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COMMENTARY / World
Jan 11, 2016

The five stages of reacting to a North Korean nuke test

Despite Washington's bluster, there's not much it can do about North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 7, 2016

Warm winter means damp profits for Fast Retailing

Fast Retailing Co. cut its full-year operating profit forecast as unseasonably warm weather worldwide hurt sales of winter clothes for the retailer's Uniqlo brand of casual wear, the Yamaguchi-based company said Thursday.
JAPAN / Society / DEMOGRAPHIC CHALLENGES
Jan 6, 2016

Government weighs immigration to maintain population, boost workforce

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in September announced administrative measures seeking to maintain a population of at least 100 million people over the next 50 years with a target of significantly raising the fertility rate to 1.8.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 5, 2016

Russia's isolationism is official

Russia's latest National Security Strategy provides valuable material for the study of the angst, paranoia and befuddlement now gripping the Kremlin.
COMMUNITY / Issues / JUST BE CAUSE
Jan 3, 2016

Battles over history, the media and the message scar 2015

A rundown of the top 10 human rights issues of the past year as they affected non-Japanese residents.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 3, 2016

As water crisis deepens, India seeks mystical Saraswati river

Gagandeep Singh stands at the edge of a trench cutting through a sugarcane field in rural India. He looks down at a dozen or so men toiling in the mud in plastic flip-flops and bellows: "Dig!"
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 3, 2016

Nearly 90% of companies expect economy to grow in 2016: poll

Nearly 90 percent of 101 major Japanese companies expect economic expansion in 2016, with many projecting private consumption and capital spending to recover from their 2015 doldrums, a Kyodo News poll found Saturday.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jan 2, 2016

Seeing 2015 through a fragmented media lens

Media literacy means understanding that objective reality is impossible to comprehend, and that the best you can do to make sense of the world is to know how to interpret signals. Part of that process is identifying what's at stake: Newspapers and broadcasters have parties they think they need to please,...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jan 2, 2016

In Abe's Japan, a woman's place is on the margins

On Dec. 16, Japan's Supreme Court struck a blow for patriarchy by refusing to strike down the law requiring married couples to adopt one surname, a regulation that weighs disproportionately on women since in almost all cases they adopt their husband's family name. For career women, this requirement burdens...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 1, 2016

China creates three new military units in push to modernize army

China has created three new military units and will update equipment as well as modernizing its command structure, state media said Friday, as part of a major overhaul of the armed forces announced by President Xi Jinping in November.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Dec 31, 2015

Kawabuchi using strength to spark basketball revival

Japanese basketball marked an unprecedented dark year in 2015 as its national governing body was suspended by FIBA. It was a tough penalty handed down in November 2014.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 31, 2015

Why Abe's 'womenomics' program isn't working

There is a contradiction between the demands of 'womenomics' and Abe's call for women to have more babies.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 31, 2015

Even if Abe camp prevails in next summer's poll, bid to revise Constitution no given

After taking Japan's helm for the second time in December 2012, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has had three good years, leading his Liberal Democratic Party to victory in two consecutive national elections, getting highly unpopular laws enacted without dooming his Cabinet, and winning three more years as...
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 30, 2015

Economy tipped for gradual recovery in 2016 following year of sluggish growth

Japan's economy fell short of expectations for a solid recovery in 2015, but it is seen as likely to gain traction in fiscal 2016.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 30, 2015

China eyes huge deficit to cushion reforms, slowing growth

China could run its biggest budget deficit in perhaps half a century next year as leaders turn to government spending to arrest the slowdown in the economy, policy advisers say, after a year of easing monetary policy has brought disappointing results.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 29, 2015

'Visit Japan: Tourism Promotion in the 1920s and 1930s'

Jan. 9-Feb. 28
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 29, 2015

A Trump nomination win could spell the end of the conservative party

If the Republican Party doesn't get its act together, it will lose more than the 2016 presidential election.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 28, 2015

China faces twin challenges to maintain growth

China needs to transition away from unsustainable investment-led growth and move toward a more sustainable consumption-led growth model.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 28, 2015

Seibu to debut dinner trains featuring local fare on its scenic Chichibu Line from spring

Seibu Railway Co. will debut a dining train service in spring 2016 that offers gourmet meals to passengers traveling the scenic Seibu Chichibu Line.
EDITORIALS
Dec 25, 2015

Budgeting ahead of an election

The Abe administration appears to be sacrificing budgetary discipline in favor of doling out pork ahead of the Upper House election.
JAPAN
Dec 24, 2015

Top Japan news stories of 2015

The editorial staff of The Japan Times selected these domestic stories as the most important of 2015.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Dec 24, 2015

Japan's draft budget a firm move against fiscal headwinds

The record ¥96.7 trillion draft budget for fiscal 2016 is by many measures a feat, a key push in the government's efforts to cut spending.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media
Dec 24, 2015

The Japan Times advisory board rates paper's coverage

The Japan Times Media Advisory Board members who have been monitoring the newspapers' reporting met Nov. 18 to discuss progress from the previous board meetings and offer advice for the future.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Dec 24, 2015

Meiji Shrine: grounds to ring in the year

As a relatively new place of worship, established less than a century ago in 1920, Meiji Shrine was originally based around the concept of wakonyu014dsai — a belief that treasured the Japanese 'soul,' while still embracing influences from the West. Its unusual omikuji, therefore, is not the only unique feature of the shrine.
EDITORIALS
Dec 22, 2015

Akatsuki's Venus mission

Launched in 2010, the Akutsuki space probe is now set to shed light on Venus' mysteries.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 21, 2015

Action at grass-roots level vital to success of COP21

Shared concern and empathetic openness to the suffering of others holds the key to fighting climate change.
Why are rice prices still high in Japan?
Amid shortages, the price of a 5-kilogram bag of rice during the week of April 14 was ¥4,220.
Dollar’s decline is fueling dislocations across Asian currencies
A worker counts U.S. dollar banknotes at a currency exchange office in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2022.
Tariff talks with U.S. seen influencing Japan's Upper House election
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks to reporters about Japan-U.S. tariff negotiations at his official residence on Saturday.
Japan, India to set up new consultation defense cooperation framework
Defense Minister Gen Nakatani (right) stands alongside his Indian counterpart, Rajnath Singh, during a ceremonial reception in New Delhi on Monday.
About 30% of those in de facto marriages refuse to marry over surname change
A survey by a private group found that 30% of people in de facto marriages in Japan have not filed for marriage registration because they or their partners do not want to change their surnames.
Why are rice prices still high in Japan?
Amid shortages, the price of a 5-kilogram bag of rice during the week of April 14 was ¥4,220.
Plug and Play wants to help Japanese startups go global
Phillip Vincent (right), Japan CEO of Plug and Play, and Ma Jingqian, head of ventures, at Plug and Play's Tokyo office, last month
Kotomi Li: 'I refuse to choose death'
Since 2017, Kotomi Li has won some of Japan’s top literary awards and built a formidable career in the face of persistent online harassment. “Authors are tenacious creatures to begin with,” she says.
Want to see the future at the Osaka Expo? Get in line.
“‘Future of life,’ by Ishiguro,” the World Expo pavilion by roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro, displays humanlike androids.
Despite shifts in Japan's political landscape, constitutional revision still far off
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has been a staunch advocate for constitutional reform.

Podcast

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

Longform

Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.
A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan
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