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JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Mar 6, 2005

People are so funny about their paper money

Every so often there's a big news story about someone finding a huge amount of money in the unlikeliest of places. The most recent one had to do with tens of millions of yen in cash discovered in a stream in Hasuda, Saitama Prefecture.
JAPAN
Oct 24, 2004

Series of powerful quakes rock Niigata

A series of powerful earthquakes, with the first one measuring a preliminary magnitude of 6.8, rocked northwestern Japan in quick succession Saturday evening, leaving at least five people dead, several others missing and more than 500 injured in Niigata Prefecture.
Features
Jul 4, 2004

Questionnaire findings spotlight younger people's political gloom

Are you satisfied with current state of politics? Do you support a particular political party? How do you see the future of Japan? They say that the younger generation isn't interested in politics, do you agree? These were some of the questions that The Japan Times recently asked Japanese nationals in...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 18, 2004

Blood centers get creative to lure donors

Mitsuko Kobayashi often gave blood at local Red Cross centers as a young girl, because her mother said she should try to help people. But after giving birth two years ago, she found such trips difficult with a child in tow.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Apr 13, 2003

Taking people as she finds them

Maki Tsuchie has been a television reporter and documentary film director in Okinawa for the past 10 years. Fully versed in the intricacies of U.S. and Japanese defense policy, she knows where the U.S. military stores depleted uranium and which U.S. troops in Okinawa have been sent to the Middle East....
JAPAN / CLOSE NEIGHBORS
Jan 1, 2002

Japan hopes 'people exchanges' will improve ties

This year, Japan cohosts the World Cup soccer finals with South Korea and marks the 30th anniversary of normalizing diplomatic ties with China. In 2001, however, bilateral relations were overshadowed by issues related to Japan's wartime past. This is the first article in an occasional series that will...
COMMUNITY
Sep 24, 2001

Tyndale and the English Bible

History sometimes fails to recognize the brilliance of a true pioneer, glorifying those who profit from his innovation while conveniently forgetting the source.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 17, 2000

People-to-people ties will reunite Korea

Probably the most clear-cut dissimilarity between Germany when it was divided and the present state of affairs on the Korean Peninsula is the status of cross-border people-to-people contacts and relations. In the long years of Germany's division, a multitude of communication channels existed between...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / Regional Voices: Tohoku
Jun 19, 2023

Sendai protein producer leaps ahead by engaging people with disabilities

Behind its success is the company's vast product lineup, which comes in small lots, and its outsourcing of manufacturing to welfare facilities for people with disabilities.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 1, 2023

After Erdogan’s attacks, fear spreads among LGBTQ people in Turkey

The rights and freedoms of LGBTQ citizens became a lightning-rod issue during this year’s election campaign in Turkey, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan calling them a threat to society.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 31, 2023

China’s young people can’t find jobs. Xi Jinping says to ‘eat bitterness.’

A record 11.6 million college graduates in China are entering the workforce this year, and 1 in 5 young people are unemployed.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
May 31, 2023

Retired people have lower risk of heart disease, study finds

The study found that the risk of developing heart disease was 2.2 percentage points lower for retired people than for working people.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / BLACK EYE
Apr 24, 2023

Black people of Japan, we need to talk.

A mental health and wellness event aims to support Black residents of Japan and it's looking to expand in the coming months.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Apr 11, 2023

Concern over spate of videos targeting homeless people in Japan

Some posts show homeless people being filmed without permission and being teased. Supporters say that the videos make fun of vulnerable people.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Apr 1, 2023

Ainu culture at the heart of Hokkaido’s mindful tourism pivot

As Hokkaido looks to promote responsible, community-based tourism centered on Ainu culture and traditions, questions remain as to who stands to gain.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 2, 2023

Asia is loosening rules on masks. Here’s why people still wear them.

Many other countries dropped pandemic mask requirements months ago. But in places like South Korea, which got rid of its rule this week, masks remain common.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 25, 2023

Long COVID is keeping significant numbers of people out of work, study finds

An analysis of workers’ compensation claims in New York found that 71% of claimants with long COVID-19 needed continuing medical treatment or were unable to work for six months or more.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 22, 2023

For China, it's the ordinary people who pose the greatest risk

In times of crisis, such as the COVID pandemic, Chinese leaders are so terrified of public panic that they view the people as the actual source of the crisis at hand.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 9, 2023

New regional job model for young people under spotlight in Japan

The initiative, pioneered by a town in Shimane Prefecture, aims to promote the creation of new employment opportunities and migration to regional areas.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 26, 2022

Kishida Cabinet unpopular among young people, survey shows

Approval ratings for Kishida's Cabinet tend to drop as the ages of the respondents go down, according to the results of the opinion poll.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Dec 23, 2022

China lacked a 'zero COVID' exit strategy. Its people are paying the price.

The abrupt shift has left the nation scrambling to avert a collapse of its public health system.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 1, 2022

In Japan, people gather in solidarity with China's anti-lockdown protests

With criticism tightly controlled in China, the protestors there are “very, very brave,” a demonstrator said, adding that that's why 'I can't do nothing, I must do something.”
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 21, 2022

Colorado mass shooter stopped by 'heroic' people inside club, police say

The shooting was the latest in a long history of attacks on LGBTQ venues in the United States, the deadliest of which claimed 49 lives at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in 2016.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 30, 2022

The last days of an outback town where every breath can be toxic

Once a symbol of economic prosperity, Wittenoom is now a ghost town, polluted by decades of asbestos mining.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 20, 2022

Biden says the pandemic is over, but at least 400 people are dying daily

Some patients said the president was being insensitive at best, and some public health experts said his words were at odds with the science.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 13, 2022

50 million people stuck in 'modern slavery,' U.N. says

The number of people caught up in forced labor or forced marriage ballooned by 10 million between 2016 and 2021, according to a new report.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 4, 2022

Latest COVID-19 conundrum is when to get another shot

People's intuitions about timing their boosters don't always agree with the science. What will that mean for this fall's reformulated vaccines?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 24, 2022

A 'sober-curious' generation leaves Japan with a hangover

Should the tax arm of the government be encouraging people to drink, even in moderation?
Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years
The Agency for Cultural Affairs is recommending replacing the government’s long-standing Kunrei system with more widely used Hepburn-style spellings.
JR East cancels luxury train run over crew's boozing
East Japan Railway said Thursday that it will cancel one trip of a luxury overnight sleeper service, which was originally scheduled to depart from Ueno Station in Tokyo on Aug. 30, after crew members were found to have been drinking alcohol on duty.
Women-only communities flourish in China
Chen Yani (right), nicknamed "Keke," eats lunch with friends and guests in a female co-living space she founded called "Keke's Imaginative Space" in Hangzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, on July 14.
Demystifying the manufacturing success of China
China’s massive scale, strong education system and competitive local governance have enabled it to reach the technological frontier and dominate high-tech manufacturing despite its low per capita gross domestic product.
Infectious diseases to watch for in Japan this summer amid surge of cases
An illustration of a colony of the Bordetella pertussis bacterium that causes pertussis, or whooping cough. As of Aug. 10, there were 64,467 cases reported this year, according to the latest data from the Japan Institute for Health Security.
As farm minister, Koizumi is held ‘hostage’ by Ishiba
Farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi (center) attends a Lower House session on Aug. 1. Locking Koizumi into the Cabinet is Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s way of turning a potential rival into a team player, according to one expert.
Big burgers and bigger ambitions for Japan's Burger King
Kazuhiro Nomura, president of BK Japan Holdings, which operates Burger King in Japan
Tokyo crowned No.1 'workation' spot
Workations were a burgeoning trend in the corporate world for years before the COVID-19 pandemic turbocharged it.
Atsushi Kitagawara’s exhibition finds poetry in architecture
The inverted cone, one of Atsushi Kitagawara’s six signature elements in architecture, is a key feature of the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection museum building.
Candidates preparing to make final pitches for Sawamura Award
Hawks pitcher Livan Moinelo has a 1.13 ERA in 19 starts this season.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past
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