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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Apr 20, 2014

The one that got away

In 2004, the job of looking after the local foreigner went to Rikimatsu-san, a 75-year-old fisherman intent on teaching me the ways of the Seto Inland Sea.
Events / KANSAI: WHO & WHAT
Apr 18, 2014

Huge carp to stream between skyscrapers

It is a tradition for many Japanese families, especially those raising sons, to fly large carp streamers in front of their houses to celebrate the annual Children's Day festival on May 5. Visitors to Osaka can enjoy 60 of them flying between a pair of skyscrapers from April 25 until May 11.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 17, 2014

Confronting unending lies

Perhaps what is most amazing and regretful about the situation in Russia is the nearly complete absence of truth and objectivity in the mass media covering Ukrainian events.
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WORLD / Politics
Apr 16, 2014

U.N. finds fear-mongering in Ukraine by speakers of Russian

Ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine have falsely claimed to be under assault to justify Russian intervention, the U.N. human rights office said Tuesday as it warned that such propaganda could affect Ukraine's presidential election next month.
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WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Apr 16, 2014

Russia modifies Crimea playbook for benefit in east Ukraine

There are important differences between Russia's intervention in Crimea and the events unfolding this week in eastern Ukraine that suggest Moscow has adapted its Crimean playbook and may be pursuing a different outcome.
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CULTURE / Music
Apr 15, 2014

Record Store Day finds its groove in Japan

It won't be business as usual at Big Love Records this Saturday, April 19. The store, one of the best places to shop for records in Tokyo's trendy Harajuku neighborhood, will be selling limited-edition music from various artists, including film director David Lynch. Meanwhile, shadowy beatmaker Sapphire...
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CULTURE / Art
Apr 10, 2014

Flower power blooms at Tokyo Big Sight

Who would have thought flowers needed their own industry fair? Growers, florists, ikebana schools and floral supplies makers, that's who.
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JAPAN / GENERATIONAL CHANGE
Apr 6, 2014

Human rights champ Doi battles social injustice in Japan

Many Japanese view human rights violations as the problems of people in a distant world, but Kanae Doi is battling to change that perception.
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Apr 3, 2014

Time for FIBA to suspend JBA, force necessary changes to be made

The Japan Basketball Association has changed its alleged goal so many times, it's difficult to remember the original target.
EDITORIALS
Mar 31, 2014

The wrong target for Turkey

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan is in a difficult situation. Corruption in Turkey is endemic, but the government's response to allegations of corruption has been to condemn the leakers rather than go after those said to be enriching themselves.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 31, 2014

Why Russia won't tank U.S. Treasury market

Do the U.S. government's vast debts to foreign nations present a threat to its national security?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 27, 2014

Finding Japan's hidden punk scenes in their natural environments

Finding music in Japan can be a nightmare, and the live-music scene in particular is notoriously difficult to penetrate. Tucked away in the basements and upper floors of anonymous buildings, often in seedy parts of town, where the neighbors will be less likely to raise complaints against noise and loitering,...
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JAPAN / Media
Mar 27, 2014

Okinawa film fest gives fans an up-close view of the stars

Why go to Okinawa for movies? For anyone familiar with the international festival circuit, especially at its higher, artier end, the Okinawa International Movie Festival may well prompt this question — and a negative answer. "It's not a real film festival!" a fellow foreign journalist exclaimed to...
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BUSINESS / NOTEBOOK
Mar 25, 2014

European design; Animation station; African Festival

exhibitions
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CULTURE / Music
Mar 25, 2014

Babymetal aren't the latest chapter in the 'wacky Japan' story

The British are mad, aren't they? That Kate Bush with her crazy gyrating around a cello in the video for "Babushka," that daft loon Robbie Williams with his funky skeleton costume, those kerrr-azy Tellytubbies with their wacky dance routines — what is it about the British that makes them so totally...
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WORLD
Mar 25, 2014

Ukraine crisis could have implications for Nonproliferation Treaty: Ban

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned international leaders Monday that the Ukraine crisis could have profound implications for the integrity of a global treaty designed to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 21, 2014

Massive solar blasts missed Earth by days

Fierce solar blasts that could have badly damaged electrical grids and disabled satellites in space narrowly missed Earth in 2012, U.S. researchers said.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 21, 2014

There's a conspiracy theory wherever you look

Whether it's Ukraine, the National Security Agency, assassinations of national leaders, recent economic crises, the authorship of Shakespeare's plays — some people jump at the chance to connect a bunch of dots to support a relevant conspiracy theory. Why is that?
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BUSINESS
Mar 20, 2014

Abe funds matchmaking to ease welfare bill

Over coffee and cake in a rural cafe in Kochi Prefecture, Hideyuki Tanaka, 40, plucked up the courage to speak with Eri, 14 years his junior.
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Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 20, 2014

Akashi invites visitors to not only enjoy art, but to create it, too

Art sprouts from the imagination, but it usually starts with a blank slate of some kind, which is something Akashi Artful Week is offering its visitors. This week-long event includes the installation of a 50-meter-long blank canvas on which visitors are asked to illustrate their impressions of the city...
CULTURE / Music / JAZZ NOTES
Mar 11, 2014

New acts see good results off the beaten path

Jazz is a form of music that was born out of live performance, and fans in Japan are certainly spoiled for choice when it comes to places to see jazz gigs.
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LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Mar 10, 2014

Fashion week is here again; see what the ordinary folk are invited to

Don't miss out on Tokyo Fashion Week
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 6, 2014

East Asia should build resilience through disaster-relief cooperation

The president of Soka Gakkai International urges Japan, China and South Korea to take the initiative in building a model of cooperation that will serve to mutually strengthen regional resilience to extreme-weather events and other disasters.
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Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 6, 2014

Happy birthday to Kumamon, Japan's favorite regional bear

You don't have to be from Kumamoto Prefecture to know Kumamon — a cute red-cheeked black bear who was officially introduced as the region's yurukyara (mascot character) in 2010. Since his appearance, he has arguably become one of the hottest yurukyara, along with Funabashi's blue-aproned pear, Funassyi....
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WORLD
Mar 6, 2014

Ukraine may lead to entente between Russia, China

China's reaction to events in Ukraine will probably prove more important in the long run than the responses of the United States and the EU.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Mar 3, 2014

West finds its hands tied over crisis in Ukraine

With Western powers coming to the conclusion that Ukraine has lost Crimea to Russia, the U.S. and its allies face few viable options and serious questions over future relations.
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WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Mar 3, 2014

Putin takes on West over Ukraine: Who blinks first?

Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken a gamble on Ukraine and is betting that U.S. leader Barack Obama will blink first.

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