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Voices | FOREIGN AGENDA May 12, 2019

The crush is coming: Make peace with the train

by Christopher Kunody

One false move on the Tokyo transit system can lead to a nasty lesson in survival of the slickest.

Voices | FOREIGN AGENDA Nov 14, 2018

I feared the crush of the rush, but now my commute completes me

Everybody knows that it is hard to make a good living from writing alone. However, every aspiring writer I've met has thought they might end up as that one-in-a-million exception to the rule. Most learn the hard truth in their 20s, but some have ...

Voices | OVERHEARD Aug 18, 2018

Working holiday in Japan

"There is no o-Bon holiday as far as the Keihin-Tohoku Line (in Tokyo) is concerned."

National Jul 20, 2018

Comfort for the sole: More salarymen opting to wear sneakers on the job

More Japanese are wearing sneakers to work as companies look to improve the health of their employees. In a country where rigid dress codes often place an emphasis on conformity, the sneaker trend can be seen as a breath of fresh air. Numerous kinds of sneakers ...

World / Crime & Legal Dec 21, 2017

In a first, Trump commutes 27-year money-laundering sentence of kosher meatpacking exec

President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of an Iowa kosher meatpacking executive who was sentenced to 27 years in prison for money laundering. The commutation is Trump's first in office and comes following the encouragement of multiple members of congress and other high-ranking ...

Voices | OVERHEARD Aug 26, 2017

Rush hour

"I can't believe that people in Tokyo are in such a hurry to get to work."

National Jun 17, 2015

Tokyo's heaving subway system girds for 2020 Olympics

by Yoshiaki Nohara

It's Monday morning and Tokyo is going back to work. By 8:16 at Shinjuku Station, the world's busiest, lines of waiting commuters overlap with the people looking to go in the opposite direction. The smell of pastries from a bakery wafts over the stream ...

World / Crime & Legal Jan 1, 2015

Last four on Maryland death row to have sentences commuted

Maryland's departing governor said Wednesday he will commute the capital sentences of the state's last four inmates on death row to life in prison, saying executing them "does not serve the public good of the people of Maryland." Two years ago, the state's legislature abolished ...