?

Japan is currently the object of criticism for its decision to leave the International Whaling Commission, and resume commercial whaling in territorial waters and its own exclusive economic zone. People who support the move cite either cultural reasons — Japan traditionally, they assert, is a whale-eating...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 11, 2019

Japan's 'hostage justice' system

If Japan wants to live up to its reputation as one of the world's most advanced democracies, it needs to modernize its criminal justice system.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 10, 2019

Can the social security system be sustained?

Due to demographic changes, the welfare state that many developed countries aimed to create in the mid-20th century is now out of reach.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Jan 10, 2019

January 11, 2019

BASEBALL / MLB
Jan 10, 2019

Oracle pays more than $200 million to rename Giants' ballpark

Oracle Corp. has bought the naming rights to the San Francisco Giants' stadium for more than $200 million, according to people familiar with the matter — a second deal to boost its brand image by sponsoring a hometown sports facility in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Most Japanese teens struggling with school find end of summer ‘painful’
Some 93.1% of Japanese teenagers who struggle with school life said they felt like they “wanted to disappear from the world" at the end of summer vacation ahead of the start of a new term, according to a recent survey released by Yokohama-based nonprofit Daisan Kazoku.
Philippine bid to acquire used Japanese warships gains steam
Tokyo is looking to transfer Abukuma-class vessels to the Philippines as part of broader efforts to boost the defense capabilities of like-minded neighbors amid growing Chinese military assertiveness in the region.
Mitsubishi’s wind-power retreat a blow to Japan's alternative-energy goals
Wind turbines in the town of Happo in Akita prefecture. Wind power is a key part of Japan's alternative energy drive.
Can anime carry the memories of World War II?
Many schools in Japan show "Grave of the Fireflies" as educational material to tell the emotionally grueling story of a boy who has no means to prevent his sister from starving to death.
Akazawa's trip to Washington for tariff talks abruptly canceled
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's chief tariff negotiator, had been set to fly to Washington on Thursday.
Mitsubishi’s wind-power retreat a blow to Japan's alternative-energy goals
Wind turbines in the town of Happo in Akita prefecture. Wind power is a key part of Japan's alternative energy drive.
Virtual singer Kaf's music becomes magic in 'Kamitsubaki City Under Construction'
Virtual singer Kaf got her start in 2018 by posting songs and covers to YouTube. Now, after having performed live shows at major venues including Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan, she is turning to voice acting and starring in the new anime series “Kamitsubaki City Under Construction.”
Can anime carry the memories of World War II?
Many schools in Japan show "Grave of the Fireflies" as educational material to tell the emotionally grueling story of a boy who has no means to prevent his sister from starving to death.
In pictures: Koenji Awa Odori 2025
Japan Times
Koshien’s dark summer forces reckoning for high school baseball
Koryo High School players greet their cheering section after beating Hokkaido’s Asahikawa Shiho in the first round of Summer Koshien on Aug. 7. The school withdrew three days later as a bullying scandal enveloped the team.

Podcast

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

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past
By Alex K.T. Martin

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