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JAPAN
Mar 29, 2001

Worker's comp urged for train station hero

The parents of a South Korean man killed by a train in Tokyo on Jan. 26 have applied to the government for workers' insurance, the man's former employer said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2001

Funeral rites held for men killed in failed station rescue

Funeral rites were held for two men who were killed by a train Friday night when trying to rescue a drunken man who had fallen off the platform onto the tracks at JR Shin-Okubo Station on Tokyo's Yamanote Line.
JAPAN
Jan 25, 2001

Japanese astronauts get go-ahead for space station

Two Japanese men were officially recognized as astronauts on Wednesday by The National Space Development Agency of Japan, making them eligible to take part in the International Space Station project.
JAPAN
Jan 9, 2001

Man stabs vendor at Tokyo station

Police arrested a 63-year-old man Monday for robbery and assault after he stabbed a male shop clerk near the Yaesu central exit of JR Tokyo Station.
JAPAN
Dec 5, 2000

Biker sues Osaka TV station for staging role in rampage

OSAKA -- An imprisoned motorcycle gang leader filed a 23 million yen damages suit against an Osaka TV station Monday, claiming he was sent to prison for a reckless driving incident that was staged for a program by the broadcaster.
JAPAN
Feb 13, 1998

Homeless at Shinjuku station move out of cardboard village

The end may be near for a row of cardboard dwellings in the underground concourse at Tokyo's JR Shinjuku Station.
JAPAN
Mar 6, 1997

Hong Kong unit wins Tokyo Station plot for 86.8 billion yen

A 4,854-sq. meter plot in front of of JR Tokyo Station's Yaesu exit was auctioned Mar. 6 by JNR Settlement Corp. to a Japanese unit of a Hong Kong-based investment group for 86.8 billion yen.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 20, 2023

Climate change thaws world's northernmost research station

Around the tiny town of Ny-Aalesund, scientific data is getting harder to access, sometimes vanishing before scientists can collect it.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 21, 2021

Russia just created a cloud of bullets in space

It's important to look at Russia's use of a missile to destroy a satellite in the context of the increasing weaponization of the cosmos.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Sep 5, 2020

Hasegawa Saketen Gransta: A sake lover's boon beneath Tokyo Station

Hasegawa Saketen's reborn Tokyo Station branch is larger, sleeker and even better stocked. It even boasts a new in-house sake microbrewery.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 6, 2020

About 350 U.S. evacuees from virus-hit Chinese city land at California air base

Two planes carrying about 350 Americans out of Wuhan, China, arrived at a U.S. military base in California on Wednesday, in Washington's latest effort to bring its citizens home from the epicenter of the fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 4, 2019

'Sakata Kazuo: Recoup Lost Ground'

Dec. 7-Jan. 26, 2020
CULTURE / Books / RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS ABOUT JAPAN
May 25, 2019

'Zainichi Literature' review: What is the nature of exile?

A product of postwar Japan and virtually unknown internationally, Zainichi literature often explores the nature of exile and the conflict of identity between homes.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Mar 30, 2019

Room with a view

'Is the ISS (International Space Station) a hotel for astronauts?'
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 21, 2019

American activist against the Futenma relocation plan questioned at Kansai airport for two hours upon arrival

An American activist who has collected over 210,000 signatures for a petition calling for the suspension of land reclamation work to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma within Okinawa Prefecture was questioned by authorities for almost two hours shortly after his arrival in Japan on Tuesday....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 15, 2018

'Takehisa Yumeji: Master of Japanese Modern Illustration'

May 19-July 1
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Apr 1, 2018

China says Tiangong 1 space station to re-enter Earth's atmosphere on Monday

China's Tiangong 1 spacecraft will re-enter the Earth's atmosphere at some point on Monday, China's space agency said in a statement.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 27, 2018

'Kengo Kuma: A Lab for Materials'

March 3-May 6
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 9, 2017

Marseille attacker's brother arrested in Italy for terror links

Italian police said on Sunday they had arrested the brother of Anis Hannachi, the Tunisian man who killed two young women with a knife outside the Marseille train station a week ago in a suspected terrorist act.
JAPAN
Sep 28, 2017

Endangered coral found in Okinawa landfill construction site at U.S. base off Henoko

A type of coral on Japan's list of endangered species has been found in waters off the Henoko district in Okinawa, where landfill-related construction is underway for the planned replacement of a key U.S. military base within the prefecture, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday.
CULTURE / Art
Sep 5, 2017

'Marc Chagall: The Third Dimension'

Sept. 16-Dec. 3

Longform

After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan