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Japan Times
PRESS / Corporate Trends
Apr 5, 2022

The Japan Times Cube to be media sponsor of JapanCraft21

The Japan Times Cube Inc. (representative director: Minako Suematsu) will act as a media sponsor for JapanCraft21, which strives to pass on traditional Japanese culture to future generations and introduce its beauty and technology both domestically and internationally.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 4, 2022

Asia welcomes travelers, but Japan says, not yet

Countries across region are reopening borders to tourists, but Japan continues to turn them away. And it is not rushing to change things.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 28, 2022

In Lviv, new Russian strikes pierce sense of security in West

Until Saturday, the only target near Lviv that had been hit was an airplane repair factory near the city's airport.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 17, 2022

China's COVID governance under pressure as omicron spreads

In the past 10 weeks, China has reported more new COVID-19 cases than in all of 2021, fueling fears of hard lockdowns of cities and economic instability.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Mar 16, 2022

On Taiwanese island, drills underscore strategic importance and vulnerability

Taiwan held live-fire drills in its northernmost territory on Wednesday, putting the spotlight on a remote island that is strategically located at a chokepoint near China — and potentially vulnerable to attack.
PRESS / Events
Mar 16, 2022

“Designing circular and regenerative models” with Amelia Juhl

The Japan Times Cube Inc. (representative director: Minako Suematsu) launched Roundtable by The Japan Times, a series of talk events broadcasted in Japan.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 28, 2022

Pyeongchang still waiting to reap benefits of 2018 Winter Olympics

'The reality is very different from what was promised to us. Back then, locals here expected the Olympics to affect us a lot.”
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 27, 2022

New research points to Wuhan market as pandemic origin

Two new studies represent a significant salvo in the debate over the origins of a pandemic that has killed nearly 6 million people and sickened 400 million more.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 25, 2022

Teshikaga Extreme Cold Art Festival: ‘A place created by gods and artists’

The annual event, which takes place in Japan's coldest onsen town, finds inspiration in the dramatic natural beauty of Hokkaido winters.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Feb 20, 2022

Theater Commons Tokyo rethinks the 'voices' of performing arts in the COVID era

The festival examines radically different ways of creating and experiencing theater in the context of the pandemic, while also challenging the very idea of what theater can be.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Feb 19, 2022

Hong Kong's 'COVID zero' success now worsens strains of omicron spike

Like an immune system overreacting and harming the person it is meant to protect, the 'dynamic COVID zero' policies that had crushed the virus in Hong Kong have contributed to current woes.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Feb 17, 2022

‘Woman Running in the Mountains’ carries on the literary legacy of Yuko Tsushima

Geraldine Harcourt's road to translating Yuko Tsushima's stories parallels the writer's artistic conceits: a fiercely independent woman determined to construct her own path.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Feb 13, 2022

‘Of Arcs and Circles’: Step into the fertile imagination of a garden expert

Landscape artist Marc Peter Keane's collection of essays experiments with form and offers practical observations as well as metaphysical musings.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Feb 12, 2022

Unpacking the marvelous harmony of Japanese tableware

Musubi Kiln explores the beauty of ceramics and lacquerware via engaging back stories.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 10, 2022

Japan warms up to the potential of cryptocurrencies

Mitsui & Co. is planning a cryptocurrency linked to the yen-denominated price of one gram of gold.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Feb 6, 2022

A surging population brings risks for next host of global climate talks

Every child comes with its blessing, the Egyptian saying goes. With the country's population now soaring beyond 100 million, that adage is being put to the test like never before.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Feb 1, 2022

A photographer to the stars takes up in Tokyo

There are billions of unique individuals in the world. Matthew Jordan Smith says if you want to stand out as a photographer, you need to fine-tune your vision.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hokkaido
Jan 31, 2022

Hokkaido towns seek coexistence with foreign workers

Municipalities are coming up with ideas to welcome newcomers as members of communities while also trying to stop young people from leaving their hometowns.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 28, 2022

For Olympic sponsors, ‘China is an exception’

The U.S. and a handful of other nations may have declared a 'diplomatic boycott” of the Winter Games, but some of the world's most famous brands will still be there.
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Jan 24, 2022

A shinkansen to space (and other news found beneath the sofa)

While you may have done a 'big clean' around your house at New Year's, there are still a few news stories that our writer would like to tidy up.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jan 23, 2022

Exploring the poetry of an exiled emperor on the Oki Islands

Go-Toba, Japan's 82nd emperor, used his time in exile to advance the ancient poetic form known as waka.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / Longform
Jan 17, 2022

Beneath the surface: Are Japan’s iconic hot-spring resources sustainable?

The public and private use of hot springs is leaving a significant imprint on the environment.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / THE LIVING PAST
Jan 16, 2022

A tragic narrative for women persists even as times change

A Heian Period text reads, 'Ladies must often depend on men who are nothing to them — it is the way of the world.' In Japanese literature, not much has changed.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 15, 2022

Artists put brush to ink at calligraphy show

The Dokuritsu Shojindan Foundation is holding its annual sho (Japanese calligraphy) exhibition, the 70th Dokuritsu Sho Exhibition, in the National Art Center, Tokyo in Minato Ward this month to celebrate the new year. The spacious venue is filled with thousands of expressive works consisting of stark...
Japan Times
CULTURE / TV & Streaming
Jan 15, 2022

‘The Mating Game’: NHK's 8K nature series reveals all

The national broadcaster's 5-episode natural history series, which follows the courting rituals of 80 species in 22 different countries, is the first of its kind to be shot entirely in 8K.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 14, 2022

Inside Taiwan's brutal navy frogman bootcamp

Of the group of 31 who started the 10 week course, only 15 finished, with the closing week at the sprawling Zuoying navy base in southern Taiwan being the last test.
MORE SPORTS
Jan 12, 2022

In pursuit of perfection, 'King' Kohei created pure art

Kohei Uchimura thrived in an era where difficult routines were key to winning gymnastics titles, but his memorable artistic qualities were a critical component of his enormous success.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jan 4, 2022

Shopping through social-media platforms expected to hit $1.2 trillion by 2025: study

More than half of so-called social buyers surveyed said they are likely to support small businesses over larger retailers.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Dec 21, 2021

Jhye Richardson happy to play a cameo in Australia's Ashes domination

Playing his first test in nearly three years after a prolonged recovery from a shoulder problem, Richardson conceded that he had struggled.
Luxury Tokyo penthouse sold for over $65 million in new record
Sales of luxury properties in Tokyo, like Azabudai Hills’ Aman Residences, have pushed up average real estate prices in the capital.
Bags of rice at half price will hit stores by early June, Koizumi says
Farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi visits a supermarket to check the prices of rice on Friday in Koto.
U.S. Marine arrested for Okinawa hit-and-run that injured four
Members of the Okinawa Prefectural Police and the U.S. military conduct a joint patrol in the city of Okinawa in April. Prefectural police arrested a U.S. Marine for an alleged hit-and-run case on Sunday.
Ukraine's key allies no longer limiting range of weapons, Germany's Merz says
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz takes part in a discussion during the opening of the 'Re:publica 25' digital conference in Berlin on Tuesday.
Even Nippon Steel is unsure about what a ‘partnership’ with U.S. Steel means
A United States Steel plant in River Rouge, Michigan. The guessing game continues as to what a "partnership" between Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel, as announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, actually entails.
Even Nippon Steel is unsure about what a ‘partnership’ with U.S. Steel means
A United States Steel plant in River Rouge, Michigan. The guessing game continues as to what a "partnership" between Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel, as announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, actually entails.
Eagle nest discovery sparks opposition to megasolar project
The white-tailed eagle's wintering grounds include Hokkaido, northern Honshu, the Russian coast, the southern Kamchatka Peninsula and the Kuril Islands.
Fighters already showing last season's playoff run was no fluke
Fighters starter Hiromi Ito pitches against the Hawks in Fukuoka on April 29.
A moving meditation: Finding serenity in tea ceremony across space and time
Drawn to tea ceremony while volunteering at a Japanese garden in Phoenix, Arizona, Michele Laudig (right) came to learn a “common language of movement and ritual” that brought her into new communities in New York City and Tokyo.

Podcast

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

Longform

Construction equipment sits idle in a park near Shiba Toshogu shrine in Tokyo's Minato Ward. While Japan has a history of treating its trees with reverence, green coverage is said to be lacking in most of the major cities.
Do Japan's trees no longer occupy the sacred space they used to?
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