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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Sep 7, 2016

Could a tiny islet in the South China Sea be key to maritime dominance by Beijing?

Beijing is once again testing the waters for a potential move on a hotly disputed site that would further extend its grip — and significantly ratchet up tensions in the region.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Sep 3, 2016

The cat's meow of creature comforts

This month, On: Design lets the cat out of the bag about The Japan Times' love of pets by allowing Chibi-chan, my adopted stray, to review a few products that she claims may persuade her to become a house pet.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / CABINET INTERVIEW
Aug 31, 2016

New regional revitalization minister defends Abenomics, denies policy mix has plateaued

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's newly appointed regional revitalization minister, Kozo Yamamoto, has argued that the leader's Abenomics economic policy mix has not plateaued but is merely returning to its original form, one that combines financial and fiscal measures.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Aug 27, 2016

Demythologizing Pure Land Buddhism

The bulk of "Demythologizing Pure Land Buddhism" is a collection of essays by Rijin Yasuda (1900-1982), a Shin Buddhist thinker in the modernizing tradition of Kiyozawa Manshi (1863-1903). Yasuda "taught a conception of Amida and the Pure Land that made them existential realities in the present," as...
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Aug 26, 2016

Strong managerial ranks highlight start of new season

This is the season the Premier League has been waiting for since its inception in 1992.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Aug 20, 2016

Does ‘Provoke’ still push back today?

The year 1968 saw a wide range of actions directed against the Japanese government: Universities were occupied, protesters demonstrated en masse against Japan's complicity in the Vietnam War and students mobilized to stop the transportation of Vietnam-bound jet fuel through Shinjuku Station. A quieter,...
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 17, 2016

Japan pushes mighty U.S. team before falling in rout

Japan's women's basketball team pushed the United States before crumbling after halftime on the way to a 110-64 quarterfinal defeat at the Rio Games on Tuesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 16, 2016

'Charm of the Scholar's Desk: Water Droppers of the Joseon Dynasty'

Aug. 13-Nov. 27
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 14, 2016

Pokemon craze challenges Olympics for popularity in Brazil

Forget beach volleyball, soccer or tennis, not to mention the steeplechase or discus. "Pokemon Go" is challenging the Olympics for most popular game among some young Brazilians.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 12, 2016

Shikoku MOX plant restarts amid outcry over fresh quake fears

Shikoku Electric restarts the Ikata No. 3 reactor on the narrow Sadamisaki Peninsula as protesters seek court injunctions over safety fears renewed by the quakes in Kyushu.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 11, 2016

Piltdown breakdown: New study unearths details of famed scientific hoax

Researchers applying modern forensic techniques to a century-old puzzle have laid bare intriguing new details about one of the most notorious scientific hoaxes on record, the so-called Piltdown Man, and are confident in the culprit's identity.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Aug 11, 2016

Baltimore vows vast police reforms after report blasts rights abuses of blacks

Baltimore officials on Wednesday pledged to carry out sweeping police department reforms after a scathing U.S. Justice Department report found that officers in the majority-black city routinely violated the civil rights of black residents.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 9, 2016

'The Peter Rabbit Exhibition'

Aug. 9-Oct. 11
Japan Times
CULTURE / TV & Streaming
Aug 7, 2016

'Invisible Tokyo' seeks out the stories of people living in the capital

What does it actually mean to be connected? To be unique and young in the country's biggest city? A new, self-proclaimed "neo documentary" on Amazon Prime Japan titled "Invisible Tokyo" has taken up the task to answer these ever-evolving questions.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 2, 2016

'Louvre Museum Exhibition: Louvre No. 9 — Manga, the 9th Art'

July 22-Sept. 25
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 2, 2016

'Scary Pictures of Ukiyo-e'

Aug. 2-Aug. 28
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 2, 2016

'A Feverish Era: Art Informel and the Expansion of Japanese Artistic Expression in the 1950s and '60s'

July 29-Sept. 11
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Aug 1, 2016

A Japanese guide to dealing with gentlemen callers and unruly dogs

Bookworms often have a rare jewel in their collection that they are unable to throw out — despite efforts to こんまり (Konmari, tidy in the method of Marie Kondo by getting rid of clutter) around the house. For me, this book is the 1965 エチケット事典 (Echiketto Jiten, Etiquette Dictionary)....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jul 31, 2016

The fun we had at Fuji Rock 2016

One of Japan's oldest large-scale rock festivals celebrated 20 years of operation this July. Here's a curated collection of the fun that was had in the mountains of Niigata.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 29, 2016

FDA acts to protect Florida blood supply amid Zika scare, halts donations

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has ordered blood banks in Florida's two most densely populated counties to stop collecting blood as health officials determine whether Zika has begun transmission in the continental United States.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jul 24, 2016

Keigo Oyamada sees U.S. 'Fantasma' tour as a good warm-up to new Cornelius material

Hikaru Utada's "First Love" may have sold more copies, but it's hard to think of a Japanese album from the 1990s that has endured like "Fantasma." Keigo Oyamada was 28 years old when he released his third full-length as Cornelius in 1997: a dense collage of polychromatic meta-pop, full of improbable...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jul 23, 2016

Tokyo hotels invite guests to live in the lap of luxury

Two domestic hotel operators are shaking up competition in Tokyo's luxury accommodation market by attempting to make their new properties more inviting for inbound visitors.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jul 23, 2016

'For Dignity, Justice, and Revolution': Voices from Japan's prewar labor movement

In 2008, a previously obscure novella by Takiji Kobayashi entered the best-seller lists in Japan. "The Cannery Boat," a tale of worker exploitation originally published in 1929, acquired new resonance in the fallout from the global economic meltdown. Kobayashi features prominently in "For Dignity, Justice,...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jul 17, 2016

Slot Machine plans to show Fuji fans how Thailand rocks

Thailand has been a destination for Asian artists looking to expand their markets. From J-rock to K-pop, fans in Bangkok have been able to listen to their fill. Rock band Slot Machine wants this to be a two-way conversation and the members say they'll begin it this year by being the first Thai band to...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 15, 2016

Japan steps up rhetoric over Okinotorishima in wake of Hague ruling

Tokyo doubles down on its claims that Okinotorishima is an island and not rocks under international law.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 13, 2016

After South China Sea ruling, could tiny Okinotorishima be the next flash point?

After an international court issued a stinging rebuke of Beijing's expansive claims in the South China Sea on Tuesday, the next flash point to emerge could be a bit closer to home — but just a bit.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 13, 2016

Sen. Franken wants 'Pokemon Go' maker to clarify user data privacy protections

A Democratic U.S. senator on Tuesday asked the software developer behind Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s "Pokemon Go" to clarify the mobile game's data privacy protections, amid concerns the augmented reality hit was unnecessarily collecting vast swaths of sensitive user data.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
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.
Tokyo police care for lost umbrellas, keys and flying squirrels
An employee at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Lost and Found Center in the Iidabashi area of central Tokyo bags, tags and organizes thousands of items.
Japan to aid introduction of multilingual ride-hailing apps
A Nihon Kotsu Co. taxi departs one of the company's service offices in Tokyo.
Seven & I founding family sounded out KKR and others about buyout: report
A 7-Eleven convenience store in Tokyo
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?
By Kathryn Wortley

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