author

 
Menu
Search
 
July 27, 2024
 

Today's print edition

Home Delivery
Subscribe for more access

Meta

Kakumi Kobayashi
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 27, 2014
Abe cautious on U.S.-led airstrikes
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stops short of fully endorsing American-led airstrikes against Islamic State militants in the Mideast during his U.S. trip.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Jul 13, 2014
No clear path to TPP without game changer
Trade talks in Ottawa end without a deal as U.S. midterm elections threaten to disrupt momentum.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 18, 2014
Japan, U.S. still in TPP stalemate
Japan and the United States are still "in stalemate" over key items holding up the Trans-Pacific Partnership pact, Tokyo's TPP minister, Akira Amari, said Thursday during the latest round of ministerial talks.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 25, 2014
Abe vows to strengthen nuclear security measures
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged Monday to strengthen measures to ensure the safe management of nuclear materials and facilities to deter nuclear terrorism.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 16, 2014
TPP talks hung up on farm produce, autos
Japan and the United States failed to make progress on resolving their Trans-Pacific Partnership differences in ministerial talks Saturday as the thorny farm produce and auto trade issues kept the trade pact in limbo.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Feb 13, 2014
Abe must regain Obama's trust to repair ties with Washington
focus
JAPAN
Jan 17, 2014
Ambassador frets over Virginia's incursion into Sea of Japan naming row
Japan's ambassador to the United States expressed concern Thursday about legislation pending in Virginia that would require school books to use "East Sea" as well as "Sea of Japan" to name the waters between Japan and the Korean Peninsula.
BUSINESS
Nov 25, 2013
TPP chiefs ready for Singapore meeting
Chief negotiators from the 12 countries of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations set the stage Sunday for next month's ministerial meeting, ending their talks aimed at sifting through as many thorny issues as possible.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 18, 2013
Kennedy's nonprofit efforts seen as asset
New U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy is known in Japan as a glamorous appointment who carries political clout, but her new role is also likely to highlight the advocacy and nonprofit work for which she is prominent in her home country.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Jul 6, 2013
U.S. hoping Upper House poll puts end to political instability
Washington hopes Japan's House of Councilors election will bring political stability to its key regional ally that will in turn yield progress on long-pending bilateral issues, an expert says.
JAPAN
Mar 16, 2011
Survivors fret over lack of gas
YAMAMOTO, Miyagi Pref. — Quake survivors in a remote Miyagi Prefecture town are faced with a problem not encountered by the survivors of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake — a shortage of gasoline, a commodity essential for daily life in rural areas.
JAPAN
May 29, 2010
'Manga' artist finds feet in Big Apple
Misako Takashima, a "manga" comic artist based in New York, worries that many American teenagers she has met during academic art events rely too heavily on the Internet and are reluctant to try anything in the real world.
JAPAN
Apr 13, 2010
Hatoyama's Futenma waffling irks Guam
HAGATNA, Guam — Guam has been frustrated by the indecision of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama over the stalled plan to relocate U.S. Marines from Okinawa to the U.S. territory as well as its limited political influence over the issue.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 1, 2009
Overreliance on ad revenue dooms Esquire Japan after 22-year run
Japan's economic slide has dealt a serious blow to a bible for the nation's wannabe gentlemen, as Esquire Japan Edition, one of the oldest overseas versions of the U.S. lifestyle magazine, has announced it will cease publication in May.
JAPAN
Nov 27, 2008
MSDF role in piracy fight eyed, iffy
Prime Minister Taro Aso is considering sending the Maritime Self-Defense Force to deal with the growing number of piracy attacks off Somalia, but lawmakers and the public appear cool to the idea.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 24, 2008
Secrecy hampers SDF death probe
The death of a Maritime Self-Defense Force sailor resulting from a suspected bullying incident during training last month is yet another black eye for the MSDF, already awash with a spate of problems ranging from mismanagement of top secrets to a fatal collision at sea with a fishing boat.
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2008
Aso raises collective defense
Prime Minister Taro Aso has puzzled many in his government and party with his indication that he may move to enable the Self-Defense Forces to exercise the right to collective self-defense, lifting decades-old legal restrictions.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 20, 2008
Military bedeviled by high suicide rate
The Self-Defense Forces are struggling to curb suicides in its ranks, a serious problem that has haunted the military's 240,000 members for years.
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2008
Hayashi tries dialogue on Futenma impasse
Defense Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, a newcomer to defense issues, is quickly being put to the test with the stalled issue of relocating the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma within Okinawa. Unlike his predecessor, Shigeru Ishiba, who is known as a military policy wonk, Hayashi had taken no defense-linked...
JAPAN
Aug 19, 2008
Latest 'Indy' film's nuke blast scene irks some
The latest installment in the "Indiana Jones" movie series has puzzled viewers and critics in Japan as it includes a segment showing a nuclear bomb test they say could give young people the wrong impression about the dangers of radiation and the destructive power of atomic weapons.
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
One dead, three missing as heavy rain batters Tohoku
Camera footage shows the Mogami River bursting its banks in Tozawa, Yamagata Prefecture, on Friday morning.
Brazil issues apology for persecuting Japan immigrants during WWII
Enea Almeida (right), chair of the Brazilian amnesty commission, shakes hands with the representative for Japanese immigrants on Thursday in Brasilia.
When did summer in Japan stop being fun?
Summer in Japan is now consistently brutal enough to drive you indoors and keep you there until autumn.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
Japan midfielder Yu Hirakawa controls the ball during a match against the United States in Kansas City, Kansas, on June 11.

Podcast

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

Longform

Traditional folk rituals like Mizudome-no-mai (dance to stop the rain) provide a sense of agency to a population that feels largely powerless in the face of the climate crisis.
As climate extremes intensify, Japan embraces ancient weather rituals
By Alex K.T. Martin

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

JNTO promotes sustainable tourism initiatives
JNTO promotes sustainable tourism initiatives

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS note

Read more

SUPPLEMENTS BINDER