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Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League / B. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Oct 5, 2017

Chiba's Michael Parker hits milestone with 10,000th point

Michael Parker has quietly compiled impressive numbers throughout his pro basketball career in Japan.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Oct 4, 2017

Kyoto Seika's next dean, Oussouby Sacko, was schooled in the violent tumult of '80s China

Malian architect lived through protests by Chinese students targeting Africans just months before the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 2, 2017

Western Digital's battle for Toshiba: A tale of threats and culture clashes

Steve Milligan was ready to declare victory. A statement was drafted and a photographer was getting lined up for a handshake ceremony planned in Tokyo. As the brash Silicon Valley executive prepared to announce the biggest deal of his career, a prominent Japanese newspaper was reporting his consortium...
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Oct 2, 2017

Let's discuss telecommuting

Telecommuting from Shari, Hokkaido
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Taking the Lead
Oct 1, 2017

Online research firm aims to break Japanese mold with global market quest

Market analysts say Japanese internet firms rarely succeed overseas, and there haven't been many who have proven them wrong so far.
COMMUNITY / Issues / LABOR PAINS
Oct 1, 2017

NS Solutions case is latest battle in long war against sexual harassment

The ruling in the NS Solutions case should say a lot about where Japan stands now on the issue of sexual harassment, nearly three decades after the first ruling on this issue.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Sep 30, 2017

Slovenia's Ana Ros on Japanese cuisine and gender equality among chefs

Early one September morning, Ana Ros, Slovenia's most famous chef, is receiving a crash course in Japanese seafood at Tsukiji fish market.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Sep 30, 2017

The education system still has much to learn

There is a driven, compulsive quality to Japanese education, which emerges clearly in a report by Shukan Toyo Keizai magazine titled "Schools are breaking down."
Reader Mail
Sep 29, 2017

Defending Abe administration

I was puzzled by Jeff Kingston's column in the Sept. 17 edition. I will focus on a few points to explain why.
Reader Mail
Sep 29, 2017

Jeff Kingston's column will be missed

I'm very sad to learn that the Counterpoint column by professor Jeff Kingston of Temple University Japan won't appear any longer in The Japan Times.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / Small luxury hotel special
Sep 29, 2017

Luxurious setting offers fond memories

Unzen Kanko Hotel, a resort hotel styled like a Swiss chalet located inside Unzen National Park in Nagasaki Prefecture, has been welcoming guests from Japan and abroad for more than eight decades.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 28, 2017

Did quantitative easing do any good?

QE probably helped end the Great Recression, though we'll never know for sure.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Sep 28, 2017

Megahit anime 'Your Name.' to get live-action Hollywood remake

J.J. Abrams and Paramount Pictures will be turning one of Japan's highest-grossing anime films into a live-action remake, but not all fans are enthusiastic.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League / B. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Sep 28, 2017

Challenge awaits Hasegawa in Tochigi

What impact will Kenji Hasegawa make for the defending champion Tochigi Brex in his first season at the helm?
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 25, 2017

Osaka's leaders complain about San Francisco 'comfort women' statue to U.S. Ambassador Hagerty

In a meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Japan William Hagerty on Monday, Osaka's leaders expressed solidarity with America over North Korea but concern that San Francisco, Osaka's sister city, erected a monument to the wartime "comfort women" who were forced into Japanese military brothels before and during...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 25, 2017

Asahi sets ambitious goals for expansion in Europe and the U.S., as domestic demand wanes

Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. will ramp up sales of its top-selling Super Dry beer in Europe with local production aided by faster integration of last year's $11 billion purchase of brands from Anheuser-Busch InBev NV.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 25, 2017

Mizuho is reportedly readying AI platform for trading before EU's MiFID overhaul

Mizuho Financial Group Inc. will start artificial-intelligence trading to bolster its Japanese equity business, according to people with knowledge of the plan.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 24, 2017

Iguchi hits final home run to end career in style

Tadahito Iguchi had insisted that one of the reasons why he was hanging up his cleats was that he could no longer hit home runs as often as he used to.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 24, 2017

Could even a missile alert stop Japanese from going to the office?

Flexible working styles like telecommuting would benefit Japan on many levels.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Sep 23, 2017

Mayuko Okada's last meal: Pancakes over nattō

Japanese cooking teacher on the joys of Bills' famous creation and fermented soybeans.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 22, 2017

FSA shakes up asset-management firms with cheap funds to get individuals to move cash into stocks

An outspoken regulator has unleashed an unusual tactic to shake up Japan's asset-management industry.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Sep 16, 2017

Documentary filmmaker Megumi Sasaki learns to live in the moment in New York

For a long time Megumi Sasaki felt that something did not quite fit.
Reader Mail
Sep 15, 2017

Set an end date for bases in Okinawa

At a recent meeting with U.S. Ambassador William Haggerty, Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera asked him to heed Japanese people's concerns over hosting U.S. bases. That's a roundabout way of expressing his dissidence over low-altitude flight training by Ospreys on six designated routes on mainland Japan....
Japan ruling bloc projected to lose majority in Upper House election drubbing
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks at the Liberal Democratic Party’s headquarters Sunday after exit polls showed poor results for the ruling coalition in the Upper House election.
Polls open for key Upper House election that could shake Japanese politics
People vote during Japan's Upper House election at a polling station in Tokyo on Sunday.
Sunken WWII Japanese warship Teruzuki found off Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands. A team from the U.S. nonprofit Ocean Exploration Trust has discovered the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Teruzuki on the deep seabed off the Solomon Islands as the 80th anniversary of the war's end approaches.
Japan team finds ancient ocean full of squids
The ancient ocean was full of squids, whose population exceeded that of fish or ammonites, a Japanese research team mainly from Hokkaido University has found through a new method using technology.
Hitomi Obara, 2012 Olympic champion in wrestling, dies at 44
Hitomi Obara competes at the London Olympics in August 2012.
‘Noto Democracy’ and the slow work of civic change
Yukio Iokibe’s “Noto Democracy" centers on Motoyuki Takii, a former junior high school teacher who publishes a handwritten newspaper every month to encourage the residents of Anamizu, Ishikawa Prefecture, to engage in local politics.
In microbes we trust: Embracing the nature of fermented food
You don't need an oven to make Kenji Morimoto's easy and delicious Miso Sticky Toffee Crepe Cake.
Touring the Silk Road — without leaving Tokyo
One of the entrances to Pao Compound, a nine-story Silk Road-inspired complex in Tokyo's Higashinakano neighborhood
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.
In Gaza-made obi, Palestinian embroidery meets Japanese kimono
The Palestinian Embroidery Obi Project brings together a traditional Japanese garment and age-old designs from the Middle Eastern region.

Podcast

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

Longform

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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