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COMMENTARY / World
Mar 29, 2016

Print now, the digital dark ages are coming

If we want to ensure that our civilization lives on, we should probably be printing everything out and putting it in boxes.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech / ANALYSIS
Mar 29, 2016

Security of iPhones the casualty in Apple's victory over the FBI

Apple Inc. suffered one major casualty in its legal victory over the FBI: bragging rights over the iPhone's security.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 28, 2016

Virgin America's vision of decency can't compete

Virgin America is finding out the hard way that Americans prefer lower airline fares to good service.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 28, 2016

Happiness is serious business in the UAE

Happiness is neither a transitory moment of delight nor a constant condition. It is a state of being beyond satisfaction, a flourishing and ambient joy.
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Mar 28, 2016

Let's discuss tourists and their tattoos

The Japan Tourism Agency has asked spa operators to allow tattooed foreign tourists into their facilities in a bid to get more overseas visitors experiencing the nation's onsen.
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 28, 2016

Poll finds only 24% of top firms plan to expand new grad recruitment in 2017

Nearly a quarter of major firms in Japan that have set hiring plans for fiscal 2017 intend to recruit more new graduates than in fiscal 2016, but the percentage fell short of the previous year's figure, a Kyodo News survey showed Sunday.
COMMUNITY / Issues / LABOR PAINS
Mar 27, 2016

Bearded train driver, out-of-pocket teacher and CV faker: How would they fare in court?

A look at three shiny new news items from the gossip columns that take on a different sheen when examined under the piercing light of labor law.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 27, 2016

Syria government says it will restore ancient Palmyra as city is taken back from Islamic State

Palmyra's ancient Roman temples and archway, blown up by Islamic State fighters last year, will be restored, the head of the antiquities authority said on Saturday before Syria recaptured the city, inflicting a significant defeat on the Islamist group, which had controlled the desert city since May last...
BUSINESS
Mar 27, 2016

Americans on all sides united in opposition to free trade

A poll shows opposition to free trade is a unifying concept even in the deeply divided U.S. electorate, with almost two-thirds of Americans favoring more restrictions on imported goods.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Mar 26, 2016

Tepco executives get a taste of citizens' wrath

Three Tokyo Electric Power Co. executives are now facing criminal prosecution for negligence in failing to anticipate a monster tsunami that cut off electricity and inundated back-up emergency generators, causing a cessation of cooling in the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant reactors that precipitated three...
CULTURE / Books
Mar 26, 2016

Black Illumination: the disqualified life of Osamu Dazai

The author Osamu Dazai committed suicide — several times. The first was on a cold December night in 1929, just before his school exams. But the overdose of sleeping pills he took was not enough; he survived, and graduated. The second was in October, 1930, on the barren sands of a beach in Kamakura...
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Mar 26, 2016

A question of time

A train pulls up to Kuji Station in Kanagawa Prefecture.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 25, 2016

Growth vs. political instability

How can the West improve its economic performance at a time when political instability is impeding effective policymaking?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 25, 2016

There's a better way to secure our airports

Rather than add another layer of baggage and body screens, the aviation industry should emulate the security measures employed by Israel's Ben Gurion airport.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 25, 2016

Dangers of Facebook cozying up to Beijing

Mark Zuckerberg's China ambitions are a no-brainer but he risks being a pawn in Beijing's censorship push.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 25, 2016

Tech could help secure public spaces, if Europeans wants more surveillance

Facial recognition software, scanners that detect weapons and cameras that spot nervous people are some of the technologies that could be used more widely to secure public places, but some would require greater acceptance of surveillance in Europe.
JAPAN
Mar 25, 2016

South Carolina governor wants U.S. to divert shipload of arms-grade plutonium from Japan

The demand by Nikki Haley has the potential to embarrass the Obama administration a week before it hosts an important summit on nuclear nonproliferation.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 24, 2016

Rumored U.S. presidential visit to Hiroshima, Nagasaki stokes mixed reactions

The reports of a possible visit in May are creating excitement and concern about how it will be perceived.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 24, 2016

Bombings are a sign of Islamic State's panic

The Brussels attacks by Islamic State may be a sign of a group feeling cornered and on the run.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 24, 2016

Author and disabilities champion Hirotada Ototake admits to adulterous affairs

In a blow that could further humiliate the scandal-tainted ruling party, disabled celebrity author and educator Hirotada Ototake, rumored to be tapped for an election run with the Liberal Democratic Party, apologized Thursday for committing adultery following a report by a tabloid magazine.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 23, 2016

Abe Cabinet says JCP promoting 'violent revolution,' subject to anti-subversive law

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government says the Japanese Communist Party remains a “violent revolutionary” group.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Mar 22, 2016

Dance icon sets a challenge

Running with the bulls during the annual San Fermin fiesta in the Spanish city of Pamplona, or joining a traditional Ainu festival on Lake Akan in Hokkaido, may seem unusual ways for a choreographer to research — but not if the artist in question is Motoko Hirayama.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 22, 2016

As Cuba rises, Puerto Rico falls

As the resumption of diplomatic ties with the U.S. opens new possibilities for Cuba, Puerto Rico's current status as a U.S. commonwealth has turned into an ugly dead end.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 21, 2016

Missing Chinese columnist who called for Xi to resign 'taken away' by police, lawyer says

Chinese police "took away" a well-known columnist last week before he tried to board a flight for Hong Kong and his whereabouts are still unknown, his lawyer said Monday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Mar 21, 2016

Lessons in history and bureaucracy lurk within Japan's geographical layer cake

Although in English we say Japan has 47 prefectures, Japanese uses four terms to express the same concept. And that's just for starters.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Mar 21, 2016

Japan backs homegrown stealth jet in aerospace industry revival

Japan is set to become the fourth country to test-fly its own stealth jet — a move that is likely to increase its military presence in the region.

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