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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 8, 2018

Japan's decarbonization challenge

Japan should not pursue decarbonization as a duty, but rather as a means of improving its national energy security.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Jun 7, 2018

Online shopping drives air freight profits higher despite protectionism fears

An explosion in e-commerce demand is buoying the air freight business, boosting profit at some major airlines despite global trade tensions and underscoring robust consumer confidence.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jun 6, 2018

Navigating our way through Broadway's biggest night

The 72nd annual Tony Awards are being presented at New York City's storied Radio City Music Hall on June 11 (8 a.m. Japan time), but that doesn't mean those of us in Japan have to miss out.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 4, 2018

The 'Indo-Pacific' is nothing new

The regional concept has a lengthy past.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jun 4, 2018

U.S. trade deficit with Japan not necessarily the bugbear painted by Trump

The protectionist tune on trade that U.S. President Donald Trump often sings is hardly a unique problem for Japanese policymakers who have long faced pressure over Japan's strength in exporting everything from vehicles to video games all over the globe.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 3, 2018

Architecture in Japan: A storied history built firmly on wooden foundations

'Japan in Architecture: Genealogies of its Transformation' is now showing at the Mori Art Museum.
WORLD
Jun 3, 2018

U.N. special rapporteur says American poverty is deepening under Trump

Poverty in the United States is extensive and is deepening under the Trump administration whose policies seem aimed at removing the safety net from millions of poor, while rewarding the rich, a U.N. human rights investigator has found.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jun 2, 2018

Market forces in Japan failing to tackle growing plastics problem

Last month, news outlets all over the world reported on the discovery of a plastic shopping bag at the bottom of the Mariana Trench near the Philippines, the deepest point in the Earth’s oceans. The discovery was made by a group of Japanese researchers studying images from deep-sea exploration projects,...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 2, 2018

Modi threads path between rising China and an uncertain U.S. at first Shangri-La Dialogue appearance

U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis described India as the "fulcrum" of security in the Indo-Pacific region as he traveled this week to an annual security conference in Singapore, attended for the first time by an Indian leader.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 1, 2018

'Smart crops' replacing rice as Asian wealth and health grow

Lunchtime in Taipei's Ximending district is a test of wills and patience as tourists and locals jostle at restaurants and street stalls to choose from steamed and fried dumplings, flat and thin noodles, stuffed pancakes, grilled foods and desserts.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 31, 2018

Did John Bolton try to sink the Trump-Kim summit?

U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton detests professional diplomats as gutless appeasers, and has yet to meet an arms control agreement he likes or a crisis that cannot be solved by bombing the enemy.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
May 30, 2018

From a POW camp to esteemed music halls nationwide: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 marks 100 years in Japan

It's rare that a concert has so much impact that people still talk about it 100 years later. However, that's certainly the case for a performance a century ago by some German prisoners of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in Tokushima Prefecture. It was the masterpiece's first performance in a country...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 29, 2018

The EU's Italian nightmare

If the new administration in Rome keeps its nerve and will, it is committed to a strategy of confrontation with the union it helped found and now may destroy.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / IDEAS IN ACTION
May 29, 2018

Infostellar aims to knit together a global network of satellite antenna stations

Ever since broadband internet access prevailed throughout the world, constant connectivity has been vital to every part of people's lives.
JAPAN / History / Defining the Heisei Era
May 26, 2018

Defining the Heisei Era: Japan indulges in excess

The Japan Times presents the first installment of a monthly 12-part series that looks back at the leading issues of the past three decades.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
May 26, 2018

Twenty-five years on, Alan Booth's voice is brought back to life

'This Great Stage of Fools' offers a collection of Alan Booth's uncollected journalism and writings between 1979 and his untimely death in 1993. Booth is be considered one of the greatest writers on Japan of his generation.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
May 25, 2018

North Korea summit cancellation seen as setback to deal-maker Trump

President Donald Trump drew gasps at the United Nations General Assembly last September when he threatened to "totally destroy" North Korea.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 23, 2018

Where the water is

Unconventional resources must be embraced to ensure universal access to clean water and sanitation.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / Wide Angle
May 23, 2018

Young filmmakers looking to follow in Hirokazu Kore-eda's footsteps have their work cut out for them

Hirokazu Kore-eda joins a list of Japanese master filmmakers after winning the top prize at Cannes. The road he took to get to this point, however, is not an easy one to copy.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 23, 2018

In power-hungry Philippines, some advocate a nuclear revival

Filipino Wilfredo Torres was hired as a technician for Southeast Asia's only nuclear power plant in the 1980s but has spent the past decade giving guided tours at the never-used facility.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 21, 2018

The missing piece in Macron's Asia vision: Japan

It is time for France to become truly aware of the major economic and strategic role that Tokyo is playing in the region and beyond.
COMMENTARY / World
May 21, 2018

The return of the old capitalism?

Compared with those of the 19th century, many of today's economic advances and upheavals seem mild.

Longform

Koichi Tagawa’s diary entry from Aug. 9, 1945, describes the day of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
The horrors of Nagasaki, in first person