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Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 4, 2017

Under Trump's review, EPA set to propose repeal of Obama's climate regulation

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will propose repealing the Clean Power Plan — the Obama administration's centerpiece regulation to fight climate change — and plans to solicit input on a rule to replace it, according to an EPA document seen by Reuters.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 4, 2017

'Ernesto': Dealing with the politics of making a political movie

In the late 1960s, posters of Ernesto "Che" Guevara were in every North American college dorm, mine included. Alberto Korda's famed 1960 photo of the Cuban revolutionary leader as rock star had a lot to do with it, as did his execution by Bolivian troops in October 1967, making him an instant martyr...
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 4, 2017

Five held, grilled over wired explosives found planted in posh Paris neighborhood

French counterterrorism investigators questioned five people on Tuesday after police over the weekend found what appeared to be a ready-to-detonate bomb at an apartment building in one of Paris's poshest neighborhoods.
Japan Times
SPORTS / MAN ABOUT SPORTS
Oct 3, 2017

Questions abound as MLB postseason starts

Some burning questions (and answers) entering the 2017 MLB postseason.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 3, 2017

Europe's populist revolt: A close-up

Can the rise of populism in Europe be contained?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 2, 2017

The dangers of demographic denial

The benefits of having a rapidly growing youthful population is fast fading as advances in automation reduce labor-intensive employment opportunities.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Sep 30, 2017

Yuriko Koike's energized challenge exposes risk of Abe's snap poll decision

A fast-growing challenge by Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling bloc has highlighted the risk of his gamble on a snap poll.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 29, 2017

America's new world order is dead

Russia and China were never willing fully to embrace the U.S.-led liberal order, which emphasized liberal ideas that were bound to seem threatening to dictatorial regimes.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Sep 29, 2017

Love of poetry, books made Meschery unique in NBA

Second in a three-part series
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2017

Mitsui and science startups look to landfill gas for sustainable food for the future

Imagine a world where gas emitted from landfills can be turned into edible protein that ends up on your plate as a burger or a steak.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 27, 2017

Trump boasts his team doing 'really good job' but hurricane-hit Puerto Rico begs to differ, feels slighted

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday his administration was doing a "really good job" helping Puerto Rico recover from the devastation of Hurricane Maria despite complaints that federal aid has been too slow to reach the U.S. territory.
EDITORIALS
Sep 25, 2017

Merkel wins fourth straight election

While the election results validated her policies and were widely anticipated, they nevertheless hint at future difficulties for the chancellor.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 25, 2017

So what's next for Emmanuel Macron?

Four months after Emmanuel Macron became president of France, the French and the rest of Europe still don't know what they are getting.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 20, 2017

'Okuda Tamio ni Naritai Boi to Deau Otoko Subete Kuruwaseru Garu': A bumbling Romeo falls into love

Many are the Japanese movies about virginal guys who are hopeless with women. One template is "Train Man," a 2005 hit about a shy otaku (geek) who lucks into a date with his dream girl — and needs an online support network to survive it.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Sep 18, 2017

Japan's free ambulance services stretched by aging population, nonemergency overuse

The sirens are going off about the state of ambulance services.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 17, 2017

15 years after landmark Koizumi visit to Pyongyang, little progress on abduction issue

Little progress has been made on efforts to repatriate Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea since Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi made a historic visit in 2002.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Sep 16, 2017

Taste test: Does the future of meat lie in a lab?

Biochemist Yuki Hanyu's vision for the future includes a supermarket that has plenty of meat, none of which has come from a farm. Instead, it has all been grown in a laboratory.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 15, 2017

Russia is an emerging superpower in food supply

Climate change is opening up vast regions in Russia to farming.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Sep 15, 2017

Eclectic Meschery has lived rich life in NBA, literature

First in a three-part series
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 14, 2017

Japan's high-tech lavatory drive picks up pace ahead of Olympics

Pop diva Madonna once said during her 2005 visit to Japan that she'd "missed the heated toilet seats."
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 14, 2017

Deaths of 11 elderly and medically fragile patients in care homes rock Florida

Inside a sweltering nursing home, a crisis unfolded Wednesday as 150 centers across Florida still lacked power days after Hurricane Irma ravaged the state.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 13, 2017

Kiyoshi Kurosawa examines the threat within in sci-fi thriller 'Before We Vanish'

Kiyoshi Kurosawa is best known for films about ghosts and other types of strange phenomena that are capable of stirring foreboding feelings through mininal means such as curtains rustling ominously in the breeze or red duct tape stuck incongruously on doors.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 13, 2017

'Before We Vanish': Tension builds steadily during an alien attack

How do you imagine the coming alien invasion? Movies have been all over the map with this question, though in recent Japanese films such as Takashi Yamazaki's "Parasyte" duology (2013-14) and Daihachi Yoshida's "A Beautiful Star" (2017), extraterrestrial visitors take a human form.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 12, 2017

Being better prepared for the spike in floods and storms

Just as governments try to cushion financial shocks, so they must invest in reducing disaster risk.
30 minutes with Yuzuru Hanyu
Yuzuru Hanyu smiles during an interview in his hometown of Sendai in between performances of his latest tour, Ice Story.
Eight students recovering after hammer attack at university in Tokyo
Police investigate the scene after eight people were injured by a hammer-wielding woman on Hosei University's Tama campus in Tokyo on Friday afternoon.
Stage set for action-packed New Year Basho with yokozuna promotion battle
Kotozakura is in position to fight his way to a promotion to yokozuna going into the New Year Basho.
Race circuit and resort among post-event proposals for Osaka Expo site
A portion of the Grand Ring at the site of the Osaka Expo during a media tour late last month
Japan's health ministry reports record-high flu cases
A busy street in Tokyo on Dec. 30. The number of influenza patients per clinic, on average, in the final week of December was the highest since health ministry records began in 1999.
Can an international makeover help Tokyo salons meet foreign demand?
Otono Kuboki, a Japanese Canadian hair stylist for salon chain Sozo, is a key figure in the company's mission to elevate the viability of Japan's hairdressing industry to foreign residents.
Isekai anime offers a key to understanding globalization
“The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic” centers on three teenage protagonists who are transported into a fantasy world where they must grapple with a foreign culture.
Japanese space startup readies for second lunar lander launch
Ispace CEO Takeshi Hakamada with the countdown clock for the launch of the startup's lunar lander, in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on Thursday
Emanuel leaves reform legacy amid historic shifts in U.S.-Japan alliance
Rahm Emanuel professes that the biggest thing he has brought to the U.S.-Japan relationship might be a fresh injection of vitality.
‘Unbound’ breaks NHK period drama tradition with a hero of the common folk
NHK’s latest taiga period drama, “Unbound,” centers on Tsutaya Juzaburo (Ryusei Yokohama), a commoner who becomes a successful bookseller and publisher.

Podcast

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

Longform

A man offers prayers at Hebikubo Shrine in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward. The shrine is one of several across the country dedicated to the snake.
Shed your skin and reinvent yourself in the Year of the Snake
By Kathryn Wortley

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