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JAPAN / History / THE LIVING PAST
Apr 14, 2018

Ando Shoeki: He who dared anger the gods

A mind like Shoeki Ando — bold, mischievous, unconventional, borderline crackpot, one might almost say — is worth probing, if only for those qualities, let alone for his ideas, which leave the mainstream so far behind that the word 'evil' has been attached to him.
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Rugby
Apr 14, 2018

Blues drop Sunwolves to 0-7

The Sunwolves let an early lead slip through their fingers to remain winless after seven games of the Super Rugby season after a 24-10 defeat to New Zealand's Blues on Saturday.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 13, 2018

Preventing another Moritomo scandal

The Moritomo Gakuen scandal — concerning the sale of an 8,770-square-meter government-owned property in Osaka Prefecture for ¥134 million, or a mere 14 percent of its appraisal value, for the construction of a new elementary school for which the first lady, Akie Abe, was an honorary principal —...
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BASKETBALL / B. League / B. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Apr 12, 2018

Rookie guard Tatsuya Ito's solid game helps Kyoto make playoffs

Tatsuya Ito is enjoying a solid rookie season for the Kyoto Hannaryz.
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BUSINESS
Apr 12, 2018

Ex-Speaker John Boehner morphs from strong marijuana foe to pot industry adviser

The U.S. marijuana industry has a new spokesman: John Boehner.
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COMMENTARY / World
Apr 10, 2018

Don't be shocked at spies tracking your cellphone

The 'stingray' discovery in Washington is a reminder of how much data we're giving away
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ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 9, 2018

Holy smokes: South Korean envoy reportedly told Kim to kick cigarette habit

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, a notoriously heavy smoker, was advised by South Korean National Security Council chief Chung Eui-yong to quit smoking during their meeting early last month — an exchange that left Kim's onetime spy chief reportedly frozen in terror over how the supreme leader might...
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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Apr 4, 2018

In Japan, who do you think you are? Fun and games with foreign names in katakana

Katakana renderings of non-Japanese names can cause a raft of problems if spelling issues are allowed to fester.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Apr 4, 2018

Artist Rob Judges: A boombox of creativity

Inspired by retro vibes, hip-hop, street slang and graffiti, artist Rob Judges says be unique and don't succumb to all the new tech of today.
LIFE / Lifestyle
Mar 31, 2018

Will Japan ever join the great Easter egg hunt?

A year ago, J-pop star Kyary Pamyu Pamyu released a song with lyrics and a promotional video that were as saccharine as a chocolate bunny. The song was titled "Easta" — a play on Easter and "a good start" in Japanese — and the video had dancing eggs, capybaras and fried-egg UFOs shooting laser beams....
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COMMENTARY / World
Mar 27, 2018

Poisoning demonstrates Brexit's threat to the security of Britain

Brexiteers must realize a 'Britain alone' is a 'Britain vulnerable.'
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LIFE / Food & Drink
Mar 24, 2018

Good libations: Examining the evolution of Japan's rich cocktail culture

The art of the cocktail is indisputably non-Japanese. The word itself is old American slang for a pick-me-up, referring in modern parlance to any mixed drink containing liquor and at least one other ingredient. Even if you aren't a drinker, chances are you can name quite a few: the martini, the Manhattan,...
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LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Mar 19, 2018

In written Japanese, it's punctuation, but not as we know it

Needless to say, Japanese has its own set of punctuation marks, and a number of special rules regarding their usage.
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BASKETBALL / B. League
Mar 18, 2018

SeaHorses beat Sunrockers for 12th straight win

The SeaHorses Mikawa opened the season with a road loss to the defending champion Tochigi Brex in late September.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / The Big Questions
Mar 18, 2018

Long journey on winding road leads back to Japan

The welcome that Brad Bennett, senior vice president, Chubb Group and regional president, Far East, received when he first visited Japan in 1979 was textbook rock and roll.
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CULTURE / Film
Mar 14, 2018

'Sakura Guardian in the North': A melodrama 'Sayurists' can be proud of

Sayuri Yoshinaga is the last star of Japan's postwar studio era to still be a box-office force. Playing a pure-hearted teen in films for Nikkatsu in the 1960s, she attracted a huge, mainly male, following known as "Sayurists."
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ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Mar 14, 2018

New top U.S. diplomat's hawkish views on Iran put North Korea detente in question

U.S. President Donald Trump has again cleaned house, this time firing his top diplomat and replacing him with his hawkish spy chief in a move that could have wide-ranging implications for a planned summit between the American and North Korean leaders slated to take place sometime before the end of May....
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COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Mar 14, 2018

The Japanese lessons of a 'plastic Paddy'

A Briton of Irish stock finds the 'Irishness' he seeks not on the Emerald Isle itself but in the expat pubs of his adopted land.
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COMMENTARY / World
Mar 9, 2018

FDR's gun-control strategy was based on taxes

His administration gave gangsters 3,700 reasons to stop buying machine guns.
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CULTURE / Music
Mar 7, 2018

Bruce Foxton on breaking up and moving on after The Jam

Bruce Foxton pauses for thought. "How would I describe what I'm doing? I suppose I'm flying the flag for those great songs."
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WORLD / Politics
Mar 3, 2018

Setting out Brexit vision, May asks EU to show flexibility

Prime Minister Theresa May urged the European Union on Friday to show more flexibility in talks on its future relationship with the U.K. after Brexit, saying Britain realizes it cannot get all it wants but believes an ambitious trade deal is still possible.
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CULTURE / Stage
Mar 1, 2018

Living and breathing history, through noh

Noh performer Hisa Uzawa has spent her life devoted to an art form that — with its slow and steady movements, sparse staging and ancient chanting — may at first seem staid. In her hands, however, the 650-year-old tradition becomes relentlessly contemporary.
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CULTURE / Film
Feb 28, 2018

Kazuo Hara returns to form as a documentary filmmaker with 'Sennan Asbestos Disaster'

Kazuo Hara became famous — some would say notorious — for the documentaries he made about individuals who defied Japanese social norms and laws.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Feb 26, 2018

In Japan's Diet, is there such a thing as too much time for questions?

It may be hard to find a workplace more rife with inefficiency and inertia than the national Diet.
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COMMENTARY / World
Feb 25, 2018

The future of Putin's illusion

How Russia's president will prepare for 2024, when he will be constitutionally barred from running again?
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COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Feb 21, 2018

What Trump's tax reforms mean for Americans in Japan

Changes under the U.S. Republican administration are likely to affect the bottom line for individuals and companies here alike.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 12, 2018

The absence of the dame moto mentality

Telling a Japanese person to 'go for it' is unlikely to get the response you want.
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WORLD / Politics
Feb 10, 2018

Trump signs deal to end brief agency shutdown and boost U.S. spending

A brief U.S. government shutdown ended on Friday after Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed into law a temporary spending deal expected to push budget deficits past $1 trillion annually with new military and domestic outlays.
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BUSINESS
Feb 5, 2018

H.I.S. plans eight more robot-staffed Henn na Hotels across Japan

Travel agency H.I.S. Co. is eyeing an ambitious plan to build eight more android-staffed Henn na Hotels in addition to the one it opened in Tokyo's high-end Ginza shopping district on Thursday.
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WORLD / Politics
Feb 4, 2018

U.K. will not 'surrender' over bespoke Brexit deal with EU, minister says

Britain will not "surrender" in its fight to win a bespoke deal with the European Union that would offer tariff-free trade as well as control over immigration, a minister said on Sunday before a crunch week for the government in Brexit negotiations.

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