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Japan Times
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Aug 17, 2016

Cold War relic or necessary evil? U.S. 'no first use' nuclear proposal stirs divisions in Asia

Nuclear proliferation has been a vexing but important issue for U.S. President Barack Obama during his two terms in office.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 17, 2016

Koike can help Japan get serious about gender gap

Japan's efforts to promote gender mainstreaming have fallen short. Hopefully new Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike can give this vital concept a jump start.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Aug 17, 2016

Sex trade a shaky safety net for Japan's working-poor women

For the past six years, 47-year-old single mother Kasumi Endo has lived a double life.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 17, 2016

'The Trust': Cage makes a creepy comeback

These days, two things practically never happen with a movie starring Nicolas Cage: 1) we see his real hairline; 2) it's actually a good film. Online movie gossip claims Cage is knee-deep in financial trouble, which is why he's been working like a slave, apparently on anything, for the past decade or...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 16, 2016

Salvador Dali: a life less ordinary

The early literary surrealists of the mid-1920s were skeptical of any visual possibility. Their aim — to fuse art with life, reality and dreams — was to be realized through the immediacy of writing. Painting, by contrast, was a laborious, indirect expression mediated by style and technique. Andre...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 16, 2016

The pursuit of perfection with imperfection

The perfect Julia Margaret Cameron exhibition, according to Mark Haworth-Booth, curator of photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum between 1970 and 2004, would have to be vast.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 15, 2016

Better THAAD than dead

China and Russia should welcome Seoul's plan to deploy an advanced missile-defense system because it alleviates the need for South Korea or Japan to pursue other defense options, which could include the development of nuclear weapons.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 15, 2016

Bolt sprints into history with third gold in 100

Usain Bolt carved his name deeper into Olympic legend when he came from behind to reel in Justin Gatlin and win his third-straight 100-meter gold medal at the Rio Games on Sunday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 15, 2016

NYPD hunts for gunman in street execution of Muslim cleric, colleague

New York City police searched on Sunday for a gunman who killed a Muslim cleric and his associate as they left prayers at a mosque in the borough of Queens on Saturday, sowing fear and sadness in their budding Bangladeshi community.
OLYMPICS
Aug 14, 2016

Campbell regrets the 'greatest choke' in Rio

Cate Campbell will leave Rio with some extra weight in her baggage and on her mind — with the "greatest choke in history" accompanying the Australian swimmer's gold and silver relay medals.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 14, 2016

Dinosaur Jr. to bring Tokyo a glimpse of life in 'ear-bleeding country'

Lou Barlow is looking forward to his trip back to Japan. It's the cuisine, more than anything that has him anticipating his return to the country, but it's not what you might think.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 14, 2016

More airline travel disruptions likely as carriers grapple with aging technology

Airlines will likely suffer more disruptions like the one that grounded about 2,000 Delta flights last week because major carriers have not invested enough to overhaul reservations systems based on technology dating to the 1960s, airline industry and technology experts have said.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Aug 13, 2016

The lure of Japan's mysterious ruins

Abandoned sites offer explorers a numinous mix of history, mortality and a sense of the passage of time
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Aug 13, 2016

Expensive new drugs put strain on Japan's health system

Expensive drugs like Opdivo, a lung cancer treatment that costs a whopping ¥1.33 million a dose, are asking difficult questions of Japan's health insurance system.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 13, 2016

Foiled attack puts spotlight on Canada prime minister's security revamp

The death of a Canadian supporter of the Islamic State group who authorities said was preparing an imminent attack has increased calls for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to abandon his plan to scale back a 2015 law that gave increased powers to police and intelligence agents.
OLYMPICS
Aug 12, 2016

Marukawa says Tokyo must solve traffic issue before 2020 Games

Tamayo Marukawa, Japan's newly-appointed Olympic minister, told the media on Friday one of the biggest concerns she has about hosting the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo is the heavy traffic in the capital, which could cause transportation issues for athletes and fans.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 12, 2016

Divisions weaken Palestinians

There can never be a free Palestine without Palestinians first freeing themselves of the factional strife that weakens them.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League
Aug 12, 2016

Playoff MVP Ravenel to join Israel's Maccabi Haifa

After being named playoff MVP in May and helping the Ryukyu Golden Kings secure their fourth championship in the bj-league's 11th and final season, Evan Ravenel is taking his hoop talents to Israel.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 12, 2016

Kaneto victorious in 200-meter breaststroke; Phelps beats Hagino for 22nd gold

Rie Kaneto won gold in the women's 200-meter breaststroke but failed in her mission to break the world record at the Rio Olympics on Thursday night.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 11, 2016

Wanted: Four women to save the world

In 1989, "Ghostbusters II" was released in theaters where it did well in terms of profit, less so in terms of critical response. Reviews didn't matter, though — the original 1984 film was so popular that fans couldn't wait to see a third sequel.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 11, 2016

World champ Hoshi settles for bronze in 200 butterfly

Natsumi Hoshi claimed a first swimming medal for Japan's women at the Rio Olympics with bronze in the 200-meter butterfly on Wednesday night.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 10, 2016

These women ain't afraid of the 'Ghost-bros'

Excuse the time-honored phrase, but the new "Ghostbusters" is a whole new ball game. The hype surrounding its U.S. release last month was considerable, and not just because it's a long-overdue followup of a beloved 1984 Hollywood classic: It has also dared to do what few have done before, which is to...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 10, 2016

'The Jungle Book': Darker yet infinitely more beautiful

After decades spent wrestling with the logistics of international shoots, Hollywood seems to be coming full circle. It's like the early days of cinema again, when exotic locales were evoked within the confines of a movie studio, though today's filmmakers aren't so reliant on hand-painted scenery any...
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Aug 10, 2016

Filmmaker depicts father's slaying by 'war yakuza' in debut feature film

Shoichiro Sasaki, 80, never forgets Aug. 1, 1943 — the day he witnessed his father, a free-thinking journalist, die under extraordinary circumstances before his own eyes.
Winning warship bid gives Japan confidence boost as Tokyo eyes more exports
Australia’s decision to select Japan's upgraded Mogami-class warship, seen in this computer-generated image, has been “well received across Japanese industry," a Defense Ministry official said.
Two Japanese nationals shot dead in Manila
Commuters cross the street through traffic in Manila.
Osaka fire kills two firefighters and leaves four injured
Firefighters work at the scene of a fire in the Dotonbori district in the city of Osaka on Monday.
Trump’s peace-deal demands leave Ukraine's Zelenskyy with only bad options
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a joint news conference with the European Commission president in Brussels on Sunday.
Japan watches nervously as Trump ramps up pressure on Zelenskyy
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba takes part in an online meeting focused on Ukraine, with leaders from the "coalition of the willing," a group of nations that have pledged support for Kyiv against Russian aggression, late Sunday.
Winning warship bid gives Japan confidence boost as Tokyo eyes more exports
Australia’s decision to select Japan's upgraded Mogami-class warship, seen in this computer-generated image, has been “well received across Japanese industry," a Defense Ministry official said.
In Paris, chefs Chizuko Kimura and Kei Kobayashi make their mark
Chef Kei Kobayashi is France's only Japanese chef with three Michelin stars.
Top MLB prospect Rintaro Sasaki is committed to doing it 'the hard way'
Rintaro Sasaki hits a home run during a game against Duke at Stanford's Sunken Diamond on March 16.
In preserving Japanese hospitality, ‘details are everything’
Beniya Mukayu, a traditional "ryokan" inn located in Ishikawa Prefecture, considers itself at "the heart of onsen towns, local residents, farmers, fishermen, sake brewers and artisans" — all of which need new, sustainable methods of serving visitors to survive into the future.
A seaside hotel built on competitive Japanese cycling
In a region more associated with art, Keirin Hotel 10 takes a decidedly more athletic approach to attracting tourists.

Podcast

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

Longform

Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers
By Tomoko Otake

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