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JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Mar 7, 2015

Where will 'proactive pacifism' lead us?

Seventy years after World War II ended, should we be thinking about war or about peace?
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LIFE / Digital / JAPAN WEB WATCH
Mar 7, 2015

Using imported mobile devices may be illegal

Residents of Japan may be shocked to learn they are technically violating the country's Radio Law by connecting computers, smartphones and tablets that have been purchased outside of Japan to domestic WiFi sites.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Mar 7, 2015

Centennial lessons for Abe from the '21 Demands'

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and fellow revisionists prefer to think that Japan's 20th century imperialist aggression has been misunderstood. But on this score they are isolated not only from the international community, but also within Japan.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Mar 7, 2015

Flight of the swan offers natural lesson

Each year the "angels of winter" wing in and out of Japan. They arrive, clamoring, on the gnarled back of autumn storms, their wings and the first snowflakes flurry together as if they, too, are an integral part of the changing season.
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CULTURE / Books
Mar 7, 2015

The problems and pleasure of publishing the horrors of the 3/11 tsunami

At a symposium on "Trauma and Utopia" held in Tokyo in October 2014, photographer Naoya Hatakeyama talked about his work in the aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, a disaster that killed his mother and destroyed his home in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture. During this, he acknowledged...
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CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
Mar 7, 2015

An Artist of the Floating World

Released in 1986, this relatively short novel is dense with ideas and possibilities. Set in Japan in the late 1940s, the story is narrated by Masuji Ono, a celebrated painter who once created propaganda for the Imperial Army. He now finds himself labeled a traitor by the younger generation, a reputation...
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CULTURE / Books
Mar 7, 2015

The Buried Giant

Kazuo Ishiguro's latest novel, "The Buried Giant," is his best book to date. It's a masterpiece of refined storytelling shot through with deep empathy.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Mar 7, 2015

Memories of Mount Qilai: The Education of a Young Poet

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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Mar 7, 2015

Maya Onoda: 'I am inspired by the spontaneity of stains'

Installation artist Maya Onoda on yoga, imagination and the spontaneity of stains
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Mar 7, 2015

Sinister shades

I'm not coming back. Put the bags in the trunk.
Figure Skating
Mar 7, 2015

Higuchi earns bronze medal at world juniors

Wakaba Higuchi earned the bronze medal at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships on Friday night in Tallinn, Estonia.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 7, 2015

Uber ends Fukuoka pilot ride-sharing after government calls halt

Uber Technologies Inc., whose taxi-hailing app faces regulatory challenges globally, shuts down a ride-sharing trial in Fukuoka after the government deems it illegal.
SOCCER / J. League
Mar 7, 2015

Frontale dominate opener against F. Marinos

J. League
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Mar 7, 2015

Tigers' Fujinami may be ready to roar

Shintaro Fujinami was included on Samurai Japan's roster for next week's games against Europe probably because the Hanshin Tigers can give the ball to Randy Messenger, coming off an excellent 2014, or stalwart Atsushi Nomi on opening day. Fujinami is probably the biggest name on the Japan pitching staff,...
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CARTOONS / DAHL'S JAPAN
Mar 7, 2015

Cabinet Of Cards

COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 7, 2015

Electricity and gas deregulation

The Abe administration has readied two bills for finalizing the deregulation of the nation's electricity and city gas businesses, but each bill comes with a rider allowing the delay of implementation if conditions aren't right for the utilities.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 7, 2015

Public investment can bring sustainable growth

The best way to avoid the risk of an extended period of weak economic growth is to fuel productivity growth by improving human capital and innovation through properly targeted public investment.
Reader Mail
Mar 7, 2015

Communication ban shortsighted

Regarding the editorial "Teachers, pupils": Without a doubt, there are sexual predators teaching children in Japan. But to ban essential communication between honest educators and their charges because of the dishonest ones is shortsighted.
Reader Mail
Mar 7, 2015

New aid charter upholds policy

The Feb. 20 editorial "Aid that could foment conflict" misrepresents Japan's new Development Cooperation Charter and does not accurately reflect the position of the government of Japan.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Mar 7, 2015

Nemtsov's friends ask: Where were the police when he was shot?

When Boris Nemtsov was shot dead as he walked across a bridge next to the Kremlin, it took 11 minutes before a police car arrived at the scene, according to the time stamp on closed-circuit television footage.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 7, 2015

Japan, North Korea eye abduction talks in late March

Tokyo and Pyongyang are working to recommence stalled high-level talks on North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 7, 2015

China could struggle to meet 2020 nuclear targets: CNNC exec

China could struggle to meet its 2020 nuclear energy targets with the industry still waiting on a cautious government to speed up the approval process, a senior industry executive said on Saturday.

Longform

Rock group The Yellow Monkey played K-Arena Yokohama in June as part of a nationwide tour. Concerts are increasingly popular in the age of social media as users value in-person experiences.
Inside Japan’s arena boom: Sports, sound and city-building