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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 9, 2017

U.S. curbs travel and trade with Cuba in move seen as hypocritical as communist China fetes Trump

The U.S. government made it tougher on Wednesday for Americans to book trips to and do business with Cuba, making good on a pledge by President Donald Trump to roll back his Democratic predecessor's move toward warmer ties with Havana.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 9, 2017

Apple seen eying 2018 iPad revamp to add facial recognition, but OLED screen unlikely

Apple Inc. is working on a redesigned, high-end iPad for as early as 2018 that incorporates key iPhone X features such as slimmer edges and facial recognition, according to people familiar with the matter.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / Taking the Lead
Nov 5, 2017

Yoshiharu Hoshino: Inn innovator's winning formula born from bubble's crash

Yoshiharu Hoshino describes his experience taking over the reins of his century-old family business in 1991 as a "hard landing."
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 5, 2017

High-tech tracker used in battle against ancient wheat plague

The tracking technology that was used to halt the deadly Ebola and Zika viruses could now be turned against wheat rust as scientists try new ways to stop the fungus from devastating grain crops around the world.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / HOME TRUTHS
Nov 5, 2017

A gut feeling that you need an extra toilet

Everybody knows that Japan produces the most technologically advanced toilets in the world. They pretty much do everything except pull up your pants when you're finished. And one of the more pleasant surprises greeting foreign visitors to Japan is the ubiquity and accessibility of public toilets.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 5, 2017

Corporate cash can make Japan great again

Today's record cash surplus allows for tomorrow's decoupling from the normal business cycle.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 3, 2017

I, the jury: Trump says NYC truck attack suspect deserves death penalty in remark seen as prejudicial

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday reiterated his call that the Uzbek immigrant accused of killing eight people by speeding a rental truck down a New York City bike path should get the death penalty.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 26, 2017

Wanted: A better defense of modern-day capitalism

Capitalism is taking on new forms in the 21st century, and the old arguments to defend it no longer have any relevance.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 23, 2017

Australia to spend up to $195 million housing refugees after PNG detention center closes

Australia will spend up to 250 million Australia dollars ($195 million) housing nearly 800 refugees and asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea for the next 12 months after its controversial detention center closes this month.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / ON: GAMES
Oct 22, 2017

Fun with zombies, kaiju and Mario in your living room

Hungry for a new PSVR experience?
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 18, 2017

Airbus stake in Bombardier C Series jet seen putting Boeing in catch-up mode

Airbus SE's acquisition of a majority stake in Bombardier Inc.'s C Series plane threatens to leave Boeing Co. trailing in a looming race to develop a new generation of more advanced short-haul jets.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / Taking the Lead
Oct 16, 2017

Ippudo ramen chain credits its global success to localized tastes

Toshiyuki Kiyomiya likes to compare ramen to a carefully arranged universe in a bowl.
BUSINESS
Oct 14, 2017

Balance of power: Shift toward renewable energy appears to be picking up steam

Five years ago, Japan introduced a feed-in tariff system in a bid to promote the introduction of renewable energy on a large scale following the collapse of public trust in nuclear power due to the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, and subsequent triple meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 14, 2017

Shake Shack experiments with automated order kiosks in U.S.

Beloved burger chain Shake Shack recently announced plans to use automated kiosks in lieu of employees to take orders at its new Astor Place location in New York.
EDITORIALS
Oct 12, 2017

'Modinomics' stumbles

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's high-handed governing style has made India's economic missteps even worse.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 3, 2017

Entrepreneurs a dying breed?

Maybe America is no longer a 'Shark Tank' nation' after all.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / How the visual arts shaped Japan's modern literature
Sep 30, 2017

How the visual arts shaped Japan's modern literature

Early on in Natsume Soseki's 1908 campus novel "Sanshiro" — one of the most important expositions of the inter-connectedness of visual and literary art ever written — a young scientist, Nonomiya, looks up at a long, thin, white cloud floating diagonally in the sky.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League / B. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Sep 28, 2017

Challenge awaits Hasegawa in Tochigi

What impact will Kenji Hasegawa make for the defending champion Tochigi Brex in his first season at the helm?
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League
Sep 28, 2017

Nagoya's Burrell key for team in transition

Justin Burrell has distinguished himself as one of the elite basketball players in Japan this decade.
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2017

Abe trots out tax hike issue again before snap election to boost LDP chances

The controversy over increasing the consumption tax won't be unfamiliar to those who follow modern Japanese politics, as earlier proposals have proven unpopular with voters throughout the postwar years and have even doomed previous administrations.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Sep 26, 2017

The illusion that China's economy is in good shape

The risk of China's economy plummeting toward the end of the year should not be discounted.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Sep 23, 2017

A ruff guide to Seeing Eye dogs in Japan

Ariel is a devoted labrador. Named after the title character in Disney's "The Little Mermaid," Ariel can’t get enough of her user, 37-year-old Kanako Suzuki. Ariel rolls on her back, begging to be petted, and when Suzuki joins her on the floor, the animal jumps onto her lap — all 24 kilograms of...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 22, 2017

Nuclear experts head to China to test experimental reactors

With scientists from Western nations finding it difficult to raise enough money to build experimental plants at home, China is becoming the testing ground for a new breed of nuclear power stations designed to be safer and cheaper.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Sep 16, 2017

Taste test: Does the future of meat lie in a lab?

Biochemist Yuki Hanyu's vision for the future includes a supermarket that has plenty of meat, none of which has come from a farm. Instead, it has all been grown in a laboratory.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 13, 2017

Apple bets on augmented reality to sell iPhone X — its most expensive handset yet

Apple Inc. has packed its new-model, top of the line iPhone with augmented reality (AR) features, betting the nascent technology will persuade consumers to pay premium prices for its products even as cheaper alternatives abound.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 7, 2017

U.N. weighs U.S. push for North Korea oil embargo, textile export ban

The United States wants the U.N. Security Council to impose an oil embargo on North Korea, ban the country's exports of textiles and the hiring of North Korean laborers abroad, and subject leader Kim Jong Un to an asset freeze and travel ban, according to a draft resolution seen by Reuters on Wednesday....
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 6, 2017

China's troublesome civil-military relations

President Xi Jinping is still struggling to assert full civil control over China's politically ascendant military.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 1, 2017

Salvage best parts of TPP for future trade agreements

The best achievements of the Trans-Pacific Partnership don't have to be lost.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 31, 2017

Miho Hazama will celebrate 100 years of jazz at Tokyo Jazz Festival performance

Japanese audiences are renowned as some of the world's most respectful listeners, but for musicians accustomed to getting more raucous receptions elsewhere, the experience can be a little unnerving.
China warns citizens not to visit Japan as row over Taiwan heats up
Chinese tourists wear kimonos as they visit Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Saturday.
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.
China warns of military response if Japan intervenes in Taiwan contingency
Representatives from the Japan Innovation Party hand over a proposal to designate Xue Jian, the Chinese consul-general in Osaka, as persona no grata, to a staff of the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Wednesday.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
Japan may triple departure tax to tackle overtourism
A plane takes off from Haneda Airport.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
Stablecoins: Boring goes big, and now in Japan
Noritaka Okabe, CEO of JPYC, acknowledges a number of potential risks related to stablecoins.
Shohei Ohtani collects fourth MVP Award with 2025 NL honor
The Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani was named National League MVP for the second straight season on Thursday.
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.
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.

Podcast

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

Longform

An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
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