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Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
May 8, 2019

Michael Cohen says he helped racy Falwell photos go away before evangelical family backed Trump

Months before evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr.'s game-changing presidential endorsement of Donald Trump in 2016, Falwell asked Trump fixer Michael Cohen for a personal favor, Cohen said in a recorded conversation reviewed by Reuters.
BASKETBALL / B. League
May 7, 2019

Alvark outplay Golden Kings in semifinal series finale, advance to title game against Jets

Strength in numbers defined the Alvark Tokyo's performance on Tuesday night.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 7, 2019

'Celebration: Japanese-Polish Contemporary Art Exhibition'

May 18-June 23
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League
May 7, 2019

Jets star Yuki Togashi impresses former Texas Legends coach Tyler Gatlin

While the Chiba Jets Funabashi are loaded with a roster filled with talented players, the team is built around a diminutive point guard: Yuki Togashi.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 7, 2019

Miwa Komatsu: An artist's vision of Shinto and its divine beings

'When I was in elementary school, I was taking a nap under a tree in my garden. Then I had a dream, that would later come true, of having an exhibition as a painter and being an artist. That felt very real, and I realized this was foreshadowing my future. I felt that if I continued on the same path,...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
May 7, 2019

Trump may redefine poverty, cutting Americans from welfare rolls

The Trump administration may alter the way it determines the national poverty threshold, putting Americans living on the margins at risk of losing access to welfare programs.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
May 7, 2019

High levels of sunscreen ingredients end up in bloodstream, FDA researchers say

The active ingredients of commonly used sunscreens end up in the bloodstream at much higher levels than current U.S. guidelines from health regulators and warrant further safety studies, according to a small study conducted by U.S. Food and Drug Administration researchers and published on Monday.
BASKETBALL / B. League
May 6, 2019

Jets, Brex reap benefits from B. League's top rivalry

In the history of Japanese top-flight men's hoop circuits, there have been certain teams who got extra motivation from playing against each other.
BASKETBALL / B. League
May 5, 2019

Jets oust Brex to clinch Championship berth

The Chiba Jets Funabashi soared to great heights during the regular season.
Japan Times
SATOYAMA CONSORTIUM
May 5, 2019

Clean start for long-standing towel business

The city of Imabari in Ehime Prefecture has for over 120 years been one of Japan's major towel manufacturing hubs. Kayo Tango and her husband jumped into the world of towel production three years ago to save a towel manufacturer in the process of shutting down due to the lack of a successor. She spoke...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / The Big Questions
May 5, 2019

Reputation and success developed via resilience

LIFE.14 works with a diverse clientele, providing photography and video services for embassies, chambers of commerce, major corporations and nonpolitical organizations, and President Antony Tran's background is equally eclectic.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
May 5, 2019

May 6, 2019

COMMUNITY / Issues / LAW OF THE LAND
May 5, 2019

Iwo Jima: Where Japan rules but the memory of war dead still reigns

It is odd to stand at an iconic place few can ever visit. There on Mount Suribachi where the American flag was raised over Iwo Jima, I am embarrassed to report my first thought on looking out across at the military airport we landed at that morning was, "I have to walk back there in the next two hours."...
CULTURE / CULTURE SMASH
May 5, 2019

New 'Ultraman' anime is a family affair

Now a proud father of an slightly insecure superhero son, Ultraman has evolved not only stylistically but also emotionally for the new Netflix anime.
EDITORIALS
May 5, 2019

Evaluating the lay judge system, 10 years on

Constant efforts must be made to improve the lay judge system.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 5, 2019

The power of Generation Reiwa

The Reiwa generation of university and high school graduates will enjoy a natural tailwind propelling them toward economic prosperity.
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 5, 2019

A new dawn for Japan's imperial diplomacy?

How will the new emperor fare when it comes to promoting the nation's image and interests overseas?
Japan Times
WORLD
May 5, 2019

Trump proposal would make it easier to deport immigrants, including green card holders, who use benefits

The Trump administration is considering reversing long-standing policy to make it easier to deport U.S. legal permanent residents who have used public benefits, part of an effort to restrict immigration by low-income people.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
May 4, 2019

Deciphering the curious act of talking to oneself

Talking to oneself is not respectable. It suggests many things, none of them good: abysmal loneliness, a mental screw loose, a social wire frayed, insanity, dementia. Shukan Post magazine this month cites experts in dementia who see solitary dialogue as a potential premonitory sign — not a conclusive...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
May 4, 2019

Come face to face with human mortality in Yukio Mishima's 'The Temple of Dawn' — review

A strange and uneven novel, Yukio Mishima's 'The Temple of Dawn,' the third volume in the 'Sea of Fertility' tetralogy, is an elegy to the loss of pureness in the Japanese national spirit.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
May 4, 2019

A new era of weather?

'Considering the weather over the past few days, it's less Reiwa and more 'Rain-wa.''
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League
May 4, 2019

Alvark, Jets post victories in semifinal series openers

The Alvark Tokyo scratched and clawed their way to a third-place finish in the brutal East Division during the regular season. Forty-four wins in 60 games was what they accomplished.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
May 4, 2019

Foreign government leases at Trump World Tower stir more emoluments concerns with U.S. lawyers

The U.S. State Department allowed seven foreign governments to rent luxury condominiums in New York's Trump World Tower in 2017 without approval from Congress, according to documents and people familiar with the leases, in what some experts say could be a potential violation of the U.S. Constitution's...
Japan Times
WORLD
May 4, 2019

Trump and Putin discuss possible new nuclear accord, White House says

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke for more than an hour on Friday, discussing the possibility of a new nuclear accord, North Korean denuclearization, Ukraine and the political situation in Venezuela, the White House said.
JAPAN
May 4, 2019

140,000 people greet Japan's Emperor Naruhito as he makes first public appearance since accession

Emperor Naruhito expressed his hopes for progress toward world peace on Saturday at the Imperial Palace, where tens of thousands of people gathered to witness his first public greeting since ascending to the throne on May 1.
Japan Times
SUMO / In Pictures
May 3, 2019

In pictures: A visit to Naruto Beya

In late April, Japan Times sports-desk staff dropped in on a training session — called keiko or asageiko in Japanese — at Naruto Beya, a sumo stable in Sumida Ward established in 2017 by former ozeki Kotooshu. Here are a few of the highlights.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 3, 2019

Tokyo's Pet Loss Cafe offers a place to grieve and heal

Ritsuko Shimazaki, 58, occasionally takes a 70-minute train ride to visit one coffee shop in particular near the upscale district of Omotesando in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward.

Longform

Koichi Tagawa’s diary entry from Aug. 9, 1945, describes the day of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
The horrors of Nagasaki, in first person