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JAPAN
Aug 8, 2013
Agency alert for big Kansai quake was false alarm
The Meteorological Agency says it issued a false alarm warning that a strong earthquake was about to hit Nara and Osaka prefectures, but it turned out to be a mild tremor.
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2013
Japan social security reform proposal seeks to double contributions from seniors
A government panel's social security system reform proposal calls for greater contributions from the elderly and high-income earners as well as other reforms to make the system more sustainable.
EDITORIALS
Jul 8, 2013
Reducing rate of recidivism
A Criminal Law revision passed by the Diet last month provides a suspended sentence and probation procedure for convicts in a certain category as a way to reduce recidivism.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 4, 2013
How the Upper House election system works
Lawmakers in the Upper House are elected every three years, with half the 242 seats up for grabs each time. Those elected serve a six-year term.
JAPAN
Jun 11, 2013
Group targets miscarriages of justice
Seven months after Nepalese Govinda Prasad Mainali was last year acquitted of a 1997 robbery-murder of a Tokyo woman, his supporters launched a new civic organization to call for eradication of wrongful convictions, which they claim are still rampant in the legal system.
EDITORIALS
May 30, 2013
Improving the lay judge system
The worst that can be said about Japan's now 4-year-old lay judge system is that 'citizen judges' have not always gotten enough psychological support from courts.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Apr 30, 2013
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu on a mission to spread Japan's kawaii culture
'Cool' may have been the official buzzword, but if the chants of the 20,000 strong audience at a recent festival are to be believed, that word has been ousted by a new one: 'kawaii.'
EDITORIALS
Apr 10, 2013
Loosen the lay judge gag
It is disappointing that a Justice Ministry review panel so far doesn't give strong support to the idea of loosening the gag order imposed on lay judges.
JAPAN
Mar 20, 2013
No. 1 fuel pool power to be restored: Tepco
Critical cooling systems for four pools containing thousands of nuclear fuel assemblies at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant shut down due to a loss of power overnight Monday, highlighting the vulnerability of the ad hoc equipment set up after the meltdowns two years ago.
JAPAN
Mar 13, 2013
Trial run of disaster warning system via SNS to start in summer
The Fire and Disaster Management Agency plans this summer to test a disaster warning system using Internet-based social-networking services, drawing lessons from the March 2011 catastrophe when telephone services were cut and the emergency number did not function, agency officials said Tuesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 7, 2013
There's no battering the Tempura Kidz spirit
The members of Tempura Kidz have danced in front of thousands of strangers at sold-out venues across Japan, including Tokyo's famed Budokan and the Summer Sonic festival. Yet on a Thursday night in a Harajuku office building, the teenage quintet is nervous.
EDITORIALS
Feb 23, 2013
Reform prosecution inquest system
The dismissal of a negligence case against a police officer and other 'mandatory indictment' results underscore a flawed prosecution inquest system.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 16, 2013
SAS bullish on Japan after logging best year ever in 2012, exec says
Scandinavian Airlines System has seen its business in Japan recover dramatically since the Great East Japan Earthquake and the upturn is continuing, according to an SAS executive.
EDITORIALS
Feb 7, 2013
Delay in electoral reform
Talks agreed by the Liberal Democratic Party, Komeito and the Democratic Party of Japan on election system reform for the Diet are going nowhere.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jan 26, 2013
No room for subtleties when laying off workers
Thanks to a feature that appeared on the front page of the Dec. 31 issue of the Asahi Shimbun, oidashi beya is the first topical neologism of 2013 if you don't count "Abenomics." It's not clear if the term, which translates as "expulsion room," was coined by the newspaper, but since then the blogosphere and social networks have picked up on it and the concept it describes, a holding area for full-time workers deemed unnecessary but who won't quit. These employees are retained but given little or no meaningful work.
Japan Times
LIFE
Apr 10, 2011
Japan's seismic nerve center
The Earthquake Phenomena Observation System, located inside the Japan Meteorological Agency in Tokyo's central Otemachi district, is usually operated by five teams of seven who work in rotating shifts that span every minute of the year. But at 2:46 p.m. on March 11 this year, all that changed. In an atmosphere that even one of Japan's famously reserved bureaucrats — an agency staffer — admitted was "extremely intense," everyone who physically could report for duty did, and some didn't go home for the next 72 hours.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Mar 4, 2011
Is the pension waiver for full-time housewives unfair?
Are full-time housewives entitled to full pensions? That's up to a Diet debate.
Reader Mail
Apr 3, 2008
At the pleasure of the citizens
In his March 16 letter, "Homogeneity no excuse for profiling," Nick Wood claims that by virtue of his re-entry visa, he has just as much "right" to enter Japan as Japanese citizens, and as such, fingerprinting should be applied to "all" or "none at all."
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
As visitors surge, Japan seeks ways to make tourism eco-friendly
Much like other hot spots across Okinawa, Onna has diligently strived to captivate both domestic and international tourists, while at the same time grappling with the environmental strain induced by the influx of visitors.
G7 eyes plan on U.S.-led $50 billion aid package for Ukraine
A local resident visits the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on Thursday. The U.S. is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Kishida talks up bolstered Latin American ties as China cements position
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida holds a news conference in Sao Paulo on Saturday.
Japan’s tween skateboarders get head start on preparations for 2028 Olympics
Ibuki Matsumoto competes at an event in Osaka on April 21.
As visitors surge, Japan seeks ways to make tourism eco-friendly
Much like other hot spots across Okinawa, Onna has diligently strived to captivate both domestic and international tourists, while at the same time grappling with the environmental strain induced by the influx of visitors.
Kishida talks up bolstered Latin American ties as China cements position
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida holds a news conference in Sao Paulo on Saturday.
Debate on constitutional revision at a standstill despite Kishida's pledges
With less than two months left before the conclusion of the current session of parliament, any possibility that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can deliver constitutional reform before the end of his term as Liberal Democratic Party president in late September, as he has promised, appears remote.
Sapporo court ruling on Ainu fishing rights presents tough questions
A traditional Ainu preserved food called <i>satchep</i> (dried fish) being made at the government-run National Ainu Museum and Park, nicknamed Upopoy, in the town of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, on Dec. 25. The Sapporo District Court ruled last month that the Raporo Ainu Nation's rights as an Indigenous people did not extend to having an inherent right to fish for commercial reasons.

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