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EDITORIALS
Nov 25, 2015

Ramifications of Osaka elections

Osaka Ishin no Kai's big win in Sunday's elections had national repercussions, but it still needs to work with the opposition to get anything done at the local level.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Nov 25, 2015

Japanese woman wins BBC newcomer comedy award

Japanese stand-up comedienne Yuriko Kotani won this year's BBC Radio New Comedy Award for aspiring comics last Friday, beating five other finalists at the Comedy Store in London with a five-minute act blending humor and sarcasm.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Nov 25, 2015

U.S. developing new tools of economic war against the Islamic State

Since last month, U.S. warplanes have struck the Islamic State group's oil infrastructure in Syria in a stepped-up campaign of economic warfare that the United States estimates has cut the group's black-market earnings from oil by about a third.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Nov 24, 2015

Guillem bids adieu to her life of dance

Superstar dancer Sylvie Guillem has come full circle.
CULTURE / Stage
Nov 24, 2015

Japan's top ballerina recalls times shared with French star

'Sylvie's retirement fills me with deep emotion. She is truly a ballerina who appears only once in 100 years.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 23, 2015

China uses flamethrower to hunt Xinjiang 'terrorists'

Chinese forces used a flamethrower to force more than 10 "terrorists" from a cave in the western Xinjiang region, the military's top newspaper said Monday, in a graphic account of the hunt for what Beijing called foreign-led extremists.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 23, 2015

Islamic State is an existential threat to the West

Western leaders are wrong: Islamic State does pose an existential threat.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 23, 2015

Islamic State main foe and Russia must realize Assad must go, Obama says

U.S. President Barack Obama said Russia must make a strategic decision about Syria and the next several weeks will show whether Russian President Vladimir Putin will give up backing the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad to join in a broad campaign against Islamic State.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 23, 2015

Fearing Syrian terrorist 'Trojan horse' among refugees, Trump OK with return to waterboarding

Donald Trump, the leading Republican contender for U.S. president, says he would return to strong interrogation techniques such as waterboarding if he were elected because their severity pales against Islamic State practices.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 22, 2015

Higher education badly in need of a spending boost

The global rankings of Japanese universities will keep falling unless more money is spent to improve the quality of higher education.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 22, 2015

'Brotherhood of crime' to stand trial for Vatican leaks

The Vatican said Saturday it has charged five people over a damning leaks scandal at the heart of the Catholic Church, accusing the alleged ringleaders of forming a "brotherhood of crime."
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Nov 21, 2015

The Hiroshima art triangle: a space to get lost in thought

'It's Tokyo minus the stress." That's how one Japanese colleague described Hiroshima to us shortly after my wife, Angeles, and I arrived here, near the end of the last millennium. So, what's its secret? Well, there's its size for a start. And having six rivers flowing through it certainly helps. But,...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Nov 21, 2015

Press gets tense over possible terrorism in Tokyo

Look around, if you will, for a waste receptacle on any station platform in the Tokyo metropolitan area; you won't find one. Their disappearance, a precautionary measure against urban terrorism, can be dated to the immediate aftermath of the nerve gas attack on the city's subway system by members of...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Nov 21, 2015

Yasuo Hazaki: 'You should always have your own ambition'

Team tag creator on humor, communication and dancing fools
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Nov 21, 2015

U.S. manager Randolph finding recipe for success at Premier 12

Willie Randolph won two World Series titles as a player for the New York Yankees and earned four more rings as a coach with the club. The U.S. squad he's led to the Premier 12 final doesn't have nearly the pedigree of those teams, but the 61-year-old skipper is as proud of this group, made up of minor...
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 21, 2015

Tapped phone led Paris attack leader to his death

Police watched the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks being led by a woman into an apartment the evening before both died there in a raid by special forces, a police source said on Friday.
CULTURE / Music
Nov 20, 2015

Ride's long road back to the stage

'I'd never seen anything like it!" says Ride frontman Mark Gardener as he recalls the first time the recently reformed shoegaze pioneers stepped foot on Japanese soil.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Nov 20, 2015

Motor-mouthed comedian returns; nursing drama; CM of the week: Taisho Pharmaceutical

Last year, TBS cancelled "Karakuri TV," hosted by motor-mouthed comedian Sanma Akashiya. "Karakuri" lasted 22 years and was considered the progenitor of the talk-based variety show. It was also the first Japanese series to popularize funny home videos.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 20, 2015

Putin wants victory against IS, not detente

Putin wants to win the war against Islamic State and be acknowledged as the leader who brought about victory.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 20, 2015

In the deep end: Japan pitches its submarines to Australia

Less than two years after lifting a decades-old ban on arms exports, Japan is navigating one of the most complex and sensitive areas of the defense market: submarines.
JAPAN
Nov 19, 2015

Education board member calls for more prenatal screening to reduce 'burden' of disabled children

An Ibaraki education board member sparks online outrage by suggesting more prenatal screening to reduce difficulties for parents of disabled kids.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 19, 2015

Going batty: secrets behind upside-down flight landings revealed

It is an aerial maneuver far beyond the capabilities of even the most sophisticated modern aircraft: landing upside down on a ceiling. But it is routine business for bats, and now scientists have learned precisely how they do it.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 19, 2015

Bush joins GOP rivals Carson, Graham in calling for ground troops against Islamic State

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush elaborated Wednesday on his proposal to put a limited number of U.S. ground troops in combat against the Islamic State.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 18, 2015

Bush to say would keep Guantanamo prison open if elected

Republican Jeb Bush will pledge on Wednesday that if elected president next year he will keep open the disputed U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as long as the fight against Islamic militants lasts.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 18, 2015

Okinawa's base conundrum

The Okinawa base issue goes beyond the tangible impact of the U.S. military bases. More than anything, it's the attitude of the Japanese central government toward the issue that irks Okinawans.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 18, 2015

'Moonwalkers': one very small step for comedy in film

One of the king-daddy conspiracy theories of all time — right up there with the "grassy knoll" and Area 51 — is the notion that the Apollo 11 moon landing of 1969 did not actually happen and that it was created on a movie studio set as government propaganda. This theory grew to the point that fevered...
WORLD
Nov 18, 2015

Air France flights from U.S. to Paris diverted after threats: FAA

Two Air France flights en route to Paris from the United States were diverted on Tuesday following anonymous threats, and passengers and crew were safely removed, the airline and the Federal Aviation Administration said.
Japan won’t wait for G7 summit for possible U.S. trade deal
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top negotiator in tariff talks with the U.S. speaks to reporters at the Japanese Embassy in Washington on Friday.
Japanese universities step up to help international students after Harvard ban
The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University. U.S. President Donald Trump has barred Harvard from accepting international students, prompting Japanese universities to offer support.
Japan eyes tougher rules for foreign residents and tax hike for tourists
A tax-free shop in Kyoto in April 2024. Last week, members of a Liberal Democratic Party study group drafted a proposal seeking to scrap the country's tax-free shopping system altogether.
Foreign tourists with unpaid medical bills in Japan to be denied entry
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during ministerial meeting meeting on foreign residents in Japan on Friday at the Prime Minister's Office.
Victims mourned 17 years after Akihabara indiscriminate attack
A mourner prays for the victims of an indiscriminate fatal attack on a street of Tokyo's Akihabara area on the 17th anniversary of the incident on Sunday.
What can Kenji Yanobe’s cosmic cats teach us about humanity?
Kenji Yanobe’s spacesuited cats are the main characters of “Ship’s Cat Island,” the inaugural exhibition at Hyper Museum Hanno in Saitama Prefecture.
From ridicule to redemption: Rice crisis returns Koizumi to the spotlight
Agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks to the media as he inspects a warehouse storing stockpiled rice in Kanagawa Prefecture on May 30.
New Naoshima museum bets on Asia, not the West
Detail of Takashi Murakami, “Rakuchu-Rakugai-zu Byobu: Iwasa Matabei RIP” (2023-25)
Japan’s prison reform focuses on rehabilitation
Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Friday. Suzuki said preparations for the changes that will focus more on rehabilitation are being actively made at each correctional facility.
Accidents raise concern over how Japan vets foreign drivers
Keita Ueno (right), the owner of Kiki Driving School and an instructor who supports both foreign nationals and Japanese citizens returning from abroad in getting their foreign driver’s licenses converted, is worried about the current lax system for the process.

Podcast

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

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
By Alex K.T. Martin

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