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WORLD
Dec 30, 2013

Papa Obama laments time slipping by

When they vacationed in Hawaii just before President Barack Obama's first inauguration, Malia and Sasha were little girls doting on their dad — holding his hand on the beach, taking in a dolphin show and nuzzling up to him at the shave-ice shop.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Dec 28, 2013

Fujiko F. Fujio's 80th birthday anniversary celebrated with "Doraemon"; special installment of "Aibo"; CM of the week: SoftBank

In celebration of "Fujiko F. Fujio Seitan 80-shunenkan Kinen" ("The 80th Anniversary of the Birth of Fujiko F. Fujio"; Mon., 5:30 p.m.) TV Asahi is presenting a special program of three stories about the manga team's most famous creation, the robot cat Doraemon.
COMMUNITY / Voices / COMMUNITY CHEST
Dec 27, 2013

From charity to chocolate, the best ways to blow ¥500

The Japan Times asked readers to email or tweet their suggestions of the best ways to use a single ¥500 coin, for a chance to win edible prizes. Here are some of the entries.
JAPAN
Dec 27, 2013

Base time frame for Futenma relocation uncertain

The decision Friday by Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima to allow the start of offshore fill work needed to build a replacement facility for U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma ends a 17-year standoff that pitted entrenched base opponents against Tokyo and Washington.
EDITORIALS
Dec 27, 2013

Progress on Futenma relocation

The Okinawa governor's go-ahead for the start of landfill work in building an alternative U.S. military facility in the northern part of the island may mark a political breakthrough for Tokyo in its security alliance with Washington, but it hardly closes the divide with Okinawans.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Dec 26, 2013

Hakone's Venetian Glass Museum unmasks a carnival of festivities

The Venetian Glass Museum in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, is hosting a Carnevale di Venezia (Venetian Carnival) — a recreation of one of the oldest and most well-known Italian festivals, which takes place before the Roman Catholic tradition of fasting at Lent.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 26, 2013

Budget limits trim NASA's plans for big projects

The Cassini spacecraft is in splendid shape as it circles Saturn. Conceived in the 1980s and launched in 1997, Cassini arrived at the gas-giant planet in 2004 and has continued to deliver stunning images of the jewel of the solar system.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 26, 2013

Nago race now down to just two candidates

January's Nago mayoral election is now a two-man race after ex-Mayor Yoshikazu Shimabukuro ended his bid and threw his support behind Bunshin Suematsu, a Liberal Democratic Party prefectural assembly member heavily backed by Tokyo.
COMMUNITY / Voices / HOTLINE TO NAGATACHO
Dec 25, 2013

Race-based ID checks in front of families send wrong message

I cannot accept the way Japanese police treat foreigners such as myself in public places — especially how they judge people by color and appearance. I have had several unpleasant experiences that suggest this is the case.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 25, 2013

Nakaima cuts deal with Abe

Tokyo agrees to launch negotiations with Washington on a new pact that would effectively revise the framework for keeping U.S. forces in Okinawa.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 23, 2013

How the Federal Reserve was created

A century ago this week, Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act, creating a central bank for a nation that was only beginning its economic ascendance. This is the story of how it came to be, from a nearly catastrophic financial panic to secret meetings of plutocrats on the Georgia coast to the pitched...
LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
Dec 22, 2013

Ima, denwa-wo shite-iru hito-ga Tian-san-desu

Today we will introduce the proper use of the particle u304c. X u304c is used to mark the subject of the sentence (= X) when it is newly introduced.
WORLD
Dec 22, 2013

U.S. secretly helps Colombia kill rebel leaders

The 50-year-old Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), once considered the best-funded insurgency in the world, is at its smallest and most vulnerable state in decades, due in part to a CIA covert action program that has helped Colombian forces kill at least two dozen rebel leaders, according...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Dec 21, 2013

Hot times in the realm of Mount Aso

I used to think that only Mount Fuji was massive enough to have its own weather patterns, but 1,592-meter Mount Aso in Kyushu proved me wrong.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Dec 21, 2013

For the love of haiku

"Haiku," edited by haiku practitioner David Cobb, and "Haiku Love," edited by Japanese language scholar Alan Cummings, are both fun books. Originally published by the British Museum, they are sumptuously illustrated with nihonga (Japanese-style painting) and ukiyo-e (woodblock prints) from the museum's...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
Dec 21, 2013

Coin Locker Babies

Ryu Murakami is known for the sex-drugs-and-violence style of his fiction and "Coin Locker Babies" has it all.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 20, 2013

Putin to pardon tycoon Khodorkovsky ahead of Olympics

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that he intends to pardon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, his country's most famous political prisoner, in a broad amnesty that comes just weeks before the opening of the Winter Olympics in Sochi.

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