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JAPAN
Sep 14, 2016

Fan club formed to promote Fukushima produce

Nearly 5½ years after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, a fan club was launched last week with an ambitious membership goal: gain 200,000 members by 2020 and boost the region's products in the process.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 14, 2016

U.S., Israel to sign record military aid deal

The United States and Israel have agreed on a record $38 billion package of U.S. military aid and will sign the pact on Wednesday, enshrining defense funding for Washington's closest Middle East ally for the next decade, officials said.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 13, 2016

Why burkini bans are unwise

Using bans to force immigrants to assimilate isn't the best way to integrate them into mainstream society.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Sep 12, 2016

Can Japanese speakers really read Chinese? It depends on what you mean by 'read'

Will acquiring the ability to read Japanese give you some degree of literacy in Chinese? Well, it could at least give you a head start.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 12, 2016

Japan braces for possibility of another North Korean nuclear test

The Abe administration is still weighing the timing of fresh sanctions over the latest detonation.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 12, 2016

The illiberal international

Will the marriage of messianic and opportunistic populism spread across the EU, or remain confined to Central Europe
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Sep 12, 2016

Aichi firm mining used gadgets to make Tokyo Olympic medals

Renet Japan Group Inc., a major dealer in second-hand goods based in Obu, Aichi Prefecture, is stepping up efforts to collect and recycle mobile phones and computers so it can forge Olympic medals out of recycled goods.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 12, 2016

North Korea ready for another nuclear test, report says

North Korea has completed preparations for another nuclear test, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Monday, citing South Korean government sources who said the North may use a previously unused tunnel at its mountainous test site.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 11, 2016

South Korean plan to kill Kim likely to reinforce North's view that nukes are needed: experts

In the wake of Pyongyang's fifth and biggest nuclear test Friday, the South Korean military is reportedly touting the value of so-called decapitation strikes on the North Korean leadership.
WORLD
Sep 11, 2016

North Korea says Obama's push for sanctions is 'highly laughable'

North Korea said Sunday that the United States' push for sanctions following its fifth nuclear test is "laughable" and the country will continue to strengthen its nuclear power.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Sep 10, 2016

Godzilla hits middle age but is still fueled by Japan's anxieties

Within one month of its July release, Toho's "Shin Gojira" ("Godzilla Resurgence") attracted more than 3.6 million viewers. Box-office takings are already estimated to have surpassed ¥5.3 billion, putting the film more than halfway toward the seldom-attained figure of ¥10 billion. Toho has great expectations...
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Sep 10, 2016

Anrealage gets real in Tokyo's Omotesando

Anrealage gets real in Omotesando
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 9, 2016

The forces behind Beijing's South China Sea claims

Beijing uses external foes to divert the public's attention away from China's domestic woes.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 9, 2016

Idemitsu scion's defiance imperils $1.7 billion refinery merger

In Japan's carefully choreographed corporate world, public power struggles are generally frowned upon. Shosuke Idemitsu, 89, apparently doesn't roll that way.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 8, 2016

Obama's Syria policy stokes smoldering conflicts

The Kurds and Turks who were meeting in 2012 are now in each other's crosshairs, and the Obama administration is stuck in yet another Middle Eastern quagmire.
BUSINESS
Sep 8, 2016

New iPhones to include Suica-friendly pay system in Japan from next month

STAFF REPORT, KYODO
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 7, 2016

The delicate notes of 'Someone's Xylophone'

Japanese directors now routinely do dozens of media interviews to publicize their new films, especially if they are on the indie end of the spectrum. The stars of said films also sit down with the press, if not as commonly, but though I have been writing about local film folk since 1991, an interview...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 6, 2016

Japan's TOP museum sees the big picture

After being closed for two years for major renovations, Tokyo's best-known photography museum in Tokyo's fashionable Ebisu neighborhood reopened on Sept. 3, just in time to celebrate its 20-year anniversary. The venerable facility now boasts a new look, improved exhibition spaces and a new name in English:...
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 6, 2016

In getting rich, Myanmar can't forget its poor

Aung San Suu Kyi's handling of a huge special economic project will be a crucial test of her government's commitment to social justice.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Sep 5, 2016

English heads for elementary school in 2020 but hurdles abound

The Japanese school system's English-teaching regimen will undergo a major revamp in the near future as the government tries to nurture more worldly talent in an age of globalization.

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