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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 3, 2020

COVID-19 exposes the importance of internships

Internships provide a great way for small firms to recruit talent and potential successors.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 27, 2020

COVID-19 threatens to starve Africa

The continent has some unique strengths in the pandemic, but food insecurity is a special vulnerability.
Reader Mail
Apr 24, 2020

Collective action to meet individual needs

The April 19 edition of The Japan Times on Sunday places two articles side by side, inviting us to compare responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Apr 15, 2020

Inside Hong Kong judges’ battle with China over courts’ autonomy

The independence of Hong Kong's judicial system is under assault from the Communist Party leadership in Beijing, senior judges in the city have said, posing the gravest threat to the rule of law since Britain handed its former colony back to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League
Apr 11, 2020

JBPA President Shigehiro Taguchi gives rise to players' voices during pandemic

JBPA president had to lead B. League players through uncertain situation when COVID-19 outbreak hit
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Apr 4, 2020

C.W. Nicol, a committed environmentalist with deep humanity

Author and environmentalist C.W. Nicol died on Friday after being diagnosed with cancer in 2016. As a long-standing contributor to The Japan Times, we asked his equally long-standing editor, Andrew Kershaw, to write a few words in memory of the award-winning conservationist
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 29, 2020

Tax incentives needed to promote recurrent education

There are no countries in the world that do not wish for eternal prosperity. Nothing can ensure such prosperity except education of their people. Many people may take that to mean school education for children and youth. However, what will be far more important going forward will be recurrent education,...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Mar 28, 2020

Face masks can foster a false sense of security

What’s happening in Japan is written all over our faces — our blank, expressionless, masked faces. Never before, it seems safe to say, have so many people gone about masked.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 20, 2020

The Cold War's not back, but nuclear gamesmanship is

Four lessons from the Soviet era apply as the U.S. plans potential responses to Russian aggression.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 16, 2020

Saudi-Russian spat shows Putin is a lot like Trump

The Russian leader's foreign policy is transactional, shortsighted and often counterproductive
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Mar 14, 2020

In the footsteps of Okinawa's forgotten priestesses

Utaki (sacred sites) are scattered throughout the islands of Okinawa. Historically the purview of priestesses and kings, these sites have recently seen an uptick in visitors interested in exploring their own history.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 9, 2020

Olympic torch relay faces cool welcome from nuclear evacuees in Fukushima No. 1 town

Dressed in protective plastic coveralls and white boots, Yuji Onuma stood in front of the row of derelict buildings that included his house, and sighed as he surveyed his old neighborhood.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Mar 7, 2020

From Tokyo teen rebel to New York designer

For wild-boy Jimi Yui, a stint in a U.S. monastic school was just what he needed to set him on the track toward becoming a New York kitchen designer.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 26, 2020

Critics ask 'Where's Abe?' as coronavirus spreads in Japan

As Japan struggles to stem the spread of a coronavirus within its borders, critics are asking, "Where's Abe?"
LIFE / Language
Feb 25, 2020

Shinjiro Koizumi and the new Japanese father

Shinjiro Koizumi joins the growing ranks of 'ikumen,' dads who challenge the norm of the Japanese father by taking stronger interest in raising their kids.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Feb 22, 2020

Jonah Salz: What's life without the drama?

Theater scholar and director Salz on Beckett, kyogen and teaching in Japan.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 20, 2020

What to make of the record defense budget

If the Abe administration is seeking to make its mark on defense spending, it will have to try again next year.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Feb 20, 2020

Taigen Kawabe's Ill Japonia: Allowing yourself to learn from the new wave

Bo Ningen's Taigen Kawabe drops the guitars and starts rapping on his first release as III Japonia.
TENNIS
Feb 15, 2020

Yoshihito Nishioka and Go Soeda target Olympic berths

Yoshihito Nishioka didn't mince words when asked about his goals for the 2020 tennis season.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Feb 14, 2020

Philippines' Duterte tests Trump with move to unravel decades-old alliance

Over the years, Rodrigo Duterte's regular rants about the U.S. appeared to amount to little more than bluster. This week the Philippine leader finally moved to dismantle an alliance that has endured since World War II.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 4, 2020

America's debilitating obsession with the Middle East

U.S. President Donald Trump is perpetuating one of the United States' most self-defeating habits.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 3, 2020

Trump's bogus Middle East peace plan

The U.S. president's peace plan is a shameless ploy to violate international law, Palestinian human rights and basic principles of fairness.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Jan 28, 2020

Going green with your Japanese vocabulary

Everyone seems to be talking about the environment and if you're going to get people to step up and help then we'll have to know what language to use.
Japan Times
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / 'Terrace House Tokyo 2019-2020' Recaps
Jan 24, 2020

Ep. 30 'Not Guilty'

I'm sorry to tell you that the latest episode reached new depths of discomfort.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 20, 2020

Trump is putting the credibility question to test

The longstanding academic debate over reputation and foreign policy is having real-world effects.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 17, 2020

Who benefits from the Henoko delay?

Most people in Okinawa Prefecture in fact do not truly desire a solution to the so-called Okinawa problem.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Jan 17, 2020

Japan opposition parties' failing merger bid offers glimpse into divisions

The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and the Democratic Party for the People missed a golden chance ahead of the Diet's opening Monday, and time is running out.

Longform

After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan