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Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 27, 2018

'Kengo Kuma: A Lab for Materials'

March 3-May 6
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 27, 2018

Why 'Emperor Xi' should worry

China will learn that totalitarian states have short-term advantages but they don't end well.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 14, 2018

How Asia won the rights to host three Olympics in a row

Think back to 2009: The West was in no condition to take on expensive projects.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Feb 1, 2018

Watered down measures threaten an 'extremely smoky' Tokyo Olympics, critics say

The criticism comes after the government announced planned revisions to a law on secondhand smoke, saying smoking would be permitted in some small establishments.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 31, 2018

Wanted: A U.S. nuclear strategy tailored to Asia

America's allies in Asia — Japan and South Korea — should strongly support the key directions of the U.S. 2018 nuclear posture review.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 30, 2018

A prologue to work-style reforms

Japan needs to overhaul its labor market to make the most of its shrinking workforce.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 26, 2018

Moment of truth for the Bank of Japan

The BOJ continues to provide significant stimulus to the economy, but with inflation still well below target the central bank finds itself between a rock and a hard place.
Japan Times
JAPAN / KANSAI PERSPECTIVE
Jan 21, 2018

Japan's Kansai region abuzz over chance to host G-20 and climate gatherings in 2019

2018 has just begun, but Osaka and Kyoto are already looking ahead to 2019, when the prospect of hosting two major international conferences has the local political and business circles excited.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 18, 2018

Huge oil spill isn't China's real offshore debacle

Thanks to massive overfishing in China's territorial waters, there isn't much marine life left to kill in the disaster zone.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 16, 2018

Japan sees little chance of oil slick from stricken tanker reaching its coast

Japan sees little chance of the oil spill from a stricken Iranian tanker that sank on Sunday in the East China Sea reaching its shores, an official at the nation's Environment Ministry said on Tuesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jan 11, 2018

After 12-year wait, Sony relaunches robot dog Aibo to much fanfare

Sony Corp. relaunched the Aibo on Thursday, with fans expressing excitement at the second unleashing of the robot dog.
EDITORIALS
Jan 9, 2018

Revive Japan's scientific research

Japan's scientific research is on the verge of stalling.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 9, 2018

As millions go hungry, India eyes ways to stop wasting $14 billion of food a year

For Bhaskar Kumar it is a struggle to name green leafy vegetables found in India for his homework, as his staple diet is rice and salt, with vegetables served only on festive occasions.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / COMMUNITY CHEST
Jan 7, 2018

More readers' responses to Japan Times Community articles from 2017

A selection of unpublished letters about Community stories from the second half of last year.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 7, 2018

Abenomics should follow Masayoshi Son's lead

Could SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son re-energize the Abe administration's structural reform effort?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 5, 2018

Japan's defense policy decisions in 2018

How will Japan make the most of a limited defense budget amid rising threats?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 4, 2018

A cloven landscape, a cloven tree, a cloven self

On a recent trip to Tohoku, photographer Naoya Hatakeyama took a picture of a tree. It wasn't a particularly remarkable tree, but it caught his attention all the same.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FINDING COMMON GROUND
Jan 4, 2018

With fast-track permanent residency rule, Japan looks to shed its closed image

With the goal of attracting more skilled foreign workers, Japan moved to relax requirements for permanent residency for such individuals last April.
EDITORIALS
Dec 25, 2017

More efforts needed for fiscal consolidation

The record-breaking u00a597.7 trillion budget for fiscal 2018 won't put the nation on a steady path for fiscal consolidation.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 18, 2017

Advisory panel urges Abe to focus on security, not resources, in next five-year ocean policy

An advisory panel said Monday that the government's next basic ocean policy should put more emphasis on national security than on resources development.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / Taking the Lead
Dec 17, 2017

Mori Building chief serious about creating a better Tokyo

Making Tokyo a more attractive and competitive metropolis sounds more like a policy than a business strategy.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 14, 2017

Japan Times advisory board weighs in on the paper's past and future

The Japan Times Media Advisory Board met at the newspaper's office Oct. 24 to review the redesign implemented on April 1 and news coverage over the past year.
EDITORIALS
Dec 12, 2017

Two decades after Japan's financial crisis

Japan's financial crisis may seem like ancient history, but banks are now facing considerable challenges.
Taiwan stuns Samurai Japan to capture Premier12 title
Japan starter Shosei Togo reacts after allowing a three-run home run against Taiwan in the fifth inning of the Premier12 final on Sunday.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
Japan beats Taiwan ahead of rematch in Premier12 final
Keita Sano celebrates with his teammates after scoring on Kotaro Kiyomiya's two-run triple against Taiwan during their Premier12 game at Tokyo Dome on Saturday.
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
'Kohaku' still matters for J-pop bragging rights
Emerging Gen Z J-pop group ME:I will perform on this year's "Kohaku Uta Gassen," national broadcaster NHK’s New Year's Eve spectacle.
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”

Podcast

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

Longform

Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?
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