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EDITORIALS
Feb 4, 2013

Civil court reform

Reform has been the watchword for Japan's criminal courts in recent years. Now there are calls to improve the system for civil trials and court mediation.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Feb 3, 2013

Hidetoshi Masunaga: making revolution through the Constitution

On Dec. 14, 2012, two days before the Lower House election in which the Democratic Party of Japan headed by Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda was eclipsed as the conservative Liberal Democratic Party swept back to power in a landslide, a one-page advert with a huge banner headline appeared in a vernacular...
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 31, 2013

Kaieda lashes LDP on works spending

Democratic Party of Japan leader Banri Kaieda lashed out Wednesday at the massive ¥4.7 trillion public works spending package compiled by the Liberal Democratic Party.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 28, 2013

Abe opens Diet, skips hawkish rhetoric

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe kicks off the 150-day Diet session with a speech focused on the economy rather than his usual right-leaning political rhetoric.
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Jan 28, 2013

Inflation targeting easy to promote, but difficult to achieve without tools

T he government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the Bank of Japan agreed last week to set a 2 percent inflation target to be achieved "as soon as possible." All sorts of issues have been raised, from the dangers of intervening in monetary policy to the waning independence of the central bank, but there...
JAPAN
Jan 25, 2013

Naming slain captives raises privacy issues

The victims' right to privacy was pitted against the public's right to know as the media pressed for the names of the Algerian hostage crisis victims to be disclosed while the government and JGC Corp. remained tight-lipped, but Tokyo finally caved Friday, revealing the identities of the firm's 10 slain...
JAPAN
Jan 25, 2013

Victims and survivors return from Algeria

The bodies of nine of the 10 Japanese killed in the hostage crisis at an Algerian natural gas plant are flown back to Tokyo, along with seven survivors.
JAPAN
Jan 24, 2013

Nine slain hostages being flown home; 10th victim ID'd

The final missing Japanese worker in the hostage crisis at an Algerian natural gas complex is confirmed dead from the remains of various victims taken to Algiers.
JAPAN
Jan 24, 2013

Two more JGC workers in Algeria confirmed dead

Two more Japanese workers are confirmed dead after the hostage crisis in Algeria, bringing the total number of Japanese casualties to nine.
EDITORIALS
Jan 22, 2013

Bloody outcome in Algeria

Algerian special forces on Saturday stormed a natural gas complex in Ain Amenas in the Sahara desert to end the four-day seizure of the facility by Islamic militants who took many workers of various nationalities hostages. Among those taken hostages were employees of JGC Corp., a Yokohama-based major...
JAPAN
Jan 21, 2013

Algeria confirms Japanese hostages killed

An unknown number of Japanese taken hostage at a gas drilling complex were killed or are missing, Algeria tells Tokyo after terminating the Islamic attackers.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 21, 2013

Japan's leaders must see the need for sustaining a fiscal Big Bang

With Japan's stock market surging even before Prime Minister Shinzo Abe unveiled his plans for economic stimulus, we would have expected the usual anti-stimulus critics to be silent, at least for a while. But no. Already we hear the usual complaints — more printing of money, more public debt, more...
JAPAN
Jan 20, 2013

Abe strikes control pose as Japan scrambles for information

With the whereabouts of 10 of the 17 Japanese taken hostage at a gas complex in Algeria still unknown, the government desperately tries to gather more information.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jan 19, 2013

Citizens' woeful social consciousness ensures a bleak outlook for Japan

What is behind the miserable social status of women in Japan?
Living conditions index hits lowest level in 15 years in Japan
The share of respondents to a Bank of Japan quarterly survey in June who said they have become worse off came to 61.0%, up 5.1 percentage points from the previous survey.
Tokyo emerges as a top market for global tech talent
Tokyo ranks among the world's top tech talent hubs alongside Beijing, the San Francisco Bay Area, Bengaluru, Paris, New York and Dublin, according to Colliers' newly released global tech markets report.
From stalking to death threats, female candidates still face harassment
Mayu Ushida, a former NHK newscaster running for election in the Tokyo electoral district on the Democratic Party for the People ticket, signs an autograph for a voter after a public rally at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Tuesday.
CDP leader criticizes ‘Japanese First’ policy and calls for inclusive society
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Yoshihiko Noda said it is obvious that Japanese society could not function without the help of foreign workers in manufacturing, health care, construction and public transportation.
JSA’s 100th anniversary event is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for sumo fans
Egyptian wrestler Osunaarashi has some fun with children during a special Japan Sumo Association event in 2017.
Japan's rice farmers are confounded by Shinjiro Koizumi’s policies
Kiyoshi Shibata stands in front of one of the rice paddies in Murayama, Yamagata Prefecture, where he produces the prefecture's signature rice brand Tsuyahime.
From stalking to death threats, female candidates still face harassment
Mayu Ushida, a former NHK newscaster running for election in the Tokyo electoral district on the Democratic Party for the People ticket, signs an autograph for a voter after a public rally at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Kawaii Lab redefines idol pop for the TikTok generation
Misa Kimura is the main producer for Kawaii Lab, a project by entertainment agency Asobisystem whose groups have found success by pairing a social media-first strategy with a fresh perspective on traditional idol-pop tropes.
Craig Mod's life in motion in a disappearing Japan
Mod's memoir “Things Become Other Things” chronicles his walking trips across the Kii Peninsula, surveying “a graceful end to a certain life cycle.”
With China and Trump, Japan defense report says world entering ‘new era of crisis’
A senior member of a Self-Defense Forces honor guard inspects a formation before the arrival of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for a visit to the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on June 30.

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After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan
By Megha Wadhwa

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