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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
May 30, 2015
Angela Ortiz: 'I'd like to see Tohoku contributing to Japan and the world'
NGO founder on aid initiatives and the Knights in White Lycra.
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CULTURE / Stage
Apr 16, 2015
Shizuoka blooms with culture at theater event
With sunlight dappling fresh green leaves, flowers in bloom and birds singing, spring and early summer is when Europeans leave their homes to enjoy the arts at great annual events such as Germany's Theatertreffen and France's Avignon Festival.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 12, 2015
Preparing students for the global economy
It's not uncommon for teachers in Japan to teach a subject well enough but for their stale techniques to teach students to hate the subject for life. That's why it's so important for Japan to move away from its obsession with testing.
COMMENTARY
Jan 19, 2015
A perceived insult against religion is countered with words, not arms
There is a place for passionate debate on the moral question of how to balance freedom of speech with respect for religion. But the weapons of this debate should be the keyboard — not the Kalashnikov.
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CULTURE / Stage
Jan 14, 2015
NT adds a new twist to its 'dogs tale'
Based on a book of the same name by Kyokutei Bakin that was published in 96 volumes between 1814-42, the kabuki play "Nanso Satomi Hakkenden" ("Stories of Eight Men with the Character for 'Dog' in their Surnames") recounts how its protagonists strive to restore the fictional Satomi clan to power in what...
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CULTURE / Art
Dec 11, 2014
'Architecture for Dogs'
Despite dogs being "man's best friend," we rarely design our world around the happiness of our pets.
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CULTURE / Stage
Nov 19, 2014
New 'Dick Whittington' pantomime spells fun for all the family
Now a language-school teacher in Tokyo, Gareth Hinchley worked for Britain's chief forestry agency before coming to Japan in 2005. Originally from Manchester, he'd done a bit of writing as a child but hadn't pursued it seriously before he wrote "Dick Whittington," the upcoming production by Tokyo Theatre...
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JAPAN
Oct 10, 2014
Article 9 campaigners disappointed by Nobel decision
The Nobel Committee disappoints those who backed war-renouncing Article 9 of the Constitution for the 2014 peace prize, but the campaigners promise to return stronger next year.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Sep 13, 2014
Waking up to child abuse
With reported cases of child abuse topping 70,000 per annum for the first time in August, Masami Ito examines the nation's changing attitudes toward violence at home.
COMMENTARY / World / COUNTERPOINT
Sep 13, 2014
Empowering Asian women through education
Asia University for Women, launched in 2008, is an audacious project in Chittagong, Bangladesh, that is aiming to develop the region's future leaders.
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CULTURE / Stage
Sep 3, 2014
'Hamlet' marks take #18 in Shakespeare for Children series
"When I acted a nursemaid in 'Romeo and Juliet' in the first program of this Shakespeare for Children series, I was surprised that no children made fun of a man in that role — they naturally accepted that theater is fundamentally fiction and just enjoyed the play," Seisuke Yamasaki recalled in a recent...

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Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.
A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan