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COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 20, 2017

Making Japanese small business thrive

It's time for Japan's small and medium-size enterprises to embrace technological solutions to find global customers.
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BUSINESS
Dec 20, 2017

London cafe boasts 'Selfieccino' self portraits in froth

A cafe in London is taking barista art to a new level by giving customers the chance to sip on their own self-portraits.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Dec 20, 2017

Myanmar mum on whereabouts of Reuters journalists week after their arrest

Two Reuters journalists completed a week in detention in Myanmar on Tuesday, with no word on where they were being held as authorities proceeded with an investigation into whether they violated the country's colonial-era Official Secrets Act.
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PRESS / Corporate Trends
Dec 19, 2017

Establishment of Japan Times ESG Consortium

Tokyo, Dec 19, 2017 ー The Japan Times (Minato-ku, Tokyo. Representative: Takeharu Tsutsumi) will establish a new consortium in January 2018 named the “Japan Times ESG Consortium” to disseminate information in English overseas about corporate Japan’s ESG (Environmental / Social / Governance) initiatives...
Dec 19, 2017

Establishment of Japan Times ESG Consortium
Disseminating information overseas about Japan’s ESG activities

Tokyo, Dec 19, 2017 ー The Japan Times (Minato-ku, Tokyo. Representative: Takeharu Tsutsumi) will establish a new consortium in January 2018 named the “Japan Times ESG Consortium” to disseminate information in English overseas about corporate Japan’s ESG (Environmental / Social / Governance) initiatives...
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LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Dec 18, 2017

Hit products of 2017 home in on uchi

Nikkei Marketing Journal ranks the hit products for 2017, with Amazon and Rakuten sitting pretty among the grand champions.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 17, 2017

How companies avoid nightmares

Corporate crises can — and will — erupt at the speed of the internet. Every company has to be ready ahead of time.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Dec 16, 2017

A day in the life

'It's the anniversary of (musician) John Lennon's death today.'
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WORLD / ANALYSIS
Dec 15, 2017

In-flight sexual assaults often unreported, especially in Asia

When a 17-year-old Bollywood actress took to social media this week alleging she was sexually assaulted on an airplane, she appeared to catch the airline industry off guard.
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BUSINESS / Tech / ANALYSIS
Dec 15, 2017

Net neutrality repeal gives U.S. Democrats fresh way to reach millennials

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's vote on Thursday to roll back net neutrality rules could galvanize young voters, a move Democrats hope will send millennials to the polls in greater numbers and bolster their chances in next year's elections.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 15, 2017

Disney buying Fox film and TV units for $52 billion in digital push amid Netflix and Amazon surge

Walt Disney Co has struck a deal to buy film, television and international businesses from Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. for $52.4 billion in stock, giving the world's largest entertainment company an arsenal of shows and movies to combat growing digital rivals Netflix Inc. and Amazon.com...
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Dec 13, 2017

Taunts, tweets and tough talk: Japan's quotes of 2017

Soundbites tell the story of a roller-coaster year for Japan, from its Diet to its dohyu014d.
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COMMENTARY / World
Dec 13, 2017

Brexit bubbles of illusion

Reality will shatter the dreams of both 'leavers' and 'remainers.'
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JAPAN
Dec 12, 2017

Japanese workers feel guilty taking time off and use fewer holidays than their international peers: survey

A survey revealed that Japanese used 50 percent of their vacation days, placing them at the bottom of the list for the second consecutive year.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 11, 2017

SoftBank's Son remains confident over Saudi investment in Vision Fund amid crackdown

Billionaire Masayoshi Son may be getting closer to achieving his dream of making SoftBank Group Corp. the world's biggest investor in technologies, thanks in part to the main patron of Son's $100 billion (¥11.3 trillion) investment plan — Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
CULTURE / Music
Dec 11, 2017

Electronic music artist LLLL gets more intimate on latest chain of releases

Kazuto Okawa, who performs as LLLL (pronounced "four-el"), has spent the past two years since releasing his sophomore album, "Faithful," getting in touch with his personal side.
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JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Dec 9, 2017

Japanese high school girl quiz and, er, 'florida'

A quiz on words that high school girls in Japan use in conversation or when texting attracted plenty of attention online earlier this week, with the hashtag #JK用語クイズ (JK yōgo quizu, or JK words quiz) topping Twitter's trending list for much of Tuesday. "JK" is short for joshi kosei, the Japanese...
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Dec 9, 2017

Winter blues are not what they seem

'I thought I was depressed earlier today, but ...'
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BUSINESS
Dec 9, 2017

E-sports to chocolates: Chinese cities rush into risky specialization projects

The first plan was for an "eco-city" that would help pull Zhongxian, a remote city on the hilly banks of the Yangtze River in southwest China, out of poverty.
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LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Dec 4, 2017

Frederik Schodt recalls the 'different world' of manga translation in the 1970s

'I loved manga but there was no way to make a living (with it),' recalls manga translation pioneer Frederik Schodt.
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WORLD / Politics
Dec 4, 2017

Poll finds half of Britons support second Brexit vote as talks with EU come down to the wire

Half of Britons support a second vote on whether to leave the European Union and a third think will be worse off financially outside the world's largest trading bloc, according to a new opinion poll.
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LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Dec 3, 2017

It's time to stop blocking color

Minimalist interiors have been a growing trend for many years now, primarily dominated by a monochromatic palette of white. But who says we need to abandon color to live a de-cluttered life?
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JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Dec 2, 2017

Pachinko parlors are losing their balls while Japan considers a cashless economy

With the Diet's passing of a law last December that will legalize casino gambling, many are wondering how this development will affect the few forms of tightly controlled gambling and gaming that have been permitted up to now — like pachinko (a type of pinball machine).
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JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Dec 2, 2017

Women in Japan too tired to care about dating or searching for a partner

While Japanese society and the media continue to exhort — nay plead — with women to find marriage partners, 60 percent of eligible women say they cannot feel relaxed enough to get interested in renai (love relationships), according to a Yomeishu survey picked up by cocolini jp.

Longform

A mushroom cloud from the atomic bombing on Hiroshima taken from a U.S. military aircraft on Aug. 6, 1945. Copying the photo without permission is prohibited.
80 years on, a Japanese American hibakusha recalls the day the bomb dropped