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Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 24, 2014

Mindscape

Watching Mark Strong is always a pleasure: You can fantasize about him being a brother of Jason Statham, with Stanley Tucci as their benevolent uncle. Think of the three of them at a table in an Italian restaurant, all wearing black suits.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LABOR PAINS
Sep 24, 2014

Job insecurity among Japan's university teachers is a recipe for further decline

Increasing the number of academic working poor hired as part-time teachers flies in the face of the education ministry's call to build universities that 'can compete on the world stage.'
BUSINESS
Sep 24, 2014

Philanthropies and investors pledge $50 billion divestment from fossil fuels

The Rockefellers, who made their vast fortune from oil, and other philanthropies and high-wealth individuals have pledged to divest $50 billion from investments in fossil fuels.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 21, 2014

Thai junta hounds opposition across borders

Even as the Thai junta claims to promote democracy despite having overthrown the previous elected government, its representatives hound anti-coup groups in Thai neighborhoods across borders.
EDITORIALS
Sep 20, 2014

Half century on the shinkansen

Oct. 1 will be the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of the Shinkansen super-express trains. Their effects on Japan's GDP and the environment have been enormous.
EDITORIALS
Sep 19, 2014

Defeating dengue fever

We should probably expect infections of the mosquito-borne virus that causes dengue fever somewhere in Japan every summer because of the effects of global warming and the rise in overseas travel.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / EXECUTIVE DECISIONS
Sep 18, 2014

MetLife banks on trust to succeed in Japan

As Japan's life insurance market matures, many companies are looking overseas for opportunities to expand.
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 18, 2014

Gibbons become the last ape to have their genome revealed

Gibbons — the small, long-armed tree swingers that inhabit the dense tropical forests of Southeast Asia — have become the last of the planet's apes to have their genetic secrets revealed.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 17, 2014

Pakistani militants allege India is deliberately opening its upstream dams as a 'water bomb' creating floods

Hafiz Saeed, widely considered one of South Asia's most dangerous militants, has no doubt who is to blame for devastating floods that have submerged swaths of Pakistani countryside and claimed hundreds of lives.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 16, 2014

Yemeni journalist devoted to bringing democracy, women's rights to her country

Japan is an ideal model for countries racked by conflict and poverty because of how it resurrected itself from the devastation of war and achieved peace, the first Arab woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize says.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 15, 2014

G1 Global Conference 2014 takes up sales tax question

G1 Summit, led by Globis Management School Dean Yoshito Hori, hosted the G1 Global Conference 2014, in which politicians, business executives and scholars held panel discussions in English, in Tokyo on Monday.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 13, 2014

Brazil's contradictory election candidate

Candidate Marina Silva has put together a set of policies and a coalition of supporters that are sometimes downright contradictory, but they may deliver her into the Brazilian presidency.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 12, 2014

Women's work culture under fire

One morning in February, the government personnel department began an experiment in a nondescript building in a Tokyo residential area that could end up rewriting the rules of the nation's powerful bureaucracy.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 12, 2014

Mayor of Kyoto has big plans for tourism

For Kyoto to continue growing as a tourism-oriented city, it must take steps that combine landscape planning with services, the mayor says.
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 12, 2014

Wildlife activists say new U.S. lynx protections fall short

The federal government will extend protections to all imperiled Canada lynx in the lower 48 U.S. states, but wildlife advocates said on Thursday it was ignoring important parts of the rare cats' range and they vowed to challenge the move in court.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 12, 2014

Biggest dinosaur predator also the weirdest

The biggest dinosaur predator that ever stalked the Earth was also the weirdest.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 11, 2014

Canberra buries its nuclear angst about Delhi

Australia and India bury a number of past differences by signing the long-awaited agreement on civil nuclear cooperation. It will entitle India to buy uranium from Australia.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 10, 2014

Dawn of the motion-capture renaissance

If "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes," the second chapter in the reboot of the much-loved sci-fi franchise, feels like a different sort of blockbuster sequel — deeper, richer, more involving — that may be because director Matt Reeves is not your typical blockbuster director.

Longform

Japan's growing ranks of centenarians are redefining what it means to live in a super-aging society.
What comes after 100?