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JAPAN

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JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Feb 27, 2016
Rocket tests have Japanese media wondering: How do you solve a problem like (North) Korea?
By Michael Hoffman
North Korea — what to make of it? Nobody knows. In an age of secrecy stripped bare, it has succeeded in being unfathomable. It's horrible — on that most observers agree; but how horrible? To what purpose? In spite of, or because of, what obstacles to its survival?
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Feb 27, 2016
Participation in society should be barrier-free
By Philip Brasor
When Prime Minister Shinzo Abe formed a task force last year to promote greater citizen involvement in whatever it is he is trying to accomplish, many people objected to the name of the group. "Ichioku Sokatsuyaku" reminded them of a slogan used before and during World War II that demanded national solidarity...

WORLD

Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 27, 2016
Iran counts votes in election to determine post-sanctions balance of power
Iran began counting votes on Saturday after elections that could see reformists accelerate Tehran's opening to the world or long-dominant hardliners reaffirm the Islamic Republic's traditional anti-Western stance.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 27, 2016
Syrian fighting largely ends after landmark ceasefire comes into effect
Fighting appeared to stop across most areas of western Syria on Saturday after a landmark "cessation of hostilities" came into effect under a U.S.-Russian plan that warring sides in the five-year conflict have accepted.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Feb 27, 2016
Kansas mass shooter got court order over domestic violence just before rampage
The man suspected of killing three people at the Kansas lawn-mower factory where he worked was served 90 minutes before his shooting spree with a court order to stay away from a woman who said he had abused her, authorities said on Friday.

BUSINESS

Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / YEN FOR LIVING
Feb 27, 2016
Uncertainty over negative interest and My Number may spur Japanese to stash more cash at home
By Masako Tsubuku and Philip Brasor
Japanese people already store an enormous amount of cash in their homes, and this trend is only likely to increase in the wake of recent developments.
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 27, 2016
Indian villages ban single women from owning 'distracting' cellphones
Several villages in the western Indian state of Gujarat have banned girls and single women from owning mobile phones, saying the devices distract them from their studies.

Opinion

EDITORIALS
Feb 27, 2016
Japan behind on wind power
Wind power is taking off all over the world, but not in Japan.
EDITORIALS
Feb 27, 2016
A troubling low autopsy rate
Japan's low rate of conducting autopsies means a large of murders could be going undetected.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Feb 27, 2016
Does Tohoku's disaster tourism exploit or educate?
By Jeff Kingston
Disaster tourism can be an unsettling descent into voyeurism as visitors ghoulishly gawk at, and photograph, those caught up in catastrophe as if they're at a petting zoo. The concept has prompted widespread condemnation of insensitive tourists and travel companies exploiting disasters as marketing opportunities....
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 27, 2016
Time to get real about English instruction
By Walt Gardner
Disappointing results from students undergoing total-immersion English education show it's time to rethink policy.

Sports

SOCCER
Feb 27, 2016
Maradona blasts FIFA
Former Argentina captain Diego Maradona says longtime FIFA president Sepp Blatter and European soccer chief Michel Platini should have been given life imprisonment rather than six-year bans from soccer for ethics violations.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Feb 27, 2016
Exploring quirky history of season schedules
By Wayne Graczyk
Is a 162-game professional baseball season too long?

LIFE

LIFE / Lifestyle
Feb 27, 2016
Learning to embrace the halal industry
By Masami Ito
With an increasing number of Muslims residing in and visiting Japan, local governments and businesses in the private sector are eyeing ways to target the potentially lucrative market
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / BACKSTREET STORIES
Feb 27, 2016
Sewing stitches of creativity in the streets of Kuramae
By Kit Nagamura
I'm knocking about Taito Ward's Kuramae area one chilly February morning, visiting an artisan friend, when he mentions a brand new chocolate shop has opened nearby. My ears perk up. Any good? "People are lining up," he says. I dash off to check it out, because it sounds like news. Never mind that I'm...
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Feb 27, 2016
Japan's cult brands get into character
By Samuel Thomas
When the topic turns to "Cool Japan" and the various related efforts to capitalize on Japan's indubitable cultural capital internationally, commendation — or more frequently the lack thereof — is easy to come by. The question of how Japan markets its own culture domestically, however, is a largely...
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / ON: GAMES
Feb 27, 2016
Pikachu finds his voice
By Brian Ashcraft
Pikachu finds his voice

CULTURE

Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Feb 27, 2016
Tokyo's literature festival resurfaces
By Kris Kosaka
The Tokyo International Literary Festival got off to a good start. Both the inaugural 2013 event and the 2014 edition were successful, an auspicious beginning to forging cultural and artistic connections between Eastern and Western writers on a global stage. But since the festival's forced hiatus in...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
Feb 27, 2016
A volatile mix of Catholicism and indigenous culture in Shusaku Endo's 'Volcano'
By Stephen Mansfield
In "Volcano," first published in 1959, Shusaku Endo examines the fates of characters linked to the condition of a volcano he names "Akadake," based on the active cone of Sakurajima in Kagoshima. During the research for the novel, Endo is said to have chartered a helicopter so that he could peer firsthand...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Feb 27, 2016
A privileged perspective on WWII in 'My Shanghai, 1942-1946: A Novel'
By Matt Treyvaud
Partly inspired by the wartime experiences of author Keiko Itoh's mother, "My Shanghai, 1942-1946" is a comfortably old-fashioned epistolary novel told entirely through diary entries. The story begins in January 1942 as London-educated protagonist Eiko Kishimoto arrives in the Shanghai International...

COMMUNITY

Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Feb 27, 2016
Miwa Komatsu: 'It's absurd to accomplish anything by yourself'
By Elliott
Nagano painter on peace, purity and cultural influences worldwide
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Feb 27, 2016
Active duty
Did you get many Valentine's Day chocolates?
Mother hopes for reunion with daughter ensnared by Tokyo host clubs
The Kabukicho district in Tokyo, where the daughter of a woman in her 60s fell deeply into the host club culture.
43-year-old man arrested over Kitakyushu McDonald's stabbings
A McDonald's outlet in Kitakyushu where two teens were stabbed, one fatally, on Saturday. Police arrested a 43-year-old suspect on Thursday morning.
National Police Agency panel calls for stricter rules against host clubs
The streets of Tokyo's Kabukicho entertainment district in 2020. Consultations over matters relating to host clubs have been increasing every year at police stations nationwide, according to the National Police Agency.
Nippon Steel to join iron ore mine project in Canada
Nippon Steel headquarters in Tokyo
Bank of Japan opts for caution as Trump factor and wage concerns weigh
Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda holds a news conference after a BOJ policy meeting in Tokyo on Thursday.
A year of Oscar wins and a quiet push for diversity
Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Evil Does Not Exist,” released in Japanese theaters in April, sharply dramatizes the clash between rural and urban values. The film won five awards at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, including the second-place Silver Lion prize.
Curiosity didn’t kill the meme: Why cats still rule Japanese YouTube
A screen shot from YouTube user @lagelda shows the simplicity of going viral in Japan in 2024: A cat dancing to EDM in front of a green screen.
With rare Asia carrier deployment, France seeks greater interoperability
The flight deck of the French Navy's Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier during a stop at Changi Naval Base in Singapore in May 2019
Taiwan’s bullet train a testament to shinkansen’s export potential
A Taiwan High Speed Rail bullet train arrives at Nangang Station in the city of Taipei.
Looking for ways to be charitable in Japan? Give the gift of reading.
Book Santa is a program that delivers books to children in need for Christmas, but it also operates year-round.

Podcast

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

Longform

Yasuyuki Yoshida stirs a brew in a fermentation tank at his brewery in Hakusan.
The quake that shook Noto's sake brewing tradition
By Alex K.T. Martin

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