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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Mar 17, 2016

Seasonal treats to welcome spring; celebrating a prestigious accolade; a global twist on cherry blossoms

Seasonal treats to welcome spring
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 14, 2016

Australia's defense in the age of a rising China

If the U.S. and Australia want China to respect rules-based regional and global orders, they had better learn to do so themselves.
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MORE SPORTS
Mar 11, 2016

Exclusive: America's Cup World Series race coming to Fukuoka

Japan will play host to an America's Cup World Series race for the first time ever, The Japan Times has learned. The final race of the 2016 campaign will be held in Fukuoka in late November, a sailing source confirmed Friday.
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JAPAN / 5-YEAR MEMORIAL OF GREAT EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKE
Mar 11, 2016

Symposium examines disaster risk reduction

March 11 marks five years since the devastating Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and one year since the Third U.N. World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction was held in Sendai, the center of the disaster-hit Tohoku region.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 11, 2016

China able to project 'substantial offensive power' from Spratlys in months, U.S. says

China will be able to project "substantial offensive military power" from artificial islands it has built in the South China Sea's disputed Spratly Islands within months, the director of U.S. national intelligence said.
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CULTURE / Music
Mar 6, 2016

Japanese bands plan overseas spring offensive

TV Asahi's weekly "Music Station" program has rarely served as a staging ground for exciting young domestic acts in recent years. It has been more of an opportunity to gawk at Johnny's boy bands and test how many members of AKB48 can fit on the interview bench.
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ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Mar 5, 2016

Our new school's on song despite cabals

Almost exactly five years ago, on March 11, 2011, an earthquake followed by a devastating tsunami wreaked havoc in the northeastern Tohoku region. Here where I live amid the faraway mountains of Nagano Prefecture, all of us connected with the C.W. Nicol Afan Woodland Trust wondered what we could do to...
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COMMENTARY / World
Mar 3, 2016

Russia may be preparing a privatization fire sale

Faced with a rapidly deteriorating fiscal position, Russia's government has announced that it will privatize major state-owned firms, but institutional reforms are needed first.
BUSINESS
Mar 1, 2016

Abe setting up panel to debate extra budget before G-7 summit

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will convene an advisory panel to consider an extra budget for the coming fiscal year, sources said days after the Group of 20 nations urged more fiscal spending to support the ailing global economy.
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COMMENTARY / World
Feb 29, 2016

Humans can't keep trashing the oceans forever

The oceans are a critical ally of life on Earth, and we must do everything in our power to safeguard them.
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BASKETBALL
Feb 28, 2016

Japan helping rise of 3x3 basketball

Japan hasn't really appeared on the global map in basketball's conventional five-man game.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 23, 2016

Solution to the inequality puzzle proving elusive

As difficult a puzzle as income inequality may seem today, failing to solve it could lead to far more severe challenges.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 21, 2016

Japan's Sosei sees more tie-ups with international drugmakers in the pipeline

Japan's Sosei Group Corp., which has seen its stock triple over the past year on tie-ups with international companies, could enter into more partnerships in 2016 to develop new medicines and diversify beyond its main lung disease treatment.
Feb 19, 2016

The Martian / Aeon Cinema Kyoto Katsuragawa / 2016-02-20 to 2016-02-26

Feb 19, 2016

Haha to Kuraseba / Movix Kyoto / 2016-02-20 to 2016-02-26

11:50
Feb 19, 2016

Shuriken Sentai Ninninja vs Tokkyuja the Movie: Ninja in Wonderland / Cine Citta / 2016-02-20 to 2016-02-26

13:25
Feb 19, 2016

In the Heart of the Sea / Cine Citta / 2016-02-20 to 2016-02-26

18:45
Feb 19, 2016

Jinsei no Yakusoku / Cine Citta / 2016-02-20 to 2016-02-26

10:50
Feb 19, 2016

Star Wars: The Force Awakens / Cine Citta / 2016-02-20 to 2016-02-26

17:55
Feb 19, 2016

National Theatre Live: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time / Toho Cinemas Roppongi Hills / 2016-02-20 to 2016-02-26

until Feb. 24 19:30
Feb 19, 2016

Good Kill / Shin-Bungeiza / 2016-02-20 to 2016-02-26

Feb. 23, Feb. 24 10:00, 14:15, 18:30
Feb 19, 2016

Eiga Yo-Kai Watch: Enma Daio to 5-tsu no Monogatari Da Nyan! / Ikebukuro Humax Cinemas / 2016-02-20 to 2016-02-26

until Feb. 21 9:15 / from Feb. 22 no screenings
Feb 19, 2016

It Follows / Cinema Rosa / 2016-02-20 to 2016-02-26

18:00
Feb 19, 2016

Paddington (dubbed) / Cinema Rosa / 2016-02-20 to 2016-02-26

11:25

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