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CULTURE / Art
Dec 20, 2016

Yoshitoshi, a Genius Ukiyo-e Master in a Turbulent Time

Dec. 23-Feb. 13
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 5, 2016

It’s time to address the lifestyle challenges affecting health in Asia

Poor nutrition and obesity pose a severe public health challenge across large parts of Asia.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 25, 2016

Park's approval rating at 4%, an all-time low in South Korea

South Korean President Park Geun-hye's approval rating fell to 4 percent amid a deepening political crisis, marking an all-time low for any democratically elected leader in the country, according to a Gallup Korea poll released Friday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 1, 2016

Manuel Alvarez Bravo Photographs: Mexico, Light and Time in Silence

Nov. 3-Dec. 18
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2016

Is the party over? Spending by overseas visitors drops for first time in 19 quarters

Figures show foreign tourists spent u00a5971.7 billion from July to September period, down 2.9 percent from the same time last year.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 27, 2016

Trump's strengths didn't help him this time

In Monday night's presidential debate, Donald Trump failed to convince doubters he's qualified to become president.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 26, 2016

The world and the Mideast: time for a new emphasis?

Outside intervention in the Middle East should focus on sowing the seeds of economic prosperity rather than military intervention.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 22, 2016

U.S. bombers fly over South Korea for second time since North's nuclear test

Two supersonic U.S. bombers flew over South Korea on Wednesday — with one landing on the Korean Peninsula for the first time in 20 years — amid soaring tensions after the North's fifth nuclear test on Sept. 9.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 1, 2016

Global warming exposes fossils in Greenland from time Earth was like Mars

The earliest fossil evidence of life on Earth has been found in rocks 3.7 billion years old in Greenland, raising chances of life on Mars aeons ago when both planets were similarly desolate, scientists said on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 30, 2016

Latest poll shows support for Australian prime minister at all-time low

Support for Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has fallen to an all-time low, according to a poll Tuesday by The Australian newspaper.
WORLD
Aug 25, 2016

Germany revamps national crisis plan for first time in 20 years

Germany has told its citizens to stock up on water and food in the event of a terrorist attack or national catastrophe and may even consider re-introducing conscription in its first overhaul of civil defenses in two decades.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 19, 2016

Syrian planes bomb Kurdish-held area for first time

Syrian government warplanes bombed Kurdish-held areas of the northeastern city of Hassakeh on Thursday for the first time in the country's five-year-old civil war, killing at least 13 people, the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and a monitoring group said.
EDITORIALS
Aug 17, 2016

Time to reassess economic policy

The BOJ and government policymakers need to make a candid assessment on whether they have set the right economic policy priorities.
JAPAN
Aug 8, 2016

SDF is ordered to be ready for North Korea missile launch at any time

The government has ordered the Self-Defense Forces to be ready at any time to shoot down North Korean missiles that threaten to strike Japan, putting personnel on a state of alert for at least three months, a Defense Ministry official said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 29, 2016

North Korea threat prompts Japan to upgrade Patriot batteries in time for Olympics: sources

Japan is upgrading its Patriot PAC-3 missile defense system in time for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, adding range and accuracy needed to intercept more advanced North Korean ballistic missiles, four sources with knowledge of the plan said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 28, 2016

American shale gas heads to East Asia for first time

East Asia, which imports more liquefied natural gas than any other region of the world, is preparing to receive its first supplies from America's shale bounty.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jul 21, 2016

Family time in the heart of the city; meeting rooms suited for any occasion; experiencing the culture of O-bon

Family time in the heart of the city

Longform

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