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BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Mar 18, 2017

Playground legend 'Bone Collector' brings his talent back to Japan

Streetball fanatics revel with delight when rattling off names of legends who competed at New York's famed Rucker Park in the 20th century.
EDITORIALS
Mar 18, 2017

A big step forward in the search for extraterrestrial life

Scientists — and most everyone else — are justifiably excited by the discovery of several planets orbiting the ultracool dwarf star Trappist-1.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 18, 2017

Philippines to strengthen military facilities in contested South China Sea

The Philippines said Friday it will strengthen its military facilities on islands and shoals in the disputed South China Sea and announced initial plans to build a new port and pave an existing rough airstrip.
EDITORIALS
Mar 17, 2017

Step to trim overtime falls short

A new legal cap on overtime will hardly serve as a guarantee to stop the excessively long work hours from causing the deaths and suicides of overworked employees.
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 16, 2017

U.S. group Sierra Club seeks probe of EPA's Pruitt over CO2 comments

U.S. environmental group the Sierra Club has asked the Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general to investigate whether the agency's head, Scott Pruitt, violated internal policies when he said he did not believe carbon dioxide was a major contributor to climate change, according to a letter...
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CULTURE / Art
Mar 14, 2017

Borders in question for Chim↑Pom's new art show

Ballsy art collective Chim↑Pom have taken on Donald Trump's America in their solo exhibition "The other side." One of the most well-known contemporary iconoclasts in Japan, Chim↑Pom have previously caught rats before dyeing them yellow and red to resemble Pikachu and installing them on a Tokyo street,...
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BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 14, 2017

Wall has Wizards in chase for Eastern Conference top seed

The NBA's most unexpected and overlooked, if not undeserving, Most Valuable Player candidate this season has had perhaps the most unusual of career arcs.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 13, 2017

Vault7 and the electronic panopticon

If the Russians are looking to invade Americans' privacy, the U.S. government is already there.
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COMMUNITY / Issues / LAW OF THE LAND
Mar 12, 2017

Who gains from corporate governance in Japan?

Perhaps managers need to channel the spooky kid from 'The Sixth Sense' and start seeing shareholders everywhere, because that is probably closest to social reality in Japan.
JAPAN
Mar 11, 2017

Abe hails 3/11 reconstruction progress on six-year anniversary of deadly disasters

Prime minister touts Tohoku region's “steady” recovery in annual speech.
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WORLD / Politics
Mar 11, 2017

Relief over Tillerson at State Department replaced by unease

U.S. diplomats breathed a sigh of relief three months ago when Rex Tillerson was nominated as secretary of state, welcoming the oilman as a seasoned manager who would shield them from ideologues ready to gut America's foreign policy machinery.
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LIFE / Food & Drink
Mar 10, 2017

Are indoor farms the next step in the evolution of agriculture?

You've probably heard of farm-to-table, or even farm-to-fork, agricultural movements that emphasize the connection between producers and consumers. But what about factory farm-to-table?
EDITORIALS
Mar 10, 2017

Six years after the 3/11 disasters

Efforts to reconstruct the lives of people thrown out of their homes by the 3/11 disasters remain woefully uncompleted.
JAPAN / AFTEREFFECTS OF MARCH 2011
Mar 9, 2017

Tepco's biggest hurdle: How to remove melted fuel from crippled Fukushima reactors

Six years after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, recent investigations underneath the damaged reactor 2 using cameras and robots came close to identifying melted fuel rods for the first time.
EDITORIALS
Mar 9, 2017

Taking a stand on defense research

University scientists should avoid the lure of easy government money aimed at promoting research with military applications.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 9, 2017

A U.S.-China currency deal can avert trade war

A new Plaza Accord can benefit both the U.S. and China, and deliver Trump his first foreign policy victory.
JAPAN
Mar 8, 2017

As North Korea missile threat grows, Japan lawmakers argue for first strike options

Rattled by North Korean military advances, influential Japanese lawmakers are pushing harder for Japan to develop the ability to strike preemptively at the missile facilities of its nuclear-armed neighbor.
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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Mar 8, 2017

Literary partnership behind 'Tokyo Nights' cut tragically short, but the story goes on

English teachers Jim Hickey and Douglas Forrester were offered a two-book deal in early 2016. But within weeks, Forrester was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
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CULTURE / Film
Mar 8, 2017

'River': sink, swim or keep running

Up until about 10 years ago, being a white man in Southeast Asia meant you did pretty much what you pleased and damn the consequences, at least in the realm of fictional cinema. (See Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Beach.") Often, the characters are thrown into prison on drug trafficking charges and narrowly...
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CULTURE / Art
Mar 7, 2017

A gently explosive 'Blossom Blast'

Beware the loan word "feminizumu." If you ask accomplished, educated and gainfully employed Japanese women whether they are feminists, the adverse reaction can be confusing. I first came up against this in a seminar of women art-history students, who unanimously, and vehemently rejected the idea of being...
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JAPAN / Politics
Mar 7, 2017

Trump tells Abe U.S. 100% behind Japan after missile launch

Prime Minister Abe and U.S. President Trump on Tuesday denounced North Korea's missile provocation, saying the launches into the Sea of Japan violated U.N. resolutions.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 7, 2017

When spies are out of control

U.S. top spies should go back to doing their real work instead of inventing fairy tales.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 7, 2017

What Trump should've tweeted about wiretaps

It's highly unlikely that Obama ordered a tap on Trump's phones, but his administration's alumni may be abusing their power.
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JAPAN / AFTEREFFECTS OF MARCH 2011
Mar 7, 2017

Tsunami-hit Rikuzentakata rebuilding on raised ground, hoping to thrive anew

This is the first of a four-part series looking at the lasting impact of the March 11, 2011, disasters.

Longform

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