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COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 15, 2015

Japan and India get serious

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to India highlighted the two countries' growing economic and security ties.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 15, 2015

Obama expected to move on Taiwan guided missile frigate sales before year-end

The Obama administration is expected as soon as this week to authorize the sale of two guided missile frigates to Taiwan, U.S. congressional sources said Monday, in spite of China's opposition to the deal.
BUSINESS
Dec 15, 2015

Tightest job market since 1992 may weigh on Japan bonds

The nation's most severe labor shortage in almost quarter of a century will support the central bank's inflation target and weaken appetite for already low-yielding bonds.
Japan Times
JAPAN / INVEST IN ITALY 2015
Dec 15, 2015

Reforms create many new opportunities

Italian Trade Agency (ITA) President Ricardo Monti is actively working to get more companies and individuals to invest in his country.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 14, 2015

Two new Olympic stadium designs unveiled by Japan Sport Council

The Japan Sport Council on Monday unveiled two new stadium designs for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics that blend in better with the greenery-rich Yoyogi area and currently don't break the ¥155 billion budget.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 14, 2015

Putin's newfound prudence

Russia's economic stagnation confronts President Vladimir Putin with a challenge he has never faced: leading the country at a time when there is no light visible at the end of the tunnel.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Dec 14, 2015

Avoid offense by heeding these nengajō do's and don'ts

A recent survey revealed quite a few inconvenient truths about what people like and don't like when it comes to New Year's cards.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Dec 13, 2015

Iron man Tsutsugo still going strong in December

Yoshitomo Tsutsugo has been very busy this year.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Dec 12, 2015

No tolerance at the inns for China's shoppers

Last August, Nikkei Business magazine reported the travails of a businessman from a regional city on a sales trip to Tokyo. His company's accommodation allowance covered a maximum of ¥8,000 per night, but he couldn't find a centrally located hotel room for under ¥20,000.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Dec 12, 2015

[VIDEO] International Robot Exhibition 2015

COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 11, 2015

Secrets law, one year later

The controversial state secret law that took effect last year has already had a chilling effect on the media: no one is even talking about it anymore.
MULTIMEDIA
Dec 11, 2015

[VIDEO] Tokyo Skytree Town Projection Mapping 2015

COMMENTARY / World
Dec 10, 2015

Trump bigotry relies on legal, historical precedent

When it comes to core values, you can never make an exception. Donald Trump's call for a ban against Muslims to enter the U.S. shows why.
EDITORIALS
Dec 10, 2015

A new day dawns for Venezuela

Venezuela's political opposition camp scored a major electoral victory, and now poses a direct threat to the power of Socialist President Nicolas Maduro.
Japan Times
CULTURE
Dec 10, 2015

CNN's Paula Newton: The key to covering other cultures is maintaining 'respect'

The topic of cultural appropriation has been a hot one in 2015, with a kimono display at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts drawing a small protest and a slew of articles that discussed culturally insensitive Halloween costumes. With this in the background, how easy is it to do a show about experiencing...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Dec 9, 2015

Sexual harassment at bōnenkai, inept handling, a suicide

Hokkaido Shimbun case shows how far Japan still has to go to safeguard women's rights in the workplace.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 9, 2015

China, India can drive a renewable revolution

Forget climate change — it just makes economic sense for China and India to embrace renewable energy sources.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 9, 2015

'Straight Outta Compton' is a sanitized biopic of N.W.A's story

In the summer of 1989, wherever you went — every house party, every car stereo, every street corner boom-box — you'd hear the same two tracks shredding the speakers: Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" and N.W.A's "F—- tha Police." It was the summer where rap was shifting gears and breaking wide,...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Dec 9, 2015

Nobel prizes, unlocking universe's mysteries just another day's work at Hamamatsu Photonics

When employees at Hamamatsu Photonics KK found out their high-precision light sensors had helped win this year's Nobel Prize in physics, they treated it just like any other day at the office.
WORLD
Dec 9, 2015

Failure-prone mine-hunting drone seen jeopardizing U.S. Littoral Combat Ship program

The U.S. Navy's new Littoral Combat Ship would be ineffective at hunting for mines because an underwater drone made by Lockheed Martin Corp. that's supposed to find them often fails to work, the Pentagon's weapons-testing office found.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Dec 8, 2015

Kyoto's Palmer brings end to long career in Japan

Kyoto Hannaryz forward David Palmer on Monday revealed that he's decided to retire — effective immediately. He said he made up his mind in early November, citing injuries and various physical ailments as factors that led to this decision.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 8, 2015

'Group Show of Contemporary Artists 2015'

Nov. 26-Dec. 20

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past