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EDITORIALS
Feb 21, 2018

LDP's proposed electoral system amendment

The LDP's proposed electoral system amendment won't solve the vote-value disparity problem and may conflict with the Constitution's Article 43.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 13, 2018

U.S. foreign policy and the missing left

The U.S. left's silence over Trump's disastrous foreign policy has consigned it to irrelevance.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 12, 2018

The absence of the dame moto mentality

Telling a Japanese person to 'go for it' is unlikely to get the response you want.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 5, 2018

An agenda for the next BOJ governor

The prime minister's upcoming pick for governor of the Bank of Japan will be the key executive decision defining the future of Abenomics.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Feb 3, 2018

Finnish broadcaster targets youth vote with anime-inspired video

On Jan. 27, the day before Finland’s presidential election, a Finnish social media news and current affairs service called Kioski released an election video that caused a stir online, receiving over 700,000 views since its release. While President Sauli Niinisto’s landslide victory with 62.7 percent...
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CULTURE / Art
Feb 1, 2018

Artist Asako Iwama explores the relationship between food and language

Food and the desire to eat has always been mysterious to Asako Iwama. When the artist and cook was a young child, she could not understand why she had to eat. Her earliest memories of food are of her grandmother's cooking in a strange yet fascinating kitchen far away from home.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 31, 2018

'Blank 13': Dark dysfunctional-family drama offers no easy answers

A father steps back into his family's lives, after a gap of 13 years, to tell them he is dying of cancer.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 29, 2018

Are we hostage to the stock market?

Wall Street's boom could backfire on the overall U.S. economy
EDITORIALS
Jan 23, 2018

A brief but still worrisome U.S. shutdown

There are two lessons from the U.S. government shutdown: Trump is a weak and unreliable negotiator, and the Democrats can no longer be counted on to act responsibly.
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Jan 23, 2018

Japan women look for Four Continents sweep

The final tuneup for the Pyeongchang Games begins Wednesday when the Four Continents Championships kicks off in Taipei. Japan is sending its entire Olympic team — minus Yuzuru Hanyu — to get one more competitive run through on their programs ahead of the extravaganza next month in South Korea.
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JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jan 18, 2018

Some see U.S. already on North Korea war footing, waiting for allies to get onboard

Is a war pitting the U.S. and its allies against nuclear-armed North Korea on the horizon?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jan 17, 2018

Jerome Bel and his amateurs test the limits of contemporary dance in Saitama show

Controversial French choreographer lets the locals loose in 'Gala.'
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 14, 2018

Warning: Trump's baby sitters are about to head home

If this is what he's like surrounded by A-list advisers, expect chaos after they quit.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 10, 2018

Zen and the art of documentary film

It's the second day of the new year and unseasonably warm outside Pole-Pole Higashi-Nakano, one of Tokyo's few remaining art-house theaters. Husband-and-wife filmmakers Werner Penzel and Ayako Mogi take a seat in the morning sun, taking off their coats while marveling at the weather.
JAPAN
Jan 9, 2018

Cybozu chief Yoshihisa Aono leads suit against Japanese government for right to use premarital names

The plaintiffs claim that the use of different rules for foreign nationals contravenes constitutional rights guaranteeing equality under the law.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 8, 2018

Food science caught between the head and the heart

'Heart-healthy' foods could be bad for the brain, new research suggests. What's a careful eater to do?
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COMMENTARY / World
Dec 26, 2017

The global economy's prospects for 2018

Whether this year's positive economic trends continue in 2018 will depend on a variety of factors, from fiscal and monetary policymaking to domestic politics and regional stability.
EDITORIALS
Dec 22, 2017

Accomplishments of shogi and go champions

The performances of shogi and go champions Yoshiharu Habu and Yuta Iyama show why AI programs will never dominate those games even as they rack up victories against top players.
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CULTURE / Film
Dec 20, 2017

Working in the film industry as a non-Japanese has its own challenges

Japan is home to one of the most lucrative movie industries in the world, and also one of the most prolific: 1,149 films received a theatrical release during 2016, over 600 of which were domestic productions. It can be hard to stand out in such a crowded marketplace and the challenges are often compounded...
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Dec 17, 2017

What the world needs right now is more Kwanzaa

Although the celebration was designed as a Pan-African affair, its seven principles could benefit every one of us.
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Dec 13, 2017

Taunts, tweets and tough talk: Japan's quotes of 2017

Soundbites tell the story of a roller-coaster year for Japan, from its Diet to its dohyu014d.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Dec 9, 2017

Japanese high school girl quiz and, er, 'florida'

A quiz on words that high school girls in Japan use in conversation or when texting attracted plenty of attention online earlier this week, with the hashtag #JK用語クイズ (JK yōgo quizu, or JK words quiz) topping Twitter's trending list for much of Tuesday. "JK" is short for joshi kosei, the Japanese...
BUSINESS
Dec 8, 2017

'Maximum point of danger': Businesses brace for Brexit disarray as talks stall and May struggles

Big companies are stepping up their plans in case Britain crashes out of the European Union without a deal as Prime Minister Theresa May struggles to get talks back on track after a major setback.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 5, 2017

The madness of King Donald

The risk of a US military confrontation with North Korea, coupled with President Donald Trump's increasingly peculiar behavior, has put official Washington on edge.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Dec 2, 2017

Japan Times 1942: 'Public to be trained to stab enemies with bamboo spears'

The simplest form of suicide for any enemy parachutist would be to attempt a landing on Japan, for the Dai Nippon Martial Arts Association and the Dai Nippon Physical Training Association will train every Japanese in the manly art of stabbing enemy paratroops with bamboo spears.
EDITORIALS
Dec 1, 2017

Better response needed to product data falsification

Companies need to come clean on how the data falsification misconduct was allowed to continue for so long.
LIFE / Language / NEWS IN NIHONGO
Nov 27, 2017

Convenience store chain to stop selling pornographic magazines

Ministop has announced that it will suspend sales of pornographic magazines.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 23, 2017

Uber's messy data breach collides with launch of SoftBank deal

Uber, nearing a deal with SoftBank, says it paid hackers destroy data on more than 57 million users stolen from the company but not reported to victims or authorities.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 23, 2017

Will America's bankers oblige Donald Trump?

The debt that should worry Abe's team the most over the next few months is Tokyo's $1.1 trillion of U.S. treasuries.

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A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami