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JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 19, 2018
Tokyo police officer quits after allegedly giving yakuza she was dating investigative info
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department said a young officer resigned Monday after being suspended and referred to prosecutors for allegedly leaking investigative information to a yakuza she was dating.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Dec 9, 2017
Women unimpressed with advice on how to spend time alone
Women's magazine Ginger Web created a stir in late November by publishing an article that offered single women advice on how to spend time alone.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Dec 2, 2017
Women in Japan too tired to care about dating or searching for a partner
While Japanese society and the media continue to exhort — nay plead — with women to find marriage partners, 60 percent of eligible women say they cannot feel relaxed enough to get interested in renai (love relationships), according to a Yomeishu survey picked up by cocolini jp.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Aug 27, 2017
How a love of Japan led me to stop dating its women
A British academic concludes that the only way he can truly enjoy and develop his love for Japan is by excluding his love life from the equation.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 20, 2016
Personality first, looks second as Japan's speed-dating hopefuls don surgical masks
Looks aren't everything. At least, that's what one Japanese dating service is trying to prove by requiring participants in speed-dating sessions to wear white surgical masks.
JAPAN
Jan 19, 2016
Court rules pop idol has right to pursue happiness, can date
The Tokyo District Court has rejected a damages suit filed by a talent agency against a former member of an idol pop group for breach of contract because she dated a fan.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / Japan Pulse
Mar 17, 2015
Gokon matchmakers fan the passion with sporting dates
Is the couple that watches sports together the couple that going to stay together? Matchmakers place their bets.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Nov 10, 2014
36,000 don't want 'pick-up artist' Julien Blanc to drop in on Japan
A petition signed by over 36,000 people opposing Julien Blanc's entry into Japan has been submitted to the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau, claiming that he is a criminal and shouldn't be allowed into the country.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Nov 5, 2014
Let's ensure no happy returns to Japan for this vile 'dating coach'
After bragging on a YouTube video about degrading assaults on women in Tokyo, Blanc says he's coming back.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Oct 11, 2014
In-debt idols send wrong message to girls
Two weeks ago a female pop group called The Margarines debuted via a Tokyo news conference. Since Japanese show business has no shortage of young women who want to sing and dance in order to "fulfill their dreams," the new ensemble needed a gimmick.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Mar 22, 2014
Perfect match
Where did you meet your husband?
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 26, 2014
Suit filed over dating, property scam
Twelve victims of dating scams involving investments in luxury apartments file a group suit with the Tokyo District Court, demanding u00a5200 million in total damages from real estate agencies and mortgage lenders.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Nov 9, 2013
Perfect match: Miyakon help singles connect
Despite being located almost a stone's throw from the historic town of Nikko in Tochigi Prefecture and establishing itself as the gyōza capital of Japan, Utsunomiya was languishing in the economic doldrums for the much of the early 2000s.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Nov 9, 2013
Meeting more people improves your chances of finding true love
A boy and a girl meet at a bar or a party, experiencing that special spark that will forever linger in their minds. If they successfully manage to ride out the usual bumps that arise in a typical relationship along the way, they end up tying the knot. Once upon a time, love was simple.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Nov 9, 2013
Find true love on the run at a jogging party
How do you find someone special in Tokyo these days? The answer lies not so much in your heart, but in your feet
LIFE / Digital / JAPAN WEB WATCH
Oct 15, 2013
Japan's social-networking pioneer turns matchmaker
There was a time when the only social network that mattered in Japan was Mixi, but these days, after years of stagnation, it is hardly heard of in daily conversation — being replaced in popularity by rivals such as Gree, Mobage, Twitter, Facebook and most recently Line.
LIFE / Food & Drink / Japan Pulse
Jul 30, 2010
Japan by the numbers (07.29.10)
Somen and gyuunyuu purin win the popular vote in Japan this summer. Thumbs down for bad breath and strong AC.
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Jul 23, 2010
Japan by the numbers (07.23.10)
Polls conclude that older men, 3D TV's and non-smoking women are hot.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Jul 22, 2010
iPhones become ice-breakers at gokon dating parties
iPhones are helping to lubricate the interaction at Japanese gokon dating parties.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Apr 20, 2010
Women enjoy romances with their cell phones
Featuring eight cool guys to play with, “Kimi to Wonder Kiss' joins the glut of cell-phone dating games targeting women.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Saudi Arabia steps up Gaza-related arrests as Israel ties edge closer
The arrests for Gaza-related posts indicate Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s regime will take a hard line against citizens not toeing the line when it comes to normalizing ties with Israel.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
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.

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