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Japan Times
LIFE
Apr 18, 2015
State of the reunion: Evaluating the Hague pact's success
As most parents know, there is nothing quite so life changing as having children. Imagine the pain a parent feels, then, if their children are taken from them. Now imagine the shock a parent feels if the person who abducted their children was their own spouse, a trusted partner who fled the country and disappeared — never to be heard from again.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 15, 2015
Girl's return to Sri Lanka is first in response to Hague Convention court order
The move represents the first time Japan has fulfilled a court order mandating the return of a child to their country of habitual residence under the convention.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / Wide Angle
Apr 8, 2015
Documentary on Japanese 'war brides' is gaining steam
The documentary-film scene just keeps getting better, and here's one recent example that strikes a chord. Three women (Kathryn Tolbert, Lucy Craft and Karen Kasmauski) — all first-born daughters of Japanese war brides who immigrated to the U.S. in the 1950s to wed Americans — have gotten together to make "Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight," a 20-minute documentary about an overlooked slice of life in America's history.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / COMMUNITY CHEST
Apr 8, 2015
Do Western men have it bad in Japan? Readers discuss
A small selection of the large number of comments received in response to Olga Garnova's recent column, 'Spare a thought for Western men trapped in Japan.'
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Apr 1, 2015
Do Western men have it bad in Japan?: views from the Fuji Five Lakes
Do interviewees agree with the controversial premise of Olga Garnova's recent Foreign Agenda column, 'Spare a thought for the Western men trapped in Japan'?
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 24, 2015
Beau pops the question by spelling it out with world’s largest GPS drawing
In July 2008, company employee Yasushi Takahashi decided to ask his girlfriend of eight years to marry him and was determined to make it "the world's biggest proposal." So he quit his job and went off on a six-month journey across Japan — on foot and by car, ferry and bicycle.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Mar 23, 2015
Spare a thought for the Western men trapped in Japan
Japan can be the best place in the world for some, but for others it can be a trap — especially for Western men.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Feb 22, 2015
More tips for filing your U.S. taxes from Japan
With the help of a tax specialist, Lifelines tackles a number of queries in response to the special on U.S. taxation a few weeks back.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Feb 15, 2015
Nationality no barrier for spouses seeking protection from violence
An American resident writes: 'My husband hasn't done much physically yet, but he has threatened to kill me on one occasion. Is it possible to file a restraining order?'
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Feb 9, 2015
Yokohama: Who would be your ultimate date for Valentine's Day?
Love is in the air as couples celebrate their relationship and singles search for their soul mates. Who would be your ultimate Valentine's Day date?
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 29, 2015
San Francisco Zoo lets spurned lovers name roaches, scorpions after their ex
The San Francisco Zoo is giving the spurned lovers a chance to adopt a giant scorpion or hissing cockroach and name it after their heart-trampling ex.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Jan 28, 2015
Making your U.S. tax filing from Japan that little bit less ... taxing
Calvin Tong, an American taxation expert and long-term Japan resident, explains recent changes in U.S. taxation laws that have left many Americans here confused.
JAPAN
Jan 13, 2015
Lecturer resigns after stripping on campus for student lover
A 55-year-old part-time computer science lecturer resigned from Taisho University in Tokyo on Thursday after being found naked in a corridor.
COMMUNITY / Voices / COMMUNITY CHEST
Jan 1, 2015
Readers' letters: Roppongi, Ferguson, 'Massan,' Julien Blanc and more
Some emails received in response to Community articles at the tail end of 2014.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Dec 17, 2014
Hitting 60 in Japan offers a chance to start over, so don't waste time looking back
If one measures life in a 60-year cycle — and if you use the Chinese zodiac calendar, you do — then age 60 marks a new beginning or birth: You can be a child once again.
JAPAN
Dec 4, 2014
Mother appeals Osaka court order to return child to father in Sri Lanka under Hague pact
The mother of a 5-year-old girl appealed an Osaka family court order Wednesday that her daughter must be returned to Sri Lanka to live with her father in accordance with the Hague convention on child abduction.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Nov 16, 2014
Tokyo: How did you choose your child's name?
Foreign residents married to Japanese spouses share how they agreed on what to name their kids.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Nov 10, 2014
Foreign wives of Japan offer NHK and 'Massan' criticism and kudos
Ellie's successors question the character's swift mastery of Japanese and penchant for hugs but welcome the issues she raises.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / COMMUNITY CHEST
Nov 2, 2014
Children of Japanese 'war brides' tell tales of racism, hardship and perseverance
The sons and daughters of American servicemen and their Japanese wives recall the tales their parents told them about adjusting to life in the U.S. in the postwar years.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues
Oct 20, 2014
Bicultural Japanese baby names can be double the trouble
What do the following names have in common: Ayeisha, December, Eli, Gabrielle, Haruki, Julie, Kaede, Koh, Leon, Louis, Lucia, Luke, Margaret, Olivia, Ryuken, Tobin and Tennis? They are all children's names — all but one the sons and daughters of bicultural couples.
Japanese stripper bids to have her porn movies taken off internet
Plaintiff Miyuki Ariga (left) speaks at a news conference along with her lawyer, Yoshitomo Morohashi, after filing a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.
Three men rearrested over brokering of overseas prostitution
A woman speaks of her experience of being sent to Macau by an overseas prostitution broker during an interview in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on April 8.
Ex-METI bureaucrat given 10-year sentence for drugging and raping women
The Tokyo District Court on Monday sentenced a former industry ministry bureaucrat to 10 years in prison for drugging six women with sleeping pills and then raping or groping them in 2022.
Money stolen via online transfers up fivefold in Tokyo
Special fraud cases in Tokyo in which stolen money was sent via online banking services grew some fivefold from the previous year in 2023.
How the discovery of a giant sword in Nara offers clues into ancient Japan
Archaeologists say a 1,600-year-old wooden coffin at the Tomio Maruyama tumulus in the city of Nara was kept in good condition probably because it was protected by a layer of clay and copper ions that had seeped out of the mirrors that were buried together.
In a rare event, the Northern Lights show up in Hokkaido
The Northern Lights in Nayoro, Hokkaido, on Saturday
Is black the new green for Japan’s flagging tea farmers?
George Guttridge-Smith brews tea at Kyoto Obubu Tea Farm in Wazuka, Kyoto Prefecture, where he serves as head of international development.
Japan's logistics firms seek partnerships to cope with driver shortage
Japan Post CEO Tetsuya Senda (right) and his Seino Transportation counterpart Satoshi Takahashi announce their companies' agreement on joint long-haul truck operations, in Tokyo on Thursday.
How the discovery of a giant sword in Nara offers clues into ancient Japan
Archaeologists say a 1,600-year-old wooden coffin at the Tomio Maruyama tumulus in the city of Nara was kept in good condition probably because it was protected by a layer of clay and copper ions that had seeped out of the mirrors that were buried together.
Unlike 10 years ago, Japan's new security bill sparks little debate
The Lower House starts discussing a security clearance bill on April 19 in Tokyo.

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