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Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2013
Coastal village tries to catch young fishermen
A fisheries training program introduced to find successors in Haida, a hamlet in Owase, Mie Prefecture, has drawn interest from younger people in larger cities.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 8, 2013
Tehran's nuclear quandary
There are many obstacles to an agreement on Iran's nuclear program. Particularly troubling for the U.S. and its allies, though, is how much Iran has mimicked the regime in Pyongyang.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 25, 2013
Iran must face hard choices on nuclear work
The Washington policy debate about Iran's nuclear activities and whether it should have relief from sanctions has shifted from whether a deal is possible to what sort of deal is acceptable.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Oct 4, 2013
Rural exchange program for city kids draws down
Amid a rapidly aging and declining population in rural areas of Aichi Prefecture, an exchange program to send young students from cities to the Tomiyama district in the village of Toyone will be terminated in March 2015, along with the closure of the district's only elementary and junior high school.
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2013
State, broadcasters promote export of TV programs
To counter the growth of TV programs from South Korea and China, the government and broadcasters are coming together to promote exports of Japanese TV programs mainly to Asia.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 3, 2013
JET alumni advocates for Japan
Clifton Strickler never thought of coming to Japan until he met his boss at the University of Texas while engaged in an undergraduate work-study. His boss lived in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, teaching English with the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program.
JAPAN
May 31, 2013
Mozambique farmers seek halt to aid project
Farmers in Mozambique are calling on the governments of Japan, Brazil and Mozambique to halt a project aimed at supporting agricultural development there, saying it will result in land grabs.
EDITORIALS
May 19, 2013
Gap-year system starts
The first group of students at the University of Tokyo have submitted their plans and embarked on a new 'gap year program' to learn from the world.
JAPAN
Apr 24, 2013
LDP plans expansion of JET program
The number of teachers hired for the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program would be doubled in three years under a proposal drafted by the Liberal Democratic Party to boost Japan's global competitiveness and nurture international talent.
JAPAN
Apr 23, 2013
LDP looks to double JET Program's ranks in three years
The number of teachers in the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program might double in three years under a new economic proposal.
EDITORIALS
Apr 13, 2013
Another failure with Iran
Another round of talks among concerned nations over Iran's nuclear intentions goes nowhere. What accounts for Tehran's tenacity the past decade?
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 16, 2013
Trainee admits double-killing at fish firm, says colleagues mistreated him
Police comb a fishery company in Hiroshima Prefecture where a 30-year-old Chinese trainee allegedly murdered the president and a female employee and wounded six others.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Feb 24, 2013
One former student's inspiring path to success
Seeing fewer years ahead and more behind me as a teacher, I often think back over the students who have passed through my classrooms and wonder how many will truly make a difference in the world.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2013
Tokyo pro-Pyongyang school to sue government over tuition waiver rejection
A pro-North Korea high school in Tokyo will file a damages suit against the government over its decision not to extend a tuition waiver program to such schools in Japan, its principal said.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 5, 2011
Japan in a European club?
Hitherto unknown and self-styled "loach" Yoshihiko Noda must learn to swim in an ocean of problems as Japan's new prime minister of the year. He has more than a plateful of domestic issues, but he should also realize, as his predecessors forgot, that Japan needs to re-engage the world if it is to find a way out of its depressing economic and political predicaments.

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