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BASKETBALL
Dec 31, 2015

Kawabuchi using strength to spark basketball revival

Japanese basketball marked an unprecedented dark year in 2015 as its national governing body was suspended by FIBA. It was a tough penalty handed down in November 2014.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 31, 2015

Why Abe's 'womenomics' program isn't working

There is a contradiction between the demands of 'womenomics' and Abe's call for women to have more babies.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 31, 2015

Moving Saudi Arabia's economy beyond oil

Weaning Saudi Arabia's economy off oil will not be easy. But there are encouraging early signs about the government's focus, energy, and determination.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 30, 2015

A common thread in 2015's list of ludicrousness

Some of America's most ludicrous events in 2015 were the result of a collapse of judgment in, and the infantilization of society by, government.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS / MAN ABOUT SPORTS
Dec 29, 2015

Criteria for College Football Playoff too convoluted

The more things change in the chase for the U.S. collegiate football title, the more they stay the same.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 29, 2015

Giant squid wows Toyama and then the web

A rare encounter with a giant squid was caught on video when the mysterious creature from the deep emerged at a marina in the city of Toyama on Christmas Eve.
JAPAN
Dec 29, 2015

Reporters Without Borders retracts Yasuda hostage comments

France-based Reporters Without Borders withdraws comments claiming a Japanese freelance journalist is being held hostage by an armed group in Syria, following criticism the premature announcement may have endangered his life.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 29, 2015

New book says Zhou Enlai, China's first premier, was 'probably gay'

A book to be published in Hong Kong in the new year says Zhou Enlai, communist China's much-respected first premier, was probably gay despite his long marriage, and had once been in love with a male schoolmate two years his junior.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 29, 2015

Germany is right to flout Russia sanctions

Germany has rallied Europe in support of Ukraine-related sanctions against Russia, but has been less diligent in their implementation.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 29, 2015

Solving America's stubborn poverty problem

To succeed, any new war on poverty in America must reverse several socially corrosive trends.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 29, 2015

Texas driver tossed by tornado thought 'I'm dead'

The wind was whipping and debris flew around his pickup truck when Gary Tucker saw a tornado that was about to lift his vehicle about 20 feet (6 meters) off the ground and toss it like a toy.
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JAPAN
Dec 29, 2015

Online school aims to help students find their calling as they prepare to enter university

Former teacher Hirokazu Okuhira is concerned that the current education system in Japan is more about rote learning than helping students find career paths and nurturing human resources with the professional skills truly needed in today's society.
BASKETBALL
Dec 28, 2015

Crews dazzles in Grouses' victory over HeatDevils

Seven days after making 11 of 11 shots from the field in a game against the Kanazawa Samuraiz, forward Duke Crews delivered another jaw-dropping offensive performance for the Toyama Grouses.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Dec 28, 2015

Remembering men we loved (and one we 'lost') in 2015

2015 was the year the Nihon danji (Japanese male) came through for us.
BASKETBALL / ONE-ON-ONE WITH ...
Dec 28, 2015

Pomare confident Samuraiz can beat odds

The Japan Times features periodic interviews with players in the bj-league. Gyno Pomare of the expansion Kanazawa Samuraiz is the subject of this week's profile.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 28, 2015

Trump's machismo may not work against Hillary

Donald Trump's macho posturing has taken him to the top of the GOP's presidential contenders, but that tactic could backfire on him if he employs it against Hillary Clinton.
EDITORIALS
Dec 28, 2015

Time for serious electoral reform

Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers from rural areas are already gearing up to fight much-needed electoral reform to reduce the vote disparity between rural and urban areas.
COMMENTARY / Japan / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Dec 28, 2015

'Allegiance' and what it meant

The road to immigration and assimilation in America has been at times tortuous, as shown by the U.S.' treatment of Japanese nationals and Japanese-Americans during World War II.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 28, 2015

Pumping more money into schools is no panacea

Government preoccupation with spending on education is a distraction from more fundamental issue.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Dec 28, 2015

Kin call on police, mayor to answer for fatal shootings of two black Chicagoans

The families of two black Chicagoans killed by police on Sunday accused officers of having used excessive force and Mayor Rahm Emanuel of having failed them, piling pressure on a city facing a U.S. federal probe over possible racial bias in policing.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 28, 2015

Banned-for-life Salvadoran national soccer player Alfredo Pacheco gunned down at gas station

Alfredo Pacheco, a soccer player who played for the Salvadoran national side before being banned from the sport for life for his involvement in match-fixing, was murdered on Sunday, the Salvadoran attorney general's office said.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LABOR PAINS
Dec 27, 2015

Japan's culture and courts need to get with the program on overtime

Practice and precedent fly in the face of government slogans about achieving 'work-life balance' and reducing Japan's excessively long work hours.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 27, 2015

U.N. improves its leadership selection process

The selection of the new secretary-general is arguably one of the most important decisions that the international community will make for the next 10 years.

Longform

Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers