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JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jan 12, 2015

Residences left empty posing problems across the nation

The population keeps aging and shrinking, but new housing keeps getting built even though Japan has a glut of unused dwellings.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Jan 12, 2015

Airline pilots need better training in recovery from a stall, some experts say

As investigators hunt for what caused an AirAsia jet to crash in an equatorial storm on Dec 28, the aviation industry is still struggling to apply the lessons of accidents in similar weather over the past decade.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / ADVANCES IN PROGRESS
Jan 11, 2015

AIST brings mind-reading technology closer to reality

Communicating via brain waves, by merely thinking, may seem like a notion out of the world of science fiction, but it would be a dream come true for people who are physically unable to express themselves.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Jan 11, 2015

Warm, fuzzy feeling: a dog named Woolly

Woolly can be likened to a security blanket — a friend who is always by your side, always ready to offer his warm affection and companionship.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jan 10, 2015

Cataloging the creatures of the unknown

"Yokai dwell in the contact zone between fact and fiction, between belief and doubt ... Yokai begin where language ends," says Michael Dylan Foster in the introduction to "The Book of Yokai," summing up what words often fail to conjure. His book takes readers on a journey into the inexplicable, mysterious,...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 10, 2015

Tail of crashed AirAsia plane raised by Indonesian search team

Indonesian search and rescue teams raised on Saturday the tail of an AirAsia passenger jet that crashed nearly two weeks ago with the loss of all 162 people on board, and will soon search it for the flight recorders.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 9, 2015

Abe pays respects to victims at French Embassy

Expressing solidarity with the people of France, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday signed a book of condolences at the French Embassy's residency building in Tokyo as police near Paris hunted the gunmen behind a massacre at Charlie Hebdo magazine.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Jan 9, 2015

Don't fight trips to the gym: Take it outside

It's January. The bars are empty and the gyms are full of people with good intentions. By February or March, of course, that situation will reverse, as new year resolutions begin to flag and it becomes increasingly difficult to justify that extortionate gym membership.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / CHILD'S PLAY
Jan 9, 2015

Kids can benefit from a little community spirit

Frowning with concentration at a low table, a clutch of overall-clad toddlers set about their task: stamping potatoes into paints to create rainbow-bright artworks.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 9, 2015

One suspect sought in Paris terrorist attack trained in Yemen: sources

One of two brothers suspected of carrying out the deadly shooting at a French satirical weekly on Wednesday visited Yemen in 2011 to train with al-Qaida-affiliated militants, U.S. and European sources close to the investigation said Thursday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jan 8, 2015

Noma sets the table for a feast in Tokyo

As the clock inches toward midday on Jan. 9, the eyes and attention of gourmets around the world will be focused on Tokyo. The reason: The curtain is rising on one of the most hotly anticipated restaurant openings ever.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jan 8, 2015

Sony hackers 'got sloppy' and posted from North Korea addresses: FBI

FBI Director James Comey said on Wednesday that hackers behind the cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment provided key clues to their identity by sometimes posting material from IP addresses used exclusively by the North Korean government.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 7, 2015

Hate flying? You have only yourself to blame

Ultimately, the reason airlines cram us into tiny seats and upcharge for everything is that we're online shopping on exactly one dimension: the price of the flight.
BUSINESS
Jan 7, 2015

U.S. recalls may climb this year, car safety chief says

A recent wave of auto recalls may lead to even more flaws being discovered this year as drivers become alert to design faults, the top U.S. car safety official said Tuesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jan 7, 2015

Sony's Walkman makes comeback in high resolution, for $1,200

Sony Corp. is bringing back the Walkman, with a new model of the music player pioneer that comes with high-resolution playback and Bluetooth-connected headphones.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jan 6, 2015

Jazz trumpeter Toshinori Kondo issues a challenge to modern-day musicians

On a chilly Friday afternoon in December, trumpet player Toshinori Kondo reclines in the clutter of his Kawasaki recording studio, pours out two cups of shōchū liquor, and starts to explain what prompted him to abandon a lucrative career in Japan and move to Amsterdam in 1993.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jan 6, 2015

Wainscott founder Gilbert's son charged in father's slaying

The son of Wainscott Capital Management founder Thomas Gilbert Sr. was charged with murder after allegedly having staged the shooting death of his father to look like suicide, New York Police Department officials said.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 5, 2015

Why Japan should embrace Angelina Jolie's 'Unbroken'

The attacks on Angelina Jolie's just-released film 'Unbroken' — which is much less about Japanese brutality against an American POW than the resilience of the human spirit — appear part of a revisionist recrudescence under the Abe administration.
JAPAN / Media / DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN
Jan 3, 2015

The biggest terrorism threat in Japan

Remember how the government said Japan needed a state secrets law to protect it from acts of terrorism?
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jan 3, 2015

In Kawabata's footsteps to 'Snow Country'

"The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country."
CULTURE / Books
Jan 3, 2015

Novelist Mizumura fights to arrest fall of Japanese literature

The abiding belief among some native English speakers in Japan is that Japanese people need to use more English instead of sheltering in the comfort of a mother tongue barely spoken beyond their archipelago.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 2, 2015

From president to dictator

President Vladimir Putin's regime is on the verge of transitioning from mild authoritarianism to outright dictatorship. The country's newly amended military doctrine is an especially ominous sign.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / JUST BE CAUSE
Jan 1, 2015

Hate, muzzle and poll: a top 10 of issues for 2014

A recap of the top 10 human-rights news events affecting non-Japanese (NJ) in Japan last year.

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