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Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
May 12, 2018

Japan redraws its line in the sand for poverty

If an income of ¥10 million a year can't save you from poverty, what can?
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LIFE / Food & Drink / KYOTO RESTAURANTS
May 12, 2018

Kishin: New opening is full of breakfast promise

For Atsushi Nakahigashi at Kishin, a traditional, local breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / KANPAI CULTURE
May 12, 2018

Put the sake down, warm weather means craft beer

Although Yona Yona Beer Works is a staple for great craft beer in Tokyo, there are plenty of other hidden gems. Global beer-drinking afficionados share some of their favorites.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
May 12, 2018

When your friend always has to have the final say

'I saw a bee!'
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Rugby
May 12, 2018

Sunwolves rout Reds for first win of season

The Sunwolves picked up their first win of the Super Rugby season in barnstorming style with a 63-28 demolition of the Reds on Saturday.
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WORLD / Science & Health
May 12, 2018

SpaceX launches new rocket designed for future crewed missions

An updated version of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, tailored for eventual crewed missions for NASA, made its debut launch on Friday from Florida's Cape Canaveral carrying a communications satellite for Bangladesh.
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LIFE / Travel / BACKSTREET STORIES
May 11, 2018

Slow-paced Izu Oshima is anything but sleepy

A mere Jetfoil away from Tokyo, travelers to Izu Oshima island can expect volcanic hikes, fresh local cuisine and an abundance of hospitality.
Reader Mail
May 11, 2018

End long-term restraint of psychiatric patients

May 17 will mark the one-year anniversary of the death of my son, Kelly Savage, following 10 days of being restrained (strapped to a bed) at Yamato Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in Kanagawa Prefecture.
Reader Mail
May 11, 2018

Real and symbolic discrimination

The article "Banning women from the dohyō: Sexism or tradition?" in the May 1 edition quotes Chizuko Ueno of the University of Tokyo making an odd special plea.
Reader Mail
May 11, 2018

Worst case? War on the peninsula

Commenting on the various potential outcomes of a Trump-Kim summit in the op-ed piece "Can you really walk out, Mr. Trump?" in the May 8 edition, Kuni Miyake's analysis falls short.
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JAPAN
May 11, 2018

Okinawa citizens urged to get behind bid to put prefecture's style of karate on UNESCO map

The first international tournament for Okinawa style karate is scheduled for August, and expectations are growing that the martial art will become even more popular at home and abroad.
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MULTIMEDIA
May 10, 2018

May 11, 2018

JAPAN / Politics
May 10, 2018

Former Abe aide admits to meeting with Kake Gakuen officials

Last month Tadao Yanase flatly denied a report that he had met the officials in April 2015, “as far as my memory goes.”
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WORLD
May 10, 2018

Mount Kilauea's violent new eruptions in Hawaii puzzle scientists

The latest bursts of molten rock, ash and toxic gas from Mount Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawaii are part of an ever-changing and still largely mysterious cycle of eruptions that have been at work for hundreds of thousands of years.
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CULTURE / Music
May 10, 2018

Cero chooses a more complicated kind of pop on 'Poly Life Mutli Soul'

If you wanted to pinpoint the moment Cero broke the glass ceiling of Japan's indie music scene, it would be March 7, 2016. That's when the group — still cresting on the buzz generated by its "Obscure Ride" album the previous year — performed that record's signature singalong, "Summer Soul," alongside...
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BUSINESS / Companies
May 10, 2018

Ex-Goldman trader Yuzo Kano is hiring old rivals to build a cryptocurrency empire in Tokyo

Yuzo Kano is trying to build a global cryptocurrency powerhouse, one former financier at a time.
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JAPAN
May 10, 2018

In the countryside, success starts with coffee: Niseko pioneer

The thriving Hokkaido ski resort of Niseko is considered an anomaly among the many rural communities in Japan facing a slow demise from the shrinking and graying population.
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JAPAN / History / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
May 10, 2018

Hiroshima hibakusha recalls warmth of Southeast Asian students who helped her survive A-bomb blast

Meiko Kurihara was a 19-year-old mobilized student at Toyo Kogyo (now Mazda Motor Corp.) when the atomic bomb hit Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / TELLING LIVES
May 9, 2018

Swedish life coach channels force of positive thinking

The soft sound of bodies moving in thick cotton fabric and naked feet stroking the dojo floor is interrupted by loud shouts, causing a man passing by on his bike to turn his head. Through the large windows, he watches the children and adults as they punch phantom antagonists before of them.
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BUSINESS
May 9, 2018

Buy what you like, sell what the market fancies: Top collectors reveal how to make a fortune in art

Andy Warhol once said: "Making money is art." But what about making money from art?
SOCCER / J. League / J. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
May 9, 2018

Amazing transformation puts Sanfrecce firmly in driver's seat

No one who watched Sanfrecce Hiroshima barely avoid relegation last season could have imagined that they would top the J. League table after 13 games of the 2018 campaign.
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SPORTS / MAN ABOUT SPORTS
May 8, 2018

Mets off to fast start, but season is a long one

Old MLB axiom: Don't believe what you see in April.
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Figure Skating / ICE TIME
May 8, 2018

Rafael Arutunian looking forward to coaching teen star Marin Honda

Rafael Arutunian is going through a bit of deja vu right now.
ASIA PACIFIC
May 8, 2018

Chinese missiles are transforming balance of power in the skies

For a quarter century, the U.S. and its allies owned the skies, fighting wars secure in the knowledge that no opponent could compete in the air. As tensions with Russia and China surge, that's no longer the case.
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CULTURE / Stage
May 8, 2018

Keishi Nagatsuka navigates cultural differences in bringing play about capital punishment to Japan

For casual fans of film, the name Martin McDonagh only became familiar after the movie he wrote, directed and produced, "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri," became the talk of this year's awards season.
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JAPAN
May 8, 2018

Japanese scholar challenges conventional business school model, seeks to nurture new type of leader

When in the 2000s the world saw ripple effects of the massive accounting fraud of U.S. energy giant Enron Corp. and the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., business management expert Tomoyoshi Noda was flooded with messages questioning the skills of business leaders whose actions...
BUSINESS
May 8, 2018

Taking on Fox, Comcast formally notifies Brussels of intent to bid for Sky

U.S. cable operator Comcast has formally notified the European Commission of its intention to bid for Britain's pay-TV group Sky, starting the clock on a review, a regulatory source told Reuters on Monday.

Longform

Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers