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LIFE / Lifestyle
Sep 20, 2014

Lafcadio Hearn: 'Japanese Thru and Tru'

A small cage was opened at Lafcadio Hearn's funeral, setting birds into the air, the soul of the deceased presumably taking flight with them. His coffin was draped in chrysanthemums and fragrant olive, adorned by a laurel wreath. Seven Buddhist priests read the sutras at Kobudera (now Jishoin Enyuji...
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 19, 2014

North Korea says abduction probe will take another year

Pyongyang tells Tokyo it is still at 'an early stage' of its re-investigation into possible Japanese abductees and plans to finish the probe in about a year.
EDITORIALS
Sep 19, 2014

Defeating dengue fever

We should probably expect infections of the mosquito-borne virus that causes dengue fever somewhere in Japan every summer because of the effects of global warming and the rise in overseas travel.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 18, 2014

Taking a pictorial trip to Normandy

"Normandie — L'Estuaire de la Seine: L'Invention d'Un Paysage" ("Normandy — The Seine Estuary: The invention of a Landscape" is an exhibition at the Sompo Japan Museum of Art that recently changed its name to Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art. Just as the museum's name is rather too long — something...
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 18, 2014

Gibbons become the last ape to have their genome revealed

Gibbons — the small, long-armed tree swingers that inhabit the dense tropical forests of Southeast Asia — have become the last of the planet's apes to have their genetic secrets revealed.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 18, 2014

West African powerhouse Cote d'Ivoire battles to keep out Ebola

The billboard depicts a masked health worker in a biohazard suit looming over a bed-ridden patient. Above them, bright red letters warn commuters on a busy Abidjan street that "The Ebola risk is always there".
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 17, 2014

Amid Japan spying report, China mum on whereabouts of its ambassador to Iceland

China's Foreign Ministry refused to say on Wednesday where its ambassador to Iceland was or who was even representing Beijing in the country, following reports he had been arrested by state security for passing secrets to Japan.
JAPAN / Politics / CABINET INTERVIEW
Sep 17, 2014

Foreign Ministry officials to meet with abductees' families

Japan's newly appointed minister in charge of the abduction issue says the government will arrange a meeting on Friday with families of the victims, in response to their request for a direct explanation about the status of negotiations with North Korea.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Sep 17, 2014

Basketball star Oh reflects on journey to Japan

Asako Oh, a Japan women's basketball national team center, balked at enrolling in a Japanese high school about a decade ago. Now she has no regrets about her decision.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Sep 17, 2014

Fear of flying: What to do when trapped next to a weirdo?

Airlines advise us what to do in in-flight emergencies, but what should you do if you get seated beside a nutter?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Sep 17, 2014

Tokyo Ballet's 'Don Quixote' revels in its Russian roots

From its inception, the ballet "Don Quixote" has been a global collaboration.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media
Sep 17, 2014

No use fighting the tide of online journalism, experts say

Major news organizations in Japan have been somewhat insulated from the seismic shift taking place in online journalism around the world. Helped by their still strong, if waning, presence in print, Japan's five national newspaper companies, each boasting millions of copies in daily circulation, have...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Sep 16, 2014

Haioka wants to represent Japanese style at RBMA

By his own admission, Shintaro Haioka was a late bloomer. The 32-year-old producer, one of only two Japanese artists taking part in the upcoming Red Bull Music Academy Tokyo, says he was an avid music fan as a teenager — but a lousy musician.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Sep 16, 2014

Luminous Orange's Rie Takeuchi soars with a little help from her friends

Though often referred to as a "shoegaze band," Luminous Orange's Rie Takeuchi says she is neither of those two things.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 16, 2014

Scottish referendum asking the wrong question

By allowing the Sept. 18 referendum question to be framed as 'Should Scotland be an independent country?' the U.K. government may have unwittingly skewed the outcome in favor of a 'yes' vote.
WORLD
Sep 15, 2014

Uganda seizes explosives, suicide vests from suspected al-Shabaab cell

Police in Kampala seized "substantial amounts of explosives" and suicide vests in raids on a suspected al-Shabaab cell that was planning an imminent attack, a Ugandan official said in an interview on Sunday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Sep 14, 2014

Cinderella sisters: cats named Clarinda and Lonsdale

They don't get much prettier than these two young ladies, the tricolored Clarinda and her sister, Lonsdale. Now about 4½ months old, the two were found when they were only around 6 weeks old in a cardboard box dumped heartlessly in the trash.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 14, 2014

Ford's exit from Toronto mayoral race gives his older brother, the power behind the throne, a crack at the top job

The withdrawal of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and the entry of his older brother in the election race has turned the spotlight from a volatile man who had admitted smoking crack cocaine to his less charismatic but steadier sibling, long seen as the power behind the throne.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Sep 13, 2014

Waking up to child abuse

With reported cases of child abuse topping 70,000 per annum for the first time in August, Masami Ito examines the nation's changing attitudes toward violence at home.
EDITORIALS
Sep 13, 2014

Test scores can't tell all about kids

The education ministry's decision to make public, prefecture by prefecture, the average scores of annual nationwide achievement tests carried out in April for junior high and elementary school students is problematic.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / CHILD'S PLAY
Sep 12, 2014

For toddlers, Anpanman doesn't have a use-by date

He has a big red nose, two rosy cheeks and an edible head that is regularly rebaked in his uncle's oven.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 12, 2014

Faster trials of Xinjiang terrorism cases urged by China prosecutor

A call by China's top prosecutor for swifter trials of "terrorists, religious extremists and makers of firearms and explosives" in the troubled region of Xinjiang threatens to fuel abuse of suspects' rights, a human rights group said Friday.

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