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Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 25, 2014
English translation tells tales of 100 Miyagi tsunami survivors
It was the inspiration and eagerness of Hitomi Nakanishi, an Australia-based Japanese scholar, that led to the publication of an English-language book with recollections and photos of the experiences of 100 survivors of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami in and around Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 14, 2014
Earthquake safety book for children wins praise
An illustrated book created by a nonprofit organization in Aichi Prefecture to inform children how to protect themselves in an earthquake is winning wide-ranging praise.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 3, 2014
Fukushima evacuee writes book on ordeal
A woman who fled her hometown near the Fukushima No. 1 power plant during the nuclear crisis in 2011 has published an illustrated book depicting the struggles of those who were forced to relocate by the radioactive fallout.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 26, 2013
Book showcases foreigners, Japanese affected by 3/11
The earthquake and tsunami that hit the Tohoku region on March 11, 2011, left more than 18,000 people dead or missing, including 30 non-Japanese.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 23, 2013
Special hospital meals proving to be popular
Recipe books and cooking schools detailing low-calorie, low-sodium meals designed by hospital dietitians have developed a strong following among cancer patients and other health-conscious consumers.
JAPAN
Nov 8, 2013
Book lays bare transparent life forms
While his publishing firm specializes in volumes on architecture and design, Seiichi Sawai used his clout as company president to recently launch a picture book focusing on an unusual area of personal interest — transparent organisms.
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2013
Minister orders defiant school board to use conservative book
The education minister instructs Okinawa to act over the refusal by a small town's school board to adopt a conservative social studies textbook.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2013
Models tweak skills for survival off the catwalk
Popular models are expanding their skill sets and pursuing interests outside the world of fashion to show there is more to life than strutting up and down the catwalk.
JAPAN
Aug 17, 2013
Israeli moviemaker tracks down Japanese woman featured in '50s picture book
A three-year search by an Israeli filmmaker locates a Japanese woman who, as a girl, featured in a 1956 picture book that has enchanted Israel for half a century.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 7, 2013
Apple offers Japanese e-book service
Apple on Wednesday launched Japanese-language electronic books in Japan, a move likely to further intensify competition with online retailer Amazon.com Inc.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Dec 20, 2012
Old technology a threat to publishers' bottom lines
People who like reading books are increasingly getting over the need to own them.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Oct 19, 2012
Today's J-blip: 'Yurei Attack!'
This little book has all you need to tell killer stories of Japanese ghosts — and to get away from them.
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
Raising kids in Japan as a single parent? It takes a village.
Making things work as a foreign, single mother in Japan isn't easy, but these tips and tricks can help you through the hardest parts.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
In Japan, regional revitalization fails to halt population decline
Sakiyama elementary school in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, in March .Over the past decade, the government has directed efforts toward policies designed to give young people incentives to base themselves in rural areas.
Putin’s war will soon reach Russians’ tax bills
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting in St. Petersburg on Friday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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