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COMMENTARY / World
Sep 9, 2015

Cameron is right about how to take in refugees

U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron has taken a battering over his handling of Europe's refugee crisis, but his new approach is the right one.
CULTURE / Film / Wide Angle
Sep 9, 2015

Kyoto International Art and Film Festival is a challenge to Tokyo's cultural power

The Kyoto International Film and Art Festival, which takes place from Oct. 15 to 18 in Japan's ancient capital, began as a sort of challenge to the local film industry's power center, Tokyo.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 9, 2015

Hungary's Orban plays for high stakes with tough stance on migrants

Hungary's fiery Prime Minister Viktor Orban has always relished a fight, be it with foreign bankers, international lenders or the European Union over policy toward Russia.
BUSINESS / 'SUMMER DAVOS' SPECIAL 2015
Sep 9, 2015

Will AI become a threat to future white-collar workers?

Can a robot get into the University of Tokyo, Japan's most prestigious university, by 2021?
Japan Times
BUSINESS / 'SUMMER DAVOS' SPECIAL 2015
Sep 9, 2015

Leading English MBA program set to become available online

Featuring its unique ambition-inspiring kokorozashi, or personal mission, education and hands-on business education close to real-life experience, Globis University's Master of Business Administration program has rapidly grown into the largest and one of the highest-ranked MBA programs in Japan. Now...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 8, 2015

Pure landscape photography

The exhibition "Stream of Consciousness" at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery is an extremely successful representation of contemporary Japanese photographic art. It combines some of the salient aspects of Japanese culture with the aesthetically formal, yet emotive imagery that is indicative of what gives...
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 8, 2015

Troubling Sino-Japanese ties

The animus between China and Japan should scare the rest of the world — especially the U.S., which could get dragged into war with a nuclear power.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 8, 2015

Don't blame schools for worker shortages

Both Japanese and U.S. companies blame the education system for their alleged shortage of workers, but the complaint fails to stand up to scrutiny.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 8, 2015

Bill easing regulations on temp workers passes key committee

The ruling bloc bulldozed a contentious bill to revise the worker dispatch law through an Upper House committee Tuesday, clearing a critical hurdle for its enactment that will enable companies to use temporary workers for as long as they wish.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 8, 2015

Abe remains LDP president after Noda fails to build enough support to run

Now that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has cemented his leadership of the LDP, he is expected to focus on the economy ahead of next year's Upper House election.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 8, 2015

Revamp of Japan's temp sector may create lifelong job seekers

With the bill to overhaul regulations on the use of temporary workers poised to clear the Diet this week, thousands of temps dispatched from staffing agencies worry they may lose their jobs in three years after the change takes effect.
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Sep 7, 2015

Let's discuss security for the Tokyo Olympics

The Metropolitan Police Department is planning security on an unprecedented scale for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympic Games.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 7, 2015

China urges firms to test overseas markets amid glut in construction industry

Two years after China unveiled a sweeping plan to rebuild Silk Road trade links with Europe and Asia, machinery maker XCMG Group has opened a factory in Uzbekistan, sent 300 staff abroad and set ambitious goals to expand overseas.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 6, 2015

Chinese build factories in U.S., creating jobs and tensions

When Chen Mingxu was a boy, U.S. businessmen poured into rural China, welcomed with tax breaks and steamed turtle. Thirty years later, in a kind of reverse migration, Chen finds himself in southwestern Alabama smiling wanly over bacon-wrapped meatloaf and banana pudding.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Sep 5, 2015

Feast from the forest: foraging for edible plants in Japan

In the opening poem of "Kokin Wakashu" ("Collection of Japanese Poems of Ancient and Modern Times"), the Emperor writes about harvesting sansai (wild plants). The emperors of the Heian and Nara periods made it a rule to seek sansai in the forests in order to collect food and predict the harvest.
JAPAN / Media / DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN
Sep 5, 2015

Gang split may end with a whimper, not a bang

A detective who specialized in organized crime once told me a dark joke: What type of crime occurs when a member of the yakuza kills another gangster? Answer: destruction of property.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA
Sep 5, 2015

NBA star Curry wows Japanese fans on flying visit

Stephen Curry, who led the Golden State Warriors to their first NBA championship in 40 years last season, made his first visit to Japan on Friday — even though he was only here for around 24 hours — and greeted enthusiastic local hoop fans.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / THE HIGH GROUNDS
Sep 4, 2015

Roasted-on-the-spot coffee from Kyoto is going global

The five-story pagoda of Hokanji Temple has crowned the skyline of eastern Kyoto for more than a millennium — give or take the few times when it burned down and was reconstructed. Just down the lane from the current incarnation (constructed in 1440) sits a rather newer landmark, % Arabica, which has...
JAPAN / Society
Sep 4, 2015

Ibaraki clinic 'named and shamed' for maternity harassment

The labor ministry says the dermatology clinic in Ibaraki Prefecture defied numerous instructions not to dismiss an employee on the grounds of her pregnancy.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 4, 2015

On Arctic tip of Europe, Syrian migrants reach Norway by bike

Some Syrian refugees have found a cheaper, safer, though much more roundabout way of reaching Europe than crossing the Mediterranean — heading to the Arctic Circle and entering Norway from Russia, sometimes by bicycle.

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A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami