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COMMENTARY / World

May 19, 2021

Tokyo: One of the few cities capable of holding the Olympics amid pandemic

The athletes, officials and members of the press will import the virus into an Olympic host city during an ongoing pandemic. That can only be assumed.

COMMENTARY / Japan

May 22, 2020

COVID-19 versus Japan's culture of collectivism

Has the nation's group mentality helped it weather the coronavirus storm?

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COMMENTARY / Japan

Dec 12, 2018

Eight decades on, no end in sight to Nanjing toll row

A mutually acceptable accounting of the Nanjing controversy is a matter perhaps best left to wiser generations to resolve.

Japan Times

COMMENTARY / Japan

Aug 14, 2017

For the U.S., Japan was the foe and China the prize

The Pacific War was a struggle between imperial powers for control of imperial possessions.

COMMENTARY / Japan

Dec 7, 2016

Pearl Harbor was a sneak attack but hardly a surprise

In truth, the outbreak of war between the United States and Japan astonished very few at all.

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COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA

May 25, 2016

U.S. sees wars' end through the prism of Hiroshima

Post-World War II belief that anything less than unconditional surrender is defeat has cost the U.S. dearly, in blood and treasure.

Japan Times

COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST

May 26, 2009

Expat life in Japan: the good, the bad and the meaningful

I am a 46-year-old Caucasian male. I have lived in Japan for 17 years with an attitude toward assimilation that would not be looked upon favorably in my native Australia. I would feel worse about this were it not for an undeniable fact: Compared to the average Westerner in Japan, the moderate level of...

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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST

Feb 3, 2009

What would the locals do?

In Japan, paper advertisements hang from the ceilings of train cars. In how many other countries would that be a viable advertising option? Certainly not in my hometown of Melbourne. Back in Australia, the majority of those ads would not survive any given Saturday night.

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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST

Dec 2, 2008

Back to the baths: Otaru revisited

The story is familiar to regular readers of Zeit Gist. Debito Arudou, a naturalized Japanese citizen, originally from America, was living in Sapporo, Hokkaido, and had heard of the Yunohana public bath's policy of denying entry to foreigners. In 1999, media in tow, he decided to put that onsen's policy...

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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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