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SENTAKU MAGAZINE

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Sep 26, 2017
The illusion that China's economy is in good shape
The risk of China's economy plummeting toward the end of the year should not be discounted.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Aug 21, 2017
The failure of Abe's Trump-dependent diplomacy
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's diplomacy faces the risk of coming to an end without tangible accomplishments.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Jul 27, 2017
Russia unrivaled in nuclear power plant exports
Having gained a near monopoly in exporting nuclear power equipment, Russia is also expanding its diplomatic clout in the Middle East, Asia and Europe.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Jul 26, 2017
Stockbreeding industry interests and the Kake Gakuen case
The opening of the first university veterinary medical department in 50 years is part of an effort to overhaul interests controlling the nation's livestock industry.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Jun 29, 2017
Imperial succession issue neglected
The Imperial family's future is endangered by the male-only paternal lineage succession rules, yet the Abe administration is taking no action.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Jun 27, 2017
Vested interests behind dearth of rural doctors
Many younger doctors want to practice medicine in rural areas, but vested interests are preventing them from going.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
May 30, 2017
Cozy ties between the police and pachinko industry
With the legalization of casinso in Japan around the corner, the police are desparately trying to defend their own sphere of interest.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
May 23, 2017
The day China's version of the Lehman crisis explodes
Concerns are mounting in international financial circles that the present status of China's economy is getting closer to what had existed in the United States when it was hit by the crisis triggered by the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Apr 23, 2017
The poverty of politics and tobacco policy
The government is caught in a trap of its own making — how does it stay in the business of selling tobacco while promoting public health?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Apr 19, 2017
The grand fiction called missile defense
Japan's vulnerability to an attack by multiple North Korean missiles is leading the government to consider developing a preemptive strike capability.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Mar 28, 2017
Troubling times for South Korean manufacturing
The end of the Samsung era may herald the downfall of a wide range of South Korean manufacturing sectors from shipbuilding to steel and automobiles.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Mar 27, 2017
How Japanese automakers' Trump crisis could develop
The Japanese auto industry needs to brace for a continued onslaught from the U.S. president.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Feb 23, 2017
What awaits 'post-Abe' LDP
Unless somebody emerges as a powerful new leader during the remainder of Abe's tenure, the LDP's future decline seems inevitable.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Feb 21, 2017
How Trump's plans might deal a blow to Japanese firms
If Trump tries to realign the global structure of manufacturing industries that have become heavily concentrated in Asia, Japanese firms will be hit hard.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Jan 30, 2017
Ruling coalition reshuffle?
Cracks are beginning to appear in the LDP-Komeito ruling coalition.
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Jan 24, 2017
Trump's election is bad news for human rights in China
If Donald Trump doesn't care about human rights, why should Beijing?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Dec 29, 2016
Japan-U.S. ties under Trump
Japan's lack of strong connections with the Trump team could leave it at a loss as it faces the unpredictable new U.S. administration.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Dec 26, 2016
Japan's weak cyberdefense
Japan is ill-prepared for the cybersecurity challenges facing the nation.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Nov 29, 2016
LDP ignores needed reform by focusing on term limits
The Liberal Democratic Party is being very shortsighted by focusing its reform effort so narrowly.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Nov 22, 2016
What price will Japan pay for getting islands back?
The rapprochement between Japan and Russia risks being the trigger to reverse the pursuit of a closer alliance between Japan and the U.S.
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
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.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
In Japan, regional revitalization fails to halt population decline
Sakiyama elementary school in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, in March .Over the past decade, the government has directed efforts toward policies designed to give young people incentives to base themselves in rural areas.
Putin’s war will soon reach Russians’ tax bills
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting in St. Petersburg on Friday.
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.

Podcast

From easily navigable train stations to the helpfulness of its municipal staff, Tokyo has earned high praise for its commitment to accessibility for disabled travelers.
[Rebroadcast] Japan is doing better on accessibility than you may think

Longform

When trying to trace your lineage in Japan, the "koseki" is the most important form of document you'll encounter.
Climbing the branches of a Japanese family tree
By Alex K.T. Martin

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