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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 25, 2013

Eagles upbeat before Japan Series opener against Giants

Rain kept the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles indoors on Friday, but hasn't dampened the enthusiasm ahead of their first Japan Series appearance, which comes against the storied Yomiuri Giants.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Oct 25, 2013

Say goodbye to plentiful, affordable shrimp

Due to poor production at Asian fish farms, shrimp stocks are shrinking.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / HOTEL SPECIAL 2013
Oct 24, 2013

Oasis of peace in Tokyo

In the middle of the downtown Tokyo district of Ebisu, there is a green oasis where people can forget about the hustle and bustle of city life. The new garden at The Westin Tokyo in Yebisu Garden Place is called The Westin Garden and was opened this April to let guests enjoy a refreshing time in the...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / EVERYMAN EATS
Oct 24, 2013

A gourmet tour of Japan in one spot

If you were visiting Japan and wanted to experience the best of the country's dining scene, your itinerary might look something like this:
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 24, 2013

A frightful day out in Kawasaki

Though not a traditionally Japanese event, you can still celebrate the West's spookiest time of the year at the 17th annual Kawasaki Halloween Parade. More than 3,000 revelers are expected to show up, dressed in their finest ghoulish attire, to march around the east side of JR Kawasaki Station and neighboring...
Japan Times
Events / Events In Tokyo
Oct 24, 2013

Sapporo City Jazz makes its way to Tokyo

Japan's top-notch jazz singers are heading to the Sapporo City Jazz festival this autumn, as part of the satellite events related to this year's Tokyo Designers Week.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 24, 2013

In the market for fresh local produce?

On Oct. 26 and 27, organizers of morning markets across the nation will be getting together in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, for the 18th National Morning Market Summit 2013 to discuss the future of their sector and exchange opinions on the latest trends.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 22, 2013

Japan's 'helplessness' crisis

The biggest crisis in Japan's democracy today is that people know the prime minister is telling lies — intentionally or not — but they've given up even imagining alternative ways of politics.
CULTURE / Music
Oct 22, 2013

Lemon's Chair shoegaze festival adds Nagoya to its list of stops

"It's about the urge to drown out your inner weaknesses with the guitar," says Masashi Imanishi, guitarist for Osaka band Lemon's Chair. "There's a sentimental aesthetic to it that's about picturing scenery through sound, but I don't really have a strict definition for it."
BUSINESS / NOTEBOOK
Oct 22, 2013

Preferred Hotel's loyalty program; Talking about digitization in education; Exhibition of Edo Period kimono stencils

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JAPAN
Oct 22, 2013

No. 1 water woes laid to Tepco's ineptitude

Two and a half years after the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant experienced its three reactor-core meltdowns, the effort to clean up what remains of the complex is turning into another kind of disaster.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Oct 19, 2013

Countryside campaigner for us all

In the mid-1970s, Souichi Yamashita, a farmer in northern Kyushu who also writes books about rural Japan, got to know a young man named Yutaka Une.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Oct 19, 2013

Imagining civil servants who actually serve

As a comedy, Nippon TV's 'Dandarin' not only pokes fun at bureaucratic privilege, but also wags its finger at Japan's storied management style, which succeeds on the backs of put-upon employees.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Oct 19, 2013

Guantanamo's fate tied to Afghan exit

The approaching end of the U.S. war in Afghanistan could help President Barack Obama move toward what he has said he wanted to do since his first day in office: close the American prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 17, 2013

Sugano delivers as Giants move closer to Japan Series

Tomoyuki Sugano grew up wanting to pitch in an important game for the Yomiuri Giants.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 17, 2013

Making do without Obama

More attention has been given to U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to cancel his trip to Asia because of Beltway politics than to what the regional ministers did without him.
EDITORIALS
Oct 16, 2013

Policy speech overlooks key issues

An extraordinary Diet session starts ostensibly to deal with radioactive contamination, reconstruction of disaster-hit areas and world trade, but the prime minister's policy speech misses.
EDITORIALS
Oct 16, 2013

Raising fees for nursing care services

The government plans to raise the out-of-pocket share paid by 'high-income' earners for services received under the elderly nursing care insurance system from 10 to 20 percent.
COMMUNITY / Issues
Oct 16, 2013

The wonderful world of Japanese law: Yōkoso to endless discovery

Having kindly published my intermittent ramblings on Japanese law and the occasional other subject over the years, The Japan Times has seen fit to give me a monthly column.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 15, 2013

Abe opens Diet session focused on the economy

A 53-day extraordinary Diet session opens with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stressing the need for deregulation.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Oct 15, 2013

Pitched battle of perception surrounds Guantanamo prison

Weeds now grow where nearly two dozen kneeling and blindfolded men in orange jumpsuits were photographed as guards in fatigues looked on.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 15, 2013

Self-cast Senate moderates seek deal from the middle, for the middle

In the past few days, a bipartisan group of 12 U.S. senators has come together to push both parties toward a compromise, hoping to reopen the federal government and raise the national debt ceiling all at once.
Japan ruling bloc loses majority in Upper House after election drubbing
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who serves concurrently as president of the Liberal Democratic Party, leaves at the party's headquarters following announcement of Upper House election result projections in Tokyo early Monday.
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.
Voters in Tokyo reflect shifting political views across Japan
Pedestrians walk in front of an election notice board displaying posters of candidates in Tokyo on Sunday.
‘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
The self as a muse: Leonard Foujita's world in paintings and photos
One of Leonard Foujita’s biggest muses was himself. He painted self-portraits, often with a cat on his side, looking back at the viewer. He posed for photographers throughout his life, the displayed photos showing he retained his signature bowl cut and round glasses.
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.

Podcast

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

Longform

In 2020, 38% of all households were single-person. That figure is projected to rise to 44.3% by 2050.
The rise of AI companionship in a lonely Japan
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