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JAPAN / Politics
Oct 6, 2017

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike defends her party's policy of not granting foreign residents in Japan the right to vote

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike defends her recently launched party's policy of denying foreign residents here the right to vote or run in local elections, stating that such measures are necessary to protect the national interest.
Reader Mail
Oct 6, 2017

Koike picks right name for her party

The Party of Hope is aptly named. Yuriko Koike is hoping the Tokyo voters have a very short memory of all of the many promises that she would spend 100 percent of her time working for Tokyo.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Oct 6, 2017

Emblematic Australian island stick insect not extinct after all

When black rats invaded Lord Howe Island after the 1918 wreck of the steamship Makambo, they wiped out numerous native species on the small Australian isle in the Tasman Sea, including a big, flightless insect that resembled a stick.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 6, 2017

Experts say opportunities available in busy cities make for healthier, happier people

Contrary to popular belief, busy city centers beat suburban living when it comes to human wellbeing, as socializing and walking make for happier, healthier people, according to a new report.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 6, 2017

Sniper's firing down from high, crowded venue stymied Las Vegas police's well-drilled counterterrorism plan

Las Vegas had spent years planning for the worst: training its police force according to an anti-terrorism protocol it adopted in 2009 to respond to mass shootings, chemical attacks, suicide bombings and planes flying into buildings, according to city officials and security professionals.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / Sound Off
Oct 5, 2017

AmPm's Spotify strategy bears fruit

Japan's biggest breakout musical act of 2017 wear polar bear masks. The duo AmPm debuted this past spring, cloaked in fuzzy headgear and withholding all biographical information. In just over six months, the pair have had their easy-breezy electronic music released via Dutch label Armada Music and performed...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Oct 5, 2017

Fighters ace Shohei Otani lives up to expectations in Japan

Shohei Otani has lived up to the hype. Just as Bryce Harper in MLB and LeBron James in the NBA, the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters star pitcher/DH not only entered the professional ranks to outsized expectations, he actually met them.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 4, 2017

Junji Sakamoto's 'Ernesto' tells the story of a Japanese man's role in Che's revolution

The Latin American revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara remains an enduring leftist icon throughout the world, including in Japan. Here, however, his visage pops up in somewhat apolitical moments — like at soccer games in support of the Urawa Reds.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 4, 2017

Britain's top diplomat Boris Johnson makes off-colored joke about dead bodies in Libya

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson quipped on Tuesday that Libya can become a new Dubai if it can clear the dead bodies away, the latest gaffe by Britain's top diplomat.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 3, 2017

War of the dragons: Why North Korea does not trust China

A deep historical sense of mistrust festers between the two communist nations.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 3, 2017

Entrepreneurs a dying breed?

Maybe America is no longer a 'Shark Tank' nation' after all.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 3, 2017

In the right light, every detail counts

At the tail end of an unexpectedly long conversation, the last question I ask photographer Keizo Kitajima is why it's important for him to have even lighting across the image. The photographs he is showing at the Photographers' Gallery in Shinjuku are part of his long-running "Untitled Records" series...
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Oct 3, 2017

Puerto Rico would be better off if it became a U.S. state

The hurricane that leveled Puerto Rico last month has given fresh impetus to a decades-old argument on the island: that the U.S. territory would fare better financially as a U.S. state.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Oct 3, 2017

Kim Dotcom, New Zealand-based internet mogul, has assets appeal case thrown out by top U.S. court

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected New Zealand-based internet mogul Kim Dotcom's challenge to the U.S. government's bid to seize assets held by him and others involved in the now-defunct streaming website Megaupload.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Taking the Lead
Oct 1, 2017

Online research firm aims to break Japanese mold with global market quest

Market analysts say Japanese internet firms rarely succeed overseas, and there haven't been many who have proven them wrong so far.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 1, 2017

We'll get flying cars to go with our 140 characters

There has been an explosion of commercial interest in flying cars.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Sep 30, 2017

The name game

'Ask me a question. I want a quiz!'
BASKETBALL / B. League
Sep 29, 2017

Brex too much for SeaHorses on opening night

The Kenji Hasegawa era began with his successful debut at the helm on Friday night.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 29, 2017

Foreign investors bet big on Japan stocks right before Abe's snap election call

In the two weeks before Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called a snap election, foreign investors using the futures market — which are often hedge funds — suddenly turned hugely positive on Japanese shares.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Sep 28, 2017

Japan's social security burden frustrates BOJ's inflation, spending efforts

Japanese companies are paying more for employees these days. Problem is, the money is going toward social security payroll taxes instead of wages, adding to the frustrations of Bank of Japan policymakers seeking higher wages and stronger inflation.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 28, 2017

Japan's flops turning bond market stars amid hunt for higher yields

Japan's yield-hungry investors are helping turn companies that were once bond-market pariahs into stars.
EDITORIALS
Sep 28, 2017

And the great unwinding begins

Central bankers today must figure out how to end and reverse quantitative easing without triggering the effects they sought to avoid nearly a decade ago.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 28, 2017

Minamata disease victims' voices dim with age but still cry for recognition

Shinobu Sakamoto was just 15 when she left home in the Kumamoto Prefecture fishing village of Minamata to go to Stockholm and tell the world of the horrors of mercury poisoning.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2017

Fuel shortage looms as Japan fires up biomass energy

As the sun sets on Japan's solar energy boom, companies and investors are rushing into wood-burning biomass projects to lock in still-high government subsidies.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 27, 2017

Trump boasts his team doing 'really good job' but hurricane-hit Puerto Rico begs to differ, feels slighted

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday his administration was doing a "really good job" helping Puerto Rico recover from the devastation of Hurricane Maria despite complaints that federal aid has been too slow to reach the U.S. territory.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 27, 2017

Football players who protest racism have right to free speech but not to disrespect nation: Jeff Sessions

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday denounced football players who have protested racism by kneeling or locking arms during the playing of the national anthem before games, saying that even though their speech is protected, they should be condemned for showing disrespect to the country.
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2017

Abe trots out tax hike issue again before snap election to boost LDP chances

The controversy over increasing the consumption tax won't be unfamiliar to those who follow modern Japanese politics, as earlier proposals have proven unpopular with voters throughout the postwar years and have even doomed previous administrations.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 26, 2017

Japan can do more for the Rohingya

The intention was to rebuild a peaceful political society in Myanmar, but the Rohingya have been left out.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 26, 2017

Voters question Abe's decision to call snap election

Many voters on Tuesday appeared confounded at the timing of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's decision to dissolve the Lower House and call a snap election, questioning the need to set in motion a costly process without a clear need to secure a new national mandate.
Why did such a powerful earthquake produce such a weak tsunami?
A person records images of waves following a tsunami advisory generated by local authorities after an earthquake struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, prompting warnings and evacuations stretching across at the South Pacific, in Vina del Mar, Chile, on Wednesday.
Last soldiers of Imperial Japanese Army have a warning for younger generations
Kunshiro Kiyozumi, 97, who was the youngest crew member of the Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-58 in World War II, on his way to a restaurant to have lunch in Matsuyama, Japan, on April 29.
80 years on, former teacher conveys history of hidden island in World War II
Masayuki Yamauchi teaches junior high school students about the history of Okunoshima, an island in Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture, in May.
1,010 food and beverage prices to rise in Japan in August
The price increases in August will be especially noticeable for dairy products, including milk and yogurt, according to the research firm Teikoku Databank.
GTN takes a chance on newcomers to Japan
Hiroyuki Goto, president of GTN. The company started after Goto personally co-signed leases for around 20 non-Japanese people, including some friends and friends of friends.
Junglia brought dinos back to Okinawa. But will it bring tourists?
At Panorama Dining, one of Junglia’s two proper restaurants that also doubles as the rooftop Inifinity Terrace overlook, guests can pay extra to sit in balcony tables made to look like birds’ nests overlooking the park grounds.
Coordination office marks first step in U.S. Forces Japan’s shift to ‘warfighting’ command
U.S., Japanese and Australian staff work in the JJOC Cooperation Team office at the U.S. Army’s Hardy Barracks in central Tokyo in this image posted to the Australian Embassy's X account on July 25.
GTN takes a chance on newcomers to Japan
Hiroyuki Goto, president of GTN. The company started after Goto personally co-signed leases for around 20 non-Japanese people, including some friends and friends of friends.
Artist Chiharu Shiota weaves a hidden marvel on Teshima
“Memory of Lines” is Chiharu Shiota’s second art installation on Teshima as part of the Setouchi Triennale.
How the Japanese TV industry is changing
Fuji TV headquarters in Tokyo's Minato Ward. Fuji TV came under fire over the manner in which it handled a case of “sexual trouble” involving former boy band member Masahiro Nakai and a female announcer.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Ichiro Suzuki, one of the most iconic players in NPB and MLB history, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame with 99.7% of the vote.
With Hall of Fame induction, Ichiro makes himself heard loud and clear
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