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JAPAN / Politics
May 28, 2014
Hashimoto, Ishihara to break up Nippon Ishin; opposition realignment seen accelerating
By Ayako Mie and Reiji Yoshida
The co-leaders of Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) agreed Wednesday to split the second-largest opposition party in two — a move that is likely to shake up the political arena.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 28, 2014
Kepco could defy courts and restart Oi reactors despite legal block
By Eric Johnston
Last week's ruling by the Fukui District Court blocking the restart of two reactors at the Oi power plant in Fukui Prefecture continues to create controversy, with operator Kansai Electric Power Co. saying it may defy the decision and fire up the reactors if three conditions are met even as safety concerns mount.
JAPAN / Politics
May 28, 2014
Abe continues Diet push on collective self-defense
By Ayako Mie
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made his case again Wednesday for enabling Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense, amid discussions between the Liberal Democratic Party and junior coalition partner New Komeito on security scenarios that would require Japan to defend the U.S. and other friendly...
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 28, 2014
Japan road trip video goes viral
By Atsushi Kodera
A driver's-eye view of a spectacular 80-hour road trip across Japan has become an Internet hit, with visitors from 47 countries on every continent taking in the scenery it features.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / NET NEWS WATCH
May 28, 2014
Are candid photos of the Imperial couple off limits?
A high school girl in Tochigi Prefecture uploaded to her Twitter account a photo of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, who visited the prefecture on a personal trip, sparking debate on whether or not she should have done it.

WORLD

Japan Times
WORLD / Society
May 28, 2014
Gay dads' brain activity resembles both mothers and fathers: study
Having a baby alters new mothers' brain activity, researchers have found, and a new study adds the first evidence of such changes in the brains of gay men raising children they adopted through surrogacy.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
May 28, 2014
Ferocious clashes in Ukraine increase risk for Putin
An army assault on pro-Russian rebels in east Ukraine will not have taken Vladimir Putin by surprise, but the ferocity of the clashes may have — and could be a game-changer if they spin out of control.

BUSINESS

BUSINESS
May 28, 2014
Docomo set to begin selling iPad next month
By Kazuaki Nagata
NTT Docomo Inc. said Wednesday it will start selling Apple's popular iPad starting in June.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
May 28, 2014
Foreign labor key to Olympic gold
By Masaaki Iwamoto
At a construction site in Kawagoe, Saitama Prefecture, worker Fan Xiuyu says he's too busy to miss the wife and 6-year-old child he left behind in China.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 28, 2014
Mitsui Fudosan plans big share issue on Olympics
Mitsui Fudosan Co. plans to raise as much as ¥324.6 billion in the biggest share sale by a property company in Japan in at least four decades.
BUSINESS / Economy
May 28, 2014
Lawmakers to push Abe on Russia gas link
Diet members are renewing the push for a ¥600 billion natural gas pipeline from Russia, which last week signed a supply deal with China, in a bid to cut energy costs after the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima.

Opinion

EDITORIALS
May 28, 2014
The danger of provocation
Japanese and Chinese leaders need to resolve problems through diplomatic dialogue instead of talking about military responses to each other's moves.
EDITORIALS
May 28, 2014
Managing declining fish stocks
The future survival and prosperity of Japan's fishing industry is dependent on its embrace of sustainable catch practices.
COMMENTARY / World
May 28, 2014
Ukrainians are more European than the French
By Leonid Bershidsky
If the European ideal is to create a citadel of tolerance and universal human values, who are the true Europeans?

Sports

Japan Times
SOCCER / World cup
May 28, 2014
Zaccheroni insists Japan will hit stride at World Cup
By Andrew MCKIRDY
National team manager Alberto Zaccheroni is confident his side can shape up in time for the World Cup but admits the Blue Samurai are currently running on empty.
Japan Times
TENNIS
May 28, 2014
Li self-destructs as poor form plagues French Open seeds
Li Na, the Australian Open champion, followed her male counterpart Stanislas Wawrinka out of the French Open in the first round when she lost 7-5, 3-6, 6-1 to local favorite Kristina Mladenovic on Tuesday.

CULTURE

Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
May 28, 2014
Godfather of J-horror escapes from genre's grip
By Mark Schilling
Hideo Nakata could be called the godfather of contemporary Japanese horror, but he would probably hate the label. Regardless, this 52-year-old director of such genre classics as "Ring," "Ring 2" and "Honogurai Mizu no Soko kara (Dark Water)" has made J-horror — a combination of present-day settings...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
May 28, 2014
'Monsterz'
By Mark Schilling
Hollywood has been remaking Asian films for a long time now, but over the past decade Korean movies have become the focus of remakers attention. One reason is that hit Korean films are often based on the sort of "high concepts" (easy-to-grasp premises) that fuel Hollywood's own sure-thing projects. They...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
May 28, 2014
'Adore'
By Kaori Shoji
Sometimes the Japanese title for a foreign film manages to grasp the very essence of the story and display it with the deft, loving care of a jeweler placing a necklace in a glass case. The Japanese title for "Adore" (previously known as "Two Mothers") is "Utsukushi e no Hokai," which roughly translates...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
May 28, 2014
'Inside Llewyn Davis'
By Giovanni Fazio
The Coen Brothers are exceptional among American filmmakers for having had a long and prosperous career without ever significantly watering down or altering their sensibility along the way. You could draw a line from their indie debut "Blood Simple" through to Oscar-winners "Fargo" and "No Country For...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
May 28, 2014
'One Minute More'
By Kaori Shoji
Taiwan has a thriving movie industry that often tips its hat to Japanese culture. For Japanese viewers, the references to AKB48, Tokyo and Japanese food make us feel that much closer to Taiwanese cinema. And now there’s “One Minute More,” based on “Ippunkan Dake,” a best-selling novel by...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
May 28, 2014
'X-Men: Days of Future Past'
By Giovanni Fazio
The new “X-Men” plays like “The Terminator” crossed with “American Hustle” via “12 Monkeys.” Given that the series has spawned six films over 14 years, non-fans may need to do some homework to catch up before viewing.
CULTURE / Film
May 28, 2014
'Gojira, Ebirah, Mothra: Nankai no Daiketto' (Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster)
By Mark Schilling
Director: Jun Fukuda
CULTURE / Film
May 28, 2014
'Jo' (Keiji jo Pari Hanzaisosahan)
By Kaori Shoji
Director: Rene Balcer
CULTURE / Film
May 28, 2014
The Wolf of Wall Street
By Giovanni Fazio
Director: Martin Scorsese
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
May 28, 2014
'The Bee' in Paris: Take #2
By Mana Katsura
Last week, the Stage page featured a Paris resident's take on an English-language version of "The Bee," a disturbing drama cowritten by Hideki Noda and Irish playwright Colin Teevan that was performed there this month in a 300-seat section of the Theatre de Chaillot.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
May 28, 2014
Talking Pinter with Leveaux; an 'authorized' interaction
By Nobuko Tanaka
When we met last weekend, the world-renowned English theater director David Leveaux was relaxing with a cigarette "in the lovely sunshine" outside a rehearsal studio by Tokyo Bay. He was there for an intensive afternoon's work with the three Japanese actors who form the cast of his upcoming production...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
May 28, 2014
Outdoor kabuki marks Skytree anniversary
By Lindsay Nelson
To commemorate the second anniversary of the May 22, 2012 opening of Tokyo Skytree, the leading kabuki actors Nakamura Shichinosuke and Onoe Matsuya last Saturday performed the popular dance-based piece "Dango-Uri" ("The Dumpling Sellers") on an outdoor stage in the Sky Arena at the tower's base.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 28, 2014
The 'Great Wave' that reached the West
By Matthew Larking
Ukiyo-e prints could be found in Europe from at least 1795 at the Cabinet des Estampes at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. It was not until the 1850s, however, when trade between Japan and Europe began to flourish, that the craze for things Japanese began to crescendo.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 28, 2014
Nicolas Buffe's show is a dream come true
By C.B. Liddell
Being swallowed by an enormous anime canine is the kind of experience you are only likely to have in a dream — perhaps after eating too much cheese before bedtime — and this is the theme of Nicolas Buffe's exhibition, a surreal dream that provides the perfect licence for the artist to unpack his creative impulses.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 28, 2014
'Go-Betweens: The World Seen Through Children'
By Daisuke Kikuchi
A pioneer of social-documentary photojournalism, Danish American social reformer Jacob Riis (1849-1914) used photography to help reveal the plight of impoverished immigrants in New York during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He used the term "go-betweens" to describe the children of the immigrants,...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 28, 2014
'Sumo Wrestlers in Ukiyo-e: Ishiguro Kazuyoshi Collection'
By Daisuke Kikuchi
Sumo is not simply a sport: Like kabuki theater, it's a tradition and an important cultural heritage with a long history. This exhibition showcases nearly 100 sumo-e, ukiyo-e prints of sumo wrestlers, which date back to the early 19th century and are selected from the Kazuyoshi Ishiguro collection.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 28, 2014
'Mt. Fuji by Taikan: In Commemoration of the First Anniversary of the World Heritage Designation'
By Daisuke Kikuchi
Alongside the likes of Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) and Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), Taikan Yokoyama (1868-1958) has produced some of Japan's most famous painters of Mount Fuji. In his lifetime, he worked on more than 1,500 paintings of Japan's largest peak.

COMMUNITY

Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
May 28, 2014
Japan: a haven for the psychologically troubled
By William Bradbury
For the troubled Western expat in Japan, the reality of being on another continent can collide with normalized Japanese antisocialism to form a cocktail effective in tuning out a lot of the 'just be a normal adult' voices.
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
May 28, 2014
World Cup 2014 views from Tokyo: Uruguay, Colombia and Japan
By Mark Buckton
A Uruguayan mother, a Colombian researcher and a Japanese company worker in Tokyo discuss their national teams' chances in Brazil.
Ishiba says Trump didn't push defense spending hike or discuss tariffs
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and U.S. President Donald Trump hold a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Saturday.
Trump targets U.S. trade deficit in first meeting with Ishiba
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington on Friday.
How Sam Altman sidestepped Elon Musk to win over Donald Trump
Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, speaks at a White House event with President Donald Trump, left; Softbank chief executive Masayoshi Son, third from left; and Larry Ellison, chairman of Oracle, at the White House on Jan. 21.
Anthony Davis dominant in Dallas debut
Dallas Mavericks forward Anthony Davis (right) and guard Klay Thompson celebrate after Davis dunked the ball during the second quarter against the Houston Rockets on Saturday.
Trump aware and supportive of AUKUS pact, U.S. defense secretary says
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks as he welcomes Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Richard Marles to the Pentagon for talks in Washington on Friday.
How giving chocolates on Valentine’s Day is evolving in Japan
Giving out courtesy chocolates to coworkers on Valentine's Day is becoming obsolete.
Yuki Harada's contemplative artworks ponder vanishing
“Light Court” (2024) is based on the “Lightcourt” space at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, designed by metabolist architect Kisho Kurokawa (1934-2007).
Some traditional Japanese culinary rules are meant to be broken
Arranging your dish in this checkerboard pattern is said to bring good luck, but if that holds true for eating this to start the year, what's stopping you from cooking in a bit of good fortune whenever you need it?
A 'joyful' Japan? Ishiba's slogan sparks the opposite feelings
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba enters his office in Tokyo on Jan. 27.
Brothers’ local focus lifts Shintaku to Niigata’s highest rank
Together, Shinsuke Yamagai (right) and his younger brother, Ryota, have elevated the cuisine at Shintaku, putting it on the map as one of Niigata Prefecture’s premier gastronomic destinations.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Eme-Ima Kitchen is one of over 10,000 kodomo shokudō in Japan. A term first used in 2012 to describe makeshift eateries offering free or cheap meals to disadvantaged kids, it now refers to a diverse range of individuals, groups and organizations working to provide not only food but a sense of belonging to both children and adults.
Japan’s ‘children’s cafeterias’ are booming — but is that a good thing?
By Alex K.T. Martin

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