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JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Oct 14, 2001

The truth about the 'enemies of the people'

For the past month there's been a lot of talk about how much our sense of the world has changed since the events of Sept. 11. Actually, it's mainly changed for Americans, but as someone once said: When America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold.
EDITORIALS
Apr 22, 2001

Poetry and the people

When the poet Chaucer saw that it was April, one year in the late 1300s, he wrote cheerily about its sweet showers piercing the drought of March to the root. When T.S. Eliot saw that it was April, some five and a half centuries later, he wrote bleakly about it being the cruelest month, "breeding lilacs...
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Feb 21, 2001

Crow problem or people problem?

I have traveled to many countries on all of the world's continents, and, always wearing my naturalist's cap, I tend to notice the wildlife, especially the birds. Some stick in one's memory, some don't, but the only country I have been where what sticks is the crows is Japan. Why is that?
JAPAN
Dec 13, 2000

1,549 people died in fires in first nine months of 2000

A total of 1,549 people died in fires in Japan in the first nine months of the year, one less than during the same period last year, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Nov 23, 2000

Young people called on to help end exploitation of children

The active participation of young people is key to the successful global effort to fight sexual exploitation of children, according to an adviser to an international conference on the issue scheduled next year in Yokohama.
COMMENTARY
Oct 8, 2000

The Japanese people really are different

This year there were two Olympics. One was for the world generally. The other was for Japan, with audiences glued to events where hysterical announcers could declare a Japanese victory.
JAPAN
Sep 24, 2000

Bill to increase aged people's health costs

The government has tabled a bill in the Diet that would increase the health care costs paid by elderly people in an attempt to contain the state's ballooning expenses for maintaining coverage.
JAPAN
Sep 18, 2000

State survey discovers why people own pets

People keep pets because they love animals and for consolation, according to a recent survey carried out by the Japanese government.
JAPAN
May 28, 2000

Drunk-driver mows down six people

A 28-year-old man drove his car onto a crowded sidewalk near the Roppongi Intersection in Tokyo's Minato Ward early Saturday morning, plowing into pedestrians, a confectionary shop, a taxi and injuring six people, police said.
JAPAN
May 20, 2000

'Black money' scam hits Japan

Four foreigners have been arrested on suspicion of swindling two people out of about 5.4 million yen through a scheme dubbed "black money," police said Friday.
JAPAN
Mar 30, 2000

2.1 million people studying Japanese overseas, up 60% from '93

The number of people studying Japanese overseas reached 2.1 million in 1998, up 30 percent from five years earlier, according to a Japan Foundation survey announced Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jul 7, 1998

People's award goes to late composer Yoshida

The late composer Tadashi Yoshida was granted the People's Honor Award on Tuesday by Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, who gave a tribute to Yoshida and a shield-shaped ornament to his widow, Kiyoko, during a ceremony held at the Prime Minister's Official Residence.
JAPAN
Mar 31, 1997

Bill asserts organ-doning rights of brain-dead people

In an effort to prevent brain death from being legally recognized as death, a nonpartisan group of 28 lawmakers on Mar. 31 submitted to the Diet a bill stating that brain-dead people could be voluntary donors for organ transplants even though their condition does not constitute legal death.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 9, 2023

Can the world’s democracies survive the ‘polycrisis’?

Artificial intelligence, climate change, and Russia's war in Ukraine are causing global angst — each of which demands urgent attention from policymakers and political leaders.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 8, 2023

Ukraine-Russia military conflict is also a culture war

The strength of Ukraine’s resistance has depended less on the military assistance provided by NATO members than on the Ukrainian people’s insistence on their own agency and destiny.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 19, 2023

Last known speaker fights to preserve South African indigenous language

N|uu was spoken by one of many hunter-gatherer groups that populated Southern Africa before the arrival of European colonizers.
Japan Times
BASEBALL
May 11, 2023

The land beneath this stadium once was theirs. They want it back.

As so-called land-back movements have gained momentum, three Los Angeles families have been working to define what reparations mean for them and how to get them.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 30, 2023

Five people shot dead in Texas home after noise complaint

Police were still looking for the suspect, who used an AR-15-style rifle in the shooting inside the neighbors' home late Friday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 14, 2023

Kishida among Time magazine's 100 'Most Influential People of 2023'

'Faced with rising aggression from Russia, China, and North Korea, Kishida has set about revolutionizing Japanese foreign policy,' the magazine said.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Mar 8, 2023

‘A Kamigata Anthology’: Everyday enjoyments of everyday people

The collection chronicles the rise of the “commoner arts' through genres like travelogs, poetry and easy-reading books that entertained the masses during the Edo Period (1603-1867).
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Mar 7, 2023

Japan's first AI manga has people asking: Is it machine magic or art menace?

The creator of 'Cyberpunk: Peach John' says he isn't good at drawing, but he didn't let that stop him from illustrating a manga.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 14, 2023

Anthony Albanese’s ‘Voice’ speaks to Australian guilt, not to its better angels

Australians debate the pros and cons of a constitutional amendment that aims to give special rights and representation to the nation's Indigenous people.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 2, 2023

Without whistleblowers, the West is lost

The biggest threat to Western democracies is not transparency, it is the nihilism and self-indulgence that have come to characterize politics.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 12, 2023

About 94% of people in Japan feel effects of rising prices, BOJ says

In the survey released Wednesday, 52.7% of respondents said they felt prices have gone up by a large margin and 41.6% said they felt it has slightly gone up from a year ago.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / The Year Ahead
Jan 6, 2023

Is economic failure an economics failure?

It is clear that an ever-growing number of people hold democratic capitalism in disrepute, and economists along with it. But how much responsibility do economists bear for our ills?
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 5, 2022

Quantum entanglement: The 'spooky' science behind the physics Nobel

Even people with physics degrees struggle to understand the bizarre phenomenon.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 15, 2022

Opposition seeks answers after heavy Upper House election defeat

Japan's Upper House election should have been a far more contested vote than it was, but the opposition once again failed to make the right moves.
Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years
The Agency for Cultural Affairs is recommending replacing the government’s long-standing Kunrei system with more widely used Hepburn-style spellings.
Character-crazed Japan has little appetite for Labubu
A pop-up advertisement for the newly opened Chiikawa Park in Tokyo's Ikebukuro neighborhood demonstrates how the country is chockful of cute characters — to the detriment of trends like Labubu.
Emperor emeritus and empress emerita visit postwar settlement
Emperor Emeritus Akihito and Empress Emerita Michiko strolled through a cabbage field in Ohinata settlement in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, on Saturday.
At meeting rich in symbolism, Ishiba and South Korea's Lee agree to steadily build ties
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba shake hands at joint press announcement after summit talks in Tokyo on Saturday.
Are 'coolcations' the answer for Japan's heat-weary tourists?
Hikers on a trail in Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture. As extreme heat continues to grip Japan, a tectonic shift may be underway in the nation’s summer tourism scene as more people gravitate toward cooler destinations.
Are 'coolcations' the answer for Japan's heat-weary tourists?
Hikers on a trail in Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture. As extreme heat continues to grip Japan, a tectonic shift may be underway in the nation’s summer tourism scene as more people gravitate toward cooler destinations.
Germany's first sakemaker offers a bold brew of ideas
Reigen, Germany's first sake brewery, makes a diverse, nontraditional range of sake that includes fruit-flavored sips and wine barrel-aged renditions.
Alicia Keys closed Summer Sonic, but J-pop owned it
Summer Sonic’s 2025 lineup demonstrated its strength, showcasing the latest in J-pop, including “new kawaii” act Fruits Zipper.
Is the LDP’s catch-all approach to politics still effective?
Former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi visits Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15. Political commentator Toru Hashimoto has suggested that Takaichi ought to lead a group of like-minded hawkish politicians out of the Liberal Democratic Party and form their own party.
Fingers sore from too much phone time? You might have ‘sumaho yubi.’
A catch-all term for tendonitis and arthritis caused by excessive smartphone use, 'sumaho yubi' may be difficult to treat for gadget-crazy Japan.

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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Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past
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