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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 14, 2017

Time for a Japanese rethink on North Korea?

If and when the U.S. does begin to join South Korea in holding a dialogue with North Korea, Japan will have to quickly ask itself whether limiting its approach to pressure is a good idea
BASKETBALL / B. League
May 20, 2017

Brave Thunders catch fire at right time to beat Alvark for spot in B. League final

For the Kawasaki Brave Thunders and Alvark Tokyo, bonus play was the high-pressure result of Saturday's thrilling B. League Championship semifinal contest at Todoroki Arena.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 14, 2017

BOJ's dilemma between price stability and financial stability

It may be time for the BOJ to provide more reasonable projections about the time by which it can achieve 2 percent inflation.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Mar 31, 2017

Yoronto: A small island with unique culture where time and space expand

The sea is only as blue as the sky permits. Even in the deep southern islands of the Nansei-Shoto, an overcast day can turn the sub-tropics into a mirror image of some of the more relentlessly dreary resort towns of my own country, England. One thinks of the ingloriously named Minehead, the estuary wilderness...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Feb 18, 2017

'Moving Zen' and the modern samurai

"Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought by single thought."
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Feb 18, 2017

Hachimura biding his time with top-ranked Gonzaga

The Gonzaga University men's basketball team is having a remarkable season — one of the best seasons in U.S. college basketball history. And freshman reserve forward Rui Hachimura has been along for the magical ride.
CULTURE / Film
Feb 1, 2017

'The 100th Love With You': Happily stuck in a time-travel groove

Time travel is and will forever be a fantasy, physicists say. But fantasies can tell us more about human longings and dreams than dull facts, can they not? Despite doubting science types, time-travel-themed films have long constituted a thriving, sub-genre in Japan, as they do elsewhere.
BUSINESS / TRAVEL INSIDER
Jan 17, 2017

On-time awards for JAL; new flights for NZ; Emirates adds perks

On-time awards for JAL
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Dec 27, 2016

Time for Mao to change direction or give it up

There is nothing worse than seeing a great athlete that has hung on too long.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 1, 2016

Time to revive arms control efforts in Europe

The West must be united in seeking to avoid an upward spiral of antagonism and confrontation with Russia.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 5, 2016

Time for 'Abexit' in Japan?

As Japan's voters head to the polls they need to reflect on the failure of Abenomics to deliver shock therapy and the need for genuine reform.
MORE SPORTS
Jun 30, 2016

Sprinter Yamagata aims for success at Rio Games

Despite coming up short in the national championships, Olympic-bound sprinter Ryota Yamagata has high expectations for himself at the upcoming Rio de Janeiro Games.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 15, 2016

Chinese spy ship enters Japan's territorial waters for second time since end of WWII

In an aggressive move, a Chinese naval reconnaissance vessel enters waters near Kuchinoerabu Island off Kagoshima Prefecture.
LIFE / Lifestyle
Jan 2, 2016

Postal workers nationwide do whatever it takes to deliver New Year's greetings on time

Waking up on Jan. 1 is a little like waking up on Christmas morning — there's a palpable sense of excitement in the air as you reach into your post box to discover who has (and who hasn't) sent you a New Year's card.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 29, 2015

Time traveling back to the major screwups of 2015

From the fizzling out of Abenomics to China's stock fiasco, here are five of Asia's policy missteps this year.
Reader Mail
Dec 12, 2015

Education for students via part-time jobs

Regarding the editorial "Labor woes of student workers" in the Dec. 4 edition, I felt so sad to read that "students are given excessive workload and duties — sometimes at pay below legal minimum wage — at their part-time jobs and are unable to attend classes or are failing exams because they can't...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 15, 2015

It's time to send 'The Terminator' back to the future

It's a sad day when an empire falls, but as history reminds us, often the fall of an empire has been in the works for some time — it's only the headlines that feel sudden. In this case, the empire is the "Terminator" sci-fi franchise. The tragedy is that we knew the fall was coming when "Terminator...
JAPAN
Jul 14, 2015

People spending more time surfing the Web, less time watching TV

The TV has long been the dominant media source in Japan, but people here, especially younger ones, are now apparently opting to spend more time online instead, according to a recent survey by NHK.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
May 11, 2015

In Japanese, mastery of the space-time continuum is just a few words away

Words in Japanese that describe timing and conditions make it easy for speakers to be incredibly precise using very few words.
CULTURE / Music
May 8, 2015

The quirky sounds of indie music find a voice in Boys Age

Around 50 people are watching Kaznary Mutow of the band Boys Age thrash his guitar on a Friday night at Shimokitazawa club Three. He's in the middle of a 10-minute-plus psychedelic freakout, locked into an intense slow-burning session with drummer Takamasa Kobayashi.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Apr 26, 2015

A bare-knuckle race against time to the Edo Period and back

How in the world did I find myself in the passenger seat as an eager accomplice in a car chase?
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Feb 18, 2015

Time, gentlemen: When it's time to bid sayonara to Japan, what next?

I ask my departing friend the biggest question of all: After decades in Japan, just how does he plan to earn a living back home?
SOCCER
Feb 17, 2015

Reysol triumph in extra time against Thai side Chonburi FC

Brazilian striker Leandro scored a 116th-minute winner to send Kashiwa Reysol into the Asian Champions League group stage after shaking off Thai Premier League side Chonburi FC 3-2 in extra time on Tuesday night.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 6, 2015

Facility offers rare day care for children with special needs

Finding suitable child care facilities is a daunting task for most working families in Japan, but when it comes to children with severe medical problems and disabilities, the options are virtually nil.
CULTURE / Books
Dec 27, 2014

Mishima: sliced from the shackles of time

Henry Scott Stokes, Yukio Mishima's first biographer, once told me that the thing he most remembered about the writer was his exquisite manners — one of those telling details that lend a touch of authenticity to the work of those who knew Mishima personally. Because biographies are such intensely personal...
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Nov 30, 2014

Four-time defending champion Obic Seagulls eliminated from X League title chase

A new era has come to the X League.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LAW OF THE LAND
Oct 15, 2014

Is it time to bid bye-bye to 'haro'?

When was the last time someone Japanese used your presence as an excuse to say 'haro' whilst furtively glancing sideways at their companions to confirm they just made the funniest joke ever?
Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years
The Agency for Cultural Affairs is recommending replacing the government’s long-standing Kunrei system with more widely used Hepburn-style spellings.
Women-only communities flourish in China
Chen Yani (right), nicknamed "Keke," eats lunch with friends and guests in a female co-living space she founded called "Keke's Imaginative Space" in Hangzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, on July 14.
JR East cancels luxury train run over crew's boozing
East Japan Railway said Thursday that it will cancel one trip of a luxury overnight sleeper service, which was originally scheduled to depart from Ueno Station in Tokyo on Aug. 30, after crew members were found to have been drinking alcohol on duty.
Man arrested over deadly stabbing of woman in Kobe
Masashi Tanimoto, 35, the suspect in the deadly stabbing a 24-year-old woman, is taken into custody in Kobe on Friday night.
Japanese city proposes two-hour daily limit for smartphone use
The Toyoake Municipal Government in Aichi Prefecture is planning to enact an ordinance to urge all smartphone users in the city to limit screen time to two hours a day outside work or school.
Alicia Keys closed Summer Sonic, but J-pop owned it
Summer Sonic’s 2025 lineup demonstrated its strength, showcasing the latest in J-pop, including “new kawaii” act Fruits Zipper.
Is the LDP’s catch-all approach to politics still effective?
Former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi visits Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15. Political commentator Toru Hashimoto has suggested that Takaichi ought to lead a group of like-minded hawkish politicians out of the Liberal Democratic Party and form their own party.
Fingers sore from too much phone time? You might have ‘sumaho yubi.’
A catch-all term for tendonitis and arthritis caused by excessive smartphone use, 'sumaho yubi' may be difficult to treat for gadget-crazy Japan.
As farm minister, Koizumi is held ‘hostage’ by Ishiba
Farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi (center) attends a Lower House session on Aug. 1. Locking Koizumi into the Cabinet is Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s way of turning a potential rival into a team player, according to one expert.
Big burgers and bigger ambitions for Japan's Burger King
Kazuhiro Nomura, president of BK Japan Holdings, which operates Burger King in Japan

Podcast

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

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
By Alex K.T. Martin

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