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ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Jan 11, 2014

Seasons come and go — but when?

Another new year has arrived and a Hokkaido blizzard is tearing past my window, drifting snow onto every surface as if it means to drown out the world in whiteness. Thankfully it also brings a muffling silence into which thoughts pop and crackle.
Events / KANSAI: WHO & WHAT
Jan 10, 2014

Major bonsai exhibition this weekend in Kyoto

A large bonsai exhibition is taking place this weekend in the city of Kyoto.
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Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jan 9, 2014

Enjoy Japan's countryside, from Okayama to Hiroshima, for just ¥100

The Ibara Line starts at Soja Station and runs westbound across Okayama Prefecture to terminate at Kannabe Station in Hiroshima Prefecture. The line opened in 1999, and along its roughly 40-km route, it offers vast views of typical Japanese inaka (countryside) during the hour-long journeys.
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COMMUNITY / Issues / JUST BE CAUSE
Jan 6, 2014

The empire strikes back: the top issues for non-Japanese in 2013

2013 saw the enfranchised elite consolidating their power further than has ever been seen in the postwar era, while Japan's disenfranchised peoples slipped ever lower down the totem pole, becoming targets of suspicion, fear and loathing.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO BAR ADVENTURE
Dec 31, 2013

On a pub crawl, every drink is one for the road

For newcomers or current residents in Tokyo, where people are known to sometimes come off as cold and distant, attempting to chat up a complete stranger on the street or in a bar can make even the biggest social butterfly feel shy.
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LIFE / Travel
Dec 28, 2013

A garden sanctuary in the city

There is a visible nod to tradition in the shaping and use of natural materials to finish off the exterior of International House, a Modernist building in one of the nicer residential areas of Tokyo's swank Roppongi district.
EDITORIALS
Dec 28, 2013

Year of ups and downs for Japan

Japan in 2013 was besieged by problems in politics, business and society even while several key events helped to rekindle a sense of confidence in Japan.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 28, 2013

Is teacher demoralization the next step?

Publicizing the names of teachers in newspapers when their students fail to measure up could be a prescription for demoralization in Japan.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Dec 25, 2013

Aisin's Kanamaru fits in well with new team

The Aisin SeaHorses (24-2) are tied with the Toshiba Brave Thunders for the NBL's best record through Sunday. That alone isn't anything unusual for the powerhouse NBL team.
SPORTS / YEAR IN REVIEW 2013
Dec 25, 2013

A look back at the year's top 10 Japan sports stories

Japan Times editors selected these domestic sports stories as the most important of 2013.
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WORLD
Dec 22, 2013

All bets off as Syrian rebels fracture

The Bab al-Hawa crossing post sits under a low ridge on the Syrian-Turkish border, not far from the Turkish town of Reyhanli. There is a concrete canopy and a handful of buildings. It is important because of what lies not far away in the village of Babisqa — one of the main storage depots for the Supreme...
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BUSINESS / NOTEBOOK
Dec 17, 2013

Color Run comes to Tokyo; Arashi joins tourism push

IMG Worldwide, the global sports, fashion and media company, and The Color Run, a unique 5-km paint race series, will hold its popular event in Japan next year sponsored by New Balance.
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WORLD
Dec 15, 2013

Anti-apartheid movement recalls struggle

Key figures in the British anti-apartheid movement have spoken of their sadness at the death of Nelson Mandela, whom they described as a reluctant poster boy of a campaign that ended up focusing the world's attention on the horrors of apartheid South Africa.
Japan Times
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Dec 4, 2013

Mao has much at stake in Grand Prix Final in Fukuoka

With only two months to go until the Sochi Olympics, two-time world champion Mao Asada heads into this week's Grand Prix Final as a prohibitive favorite while skating on home ice.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Dec 2, 2013

Japan relay squad striving for consistent success

Competing as a team is something Japan is good at in sports. So why not do so in track and field?
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Nov 29, 2013

Islanders must think bigger to thrive, not just survive

As a resident, may I be so bold as to suggest that we don't need an NPO to save our island from aging and depopulation. What we need is for an NPO, or anyone, to save our island from itself!
Japan Times
Events / Events In Tokyo
Nov 28, 2013

Roppongi Hills shows that 'tis the season

In Medieval times, farmers and tradesmen in Christian European countries would celebrate Advent — the anticipation of the "arrival of the Christ" — by meeting in the streets around churches with food, gifts, homemade crafts and singing. According to written records, the first gathering like this...
Reader Mail
Nov 27, 2013

Beware of dangerous ethics

Two recent articles in The Japan Times reported on the government's decision to teach ethics in elementary and junior high schools, and to revise textbooks in order to "instill a sense of national pride in students."
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 23, 2013

Resisting the historical deniers

Shin Kawashima recalls his heart sinking with the reelection of Shinzo Abe. A specialist in Asian diplomatic history at the University of Tokyo, Kawashima has spent years trying to narrow the gap between Japan and China's strikingly different interpretations of wartime history. The election could undo...
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 22, 2013

Parliamentary democracy without a viable opposition

The lack of a viable opposition party is causing a serious crisis of democracy in Japan.
COMMENTARY
Nov 19, 2013

View Typhoon Haiyan as an early warning system

"We've been telling the rest of the world we don't want what's happening to us to happen to everyone else," said Lucille L. Sering, the vice chair of the Philippines' Climate Commission,, as the country struggled to cope with the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan. "This is your early warning system ... we...
Events / KANSAI: WHO & WHAT
Nov 15, 2013

Japanese films with English subtitles in Kyoto

Two Japanese films with English subtitles will be shown for free in Kyoto this month.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Nov 9, 2013

Robot surgery gripes double

The number of adverse incident reports involving Intuitive Surgical Inc.'s robots has more than doubled this year, according to U.S. regulators, who just released a physician survey showing no consistent training exists for the machines, which are also used in Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Nov 8, 2013

Top aficionado plans contest to test the best spinners

Yoshihito Fujita, the man managing the Japan Spinning Top Museum from his own home in Nagoya, has standardized the names of different spinning styles, which vary depending on region, and has also established a ranking system.

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Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
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