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COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 26, 2013

State secrecy bill could have a chilling effect on reporting

The state secrecy bill currently before the Diet could have a chilling effect on news reporting in Japan.
BASEBALL
Nov 26, 2013

Kawakami was Japanese baseball's first Zen master

Most foreign fans of baseball in Japan may not know the name Tetsuharu Kawakami, who passed away recently at the age of 93, but perhaps it's time they did.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society / FOCUS
Nov 24, 2013

Chinese families still at officials' mercy despite one child policy easing

When 36-year-old Lois heard the news that China was relaxing its one child policy, she was delighted and relieved.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Nov 23, 2013

John Durkin: ‘Never compromise your reputation’

What superhero would you most like to be? Ultraman. He was solar-powered before solar power was cool.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / TELLING LIVES
Nov 22, 2013

Putting down roots with Ryukyu Underground

Keith Gordon, the English half of the Okinawan fusion duo, has found his 'spiritual home' on the southern island.
JAPAN
Nov 22, 2013

Inose denies hospital funds coverup

Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose denied Friday that he deliberately whitewashed his annual report on political funds last year and said money he accepted from the scandal-tainted Tokushukai hospital chain before his gubernatorial campaign last December was strictly for "personal purposes."
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 22, 2013

Senate's filibuster change will boost Obama's agenda

The U.S. Senate vote Thursday to lower the barriers for presidential nominations will make it easier for President Barack Obama to accomplish key second-term priorities, including tougher measures on climate change and financial regulation, that have faced intense opposition from Republicans in Congress....
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LIFE / Food & Drink / JAPANESE KITCHEN
Nov 21, 2013

Demand booming for artisanal rice

Rice farmers in Japan are under siege. Heavily protected on various levels by the central government for decades, they've seen the market for their precious crop eroded by cheaper imported rice, and the administration of Shinzo Abe is proposing ending production-rationing and subsidies. It will be interesting...
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WORLD
Nov 20, 2013

Deadly blasts in Lebanon linked to Syrian war, sectarian divisions

The debris-strewn, bloodstained street outside the Iranian Embassy in Beirut lay as mute testimony of another dark day in Lebanon on Tuesday, when nearly two dozen people were killed in a double suicide bombing, the latest in a string of sectarian attacks to blight the country.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 19, 2013

Let's help the Philippines, just not like we helped Haiti

The international community must embrace the technology available to strengthen disaster preparedness, resilience and aid.
EDITORIALS
Nov 18, 2013

Stop squeezing the poor

If a bill revising the Livelihood Protection Law passes, it will lead to more deaths from hunger and suicide. The Abe administration should stop squeezing the poor.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / ON: TECH
Nov 18, 2013

New and old ways to take snapshots, plus other gadgetry for adults and kids

A 'natural' way to lifelog?
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 18, 2013

New Delhi's foreign policy 'own goals' mount

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh scored yet another foreign policy own goal when he boycotted a Commonwealth meeting in Sri Lanka.
EDITORIALS
Nov 16, 2013

Wrongheaded cuts in salaries

The Finance Ministry's recent proposal to cut annual salaries and numbers of teachers at public elementary and junior high schools is mistaken and misguided.
EDITORIALS
Nov 16, 2013

Paltry ranking in human capital

Japanese may be living a long time, but they're not liking work too well. The Human Capital Index report suggests that the level of mental well-being is clearly a problem among workers.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 15, 2013

Study says modern-day dogs closely related to European canines

Amid the harsh, icy lands of ancient Europe, early man found himself an unexpected companion — the snarling, carnivorous wolf — which would eventually become his modern-day counterpart's best furry friend.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 14, 2013

Echoes of an old debate on feminism and individualism

A century ago 'individualism' was a byword for Japan's reforming intelligentsia. To the extent that it served the goals of modernizing the Japanese state, it was acceptable.

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Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years