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Japan Times
JAPAN / IN PICTURES
Dec 20, 2016
'Tears of Arizona' still surface 75 years after attack on Pearl Harbor
A visitor from Oklahoma stood in front of the USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii, staring at the stone monument bearing the thousands of names of those killed in the Imperial Japanese Navy's attack on Pearl Harbor.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 13, 2016
China holds annual ceremony for victims of Nanjing massacre
China held a memorial ceremony Tuesday for victims of the 1937 massacre committed by Japanese troops in Nanjing, as the two countries have been pushing to improve relations overshadowed for years by territorial and wartime issues.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 13, 2016
Abe may visit Honolulu memorial for Ehime Maru victims during Pearl Harbor trip
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is considering visiting a monument dedicated to the victims of a 2001 collision between a Japanese fisheries school training boat and a U.S. submarine off Hawaii when he goes to Pearl Harbor this month, according to Japan-U.S. diplomatic sources.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 8, 2016
China should heed Pearl Harbor's lessons
Just as Japan did in the 1930s, China is defying international opinion and challenging the maritime status quo in the western Pacific.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 8, 2016
China to Abe: We, too, have war-linked sites worth visiting
The missive is in response to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's plan to go to Pearl Harbor to pay tribute to war victims this month.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 8, 2016
On 75th anniversary, U.S. veterans recall Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
It has been 75 years but U.S. Navy veteran James Leavelle can still recall watching with horror as Japanese warplanes rained bombs on his fellow sailors in the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor that plunged the United States into World War II.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 7, 2016
Japanese professor creates online archive documenting Pearl Harbor attack
On Dec. 7, 1941, Peter Willett was feeding his rabbits in the backyard of his house at Ford Island, which sits in the middle of Hawaii's Pearl Harbor.
EDITORIALS
Dec 7, 2016
Abe's tribute at Pearl Harbor
If Shinzo Abe's visit to Pearl Harbor matters as a symbolic gesture of reconciliation with the U.S., he should consider similar steps with Japan's Asian neighbors.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 7, 2016
Setting the record straight on war's start
Startling evidence has been unearthed revealing machinations by the Japanese military to shift blame after the war over the surprise attacks that started the conflict.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 7, 2016
Pearl Harbor was a sneak attack but hardly a surprise
In truth, the outbreak of war between the United States and Japan astonished very few at all.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Dec 6, 2016
Abe's Pearl Harbor visit rooted in pragmatism amid uncertainties surrounding Trump
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit this month to Pearl Harbor will be a historic gesture that represents the strength of the Japan-U.S. alliance and the evolution of the bilateral relationship since World War II.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 6, 2016
Japan's WWII vets, hibakusha give mixed reactions on Abe's plan to visit Pearl Harbor
Survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings on Japan and war veterans gave mixed reactions to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's announcement Monday that he will visit Pearl Harbor, which Japan attacked on Dec. 7, 1941, bringing the United States into WWII.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 6, 2016
Abe's Pearl Harbor visit for remembrance, not apology: Suga
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's historic visit to Pearl Harbor later this month is for the purpose of remembering the victims of the Japanese attack 75 years ago, not for apologizing for Japan's actions, the government's top spokesman said Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 5, 2016
Abe to make historic visit — the first by a Japanese leader — to Pearl Harbor this month
In a surprise announcement Monday night, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he would make a historic visit to Pearl Harbor with U.S. President Barack Obama — the first by a sitting Japanese leader to visit the place with the U.S. leader — on Dec. 26 and 27 during a trip for his final summit with him.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 5, 2016
Japan's first lady offers critics a household hotline to Abe
With high approval ratings stoking speculation that Shinzo Abe could become Japan's longest-serving prime minister in recent history, he faces the risk of becoming complacent. Enter Akie Abe, his wife of 29 years.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Dec 3, 2016
Memories of 1941 Pearl Harbor attack continue to affect U.S., Japan in Asia
On Dec. 7, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into World War II. The attack, carried out at dawn by Japanese fighter planes launched from aircraft carriers, was a then relatively new form of naval warfare that shocked the American public.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Dec 3, 2016
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JAPAN
Nov 30, 2016
Japan, U.S. to hold first joint Pearl Harbor memorial ceremony
Japan and the United States will hold on Dec. 8 the first joint ceremony to remember those killed in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Consulate General in Honolulu has said.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Oct 29, 2016
'Countdown to Pearl Harbor': A different view of Japan's entry into World War II
In "Countdown to Pearl Harbor," Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Twomey vividly retells and reappraises the events leading to the Pearl Harbor attack on Dec. 7, 1941.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jun 14, 2016
IBM Big Blue edge Lixil Deers for Pearl Bowl title
A controversial call cost the Lixil Deers a Pearl Bowl victory and gave the IBM BigBlue a first X League title.
When will Japan intervene to support the yen?
Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki has reiterated the government's readiness to take an appropriate action as the yen continues to slide against the U.S. dollar.
'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.
Raising kids in Japan as a single parent? It takes a village.
Making things work as a foreign, single mother in Japan isn't easy, but these tips and tricks can help you through the hardest parts.
Yen rebounds strongly after first slide past ¥160 since 1990
The yen dropped to ¥160.245 per dollar on Monday before heading into the other direction to ¥155.01 amid speculation of an intervention by Japanese currency authorities.
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.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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