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COMMUNITY / Issues / LAW OF THE LAND
Feb 7, 2018

A year in the (short) life of Japan's Cabinet

Early each year, Law of the Land likes to reflect on what one of Japan's three branches of government did the previous one. This time we'll look at the surprisingly durable Shinzo Abe habitat known as the Cabinet.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Feb 7, 2018

Bringing the great outdoors to Japan's underserved children

Almost 39,000 children are under government supervision in Japan, and 85 percent are institutionalized in various homes around the nation, according to Human Rights Watch. Last August, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare made good on its 2016 revisions to the Child Welfare Act by announcing a new...
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BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2018

Young operators turn to social media to revive Tokyo's sento neighborhood bathhouses

Younger operators of sento (public bathhouses) in Tokyo are breathing new life into the facilities, which have long helped residents in communities feel refreshed and relaxed.
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WORLD
Feb 6, 2018

Syria regime airstrikes pound last rebel strongholds and hospitals, allegedly choke civilians with gas

Warplanes launched heavy attacks on the two last major rebel-held areas in Syria, killing at least 29 people in the Ghouta suburb near the capital and choking people with gas in Idlib in the northwest, rescue workers and a war monitor said on Monday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / MBA SPECIAL 2018
Feb 5, 2018

Japan's No. 1 MBA

GLOBIS University is Japan's largest business school (No. 1 in enrollment, 2017 MEXT data), offering Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree programs in the heart of Tokyo and online.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Feb 3, 2018

Model children: Taking a behind-the-scenes look at the world of youth modeling

In a set design that could double as a Mad Hatter's tea party, 10-year-old Kiina Matsunaga sits wrapped in a pink blanket pouring tea for a white rabbit. The tiny blue cups match the color of her psychedelic hair. A photographer puts down her camera and huddles with the stylist before spending a few...
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JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Feb 3, 2018

Japan Times 1993: Female workers don't like to drink with boss

Japanese women love to drink with friends — provided they are not office colleagues — and hate to drink with their bosses, according to a survey released Sunday.
EDITORIALS
Feb 3, 2018

Victims of the eugenics law

The government has a moral duty to quickly compensate victims of the eugenics law.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Feb 3, 2018

Now or never for Dragons hurler Daisuke Matsuzaka

Daisuke Matsuzaka stepped into the bullpen for the first time during camp on Friday and threw 32 pitches in his still unfamiliar white No. 99 Chunichi Dragons uniform.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League / HOOP SCOOP
Feb 2, 2018

B. League boosts Kumamoto recovery

Sometimes, the combined efforts of government officials, volunteers, local residents and sports leagues team up to produce a certifiable winner.
JAPAN
Feb 2, 2018

Tokyo takes more steps to deal with Sanchi oil spill

Japan steps up measures to deal with what has been described as potentially one of the worst oil spills in decades before it taints Kyushu and Okinawa.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / BACKSTREET STORIES
Feb 2, 2018

On the hunt for Gaien Nishi-dori's taste-makers

In Tokyo, people set up funky cafes with all kinds of sideshows — curry, cats, goats, hedgehogs and maids come to mind — so when I catch a whiff of a good cup of joe escaping from a huge glass and concrete box near Gaienmae Station on Gaien Nishi-dori avenue, I wonder what the gig is.
JAPAN / Society
Jan 31, 2018

'Country of cowards': Comedy duo's political satire stands out in gun-shy Japan

In what was perhaps a make-or-break moment for their careers, comedy duo Woman Rush Hour did something on prime-time television in December that most of their fellow comedians try their best to eschew: They talked about politics.
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CULTURE / TV & Streaming
Jan 31, 2018

1970s Japanese TV series 'Monkey' had a magic that has never been matched

The news that 'Monkey' has been remade by Australia's ABC in a co-production with TV New Zealand and Netflix is likely to cause those in the know to fan two fingers in front of their mouth, Monkey-style, to summon a flying cloud.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jan 31, 2018

U.S. 'cautiously optimistic' over reduction in Philippine extrajudicial killings

The U.S. government is "cautiously optimistic" on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs following a decline in extrajudicial killings, a U.S. senior narcotics official said Tuesday.
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BUSINESS
Jan 31, 2018

Berkshire, Amazon and JPMorgan bosses look to shake up U.S. health care market

It's no secret Jeff Bezos has been looking to crack health care. But no one expected him to pull in Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon, too.
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CULTURE / Art
Jan 30, 2018

Van Gogh's long-distance love affair

"Van Gogh & Japan" concerns a love affair of creative misperceptions between temporally and geographically distant admirers. Van Gogh (1853-1890) never went to Japan, though he idealized it briefly as a utopia in which artists worked communally in converse with nature.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 30, 2018

'In the Atelier: Journeys of Creation by 10 Artists'

Feb. 6-March 25
EDITORIALS
Jan 29, 2018

Cape Town approaches 'Day Zero'

The water woes of South Africa's Cape Town should serve as a lesson for Japan.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language
Jan 29, 2018

In dog-loving Japan, a year for the mutts among us to make our marks

Canine-lovers have plenty to celebrate, what with this year being Inu-doshi, the Year of the Dog).
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Jan 29, 2018

Nagoya group home helps troubled youths build a better path to self-reliance

A nonprofit organization in Nagoya is running a self-reliance assistance home for young delinquents with no place to return to after they leave juvenile correctional facilities.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 28, 2018

Ingvar Kamprad, Ikea's Swedish billionaire founder, dies at 91

Ingvar Kamprad, whose boyhood business of selling pencils and seeds from his bicycle in Sweden eventually grew into the Ikea furniture chain, has died. He was 91.
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MULTIMEDIA
Jan 28, 2018

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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Jan 28, 2018

Launch a tourist-friendly Seto Inland Sea ferry system and they will come

The 250 or so inhabited islands scattered like pebbles between Honshu and Shikoku have been unfairly relegated to guidebook sidebars labeled 'Off the beaten track.'
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Jan 28, 2018

Destined to be: Dog Chucker finds a family in Tokyo

Chucker was first featured here in June, at a time when he had actually already met his family-to-be at an adoption event some months before.
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COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Jan 28, 2018

Japan's shocking decline of rural doctors

A new medical system threatens to deprive residents in rural communities of the opportunity to receive proper medical care.
EDITORIALS
Jan 28, 2018

Right to reside for widows and widowers

The Justice Ministry should ensuring equal treatment to all married couples irrespective of their legal status.
Most Japanese teens struggling with school find end of summer ‘painful’
Some 93.1% of Japanese teenagers who struggle with school life said they felt like they “wanted to disappear from the world" at the end of summer vacation ahead of the start of a new term, according to a recent survey released by Yokohama-based nonprofit Daisan Kazoku.
Philippine bid to acquire used Japanese warships gains steam
Tokyo is looking to transfer Abukuma-class vessels to the Philippines as part of broader efforts to boost the defense capabilities of like-minded neighbors amid growing Chinese military assertiveness in the region.
Mitsubishi’s wind-power retreat a blow to Japan's alternative-energy goals
Wind turbines in the town of Happo in Akita prefecture. Wind power is a key part of Japan's alternative energy drive.
Can anime carry the memories of World War II?
Many schools in Japan show "Grave of the Fireflies" as educational material to tell the emotionally grueling story of a boy who has no means to prevent his sister from starving to death.
Akazawa's trip to Washington for tariff talks abruptly canceled
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's chief tariff negotiator, had been set to fly to Washington on Thursday.
Japan to launch broad review of immigration policies amid rise in foreign nationals
Foreign tourists at Narita Airport in June. A report released Friday stresses that Japan is at a turning point and that current ad-hoc measures on immigration are no longer sufficient.
YouTube Music Weekend is where Japan’s internet-born performers go global
Headlining the second day of YouTube Music Weekend is Vocaloid artist Kikuo, who, with 1.46 million YouTube subscribers, is one of the most popular artists in the genre.
Japan looks to build drone ‘shield’ in record defense budget request
A group of Ground Self-Defense Force service members discuss drone operations and capabilities at a joint static display during the Orient Shield 24 opening ceremony at the Yausubetsu Training Area in Hokkaido in July last year.
Can anime carry the memories of World War II?
Many schools in Japan show "Grave of the Fireflies" as educational material to tell the emotionally grueling story of a boy who has no means to prevent his sister from starving to death.
Jesse Kirkwood: ‘Languages are entire cultural universes with all sorts of baggage’
Jesse Kirkwood is part of a vibrant field of translators who have nurtured what might be called a “post-Murakami era of Japanese literature and translation,” one book at a time.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past
By Alex K.T. Martin

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