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LIFE / Lifestyle
Oct 10, 2015

Home sweet home: Preserving the traditional Kanazawa townhouse

Traditional wooden townhouses called machiya could once be found throughout Japan and were especially common in cities such as Kyoto and Nara in Kansai, as well as Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Oct 10, 2015

Saitama's 'Little Edo' is big on Japan's colorful history

As my smartphone clock flashes from 11:59 a.m. to 12 p.m., I watch the visitors to Kawagoe, in Saitama Prefecture wipe the sweat from their foreheads and direct their attention toward a more primitive form of time keeping — the Toki no Kane (Bell of Time) tower in the middle of the town square.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Oct 10, 2015

Keep it simple, stupid

If you have some spare time, would you mind granting me a quick ...
Japan Times
JAPAN / AT A GLANCE
Oct 6, 2015

Tokyo's Imperial Palace grounds are peaceful oasis amid concrete jungle

Adjacent to modern high-rises in the Otemachi business district, just a 10-minute walk from JR Tokyo Station, visitors can step into nature, peace and beauty in the grounds of the historic Imperial Palace. The area is a fine place to stretch out on the grass and enjoy a picnic or simply breathe in the...
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Oct 5, 2015

Seeking patterns in the blurred connections that turn two Japanese words into one

When two words melt into one in Japanese, they frequently seal their morphological relationship with a 'blurring' of the second part.
EDITORIALS
Oct 4, 2015

It's time for world to ratify CTBT

The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty still hasn't come into force, and all countries everywhere should do everything they can to get the remaining eight key nations on board.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Oct 3, 2015

Listening to the wind on Battleship Island

As if from a dream, the island floated over the sea like a terra-cotta dreadnought from a century ago. I'd arrived at Gunkanjima, or Battleship Island, and its profile was unmistakable from the deck of my ferry battling high waves and winds.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Oct 3, 2015

Unclear on the concept

What are all these people (in front of the Diet) protesting about?
Japan Times
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Oct 3, 2015

Robbs reflects on connection to Japan

A recent visitor to Tokyo was old Japan hand and long-time Honolulu sportscaster Don Robbs. The 78-year-old radio voice of the University of Hawaii baseball games and other sports in the islands has been a frequent traveler to this country since he first came here in 1960 as a member of the U.S. Army....
CULTURE / Music
Oct 2, 2015

m-flo's Taku Takahashi talks about Japan's music scene, K-pop and that controversial tweet

Taku Takahashi wants you to know, he's a positive person.
EDITORIALS
Oct 2, 2015

Expressway tolls amid privatization

Benefitting from the privatization of the nation's expressways is still a work in progress, and making them toll-free remains a promise far on the horizon.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Oct 1, 2015

Photographer aims to explain Okinawa's tensions in pictures

It is not easy to regard oneself as an oppressor.
BUSINESS
Sep 29, 2015

Japan's cheap debt, aging population prompt ex-banker to shift focus

Saburo Nishiura is using Japan's record-low borrowing costs to turn the nation's shrinking population to his advantage.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 27, 2015

Is peace coming to Ukraine?

Vladimir Putin has achieved his aim in Ukraine, and both Petro Poroshenko and his Western supporters have tacitly accepted that freezing the current situation is the least bad outcome.
Japan Times
JAPAN / KANSAI PERSPECTIVE
Sep 27, 2015

Will bureaucrats stymie Kyoto's bid to lure central government bodies out of Tokyo?

Every decade or so, it seems talk arises in Japan about relocating the functions of the central government outside the capital.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Sep 26, 2015

A cry for help

So what made you cry watching 'My Neighbor Totoro?'
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 24, 2015

Okinawa governor says people's human rights neglected in U.S. base saga

Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga doubled down Thursday on his pledge to halt construction of a new U.S. military base in his prefecture, claiming people's human rights were being neglected by Tokyo and Washington.
EDITORIALS
Sep 23, 2015

The enemy of my enemy

If Russia can help end the civil war in Syria, then the rest of the world must be ready to work with it to resolve this crisis.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Sep 23, 2015

Neither here nor there: the families torn between Nigeria and Japan

Caught between instability in Nigeria and isolation in Japan, African immigrants fear the loss of their children's love.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Sep 22, 2015

'Top Hat' musical takes film classic to happy new heights

"There may be trouble ahead / But while there's moonlight and music /
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 22, 2015

Onaga takes base argument to U.N. human rights panel

Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga tells a United Nations human rights body that the central government has closed its ears to local voices in the battle over U.S. military bases.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 21, 2015

Tokyo at high risk of devastating floods, experts say

It's just a matter of time before Tokyo is struck by the same magnitude of flooding that devastated parts of the northern Kanto region this month.

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Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight