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CULTURE / Film
Apr 19, 2017

Roger Pulvers challenges the idea of a hero in directorial debut, 'Star Sand'

Roger Pulvers has had the sort of free-ranging, multifaceted career that seems like a dream in this specialized age, when academics labor in their narrow professional silos.
EDITORIALS
Apr 18, 2017

Will casinos fuel addiction to gambling?

As the benefits of casinos were played up, their potential social cost was never seriously taken up in Diet discussions, including whether casinos would exacerbate gambling addiction and how that could be prevented.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 18, 2017

Time for a real passenger bill of rights

Americans have been mad as hell. Now, it seems, they're not going to take it anymore.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Apr 17, 2017

Japan's private schools fill a niche but at a cost

The saga of scandal-plagued, Osaka-based Moritomo Gakuen, which advocated a nationalist education, has thrown the spotlight on private educational institutions in Japan and how they are operated.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Apr 17, 2017

Carp fireballer Jackson keeping eyes firmly on prize

Jay Jackson went through a lot in 2016. The reliever pitched in more games than he ever had in his professional career and experienced the highs of helping the Hiroshima Carp win the Central League pennant and the lows of falling short in the Japan Series.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 17, 2017

Behind Malaysia's recent rape controversy

Malaysia has increasingly seen its image as a moderate, tolerant and secular society tainted as hard-line Islamists try to impose their own brand of Shariah law on the country.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / ON: TECH
Apr 16, 2017

Technological fun for the home

Gadget maker Cerevo has taken advantage of the hype surrounding this month's release of the Hollywood version of 'Ghost in the Shell' by producing a 1/8 scale robot model of the original anime's AI combat-vehicle Tachikoma.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Apr 15, 2017

Asuka Takita: Veterinarian embraces life on the African plains

The king of the jungle is among the many acquaintances of Japan-born Asuka Takita since she made Kenya her home almost a decade ago.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Apr 15, 2017

Noz by T.Y. Farm brings 'seed to table' ethos to Tokyo

Futoshi Ota has lofty goals for Noz, a new restaurant that brings the grand vision of his company one step closer to reality.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Apr 15, 2017

Path: Covering breakfast and brunch through dinner with panache

It's not hard for a restaurant to generate buzz. All it takes is a strong design, cool music — on vinyl, of course — and some hot PR. But to maintain that level of vibrancy, it needs to be good. It also helps if it's a bit special, and Path qualifies on all counts.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Apr 14, 2017

Potent Hiroshima lineup tearing up Central League in early going

The Hiroshima Carp look unstoppable. That's a bit hyperbolic this early in the year, yes, but it doesn't feel that way when the Carp have been busy taking apart opposing pitching staffs after falling behind by a run or two.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 14, 2017

British startup hopes to cut plastic waste with innovative water balls

Small transparent spheres filled with natural or flavored water could help provide a solution to London's plastic waste problem, according to the startup company based in the British capital that manufactures them.
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 14, 2017

Scientists invent device that draws water from thin air

People living in arid, drought-ridden areas may soon be able to get water straight from a source that is all around them — the air, American researchers said Thursday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 12, 2017

Hollywood's 'Ghost in the Shell' remake misses the mark

After the online petitions, the countless think pieces and Twitter tirades, Hollywood's "Ghost in the Shell" was never going to have an easy passage. Rupert Sanders' film — a $110 million live-action movie based on a beloved manga and anime property — was ill-fated from the start, tarnished by the...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 12, 2017

Guidelines on supporting preschool children with disabilities under final review

The government's first set of guidelines to help facilities improve services and opportunities for preschool children with disabilities are close to being finalized.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 11, 2017

Toshiba submits unaudited results, raises questions about ability to survive as a company

Embattled Toshiba Corp. said Tuesday its grave financial situation puts it at risk of not being able to survive as a company.
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Apr 11, 2017

Hanyu's legend continues to grow with latest masterpiece

It has been 12 days now since Yuzuru Hanyu's epic free skate at the world championships in Helsinki won him a second title, and rather than receding into the memory banks of our minds, it continues to resonate.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 10, 2017

Two peas in a pod: Duterte in Bangkok

The Thai junta and the fiery Philippine president appear to have found a convergence of interests.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 10, 2017

12 killed as Islamic State wages two suicide attacks on U.S.-backed Syrian rebels on Iraq border

Islamic State militants launched two suicide attacks on U.S.-backed Syrian rebels near the border with Iraq, leaving at least 12 dead in the fighting and many wounded, rebel sources said on Sunday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Apr 8, 2017

Disputatious legacies: examining the historic ties that bind Okinawa and China

Commenting on the pervasiveness of his own culture while on a trip to Indonesia, the Nobel Prize-winning poet Rabindranath Tagore wrote, "I see India everywhere." A traveler to Okinawa today from continental Asia, might well say, "I see China everywhere."

Longform

After the asset-price bubble crash of the early 1990s, employment at a Japanese company was no longer necessarily for life. As a result, a new generation is less willing to endure a toxic work culture —life’s too short, after all.
How Japan's youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic