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COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 19, 2018

Asia's metropolises against North Korea

Mega-cities must play a central role in helping to avoid conflict and defuse tension.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Jan 19, 2018

Famed producer Tetsuya Komuro quits music industry over alleged affair

Music producer Tetsuya Komuro said Friday he will retire from the industry following a recent magazine report about his alleged extramarital affair with a nurse.
Reader Mail
Jan 19, 2018

Compassion in the Year of the Dog

I fully agree with the statement in the article "New year, new chances: What to expect in the Year of the Dog" in the Dec. 31 edition that "faithful, intelligent, warm and full of energy, the dog has long held its place as man's best friend."
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 18, 2018

Prime Minister Abe and Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull meet in Tokyo and agree to boost defense ties

The leaders agreed to bolster cooperation to ensure a “free, open, stable and prosperous Indo-Pacific region” built on a “rule-based order,” effectively endorsing Japan's strategy to keep China in check.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 18, 2018

Time ticks closer to nuclear midnight

Last week's false ballistic missile warning gave the world its first glimpse of what the start of a nuclear war might feel like as political tensions turned to real-life panic. As time ticks away, can catastrophe be averted?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 17, 2018

Japan-EU trade agreement is about freedom

The Japan-EU FTA sends a powerful sign that U.S. retrenchment on trade will not see the democratic world abandoning the open, rules-based trading system.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 17, 2018

Special counsel subpoenas Trump ex-aide Steve Bannon to testify in Russia probe: NYT

President Donald Trump's former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, has been subpoenaed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller to testify before a grand jury in a probe into alleged ties between Russia and Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 16, 2018

Japan's strategy in the Trump era

How might Tokyo deal with a tilt toward isolationism in the U.S.?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jan 16, 2018

Three's never a crowd for Kitty, Daisy & Lewis

British sibling trio Kitty, Daisy & Lewis are discussing why their fourth album "Superscope" is their most upbeat yet. "I think you just get bored of moaning all the time, don't you?" says Daisy, 29. "Going on about love and 'poor old me,' that kind of thing can get boring."
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Jan 16, 2018

Plan for joint Olympics team with North gets icy reception in South Korea

While Seoul forges ahead with plans to use the upcoming Winter Olympics to showcase inter-Korean unity, some South Korean athletes are "furious" at proposals to form joint teams with North Koreans, highlighting a broader lack of enthusiasm for some of the government's peace-making plans.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 15, 2018

Mizuho hires GIB Capital banker for Saudi Arabia expansion

Mizuho Financial Group Inc. hired GIB Capital LLC banker Khalid Al Ghamdi to head its Saudi Arabia business as the bank seeks to expand in the kingdom.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 15, 2018

North Korea agrees to send orchestra to South as Pyongyang's harsh words cast cloud over Olympic talks

Pyongyang and Seoul agreed Monday to send a 140-member orchestra to South Korea for next month's Pyeongchang Winter Olympics and hold concerts in Seoul, just a day after the North laid into South Korean President Moon Jae-in for pushing the nuclear issue and what it called a "brown-nosing attitude."...
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 15, 2018

Israel says it destroyed Hamas-dug tunnel running under border with Egypt

Israel said on Sunday it had destroyed a cross-border attack tunnel that ran from Gaza into Israel and Egypt dug by Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the Palestinian enclave, and that it would destroy all attack tunnels by year's end.
BASKETBALL / B. League
Jan 14, 2018

Hometown hero Shintaro Kobayashi steals the show at B. League All-Star Game in Kumamoto

The players didn't take themselves too seriously during the second annual B. League All-Star Game.
EDITORIALS
Jan 14, 2018

A failing grade for universities' entrance exams

Serious errors involving university entrance exams are growing far too common.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 14, 2018

Why we need to talk about a bubble

The prolonged program of quantitative easing has sent asset prices soaring, even if traditional signs of inflation are muted.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 13, 2018

Chinese trade with North Korea dropped 50 percent last month

China's trade with North Korea shrank by more than half last month, as Beijing implements United Nations sanctions against Kim Jong Un's nuclear weapons program.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 12, 2018

Japan's quiet #MeToo movement says everything

As the #MeToo movement spans the globe, Japan is conspicuous for a relative silence, particularly where it matters most.
Reader Mail
Jan 12, 2018

No legal basis for marines in Okinawa

Article 6 of the Japan-U.S. security treaty stipulates the U.S. forces that can be stationed in Japan are the army, navy and air force. The U.S. Marines are deployed in Japan (Okinawa) as a cog of the U.S. Navy on the basis of this provision. But can the marines really be considered the navy?
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jan 12, 2018

Nigeria holds mass burial for 73 killed in clashes between farmers and herdsmen seeking fertile land

Seventy-three people killed since the start of the year in communal violence between semi-nomadic herdsmen and farmers were buried in Nigeria on Thursday highlighting a bloody conflict over fertile land that is taking on political significance.
Millions told to evacuate as heavy rain sparks flooding and landslides in Kyushu
Heavy rain falls in the city of Kumamoto on Monday morning.
Osaka Expo ticket sales exceed break-even point
Visitors to the Osaka Expo line up for pavilions on Friday.
Chinese vessels collide while pursuing Philippine boat in South China Sea
This handout video grab released and taken on August 11, 2025 by the Philippine Coast Guard shows an incident between a Chinese Navy vessel (left) and a Chinese Coast Guard ship as seen from a Philippine fisheries boat near Scarborough Shoal in the disputed South China Sea.
Britain’s Prince of Wales aircraft carrier makes Japan debut
HMS Prince of Wales arrives into the Port of Darwin, Australia, in July during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2025.
Japan's Nikkei 225 hits record high on tariff and rate optimism
Stocks in Tokyo rallied on Tuesday despite months of uncertainty and general economic concerns.
Osaka Expo highlights the challenge of holding events in Japan's scorching summer
People huddle near a large fan blowing icy-cold mist at the Osaka Expo on July 12. Amid Japan's relentless summer heat, organizes have put myriad measures in place in order to keep guests safe.
At Himawari Shokudo 2, Italian food with a Japanese soul
At Himawari Shokudo 2, chef Hozumi Tanaka serves Italian-inspired fare with a focus on Toyama produce, such as this appetizer of lightly blanched "hotaru ika" (firefly squid) served atop mixed wild plants and a crepe prepared from "yamato-imo" yam.
Cheer with caution: Expert advises sports fans have game plan for extreme heat
A Cardinals fan fans himself during the seventh inning of a game against the Pirates in St. Louis, Missouri, in June 2022.
Australia's warship selection signals Japanese defense industry's arrival
The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mogami-class frigate. Australia's selection of an upgraded version of the Mogami-class warship for its next frigate class could prove to be a watershed moment for Japan’s defense industry.
Japan's inheritance tax is high, unforgiving and sometimes avoidable
The National Tax Agency at the Ministry of Finance, Kasumigaseki, Tokyo. Japanese tax authorities can bill foreign residents in Japan for assets inherited globally.

Podcast

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

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Koichi Tagawa’s diary entry from Aug. 9, 1945, describes the day of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
The horrors of Nagasaki, in first person
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