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Aug 20, 2016

Inside Japan's racehorse breeding empire

Harry Sweeney has his hand up a horse's backside. The mare looks put out by this intrusion. Her eyes dart about nervously and she shifts her weight before accepting five thick human digits probing her insides. After feeling the uterus and the swelling of the ovaries, Sweeney's arm, slick with mucus and...
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Aug 20, 2016

Japan's architects are building a better future

Home-security AI cats; talking walls equipped with motion sensors; communal-living apartment blocks that promote harmonious relations; and outdoor living-room spaces powered by solar energy siphoned off hybrid cars — these previews of our future, currently on display at "House Vision 2," sound like...
EDITORIALS
Aug 20, 2016

Stop international tax dodges

Efforts to crack down on tax havens is starting to pick up steam, and none too soon.
WORLD
Aug 20, 2016

U.S. Army fudged accounts by trillions of dollars, auditor finds

The United States Army's finances are so jumbled it had to make trillions of dollars of improper accounting adjustments to create an illusion that its books are balanced.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 20, 2016

U.S. sailor gets year in prison for taking photos of nuclear submarine's restricted areas

A U.S. Navy sailor was sentenced on Friday to one year in prison for illegally taking photos inside restricted areas of a nuclear submarine and then trying to impede an investigation into the matter, prosecutors said on Friday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 19, 2016

Dentsu to push simplified Japanese to ease communication with tourists

As part of its project to encourage the creation of tourism services, advertising giant Dentsu Inc. will urge the public to use simple Japanese when communicating with tourists.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Aug 19, 2016

Chef Massimo Bottura's Kyoto menu is both colorful and daring

When Italian chef Massimo Bottura arrived in Japan in late July to present a series of meals at the elegant Ritz-Carlton Kyoto, it represented quite a coup for the hotel in only its second year of existence. Just six weeks earlier, Bottura's restaurant, Osteria Francescana in Modena, had been voted into...
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Aug 19, 2016

Handels Vagen's frozen treats will have you singing Handel's 'Messiah'

Premium ice cream is never out of season. But the timing could hardly have been better for the arrival of Handels Vagen at the start of this summer. Located in the basement of the new Tokyu Plaza in Ginza, it boasts a modest footprint that seems appropriate to the artisan production scale of very superior...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 18, 2016

Singapore seeks to turn labor crunch into a robot revolution

Sherine Toh says her best days at work are when none of the 600 or so staffers at Singapore's Tung Lok Restaurants quits, though such days are rare.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 18, 2016

Underworld: 'We've become inseparable now, and it's really great'

Two years ago, Underworld duo Karl Hyde and Rick Smith had an epiphany. After more than three decades of working together — through some unremittingly lean early years; an epoch-defining, mega-selling turn in the 1990s; soundtracking the London Olympics opening ceremony, and a fractured and increasingly...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 18, 2016

High hurdles line the road to a new U.K.-EU relationship

Political upheavals and rapid technological changes will make it difficult to reach a grand overall bargain between the U.K. and the rest of the EU.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 18, 2016

Aborigines fight planned nuke waste dump on land they call sacred, fearing 'cultural genocide'

Enice Marsh remembers the black clouds of "poison stuff" that billowed from the northwest after British atomic bomb tests in the 1950s spread fallout across swaths of South Australia.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Aug 17, 2016

Sex trade a shaky safety net for Japan's working-poor women

For the past six years, 47-year-old single mother Kasumi Endo has lived a double life.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 17, 2016

Superhero films need to reach beyond the geeks

Where superhero movies are concerned, you should never trust a critic. When David Ayer's "Suicide Squad" opened to a barrage of negative press in the U.S. earlier this month, some fans responded by lashing out at film journalists online. One even launched a petition against the review aggregator site...
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JAPAN / Society
Aug 17, 2016

Tokyo exhibition focuses on plight of sexually exploited girls

In Japan, teenage girls who turn to prostitution do so because they want to make easy money or fulfill their own pleasures.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 17, 2016

Trump to get first security briefing but ultra-sensitive info off-limits: sources

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is expected to receive his first national security briefing this week from intelligence officials, sources said on Tuesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 16, 2016

'Thomas Ruff'

Aug. 30-Nov. 13
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 16, 2016

Russia fans the flames in Ukraine once again

Vladimir Putin is sending signals that he's getting restless with the current peace deal in Ukraine.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Aug 16, 2016

Low pay haunts Tokyo's nurseries despite massive demand for places

After 6½ years as a nursery school teacher in Tokyo, Saki Sasamoto had had enough.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 16, 2016

Japan well placed to lead in artificial intelligence, expert says

Japan lags Silicon Valley in conventional internet services but could become a global leader in the deep-learning technology of artificial intelligence, a leading AI expert has said.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 15, 2016

Airing the IMF's dirty laundry

The IMF's role in Europe's post-2008 crisis shows why it needs an independent management team that can make decisions free of political interference.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Aug 15, 2016

Thailand detains several people for questioning over deadly blasts

Thailand's army said on Monday it had detained several people for questioning over a wave of deadly bombings in some of the country's best known-beach resorts that killed four people and wounded dozens, including tourists.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Aug 14, 2016

It's true: SMAP to split up at year's end

After a quarter-century run, the Japanese boy band SMAP has decided to call it quits on Dec. 31, its management agency said in a press release Sunday, shocking die-hard fans in Asia and around the world.
JAPAN / NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT
Aug 14, 2016

Rural Japan rail tours push scenic, luxurious journeys into the unknown

When planning a trip to Japan, tourists are most likely to pack destinations like Mount Fuji, Kyoto and Akihabara all into the space of a few days.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Aug 14, 2016

Into the mystic: a cat named Miko

The mystery is how this beauty, who came to ARK a full six months ago, can still be sitting in the shelter without a home of her own.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 14, 2016

Summer Sonic founder Naoki Shimizu explains the search for the perfect music festival lineup

Creativeman President Naoki Shimizu says he had the perfect idea for this year's Sonicmania. The event, an all-night party that comes ahead of Creativeman's Summer Sonic music festival, would feature EDM heavyweight Skrillex and long-running synthpop outfit New Order as the headliners, bringing out young...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 14, 2016

Dinosaur Jr. to bring Tokyo a glimpse of life in 'ear-bleeding country'

Lou Barlow is looking forward to his trip back to Japan. It's the cuisine, more than anything that has him anticipating his return to the country, but it's not what you might think.
Haneda Airport security staff arrested over theft
Tokyo police have arrested a 21-year-old security inspector at Haneda Airport after he allegedly stole cash from a passenger during a baggage inspection.
Japan's elderly population down at around 36.2 million
The estimated number of people age 65 or older in Japan stands at 36.19 million as of Monday, accounting for record 29.4% of the country's total population, according to the internal affairs ministry.
SDF spots China’s biggest aircraft carrier for first time
The Fujian aircraft carrier is seen in Shanghai in May 2024 as it leaves for its first sea trial.
White House threatens broad crackdown on liberal groups
FBI Director Kash Patel (right) listens to senior White House adviser Stephen Miller speak in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Monday.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Pole vault rivals in awe after Duplantis has another historic night in Tokyo
Sweden's Armand Duplantis competes in the men's pole fault final during the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium in Tokyo on Monday.
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.
Tara Davis-Woodhall leaps to gold and finds redemption at world championships
Tara Davis-Woodhall celebrates after winning the women's long jump final at the World Athletics Championships at Tokyo's National Stadium on Sunday night.
An aesthetic escape to Hakone’s art-drenched hills
Between traditional examples of fine art and sleek, modern exhibitions that blend with nature, Hakone offers a unique escape from Tokyo's urban sprawl.
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.

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

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Sumadori Bar on Shibuya Ward's main Center Gai street targets young customers who prefer low-alcohol drinks or abstain altogether.
Rethinking that second drink: Japan’s Gen Z gets ‘sober curious’
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