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Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Oct 10, 2018

Japan's female sailors serve on front line of gender equality

Women serving on Japan's biggest warship, the Kaga, are a tight-knit group on the front line of a push to transform the Japanese navy into a mixed-gender fighting force, where men outnumber them more than 10 to one.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Sep 26, 2018

Views From Tokyo: What is it that makes someone — like Naomi Osaka — Japanese or not?

In the wake of Naomi Osaka's historic triumph in the U.S. Open, The Japan Times asked people what they think makes a person Japanese. Is it parentage, language, culture or a combination of factors?
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society / Deep Dive
Sep 18, 2018

Japan's 'danchi': Public housing blocks highlight the complexity of interculturalism

Stroll through Shibazono Danchi in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, on a weekend and you will find children shrieking with glee. They run across its communal playground or splash about in the fountain of the public housing complex as elderly residents enjoy leisurely walks in the background. Apartment...
Reader Mail
Aug 17, 2018

Japan refuses to acknowledge its misogyny

Japan is quite notorious for being historically and culturally a patriarchy. The latest case of a Japanese medical university throwing women to the side just for being female is more evidence that something needs to change ("Med school cut scores to reduce female entrants," Aug. 3). It is astonishing...
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2018

LDP lawmaker Tom Tanigawa under fire for saying LGBT relationships are ‘like a hobby’

Tanigawa has suggested “traditional” marriages between men and women, that produce children, prevent Japan from going to ruin, and opposes female succession to the Chrysanthemum Throne.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 31, 2018

Already in decline, Japan's pachinko industry now braces for gambling-addiction regulations

Like many pachinko parlors throughout Japan, Naomi Suzuki's establishment on the outskirts of the city of Fukushima was once full of energy, with the din of bouncing steel balls and garish lights flashing to indicate winnings.
Reader Mail
Jun 22, 2018

Not the usual Japan hospitality

I am a visitor from Singapore and was with my family visiting the information center of Hokkaido University (Sapporo) on the afternoon of June 13. We were there to browse through some brochures and check out some of the university products on sale.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 6, 2018

Japan's ethnic Koreans loyal to Pyongyang look to summit to bring peace, boost status

Ethnic Koreans in Japan loyal to Pyongyang hope next week's historic U.S.-North Korea summit brings reconciliation on the Korean peninsula and helps clarify their murky legal status.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LAW OF THE LAND
Jun 3, 2018

Left-behind dad's last resort: Impeach Japan's Supreme Court judges

Dogged father in Hague Convention case shines a light on a check-and-balance on the judiciary that barely functions.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
May 8, 2018

Keishi Nagatsuka navigates cultural differences in bringing play about capital punishment to Japan

For casual fans of film, the name Martin McDonagh only became familiar after the movie he wrote, directed and produced, "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri," became the talk of this year's awards season.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Apr 21, 2018

'Chikan,' the Japanese term for groping, is increasingly being recognized abroad

Over the past six months, media organizations at home and abroad have published articles that have examined whether or not Japan has embraced the Me Too movement.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Apr 1, 2018

Tokyo Cowboys shoot for more diversity on Japanese screens

'We can't all be lost, drunk, rude gaijin (foreigners) on television and movies forever,' says Christopher McCombs of Tokyo Cowboys.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 28, 2018

Casting director Ko Iwagami plays matchmaker in Hollywood

It was Ko Iwagami's love for American cinema, and "Indiana Jones" in particular, that took him to the United States. Now a successful casting director, he understands that Hollywood isn't always so kind.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Mar 24, 2018

Once falsely convicted in Japan, rarely exonerated

A lot of eating goes on in the new documentary "Gokutomo" ("Friends in Prison"), which is about five men, all convicted of murder, who spent many years in prison. Watching one of them casually buy a sweet bean bun at a convenience store, you realize that, as an indulgence, food can be the most obvious...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Mar 18, 2018

Could 'Black Panther' change how Japanese view people of color?

While the film may mean one small step for attitudes here, it represents a big-cat leap for black people's view of ourselves.
Reader Mail
Feb 15, 2018

In Japan, drive as fast as you want

Japan has made a new law. Increased speed limits now say we can all drive up to 200 km per hour on any street. Furthermore, if you can afford to buy a Ferrari, there is no speed limit, you can drive as fast as you want, and its legal.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 13, 2018

The four mottainai in Okinawan affairs

Opportunities to defuse tensions surrounding the U.S. military presence on Okinawa have been wasted.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LABOR PAINS
Jan 28, 2018

Court cases shine a light on Japan's problem with paternity leave

Two cases currently before the courts show how the reality of Japanese workplaces can clash with government attempts to encourage fathers to help raise their children.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 20, 2018

Residents and expats in Kansai mark Trump inauguration anniversary with protest march

One year after the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump, nearly 70 Kansai residents, mostly Americans and Japanese, staged a protest march over the weekend against a leader whose policies, statements and treatment of women and minorities has been internationally condemned as racist and sexist....
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 9, 2018

About 40 percent of foreign workers feel discriminated against at Japanese firms, survey finds

Around 40 percent of white-collar foreign workers in Japan feel discriminated against in their offices due to their nationality or gender, according to a survey by private human resources company Adecco Ltd.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 3, 2017

In Tokyo, Ivanka Trump praises Abe’s ‘womenomics’ efforts

Ivanka Trump gets a $50 million pledge from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for her women's entrepreneur initiative ahead of her father's visit to Japan.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Oct 13, 2017

Memories of war have had profound effect on Meschery

Third in a three-part series
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Oct 8, 2017

A mission to capture the full range of half-Japanese experience — in 192 photos

Tetsuro Miyazaki has the ambitious plan of photographing half-Japanese individuals with one parent from every nation in the world.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Sep 17, 2017

Japanese professor studies U.S. 'birth of a nation' and finds common humanity

Understanding racial issues is key to knowing America's history and, through that, modern Japan's, says Keiko Shirakawa.
Foreign nationals' presence in Japan emerges as key issue in Upper House poll
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers a campaign speech next to a Liberal Democratic Party candidate for the Upper House (top center left) in Yokohama on Sunday.
Trump announces new tariff rate on Japan — and extension of deadline to Aug. 1
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a trade letter sent by the White House to Japan during a news conference at the White House in Washington on Monday.
China’s housing crisis is worse than it seems
Residential buildings under construction in Shanghai in July 2022. The Chinese government risks long-term decline by repeating Japan’s policy mistakes in handling its real estate and demographic crises.
Japan braces for more quakes as authorities dismiss doomsday hype
Evacuees from Akuseki Island, located in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecuture, arrive at Kagoshima Port on Friday.
Japan stands its ground after Trump letter delivers 25% U.S. tariff shock
U.S. President Donald Trump (left) and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick at Morristown Airport, New Jersey, on Sunday. Trump on Monday sent letters to 12 countries notifying them of new "reciprocal" tariff rates effective Aug. 1.
From the Abes to the Ohtanis: How siblings shape athletic development
Olympic judoka Uta Abe (second from left) and Hifumi Abe (second from right) with their brother Yuichiro (center) and their parents. “I’m always consciously trying to be a good older brother,” Yuichiro said.
Foreign nationals' presence in Japan emerges as key issue in Upper House poll
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers a campaign speech next to a Liberal Democratic Party candidate for the Upper House (top center left) in Yokohama on Sunday.
Scams involving police impersonation surge
A video by the National Police Agency warns about fake scams.
Lawson to let visitors use larger parking lots as paid car campsites
A Lawson convenience store in Yachiyo, Chiba Prefecture. A new service from the company comes amid the rise in inbound tourists, making hotels and inns harder to book and more expensive.
The future is bright inside the visionary mind of architect Sou Fujimoto
The exhibition of Fujimoto’s architecture surveys his career to date, as well as looks ahead as shown in his proposal of a future floating city designed in collaboration with data scientist Hiroaki Miyata.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Mount Fuji is considered one of Japan's most iconic symbols and is a major draw for tourists. It's still a mountain, though, and potential hikers need to properly prepare for any climb.
What it takes to save lives on Mount Fuji
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