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CULTURE / Music
Jul 14, 2015

Traveling the world with Group_inou and back in time with Towa Tei

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ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 4, 2015

Chinese Air Force checks quake area with drone for the first time

China's air force dispatched a drone to the site of an earthquake in the far-western region of Xinjiang on Friday to help in monitoring work, the first time it has used an unmanned aircraft for such a task.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 23, 2015

Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn tops ¥1 billion in pay for first time

Nissan Motor Co. President Carlos Ghosn, Japan's best-paid automaker executive, received more than ¥1 billion ($8 million) in salary and bonuses for the first time.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 20, 2015

Moment of truth nears for nuclear waste time bomb

More than half a century after the world's first commercial nuclear plant went into operation in the United States, the industry may finally be nearing a way to store radioactive waste underground permanently.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Jun 9, 2015

Load up YouTube because it’s morphin’ time!

Summon your Megazord because the Power Rangers are heading to YouTube — and it’s all in Japanese.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 2, 2015

Time to seize the sustainable future

The transition to a green economy now seems to be a certainty, rather than a hopeful aspiration, as growing public acceptance and technological advances make investments in clean energy increasingly practical.
COMMENTARY / World
May 25, 2015

It's time to worry about the Chinese economy

China's economic predicament resembles America's. It needs a formula for sustainable growth that's not dependent on repeated bursts of artificial stimulus.
WORLD
Apr 26, 2015

Tally of foreigners in Nepal at time of deadly earthquake

Here are details released by some foreign governments on citizens who found themselves in Nepal when a deadly earthquake hit on Saturday, killing more than 2,200 people.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 26, 2015

Time to stop taking the Earth's soil for granted

Healthy soils are crucial to human nutrition, but erosion and contamination are placing them under severe stress.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 21, 2015

'In Our Time: Art in Post-industrial Japan'

April 25-Aug. 30
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 13, 2015

It's time to punish Tepco

Four years on, it's still not clear whether Tokyo Electrip Power Co. has learned anything, or why Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has not demanded accountability from the company tht gave the world its worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.
WORLD
Mar 13, 2015

Lion spotted in Gabon for first time in 20 years

A lion has been spotted in Gabon for the first time in nearly 20 years, raising hopes the animals long feared extinct in the country could be returning, conservationists said on Thursday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 5, 2015

Roberts, Obamacare savior in 2012, seems inscrutable this time

U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts, who cast the decisive vote in 2012 to beat back the first major challenge to President Barack Obama's health care law, kept his cards close on Wednesday.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 1, 2015

The not-ready-for-prime-time Republicans

In their first couple of months dominating the U.S. Congress, Republicans have passed no major legislation, taken largely negative positions and may be about to impede the operation of a crucial government department. In short, they're not where national leaders hoped they would be.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Feb 20, 2015

A stitch in time does much more than save nine

One of Tokyo Dome's most attended annual attractions might come as a surprise to some. Aside from being home to baseball games and big-name concerts, the huge stadium also hosts a number of fairs, including the Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival — which is the largest of its kind.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Feb 18, 2015

Time to shut down this modern-day minstrel show

If Fuji TV airs the modern-day minstrel show it has planned for next month, it will shine a national spotlight on Japan's extreme ignorance about issues of race and discrimination.
WORLD
Feb 17, 2015

Britain's GCHQ spy agency deploys armed guards for first time

Britain's GCHQ eavesdropping agency has for the first time deployed armed police guards in front of its headquarters outside London, a spokeswoman said Monday, citing the heightened risk of an attack by militants.

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