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EXPATS

COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Nov 8, 2018
Views from Tokyo: Should Japan follow Canada and legalize recreational marijuana?
What do Tokyoites and tourists think of Canada legalizing pot for recreational use? Could or should it ever happen in Japan?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / COMMUNITY CHEST
Nov 4, 2018
An empty space on a Japanese train, a full mailbox of diverse views on the 'gaijin seat'
Baye McNeil's recent Black Eye column on the 'gaijin seat' garnered a great deal of attention. Here are some readers' responses.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LABOR PAINS
Oct 31, 2018
For work rules in Japan to legally count, employers must hammer them home
Court precedents in Japan have reinforced that work rules lack legal power if they are not easily accessible and known to employees.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Oct 28, 2018
Indian women in Japan struggle to find their niche
After following their husbands to Japan, educated Indian women face obstacles tracking down work that matches their qualifications.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Oct 24, 2018
My husband is not my baby's father. Can my child take the dad's name?
A reader writes in to Lifelines asking for some advice on issues related to paternity and marriage.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / NEWS IN NIHONGO
Oct 22, 2018
New Japan residence status planned for foreign blue-collar workers
The Justice Ministry has announced the gist of draft revisions to laws including the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act to create two new types of visa.
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Oct 21, 2018
Non-Japanese YouTubers tackle the art of vlogging in the vernacular
Meet the foreign creators using the local language to build a Japanese fan base.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Oct 17, 2018
The empty seat on a crowded Japanese train: 10 years on, the 'gaijin seat' still grates
If you're a conspicuous non-Japanese living in the country, then you've likely experienced the empty-seat phenomenon with varying frequency and intensity.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Oct 14, 2018
Raising kids in Japan, with extra challenges: Foreign parents of children with physical or learning difficulties share their stories
Raising children as a foreign parent here is no picnic, but what about when your child is also coping with physical or learning challenges?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Oct 7, 2018
Views from Hamamatsu: How do you feel about Gaijin Day and the G-word?
Residents of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, the city that hosted Gaijin Day on Sept. 1, were asked what they thought of the name of the event.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Oct 3, 2018
Japan's diverse bunch of disaster volunteers are primed for a warming world
In these polarized times, crises bring together people from a range of backgrounds to spread the word about perils linked to climate change.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / COMMUNITY CHEST
Oct 3, 2018
What does the future hold for Naomi Osaka and Japanese dual nationals?: Readers' views
Some readers' letters in response to the recent Community articles about Japan's first tennis singles Grand Slam champion.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Sep 26, 2018
Views From Tokyo: What is it that makes someone — like Naomi Osaka — Japanese or not?
In the wake of Naomi Osaka's historic triumph in the U.S. Open, The Japan Times asked people what they think makes a person Japanese. Is it parentage, language, culture or a combination of factors?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Sep 23, 2018
'My Year in Japan' books offer reassuring words to armchair travelers, but expats need more
The most successful works remain true to both the author's time abroad and to Japan itself.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Sep 16, 2018
Bilingual project aims to be a springboard to women's empowerment in Japan
A new bilingual program aims to cross language and cultural barriers and help all women move ahead in their professional and personal lives — sharing with and learning from each other in the process.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Sep 12, 2018
This Tokyo Scout's been there, done that, got all the merit badges — and more
Thanks to a rule change, Japan resident Austin Koslow is possibly the most decorated Scout ever in the U.S. branch of the movement.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Sep 10, 2018
Let's discuss Noemi Inoue, Bolivia-born Tokyo councilor
Bolivian-born Noemi Inoue felt it was necessary to naturalize to feel fully integrated in Japanese society and to become the first non-Japan-born person to serve as a city councilor in Tokyo's Sumida Ward.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Sep 5, 2018
Views From Tokyo: What do you think about Mio Sugita's remark that LGBT people are 'unproductive'?
People in the Japanese capital were asked for their thoughts on the position of the LGBT community in Japnese society, in the wake of a ruling party politician's contentious comments.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Sep 2, 2018
Japan according to Don Maloney: Still amusing and relevant, mostly, 40 years on
Irreverent accounts of an American businessman in the 1970s in Tokyo hold up surprisingly well today.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Sep 2, 2018
Don Maloney's 'Never the Twain...?' Japan Times column: some choice cuts from the 1970s
Some excerpts from Don Maloney's 'Japan: It's not all Raw Fish' (1975) and 'Son of Raw Fish' (1977) collections of Japan Times columns.
Philippine bid to acquire used Japanese warships gains steam
Tokyo is looking to transfer Abukuma-class vessels to the Philippines as part of broader efforts to boost the defense capabilities of like-minded neighbors amid growing Chinese military assertiveness in the region.
Japan Post to stop accepting some parcels for shipment to the U.S.
Japan Post's UGX will still be available for many rejected packages.
Japan aims to tighten rules for business manager visas from October
The number of foreign residents with business management residency status had reached a record 41,615 as of the end of 2024.
Tokyo releases AI-generated video of Mount Fuji erupting
A screenshot from an AI-generated video showing what could happen to Tokyo if Mount Fuji erupted
Character-crazed Japan has little appetite for Labubu
A pop-up advertisement for the newly opened Chiikawa Park in Tokyo's Ikebukuro neighborhood demonstrates how the country is chockful of cute characters — to the detriment of trends like Labubu.
Is Kishida plotting a return of the king? Or would he rather stay a kingmaker?
Former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida chairs a plenary session at the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Yokohama on Aug. 21.
Japanese prefectures break with labor ministry on minimum wage
The ministry of labor has suggested a 6% minimum wage increase, but most prefectures reporting so far are opting to go slightly higher.
Philippines quietly deepening ‘unofficial’ defense ties with Taiwan
Filipino soldiers take part in a flag-raising ceremony on Mavulis Island during a visit by the Philippines' Armed Forces chief of staff, in Batanes, the Philippines, in June 2023. Batanes, a group of idyllic islands at the country’s northernmost tip, sits about 160 kilometers from Taiwan.
Are 'coolcations' the answer for Japan's heat-weary tourists?
Hikers on a trail in Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture. As extreme heat continues to grip Japan, a tectonic shift may be underway in the nation’s summer tourism scene as more people gravitate toward cooler destinations.
Germany's first sakemaker offers a bold brew of ideas
Reigen, Germany's first sake brewery, makes a diverse, nontraditional range of sake that includes fruit-flavored sips and wine barrel-aged renditions.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past
By Alex K.T. Martin

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