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Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Dec 26, 2020

Cow design collaborations to steer 2021 in the right direction

“On Design” looks to 2021, the Year of the Ox (or cow, depending on who you ask), with a few design collaborations featuring the auspicious bovine.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Dec 24, 2020

Fables inspired by life in lockdown resonate with Japanese readers

Barry Yourgrau's struggle to cope with life during the COVID-19 pandemic inspired a burst of creative writing, which culminated in a book of short stories that became a hit in Japan.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 22, 2020

New tricks and old truths for the world’s second oldest profession: spying

The SolarWinds attack was a supply chain hack. One of the most successful U.S. espionage programs of the Cold War was a 20th-century version of this attack.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 19, 2020

Trump’s future: Tons of cash and plenty of options for spending it

Donald J. Trump will exit the White House as a private citizen next month perched atop a pile of campaign cash unheard-of for an outgoing president, and with few legal limits on how he can spend it.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 16, 2020

How China's coal industry is fighting to survive in a greener world

Before long, an uncomfortable truth could push to the forefront: China's national target of reaching net-zero emissions might not be compatible with another generation of coal.
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Dec 10, 2020

Can Japan keep up in the 21st-century space race?

With surprisingly few international treaties governing space activities, Japan has an opportunity to step up and take a leadership role.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 8, 2020

Has Bacardi solved the world’s plastic problem?

Various types of plastic react differently during the recycling process. If two different types are mixed together, the output will be a mishmash of limited economic value.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Dec 5, 2020

‘Family Crests of Japan’: For the miniaturist who appreciates fine details

This comprehensive overview of Japanese family crests delves into the motifs and geometries that fill even the simplest designs with meaning.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 5, 2020

COVID-19 survivors with long-term symptoms need urgent attention, experts say

There is an urgent need to address long-term symptoms of the coronavirus, leading U.S. public health officials said this week, warning that hundreds of thousands of Americans and millions of people worldwide might experience lingering problems that could impede their ability to work and function normally....
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Dec 4, 2020

He escaped death as a kamikaze pilot. 70 years later, he told his story.

Kazuo Odachi hid his wartime past from almost everyone, but finally published his memoirs, which were recently released in English.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 3, 2020

Issey Miyake and New Balance tie-ups take textiles to the next level

Exhibitions showcasing the fashion brands' creative collaborations with artists highlight the evolution of fabrics.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Nov 28, 2020

Material Market finds beauty in recycling Japan’s craft waste

With a slick, minimalist design, Material Market is one of the few ventures in Japan that allows the general public to purchase craft waste materials.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 25, 2020

A festival of new Asian art, seeking a direction

You could find reasons for both enthusiasm and skepticism when Asia Society announced last year that it would present a triennial of contemporary art, centered on art from what the organizers called "Asia and the world.”
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 25, 2020

‘Tezuka’s Barbara’: A dazzlingly dull descent into madness

Macoto Tezka's adaptation of his father's racy 1970s manga is visually intoxicating, but liable to leave viewers with a hangover.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 25, 2020

Climate scientists turn Mount Everest into a lab

Climate science started on mountaintops. John Tyndall was a mid-19th-century British scientist and devoted mountaineer who scaled several Continental peaks, making the first recorded trip up Switzerland's Weisshorn. He sketched out the glaciers he saw there, and how they moved. By 1859, he’d become...
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 25, 2020

Evidence builds that an early mutation made the pandemic harder to stop

There is no evidence that a coronavirus with the mutation causes more severe symptoms, kills more people or complicates the development of vaccines.
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Nov 24, 2020

Let's discuss what banks are doing with our personal data

A Bloomberg piece looks at Mizuho's new business, which leads to a discussion on what companies can do with your personal data.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Nov 19, 2020

In Indonesia, making of a mayor sparks talk of nation's newest dynasty

The political aspirations of the president's son have raised suspicions that the leader is forming a new dynasty to elbow its way in among Indonesia's old elites.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Nov 16, 2020

How a human rights angel lost her halo

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi has turned into an apologist for the very generals who once locked her up, downplaying their murderous campaign against the Rohingya Muslim minority.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 15, 2020

Building back a better trans-Atlantic alliance

Trump may just be the accidental father of European sovereignty
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Nov 10, 2020

Scientists watch as glaciers in China melt at 'shocking' pace

Glaciers in China's bleak Qilian mountains are disappearing at a shocking rate as global warming brings unpredictable change and raises the prospect of crippling, long-term water shortages, scientists say.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Nov 9, 2020

Kenzo Takada: The fashion industry mourns the loss of a dreamer

Takada was the first Japanese designer to gain international success out of Paris's fashion industry, making his designs accessible and affordable.
Special Supplements
Nov 9, 2020

Tokyo government making efforts to mitigate climate change and meet UN SDGs

The Earth is facing a crisis due to climate change that leads to extreme weather such as torrential rains, intensified typhoon damage and deadly heat waves occurring simultaneously around the world. Reducing emissions is one of the urgent actions that global society must take to address climate change....
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Nov 7, 2020

Japan's students struggle to embrace online learning amid COVID-19

Japan's university students have had a rough six months and the immediate future isn’t looking much brighter.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 6, 2020

South Korean 'sparrows' try to cap surge of throwaway plastic

At a workshop in Seoul, two environmental activists melt down old plastic bottle caps that thousands of volunteers known as "sparrows" have collected in a bid to fight a tide of plastic the novel coronavirus has helped unleash.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 4, 2020

In China, big tech isn't the enemy. It's the strategy.

China is redoubling efforts to wean itself off foreign companies, with the result likely to be a cohort of domestic giants and a slow freeze-out of overseas competitors.
Japan Times
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Nov 4, 2020

Sumo stables housed in older structures becoming rare sight

The demolition of the Izutsu Beya stable building, one of the more run-down in the sport, got underway Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 4, 2020

Contact tracers eye cluster-busting to tackle COVID-19's new surge

As the pandemic worsens in the U.S. and Europe, an approach that has seen success in Japan gains interest.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Oct 24, 2020

A #MeToo awakening stirs in Iran

Three years into the global #MeToo movement, women who say they have been sexually assaulted are improbably going public in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Japan stands its ground after Trump letter delivers 25% U.S. tariff shock
U.S. President Donald Trump (left) and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick at Morristown Airport, New Jersey, on Sunday. Trump on Monday sent letters to 12 countries notifying them of new "reciprocal" tariff rates effective Aug. 1.
Japan to set up 'control tower' for crimes by foreign residents
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.
China’s housing crisis is worse than it seems
Residential buildings under construction in Shanghai in July 2022. The Chinese government risks long-term decline by repeating Japan’s policy mistakes in handling its real estate and demographic crises.
Over 800 people found to be involved in TOEIC cheating scheme
An English conversation test paper and bubble answer sheet. A Chinese graduate student from Kyoto University is suspected of having attempted to use a small microphone under a mask to tell other takers of a popular English-language proficiency test the correct answers.
Japan braces for more quakes as authorities dismiss doomsday hype
Evacuees from Akuseki Island, located in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecuture, arrive at Kagoshima Port on Friday.
From the Abes to the Ohtanis: How siblings shape athletic development
Olympic judoka Uta Abe (second from left) and Hifumi Abe (second from right) with their brother Yuichiro (center) and their parents. “I’m always consciously trying to be a good older brother,” Yuichiro said.
Foreign nationals' presence in Japan emerges as key issue in Upper House poll
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers a campaign speech next to a Liberal Democratic Party candidate for the Upper House (top center left) in Yokohama on Sunday.
Scams involving police impersonation surge
A video by the National Police Agency warns about fake scams.
Lawson to let visitors use larger parking lots as paid car campsites
A Lawson convenience store in Yachiyo, Chiba Prefecture. A new service from the company comes amid the rise in inbound tourists, making hotels and inns harder to book and more expensive.
The future is bright inside the visionary mind of architect Sou Fujimoto
The exhibition of Fujimoto’s architecture surveys his career to date, as well as looks ahead as shown in his proposal of a future floating city designed in collaboration with data scientist Hiroaki Miyata.

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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Mount Fuji is considered one of Japan's most iconic symbols and is a major draw for tourists. It's still a mountain, though, and potential hikers need to properly prepare for any climb.
What it takes to save lives on Mount Fuji
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