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CULTURE / Film
Oct 7, 2015

'Bakuman' depicts a life-or-death quest for manga success

High school kids dream big dreams, and in Japan one of the biggest is to be a successful manga artist. The financial rewards for a hit manga published in a national magazine and sold in paperback editions are substantial. And the accompanying recognition and power — with adoring fans pleading for autographs...
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JAPAN / GENERATIONAL CHANGE
Oct 4, 2015

Chance chat in Gaza alters a life

Kenji Sekine might have ended up as a wine importer at a supermarket chain in Tokyo had it not been for a chance encounter with a Palestinian boy during a trip to the Middle East in early 1999.
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CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
Sep 12, 2015

'Our Land Was A Forest' depicts life in Hokkaido for indigenous Ainu

No bookshelf filled with Japanese literature is complete without Ainu folklore. Yes, Ainu yukar (folk tales) have been published in English, but to learn more about their stories and struggles, pick up the 1994 memoir "Our Land Was a Forest: An Ainu Memoir" by Kayano Shigeru, a noted Ainu folklore expert,...
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Jul 26, 2015

To life!: a cat named Vivalto

Vivalto, about 3 months old, was rescued as a kitten, found in a bag with the top tied up.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Jul 25, 2015

M. Payne: 'Live life to the fullest, and have no regrets'

Photographer on dancing and Jay Gatsby
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jul 23, 2015

Myanmar sentences Chinese nationals to life for illegal logging

China has lodged a diplomatic protest with Myanmar after a court in the southeast Asian nation sentenced 153 Chinese nationals to life imprisonment for illegal logging.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jul 22, 2015

Real-life cave man; pretending to live in old Japan; CM of the Week: Line Music

Based on a true story, "Dokutsu Ojisan" ("Cave Man"; BS Premium, Mon., 9 p.m.) dramatizes the life of Kazuma Kamura, who ran away from home when he was 13 to escape abusive parents and lived alone in a cave on a remote mountain for 43 years.
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JAPAN / Society
Jun 24, 2015

Women in Okinawa have Japan's best recipe for liberty, fertility and longevity

Women in Okinawa have more babies and live longer than women from almost anywhere else in Japan.
JAPAN / History / THE LIVING PAST
Jun 20, 2015

Jomon life 'remained pretty much unchanged'

Jomon Japan is fantastic. It ought to be preserved in stone. It was preserved in stone. For 10,000 years, this New Stone Age culture flourished. It is one of the longest-running single traditions in the world. A man, woman or child dying in, say, 10,000 B.C. and coming back to life circa 400 B.C. would...
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WORLD / Crime & Legal
May 30, 2015

Manhattan court hands Silk Road website creator life term over drug sales

The accused mastermind behind the Silk Road underground website was sentenced on Friday to life in prison for orchestrating a scheme that enabled more than $200 million of anonymous online drug sales using the digital currency bitcoin.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
May 24, 2015

Fostering entrepreneurship beyond the foreign community

Some people say that as long as you have blond hair, blue eyes and white skin, you can get a job, succeed and even become a celebrity in Japan. So imagine what would happen if there were two such people, married to each other!
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 30, 2015

Ex-Aum Shinrikyo member Katsuya Takahashi gets life in prison over 1995 sarin attack

The Tokyo District Court has sentenced former Aum Shinrikyo member Katsuya Takahashi to life in prison for his role in the doomsday cult's 1995 sarin attack on the Tokyo Metro.
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WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 16, 2015

Ex-NFL star Hernandez gets life term without parole for 2013 slaying, faces trial for two more

Former National Football League star Aaron Hernandez was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for murdering an acquaintance in an industrial park near his Massachusetts home, concluding the first of two murder trials he faces this year.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 12, 2015

Oceans yield 1,500 new creatures in past year; many others lurk unknown

Scientists identified almost 1,500 new creatures in the world's oceans last year, including a humpbacked dolphin and a giant jellyfish, and reckon that most species of marine life are yet to be found.
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CULTURE / Film
Feb 11, 2015

Life of Riley: 'death is on everyone's mind'

France's Alain Resnais ("Hiroshima mon amour," "Last Year at Marienbad") died last year at age 91, with 50 titles to his name and a career that spanned more than six decades. His final film, "Life of Riley," was completed shortly before he passed away.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 5, 2015

Paris' melancholic life of the party

The painter Jules Pascin was the epitome of the cosmopolitan, bohemian artist who came to define Paris of the 1920s. The latest exhibition at the Panasonic Shiodome Museum looks at the life and art of this painter, who was an important feature of the Parisian art scene until his suicide in 1930 at the...
EDITORIALS
Feb 5, 2015

Better life for dementia sufferers

The government, which recently adopted a new strategy for measures against dementia, needs to follow through on the idea of ensuring a better quality of life for patients by heeding the wishes of sufferers and their families.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 16, 2015

Fukushima meltdowns pervade Korean debate on extending reactor life

South Korea's nuclear regulator may decide as soon as today whether to extend the operating license for the Wolsong No. 1 nuclear reactor, the first to come up for renewal since the 2011 Fukushima disaster in neighboring Japan.
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BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 19, 2014

Cubans imagine new, more prosperous life without old foe to the north

From bus drivers to bartenders and ballet dancers, many Cubans are already imagining a more prosperous future after the United States said it will put an end to 50 years of conflict with the communist-run island.
Reader Mail
Dec 17, 2014

Move toward a sustainable life

Consideration of Michael J. Boskin's Nov. 22 article, "The next trade breakthroughs," encourages my opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Keizai, the Japanese counterpart for the word "economy," originally meant managing the state and supporting people's lives — not making money.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Nov 26, 2014

Life's the star in new 'Constellations'

As the third play in its series titled Drama for Two — The Power of Dialogue, the New National Theatre, Tokyo, is set to stage acclaimed English playwright Nick Payne's two-hander quantum love story "Constellations" for a three-week run from Dec. 3.
LIFE / Travel / TRAVEL INSIDER
Oct 14, 2014

Bonus mile opportunity; flight notifications; celebrating travel, life

Bonus mile opportunity
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Oct 11, 2014

A perilous flight path of life and death

As I emerged into the pre-dawn darkness of Sept. 13, I was greeted by a brief flicker of movement. I wandered along one of the upper decks of The World, past the gently slopping pool with its ring of still-vacant sun loungers. I peered at the surprisingly real potted bushes, staring at their dense green...
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JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Sep 27, 2014

Tales from the city show cracks in the system

Why are people unhappy? Think back to just about any historical period you like, from the remote past to times within living memory; imagine people then looking at us now and saying, "How dare you be unhappy? You haven't earned the right!"
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 18, 2014

Comfy life amid stagnation

While information and communications technologies have increased the conveniences and comforts of life in Japan to an unprecedented level, the nation's economy remains stagnant, partly because of the saturation of the auto market.

Longform

A mushroom cloud from the atomic bombing on Hiroshima taken from a U.S. military aircraft on Aug. 6, 1945. Copying the photo without permission is prohibited.
80 years on, a Japanese American hibakusha recalls the day the bomb dropped