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EDITORIALS
Jan 4, 2010

Deeper Japan-India ties

Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's Dec. 29 summit with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi testifies to his desire to deepen Japan's relations with India, which is emerging as an important player in the international community as its economy grows.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jan 4, 2010

Checking out affordable resort condos in Chiba

If you're willing to look beyond the more well-known areas, a second home in Japan can come at quite a bargain.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Jan 3, 2010

Jake Adelstein: Insider reaching out

Author Joshua "Jake" Adelstein supposes that if he'd stayed home in rural Missouri and had never come to Japan, he'd probably have become a small-town lawyer or a very happy detective on the local police force.
COMMENTARY
Dec 30, 2009

Iran the challenge in 2010

Of all the pressure points on the international scene in 2010 the Iran problem looks the most dangerous. Iran could come to an explosive boiling point in the coming months, sending shock waves through the global system.
JAPAN
Dec 30, 2009

Will warmer ties burn Taiwan?

For many countries China is a key partner in international relations, whether in recovering from the financial crisis or tackling climate change. And this is no less true for Taiwan, whose government is sidelining long-term political disputes with the mainland for the sake of improving economic ties....
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 30, 2009

Is Britain really breaking London's bankers?

NEW YORK — The plot of the morality play set in motion by the United Kingdom's announcement of a 50 percent tax on bankers' bonuses has now taken form. And it is a play that holds an important lesson about how politicians are managing — or mismanaging — demands for financial reform.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Dec 29, 2009

Why is the Kansai region a better place to live than Kanto?

COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Dec 29, 2009

Why is the Kansai region a better place to live than Kanto?

JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Dec 27, 2009

Hatoyama and sex changes? Time for our media awards

Media person of the year: Noriko Sakai
Japan Times
LIFE
Dec 27, 2009

Thank God the year's over

History has seen worse years than 2009. All the same, this Year of the Ox has been more than most of us born after World War II in the relatively privileged regions of the Earth were conditioned to cope with.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / LIQUID CULTURE
Dec 25, 2009

Japan's favorite hangover cures

Tis the season to be jolly. And when you've finished being jolly, tis the season to wake up with veisalgia, more popularly known as a hangover.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 22, 2009

Many lessons learned by students at climate talks

COPENHAGEN — A Japanese university student who attended the climate talks here as a member of an international nongovernmental organization says everything at the conference was a learning experience, even if he was disappointed with the outcome.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Dec 22, 2009

Too innocent for prejudice?

Are kindergarteners racist? Do they discriminate between children with different skin colors?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Dec 22, 2009

What is the perfect way to spend Christmas?

Japan Times
JAPAN / READERS' FUND
Dec 21, 2009

Refugees struggle to survive funding cuts

Last in a series
JAPAN
Dec 21, 2009

Japan finds a little to crow about

COPENHAGEN — The political agreement on climate change formally recognized Saturday has been roundly condemned, but the Japanese government sees it as a diplomatic achievement for including China and the United States, the two largest emitters, and paving the way for a future framework to reduce emissions....
Japan Times
JAPAN / READERS' FUND
Dec 20, 2009

Group teaching Afghan women literacy, IT skills

Fourth in a series
Reader Mail
Dec 20, 2009

Option of pulling out of Japan

Regarding the Dec. 16 article "What does Japan want from Washington?": Because of the juvenile behavior of the new Japanese government toward the United States, I am losing faith in it as a trustworthy ally and would recommend that the U.S. start playing hardball to test the motives of the new government....
EDITORIALS
Dec 20, 2009

Charting future ties with China

Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping agreed to deepen "mutually beneficial strategic relations" between their countries in a meeting last Monday in Tokyo. Although Mr. Xi's exceptional audience with the Emperor later that day caused controversy, Japan should use his visit...
COMMENTARY
Dec 19, 2009

An abuse of intelligence

The U.K. government has been under pressure for some years to hold an inquiry into British participation in the Iraq war and on the events that led up to the decision to go to war. The various previous inquiries were seen by many as inadequate or whitewash. The government eventually conceded that once...
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 17, 2009

Do humanoid robots deserve to have rights?

PRINCETON/WARSAW — Last month, Gecko Systems announced that it had been running trials of its "fully autonomous personal companion home care robot," also known as a "carebot," designed to help elderly or disabled people to live independently. A woman with short-term memory loss broke into a big smile,...
EDITORIALS
Dec 16, 2009

Understandings with Pyongyang

The Dec. 8-10 visit to Pyongyang by the U.S. special representative for North Korean policy, Stephen Bosworth, did not produce a concrete result on the issue of North Korea's nuclear weapons program. The United States and North Korea reached "common understandings" on the need to resume the stalled six-party...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Dec 15, 2009

To gargle or not to gargle?

The Web site for the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) contains a pandemic influenza storybook filled with personal reflections from survivors, family members and friends. One of the accounts tells the story of Art McLaughlin, who lived about 25 km east of Chicago during...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Dec 15, 2009

What do you make of today's Japanese youth?

At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
China warns citizens not to visit Japan as row over Taiwan heats up
Chinese tourists wear kimonos as they visit Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Saturday.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Japan may triple departure tax to tackle overtourism
A plane takes off from Haneda Airport.
Fears rise of rupture in Japan-China ties in wake of Taiwan remarks
Two Chinese tourists wearing kimonos take a selfie as they visit Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Saturday.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
Stablecoins: Boring goes big, and now in Japan
Noritaka Okabe, CEO of JPYC, acknowledges a number of potential risks related to stablecoins.
Shohei Ohtani collects fourth MVP Award with 2025 NL honor
The Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani was named National League MVP for the second straight season on Thursday.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.

Podcast

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

Longform

An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
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