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EDITORIALS
Feb 2, 2007

Freedom to edit

The Tokyo High Court has ordered NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp.) and two production companies to pay 2 million yen in compensation to a women's rights group for altering the content of a documentary program on Japan's wartime military sex slaves. The ruling, which pointed out that NHK officials' excessive...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 5, 2022

Elon Musk’s ‘passive’ Twitter stake starts with poll on edit button

Whether Musk stays passive or switches to active, Twitter shares soared 27% on Monday, a signal that shareholders welcome his investment.
JAPAN
Jun 13, 2008

NHK censorship ruling reversed

The Supreme Court reversed a lower court ruling Thursday, dismissing a suit filed by a women's rights group that demanded NHK and two production companies pay compensation for altering the content of a documentary on Japan's wartime sexual slavery.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 31, 2022

Musk says Twitter will revise how it verifies users

Users would have to subscribe to Twitter Blue at $4.99 a month or lose their 'verified' badges if the project moves forward, according to one report.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Oct 12, 2013

Just picture that — and know how to

A sleek, black anchor shape, etched against the blue sky, hurtles in pursuit of prey. A Northern Hobby, a flashy falcon, is chasing dragonflies. Sighting one alone speaks to me of summer in Hokkaido, especially with its mate brooding or feeding a growing fledgling in a nearby treetop nest.
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2007

NHK stung by censorship suit appeal

The Tokyo High Court on Monday expanded on a lower court ruling and ordered NHK and two production companies to pay damages to a women's rights group for altering the content of a documentary on a mock tribunal over Japan's wartime sexual slavery.
Japan Times
Czech Republic report 2022
Dec 21, 2022

Zoner brings you Zoner Photo Studio X

Zoner Photo Studio X is a software tool that allows users to manage and edit a large number of images at high speed, search and browse lightly, and process photos with a variety of editing functions.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 7, 2022

‘Kingdom of the Apes’: Corporate power games leave a bloody mess

Shugo Fujii tackles a familiar story line in his new film “Kingdom of the Apes”: An intrepid journalist investigates a coverup, incurring the wrath of the powers-that-be. It is a narrative that was injected with topical relevance in the 2019 hit “The Journalist,” directed by Michihito Fujii (no...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 6, 2022

Elon Musk joins Twitter’s board, pitching ideas big and small

The move has implications for a social network where world leaders, lawmakers, celebrities and more than 217 million users conduct their daily public discourse.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 1, 2021

Science shows why simplifying is hard and complicating is easy

Spotting solutions that are simple and elegant, in other words, requires mental effort or what the Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman calls slow as opposed to fast thinking.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Jan 13, 2021

Marie Kondo eyes fresh ways to tidy up in 2021

The lifestyle expert, who is well-known for her books and Netflix reality series, 'Tidying Up with Marie Kondo,' encourages practicing mindfulness for a much-needed reset in the new year.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech / FOCUS
Jul 13, 2020

Google search upgrades make it harder for websites to win traffic

For some web publishers that have historically relied on the internet giant to send users to their sites, the subtle tweaks have siphoned off vital traffic.
Nov 17, 2017

Pubcen Inc. Unveils its Lifelog / Content Curation Service

Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture, Japan – November 17, 2017 – Today Pubcen Inc. (CEO & Co-Founder: Takao Sato) launched its flagship cloud service, “Pubcen.” People throughout the world perpetually create digital content for their online lives via SNS and cloud services. Pubcen gathers the digital...
LIFE / Digital / ON: TECH
Nov 19, 2016

Line takes on Instagram with Moments app

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Mar 18, 2015

From a minstrel no-show to a black beauty queen, in a week

From preventing a blackface TV broadcast to the nation embracing a black face as the embodiment of Japanese beauty, it's been quite a week.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Jul 23, 2014

To appear or not to appear on Japanese TV . . .

If you're in Japan long enough, you're bound to get the opportunity to appear on Japanese TV. But you might want to think twice before you make the leap to 'TV gaijin.'
LIFE / Digital / TECH_JAPAN
Jan 18, 2012

'Stealth marketing' by companies is polluting online forums

You may have heard that the underbelly of the Japanese Web revolves around a massive bulletin-board service called 2-channel (pronounced ni-channel), where people can post messages anonymously. For Japanese, who find it difficult to freely express their opinions in public, that anonymity has meant that...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 9, 2011

Portrait of an artist or photographer?

For Takashi Homma, being a contemporary photographer is very different from being a photographer.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Feb 26, 2010

One of a kind

Theater programs the world over list the writer, director, cast members, designers, lighting specialists and such in their credits. Lately in Japan, though, a new role has begun to appear in among those credits — that of "dramaturge."
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jan 9, 2010

A cookie a day for your fluency

Foreign visitors adapting to life in modern Japan have scores of advantages that travelers of the past could never have envisioned, even in their wildest dreams. Like e-mail, Skype, YouTube and the general all-encompassing mesh of the Internet.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 21, 2007

Inspired by repression

I am a very private person," says Marjane Satrapi, author of "Persepolis" and co-director of the new film based on her graphic novels. It's a curious statement coming from someone who's poured her own life into an autobiographical novel, but as she repeatedly pointed out to The Japan Times, it's not...
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Mar 11, 2007

Jimmy Wales: Power to the Wikipeople

An Internet search for almost anything these days will likely lead you straight to Wikipedia, the worldwide online encyclopedia.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 18, 2007

In the presence of 'Emperor' Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa's assistant for almost four decades, Teruyo Nogami discusses the master filmmaker's genius, and his weaknesses
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Sep 2, 2006

In earthquakes, avoid bending machines

I was recently asked to edit an emergency evacuation manual for Kasaoka City Hall. "Don't worry," they told me, "we've already translated it into English. All you have to do is edit it." Right.
EDITORIALS
Jan 22, 2006

Something wiki this way comes

'W ikipedia": Anyone looking for information online in the last few years is bound to have come across this funny word. Type any search term into Google, and a Wikipedia entry will probably pop up somewhere on the first page or two. On "Japan," for example, the Wikipedia entry comes in an impressive...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Jan 28, 2005

2004: Year of the bounce; Serious Sirius

Calamitous. The world was a bouncin' in 2004.
An image provided by Profluent Bio shows the physical structure of OpenCRISPR-1, a gene editor created by AI technology from Profluent.
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 25, 2024

Generative AI arrives in the gene-editing world of CRISPR

AI has arrived on the scene of gene editing with the goal of outdoing billions of years of natural evolution.
Susan Barber, an AP English teacher at Atlanta's Midtown High School, in class Tuesday. Barber said using AI chatbots could make students' college essays too generic.
WORLD / Society
Sep 2, 2023

Ban or embrace? Colleges wrestle with AI-generated admissions essays.

A.I. chatbots could facilitate plagiarism on college applications or democratize student access to writing help. Or maybe both.
Though he enjoyed making films when he was younger, Ryan Filiatrault wound up working a slew of other jobs before returning to his passion in his 30s.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
May 24, 2024

Ryan Filiatrault: 'Failure is an obstacle not a barrier. You can always get back on track.'

The Canadian filmmaker has taken a regimented approach to following his passion — and it has worked.

Longform

The sun shines from behind a waving Philippine flag at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial.
Eighty years after the Battle of Manila, old foes forge new ties