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JAPAN / WORLD FORUM ON SPORT AND CULTURE
Oct 19, 2016

Bringing people together through song

It is a pleasure and honor to be named an ambassador of the World Forum on Sport and Culture.
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WORLD / Politics
Oct 19, 2016

Trump pushes Congress term limits to 'drain the swamp' in Washington

Donald Trump called for term limits for members of Congress on Tuesday, saying it would help "drain the swamp" in Washington.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 18, 2016

Getting site-specific installations down to a fine art

Kenpoku Art 2016! is one of the latest projects to appear in an area for which art has been a relatively niche concern. Despite the fact that Okakura Tenshin, one of the central figures of Japanese art history, set up shop in Ibaraki Prefecture in 1906, and Art Tower Mito consistently provides top-class...
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CULTURE / Art
Oct 18, 2016

The Play Since 1967: Beyond Unknown Currents

Oct. 22-Jan. 15
WORLD
Oct 18, 2016

Kremlin-backed TV channel cries censorship in U.K. banking row

Russia accused Britain of political censorship Monday after a British state-owned bank withdrew its services from Kremlin-backed Russian broadcaster RT.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 17, 2016

Theresa May's risky search for the elusive center ground

The search for the political center ground sometimes leads to no-man's land.
LIFE / Language / COMMUNICATION CUES
Oct 17, 2016

Paralympic flag handed from Rio to Tokyo

The curtain came down Sept. 18 on the Rio Paralympics, the world's largest event for athletes with disabilities.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 16, 2016

When to speak and when to shut up: the art of a Japanese 'benshi'

The silent films screened in Japan from the 1920s to '40s were never completely silent. Katsudo-shashin benshi, or benshi for short, delivered live narration that provided everything an audience might need to appreciate a film — from commentary to translation. Derived from Japan's many narrative art...
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COMMENTARY / World
Oct 16, 2016

The best way to beat Islamic State in Iraq

The idea of a 'Sunnistan' isn't new, but as American advisers and their Iraqi allies prepare for the crucial battle of Mosul, now is the time to revisit it.
CULTURE / Books
Oct 15, 2016

'Japan Rising': The round-the-world trip that changed Nippon forever

The Iwakura Embassy, led by Foreign Minister Iwakura Tomomi, departed Japan in 1871 on a two-year fact-finding mission around the globe to collect information and expertise. Its aim: turn feudal Japan into a modern industrial nation. The embassy's 108 members sailed east, crossed America, traveled across...
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JAPAN / History / THE LIVING PAST
Oct 15, 2016

Fifteenth-century shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa: Impotent or indifferent?

'The Creation of the Soul of Japan" is how Donald Keene, the eminent Japanologist, subtitled his 2003 biography of 15th-century shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa. What is the soul of Japan? Tea, flowers, noh drama, simplicity, suggestiveness. War too — but Yoshimasa had no taste for war. No taste for power...
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 14, 2016

Civil-military chasm deepening in Islamabad

Pakistan's civilian government may be living on borrowed time.
Japan Times
Rugby
Oct 14, 2016

Rugby chief fears Olympics leaving 2019 World Cup in shade

World Rugby chief Brett Gosper admits he is concerned that the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are shunting the 2019 Rugby World Cup into the shadows just three years before Japan hosts the event.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 13, 2016

Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize for literature

Celebrated U.S. songwriter Bob Dylan was named winner of the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday.
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WORLD / Politics
Oct 13, 2016

Putin rejects accusations of meddling in U.S. election

Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted on Wednesday his country was not involved in an effort to influence the U.S. presidential election even as WikiLeaks released another trove of internal documents from Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Oct 11, 2016

Has Mao come to end of line with triple axel?

Three-time world champion Mao Asada did something unusual at the Challenger Series event in Finland last week. For a rare instance in the last 10 years, she didn't attempt a triple axel in either her short program or free skate.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 11, 2016

A new worry for Clinton: Trump's struggles may depress Democratic voter turnout

Hillary Clinton's campaign is confronting an emerging risk to her presidential ambitions — if Donald Trump continues to trail her in opinion polls many Democrats may simply stay at home on Election Day.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 9, 2016

Clinton stays silent on hacked excerpts from paid speeches

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign declined on Friday to address quotes purportedly to be from private paid speeches she delivered to Wall Street banks, renewing questions about her transparency on the topics discussed at events that earned her hefty sums.
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CULTURE / Books
Oct 8, 2016

Krys Lee: becoming North Korean and entering 'elsewhere'

Born in South Korea, raised in America, educated in England and equally comfortable speaking Korean or English, novelist Krys Lee has trouble pinpointing her "home." She is now based in Seoul, where her world is "intimate yet alienated," but when she returns to her old lives in the U.K. and U.S. —...
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 7, 2016

Suga, Inada admit to filling out blank expense receipts

Two key members of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet have admitted to filling out blank receipts as part of their expense claims, raising questions about their ethics and the efficacy of a political funds control law.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Oct 7, 2016

Crafty Kyrgios conquers Muller, advances to Japan Open semis

Australian world No. 15 Nick Kyrgios showcased the full range of his mercurial talents to reach the Japan Open semifinals with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Luxembourg's Gilles Muller on Friday.
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2016

800,000 people crowd Tokyo to celebrate Olympians, Paralympians

An estimated 800,000 spectators thronged the streets of Tokyo on Friday to celebrate Japan's Rio Olympic and Paralympic medal-winning athletes in an open-top parade.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 6, 2016

Olympic mania sidetracking efforts to revitalize Japan

Tokyo 2020 is diverting attention away from the best chance Japan has had in 20 years to regain its mojo.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 6, 2016

Russia suspends nuclear agreement, ends uranium research pact with United States

Russia has further curtailed its cooperation with the United States on nuclear energy by suspending a research agreement and terminating another on uranium conversion, two days after the Kremlin shelved a plutonium pact with Washington.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 5, 2016

U.S. warships make landmark visit to Vietnam's strategic Cam Ranh Bay

U.S. Navy vessels paid a port call this week to Vietnam's Cam Ranh Bay — the first visit by American warships to the strategically important site since the two nations normalized relations 21 years ago
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WORLD
Oct 5, 2016

Yahoo secretly scanned all incoming emails for U.S. intelligence, sources say

Yahoo Inc. last year secretly built a custom program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter.

Longform

Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.
A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan