National / Science & Health Nov 10, 2020
Could listening to the deep sea help save it?
by Sabrina Imbler
Scientists have been capturing the sounds of the ocean off Japan in a bid to understand the mysteries of the world below the surface.
People | WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN? May 13, 2017
Designer Yuri Suzuki chases his dreams through sound
by Irma Nunez
As a boy in the 1980s, Yuri Suzuki fell under the spell of video games and his father's record collection. The family home was in bustling Shibuya Ward, near the border with Shinjuku, and the influence of global cultures within its walls was strong. Both parents were in publishing — his mother editor in chief of Soen, the seminal fashion magazine — and their tastes broad. Imports ranged from the classics to the avant-garde, with a tilt toward American popular culture. So young Yuri took indirect life lessons watching videotapes of "Saturday Night Live" as well as "MTV." His touchstones included both U.S. TV personality Mister Rogers and Italian music producer Giorgio Moroder. You could say he didn't fit in at school. ...
National Dec 1, 2015
Pick one auditory event from the past year and it is the nation's stellar performance in the 2015 Rugby World Cup that people most recall. They cite the noise of fans cheering and the sound of joy in the players' voices, according to a survey ...
National Jan 26, 2015
Doubts grow over voice, image differences in Yukawa death video
by Mami Maruko and Tomohiro Osaki
The government says Saturday's video containing what appears to be the corpse of hostage Haruna Yukawa is probably authentic, but less certain is whether the same can be said of the voice on the recording claiming in English to be Kenji Goto. The government is ...
Commentary / World Sep 5, 2011
by Kevin Rafferty
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 ...