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Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 29, 2015

FOIA documents reveal hot spots, fish kills and toxic dumps on Okinawa military base

Following an 18-month battle, the Pentagon has released records detailing serious contamination on Okinawa base land slated soon for return to civilian use.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 28, 2015

Abe's military push proves to be losing trade as defense stocks sink

Equity investors looking to profit from Japan's move away from pacifism might find that easier said than done.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 28, 2015

India should create its own Silicon Valley

Indian tech companies have focused on low value-added IT services rather than developing high value-added products. It's time for a change.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Sep 28, 2015

China's culture chief says sites being plundered, bulldozed

The treasures of China's thousands of years of culture face being plundered, sometimes violently, or disappearing under bulldozers as authorities either do not care or do not have the resources to look after them, China's culture chief said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 27, 2015

VW scandal exposes cozy ties between Germany's auto industry, government

Angela Merkel learned early in her political career that taking on the German car industry carries risks.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 27, 2015

New Disney park in China to bolster sales, Uniqlo chief says

Fast Retailing Co. Chairman Tadashi Yanai said Walt Disney Co.'s new park in Shanghai will help his Uniqlo casual clothing brand expand in China, shrugging off concerns over an economic slowdown in the Japanese retailer's largest overseas market.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / YEN FOR LIVING
Sep 26, 2015

Inevitable looming consumption tax hike keeps the LDP awake at night

The LDP is in a tough spot between an public wary of consumption tax hikes and a Finance Ministry unwilling to budge on the promised move to a 10-percent levy.
EDITORIALS
Sep 26, 2015

Workers getting a smaller share

Japanese workers, notorious for their dedication, overtime and unpaid holidays, are adding to the profits of their corporations but without getting as much back as they should.
Reference / Q&A
Sep 25, 2015

Detecting breast cancer is not an exact science

Former professional wrestler-turned TV personality Akira Hokuto, 48, made headlines this week when she announced on Wednesday she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. She had surgery to remove her right breast on Thursday.
EDITORIALS
Sep 25, 2015

Clouds on the horizon for land prices

Land prices are generally on the upswing, but the gap between urban and rural areas is growing worse.
BUSINESS
Sep 25, 2015

Persistent U.S. probe, real-time driving cut through VW obfuscation to find smoking tailpipe

The revelation that ended Martin Winterkorn's career at Volkswagen AG came on Sept. 3 in a meeting at an office park east of Los Angeles.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Sep 24, 2015

JR Group's vaunted safety reputation is falling apart

Confidence in Japan Rail is rapidly collapsing as serious accidents and other troubles have been occurring in rapid succession.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Sep 24, 2015

Japan far from confronting hereditary breast cancer, but Jolie effect is helping

For years, Makiko Dazai had nagging questions about her sister's death from ovarian cancer in 2008.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 23, 2015

Chinese interceptor performed unsafe maneuver near spy plane, U.S. says

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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech / ANALYSIS
Sep 23, 2015

App Store hack: Slow foreign connections, lack of support from Apple led developers to use risky pirated tools

China's "Great Firewall" may have been partly to blame for the first major attack on Apple Inc.'s App Store, but experts also point the finger at lax security at some big-name Chinese tech firms and at how Apple supports developers in its second-biggest market.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 22, 2015

Crimea's happy now, but for the persecution

Most of Crimea's inhabitants are happy, but for a minority the move to Russian control over the peninsula has been miserable.
U.S. urges clarity on Japan’s role in potential war over Taiwan, report says
A Ground Self-Defense Force member conducts a military drill with an anti-ship missiles unit, at the GSDF's base on Miyako Island in Okinawa Prefecture in April 2022.
Tourists in Japan have telemedicine options before calling 119
Foreign tourists at Tsukiji Outer Market in Tokyo. More than 1 million international visitors have a medical issue in Japan every year.
Tropical Storm Nari moves northward, with possible landfall Tuesday
Tropical Storm Nari's forecast path as of Monday morning
Nissan clinches $4.5 billion bond deal after orders soar
Nissan Motor has raised $4.5 billion through a junk bond sale in U.S. dollars and euros, part of which carries a record-high coupon rate.
Students in Japan struggle with Japanese language and math sections on national exam
The correct answer rate for the Japanese language section on a national test dropped to 67.0% from 67.8% the previous year among elementary school sixth-graders.
U.S. urges clarity on Japan’s role in potential war over Taiwan, report says
A Ground Self-Defense Force member conducts a military drill with an anti-ship missiles unit, at the GSDF's base on Miyako Island in Okinawa Prefecture in April 2022.
Tourists in Japan have telemedicine options before calling 119
Foreign tourists at Tsukiji Outer Market in Tokyo. More than 1 million international visitors have a medical issue in Japan every year.
Is Japanese skin really ‘too smooth’ for Hideo Kojima’s games?
Hideo Kojima, the leading auteur in Japanese video games, has skirted controversy in the wake of the release of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
An emoji used to say it all. Now it might say too much.
Apple’s Craig Federighi shows off a set of emoji at a conference on June 13, 2016. While the small pictures have proved helpful in conveying nuance in our texts, younger people are using them less often.
‘Our ultimate goal is to save every single Japanese video game’
After nearly shuttering earlier this year, the Tokyo-based Game Preservation Society continues its work to save the early history of Japanese gaming.

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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After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan
By Megha Wadhwa

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