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Figure Skating
Mar 29, 2014

Mao struggles, still claims third world title

Mao Asada captured her third world title with a satisfactory free skate on Saturday night at Saitama Super Arena.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Mar 29, 2014

North Korea realty market soars

One of the world's fastest developing property markets is also in one of its least likely places: North Korea.
EDITORIALS
Mar 29, 2014

Japan failing its obligation to aid asylum seekers

How can Japan justify accepting just six of the 3,777 people who applied for asylum status in 2013? Most of the applicants already resided here legally as visa holders. Japan must do better.
Figure Skating
Mar 28, 2014

Hanyu delivers splendid free skate, overtakes Machida for world title

Sochi Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu came from behind in dramatic fashion to capture his first world championship on Friday night at Saitama Super Arena.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 28, 2014

Haneda expansion a travel game-changer

To counter cutthroat competition from hub airports elsewhere in Asia, Haneda airport will expand its international flight capacity Sunday when it takes the wraps off a more spacious terminal.
EDITORIALS
Mar 28, 2014

Epic miscarriage of justice

The prosecution should accept the Shizuoka District Court's decision to reopen the murder case of Iwao Hakamada.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 28, 2014

Ulterior motives behind China's anger?

China is doing its best to foster a sense of aggrievement, as if it has been intentionally wronged by this tragic accident. This is part of a broader pattern of exploiting international incidents for domestic gain.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 28, 2014

New CO₂ capture tech to aid climate

A little-known technology that may be able to take the equivalent of China's greenhouse gas emissions out of the carbon cycle could be the radical policy shift needed to slow climate change this century, a draft U.N. report shows.
Japan Times
JAPAN / SYMPOSIUM ON ASEAN AND GLOBALIZATION
Mar 28, 2014

ASEAN works to overcome challenges

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations will continue to accelerate integration while it works to overcome challenges such as disparities in the levels of development among member countries, academic experts of some ASEAN countries said at a symposium in Tokyo.
Japan Times
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Mar 28, 2014

Kakuryu secures promotion to yokozuna, but will he now revert to form?

In the days since he defeated fellow ozeki Kotoshogiku to win his first makunouchi championship at the Haru Basho in Osaka on Sunday March 23, new Mongolian yokozuna Kakuryu has been getting used to the helter-skelter off the dohyo lifestyle he will have for the rest of his sumo career.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Mar 27, 2014

Abe ready for full-on military drive

With the launch next Monday of a special intraparty panel directly under his lead, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his ruling Liberal Democratic Party are ready to kick off their full-fledged drive to reinterpret the Constitution to allow Japan to help defend its allies.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 27, 2014

Giants, Hawks look like class of NPB as season begins

2014 NPB Preview
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 27, 2014

How low can you go? Cuvier's beaked whale the champ of deep-sea diving

If there were a gold medal for cetacean diving, it undoubtedly would go to the Cuvier's beaked whale. Scientists said Wednesday they have tracked these medium-size whales off the coast of California using satellite-linked tags as the creatures dove down nearly 3 km (1.9 miles) and spent two hours and...
CULTURE / Film
Mar 27, 2014

'Parked'

They say people can endure having nowhere to live, but having nothing to drive is licking the very bottom of the barrel. That fate hasn't come to "Parked" protagonist Fred Daly (Colm Meaney), at least not yet. But he's inching closer, as he eases his Mazda into a parking lot on Dublin's east coast. This...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Mar 27, 2014

Celebrating 20 years; water view of Tokyo; Shangri-La catering

Celebrating 20 years
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Mar 26, 2014

Sendai seeking to maintain winning ways during stretch run

With seven victories in their past 10 games, the rejuvenated Sendai 89ers have bolstered their playoff chances.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 26, 2014

Sumitomo Mitsui reportedly to hire four ex-UBS employees for equities

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. will hire four former UBS AG employees to expand its Japan equity business, according to a source.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LAW OF THE LAND
Mar 26, 2014

Japan's Constitution: never amended but all too often undermined

If Japan's unwritten constitution is already so flexible, why are Abe and his party so bent on amending the written one?
EDITORIALS
Mar 26, 2014

A year into the deflation fight

A year after taking the helm of the Bank of Japan, Haruhiko Kuroda appears on course to achieving the targets he set in the quest to rein in Japan's protracted deflation and put the economy on a growth path. Unfortunately bank lending to businesses has not expanded as hoped.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 26, 2014

North Korea hopes for 'positive results' in talks with Japan

North Korea said on Tuesday that talks with Japan this month should include a demand for compensation for wartime Korean sex slaves and not only the issue of Japanese abducted decades ago, which it considers closed.
Why are rice prices still high in Japan?
Amid shortages, the price of a 5-kilogram bag of rice during the week of April 14 was ¥4,220.
Dollar’s decline is fueling dislocations across Asian currencies
A worker counts U.S. dollar banknotes at a currency exchange office in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2022.
India strikes Pakistan over Kashmir tourist killings
Indian paramilitary personnel stand guard along a road in Srinagar on Wednesday after New Delhi launched missile strikes on archrival Pakistan in a major escalation between the nuclear-armed neighbors.
Tariff talks with U.S. seen influencing Japan's Upper House election
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks to reporters about Japan-U.S. tariff negotiations at his official residence on Saturday.
Japan and India to set up new consultation defense cooperation framework
Defense Minister Gen Nakatani (right) stands alongside his Indian counterpart, Rajnath Singh, during a ceremonial reception in New Delhi on Monday.
Former sekiwake Toyonoshima is new head coach at innovative women’s club
Former sekiwake Toyonoshima and Airi Hisano train at Tachihi Sumo Club on May 1.
The drive for luxury: Aston Martin Asia's president explains the desire for more
While for Aston Martin, it’s all about delivering luxury, their regional president for Asia Gregory Adams' start in the auto industry in Japan was far more humble.
Why are rice prices still high in Japan?
Amid shortages, the price of a 5-kilogram bag of rice during the week of April 14 was ¥4,220.
Plug and Play wants to help Japanese startups go global
Phillip Vincent (right), Japan CEO of Plug and Play, and Ma Jingqian, head of ventures, at Plug and Play's Tokyo office, last month
Kotomi Li: 'I refuse to choose death'
Since 2017, Kotomi Li has won some of Japan’s top literary awards and built a formidable career in the face of persistent online harassment. “Authors are tenacious creatures to begin with,” she says.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.
A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan
By Hanako Lowry

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