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Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LEARNING CURVE
May 3, 2017
As Japan's JET Programme hits its 30s, the jury's still out
Ambitious program has helped Japan meet the world, but does it have a role to play today?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
May 3, 2017
Views from Tokyo: Which candidate would you vote for in the French election and why?
As France prepares to go to the polls again, French nationals in Kagurazaka and Asakusa were asked who they were rooting for.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
May 1, 2017
Three years after Japan signed Hague, parents who abduct still win
Despite winning return orders in court, foreign fathers are treated like offenders.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / JUST BE CAUSE
Apr 26, 2017
Time to act on insights from landmark survey of Japan's foreign residents
Government's attempt to understand the foreign experience of Japan produces valuable data despite some blind spots.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Apr 26, 2017
Help for those seeking left-behind parents in Japan
Two adult daughters contacted Lifelines hoping to get help with issues related to their fathers.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LABOR PAINS
Apr 23, 2017
The cost of convenience in Japan: when foreign students work instead of study
It's midnight at the convenience store I often patronize near my home in Tokyo's central Shinjuku district. The store's open all day and night, 365 days a year.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LEARNING CURVE
Apr 19, 2017
With parents' support, kids in Japan stamp out stuttering
Thanks to the tireless efforts of an international team of women, an Australian program to tackle speech disfluencies is changing lives in Japan.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Apr 19, 2017
Birth of a Twitter trend: the story behind #gaijinconfessionfriday
Last week, a simple hashtag kicked off an outpouring of guilt and humor on Twitter from Japan's foreign residents.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Apr 16, 2017
Architect builds bridges between the Congo and Kansai
With an otaku's giddiness, Baye McNeil speaks with Nsenda Lukumwena, an authority on Japanese buildings and head of an architectural firm in Kobe.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Apr 16, 2017
Schizophrenia support exists in Japan, but state is wary of stepping in
A reader asks, 'Is there some system in Japan for the police, ambulance or hospital to take an unwilling schizophrenic patient to hospital?'
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Apr 12, 2017
Resisting Trump's America: why we march in Japan, again
On April 15 we will gather again in Tokyo to peacefully protest in solidarity with over 150 sister marches worldwide to demand the release of President Trump's complete tax returns since 2005.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Apr 5, 2017
How many Japanese are a bit of something else?
Even taking 1965 as a false racially pure 'year zero,' mathematics muddies the homogeneity myth.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Mar 29, 2017
The psychological perils of a Japanese homestay
All the homestays I have done in my life — three of them — were psychologically traumatic in uniquely torturous ways.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Mar 22, 2017
Views from Osaka: Would you agree that Japanese society is built upon politeness and hospitality?
Robert Kodama asked passers-by in Japan's mercantile capital about two traits often mentioned in the same breath as 'Japanese people.'
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Mar 19, 2017
Black Women in Japan group gears up for its first big bash
Back in the summer of 2015, I did a series of articles where I profiled black women married to Japanese men, discussing the highs and lows of building and maintaining such relationships, as well as the rewards and challenges of raising biracial children here in Japan.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Mar 19, 2017
Hiring a lawyer in Japan, and what to do if it all goes wrong
A Lifelines reader writes in about the negative experience he had with a lawyer in Japan.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Mar 15, 2017
Finding a family in Japan's foreign drag scene
Western drag queens living in Tokyo, Kansai and Nagoya discuss the differences between the scene in Japan and back home.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / TELLING LIVES
Mar 8, 2017
New Zealander is on a mission to turn Japan green, one balcony at a time
Quakes of 2011 in Christchurch and Tohoku put Kiwi on the path to self-reliance and sustainability.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Mar 8, 2017
Literary partnership behind 'Tokyo Nights' cut tragically short, but the story goes on
English teachers Jim Hickey and Douglas Forrester were offered a two-book deal in early 2016. But within weeks, Forrester was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / JUST BE CAUSE
Mar 5, 2017
Government of Japan, survey thyself
Something landmark happened late last year. Japan's government undertook a nationwide survey of discrimination toward Japan's long-term non-Japanese (NJ) residents.
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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