Search - 2015

 
Menu
Search
 
November 14, 2025
 

Today's print edition

Home Delivery
Subscribe for more access
18,568 results
Sort by: Relevance Newest Oldest
After adjusting your search parameters, press Enter on your keyboard or click on the red magnifying glass to run your query again.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League
Sep 21, 2016

Alvark, Golden Kings eager to deliver entertainment, quality competition in B. League opener

One day before the opening game of the B. League's first season between the Alvark Tokyo and Ryukyu Golden Kings at Yoyogi National Gymnasium, the players and coaches were ecstatic, saying they are ready to put on a show the next day to usher in a new era of Japanese basketball.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 21, 2016

Abe bidding hard for permanent Security Council seat

In an online essay, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe lays out Japan's case for securing a permanent seat at the helm of the U.N.
EDITORIALS
Sep 21, 2016

Growth in senile dementia cases

Japan must prepare to handle a larger number of senile dementia cases as the size of its eldlerly population increases.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 21, 2016

Trump's nightmare menace

Turbulence, insecurity and dangers lie ahead if Donald Trump wins the U.S. presidential election.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 21, 2016

'Scoop!': Read all about it here

Japanese weekly scandal magazines are pond scum, are they not? Dishing up grainy paparazzi photos of the famous and powerful, accompanied by wink-wink stories about improprieties and crimes — alleged or exposed — they appeal to the lowest common denominator, with their only raison d'etre being sales...
Rugby
Sep 21, 2016

Japan marks three years until Rugby World Cup

It's been a year since Japan shocked the world with its stunning victory over South Africa at the Rugby World Cup in England. And ever since the Brave Blossoms' breakthrough performance, rugby has been in a far brighter spotlight.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 21, 2016

Securities watchdog to step up scrutiny of insider trading in biotech sector

The securities watchdog will boost monitoring of health-care stocks for possible insider trading after increasing leaks of information that has the power to move markets, according to the top official of the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB / MAN ABOUT SPORTS
Sep 20, 2016

No-nonsense skipper Baker a good fit for title-contending Nationals

"Do you think you've ended up spoiling the teams you've managed previously?", MAS asked Dusty Baker, during a pregame chat with the Washington Nationals first-year skipper.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Sep 20, 2016

BayStars could be primed to follow Carp's example in CL

The Yokohama BayStars, after 18 seasons without postseason baseball and 11 without an A-Class finish, probably weren't going to be very picky about how those two things got crossed off of their to-do list.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 20, 2016

Age-old Arctic shipping vision still just a dream

Traversing the Arctic still makes little sense for shipping companies due to cost and risk.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 20, 2016

In hot water, bathroom fittings firm Lixil hires outsider to fix pipes

Early last year, big bets started to go wrong for a Japanese giant of toilets and faucets.
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Sep 20, 2016

With no growth locomotive, world economy struggles to gain speed

Here's what's wrong with the world economy: No nation has the will or the way to be the locomotive for global growth.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 20, 2016

Japan steelmakers suffer as China squeezes coal industry, sending fuel price soaring above $200

The nation's steel makers are set to pay for China's effort to manage its coal industry as a surge in metallurgical prices flow through to quarterly supply contracts.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Sep 20, 2016

India launches first internet hotline to tackle surge in child porn

India on Monday launched its first internet hotline to encourage people to report online child pornography and curb a surge in photographs and videos on the internet showing children being sexually exploited, the founders of the initiative said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 20, 2016

Japan's jobs-for-life system a reason for static wages

In contrast to job-hopping Americans, Japanese workers rarely jump to different companies, likely frustrating policymakers' efforts to drive wages up.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League
Sep 19, 2016

B. League chairman heralds new era

This last decade has marked the darkest period in Japan basketball history, with the sport divided between two rival men's leagues.
EDITORIALS
Sep 19, 2016

Slowdown in tourist spending

Regional authorities, businesses and communities need to help turn around the slowdown in spending by overseas visitors.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 19, 2016

Tokyo needs to make the most of child care

Japan has a unique opportunity to combine the benefits of child care with those of preschool.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Sep 18, 2016

Londoner finds her voice on the Tokyo stage

Originally setting out to be a Japanese voice actress, Reina has arrived at a destination she had not foreseen, a place where outside voices are rarely heard.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Sep 18, 2016

Kana Nishino's 'Just Love' may drive cynics mad, but her pop formula is working

Kana Nishino has been a marquee name since debuting in 2008, but this July she finally owned the spotlight with "Just Love."
CULTURE / Film
Sep 17, 2016

Yuki Tanada's new film sees the humor in societal changes

The Japanese women directors who have been gaining attention in the past two decades, beginning with frequent Cannes invitee Naomi Kawase, tend to be serious types, understandably. Their struggle for respect and recognition in a male-dominated industry is difficult enough — and goofy comedies are usually...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Sep 17, 2016

'Elderly terrorists' and 'hidden poverty' — Japan's new normal?

It's hard to read Spa! magazine without feeling that something is dreadfully wrong with Japan. Week after week, it pursues themes that soon grow familiar: hopeless poverty, pointless toil, unrelieved loneliness. In just one issue this month (Sept. 6) it tackles, in separate articles, "hidden poverty,"...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Sep 17, 2016

Memories of 1931 Mukden Incident remain divisive

Today marks the 85th anniversary of the 1931 Mukden Incident (also known as the Manchurian Incident), when Japanese troops staged a bombing of their own railway by placing explosives near the train tracks. Even though the explosion did minimal damage and a train managed to pass the damaged section soon...
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 17, 2016

U.N. inquiry blames Syrian military for chlorine bomb attacks, diplomat says

An international inquiry has identified two Syrian Air Force helicopter squadrons and two other military units as responsible for chlorine gas attacks on civilians, a Western diplomat told Reuters.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Descendants in Philippines denied Japanese citizenship
As attacks surge, who can cull bears in Japan?
Police cars leave the Akita Prefectural Police headquarters to cull bears, in the city of Akita on Thursday.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Government and bad actors are at the root of the foreign national issue
A maiko walks down a street crowded with tourists in Kyoto. Challenges that come with a massive influx of overseas visitors and foreign nationals buying up real estate are just some of the immigration problems that have become hot-button political issues in Japan.
Tatsuya Nakadai: A masterful leading man and postwar icon
Tatsuya Nakadai had the look of a leading man in his youth, but his large and searching eyes suggested the pain and loneliness of an old soul.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.
Takaichi doesn’t mince words on Taiwan, but dramatic policy shift unlikely
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in parliament on Tuesday.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.
China delivers warning to U.S. and Japan with third aircraft carrier
The Fujian, China's third aircraft carrier, carries out sea trials at an unknown location in May last year.

Podcast

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

Longform

Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
By Yukana Inoue

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 6th annual Sustainable Japan Award.
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 6th annual Sustainable Japan Award.

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS note

Read more

SUPPLEMENTS BINDER