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COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 4, 2015

In lieu of taking in refugees, Abe opens up checkbook

While Japan has not been open to accepting refugees amid the current world crisis, it has at least increased its financial contributions to addressing the problem.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 4, 2015

Hundreds feared dead in Guatemala landslide, hopeful keep digging

Hopes faded of finding any remaining survivors of a massive landslide in Guatemala that killed at least 73 people, even as families scrabbled through rubble to find the bodies of loved-ones, with hundreds of others still missing.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Oct 3, 2015

Women of Japan unite: Examining the contemporary state of feminism

On Oct. 21, 1970, hundreds of women marched through the streets of Tokyo, an occasion that is often referred to as the birth of the women's liberation movement in Japan.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 3, 2015

Hillside collapses on Guatemalan town, killing 25; hundreds missing

The collapse of a hillside onto a town on the edge of Guatemala City killed at least 25 people and left hundreds missing on Friday, as rescue crews searched for survivors in homes buried by dirt and sludge.
EDITORIALS
Oct 2, 2015

Expressway tolls amid privatization

Benefitting from the privatization of the nation's expressways is still a work in progress, and making them toll-free remains a promise far on the horizon.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 2, 2015

India unveils climate target to cut energy intensity

India has promised to make its economy more energy efficient and to cut emissions intensity of its GDP by 33 to 35 percent by 2030 from 2005 levels, in a climate-change policy statement released ahead of a U.N. summit in Paris in December.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Oct 1, 2015

Defending champion Hamamatsu aims for another title in league's final season

The 11th and final bj-league season gets underway on Friday night, signaling an end to several months of massive changes within the league.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 28, 2015

China's Japan-bashing: Is there any hope for goodwill?

As China regularly whips itself up into frenzy over Japan, it is easy to forget that the anti-Japanese sentiment is only a recent phenomenon.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 28, 2015

New Russian governor is first non-Kremlin-backed candidate to win such a seat since '12

Sergei Levchenko, of the Communist Party, was elected governor of Siberia's Irkutsk region, results showed Sunday, the first politician from a nominal opposition party to win a vote for regional boss since the Kremlin restored such elections in 2012.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 26, 2015

Nation's youth are attempting to establish a new political norm

"Tell me what democracy looks like!"
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 21, 2015

Nature of sovereignty a key issue in Russia-U.S. divide

While Russia adheres to the traditional notion that state sovereignty is inviolable, the U.S. now believes it's trumped by humanitarian considerations.
JAPAN
Sep 21, 2015

Railway companies in eastern Japan set to relax rules for cellphones when near priority seats

Since 2003, railways have asked passengers to turn off their mobile phones when near "silver" priority seats, for fear electromagnetic interference from the devices could interact with pacemakers, harming the wearer.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Sep 19, 2015

Matsui ready to be shooting star

The lack of a presence underneath the basket has been Japanese basketball's everlasting issue. So Kenji Hasegawa, the current men's national team head coach, looks more to his outside players than inside muscle, relying on their perimeter shooting to carry the offense.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 19, 2015

Mexico's president in no position to judge

The level of corruption in Mexico stands out even in Latin America, a region known for crooked politicians.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 18, 2015

Pressure to show a profit led to Toshiba's accounting scandal

Manufacturing giant Toshiba Corp.'s president and seven other directors were forced to resign when an investigation revealed in July that the firm had doctored the books and had padded its profits over the past seven years to the tune of hundreds of billions of yen.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 18, 2015

Upcoming session will decide the U.N.'s future

The 70th commemorative session of the General Assembly, which begins next week, should be an occasion for providing much-needed hope that the world organization can remain relevant in the coming decades.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 17, 2015

Maritime security cooperation in Asia: visions and realities

In Asia, multilateral maritime security regimes are not robust, but what exists is a start — a shaky foundation — that hopefully can be firmed up and built upon.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 17, 2015

Tokyo conference urges Japan to make most of new global attention

While the world watches Japan's on-again, off-again economic recovery, a forum of roughly 200 corporate decision-makers and former government officials has discussed how to turn that attention to the nation's advantage.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 14, 2015

China plans meeting in bid to revive stalled six-party North Korea nuclear talks

A Chinese government-backed think tank will host a forum with officials from the six countries involved in stalled talks on North Korea's banned nuclear weapons program, the Foreign Ministry said Monday, in China's latest push to resume discussions.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 14, 2015

Israel's house demolitions a human rights abuse

Israel's practice of demolishing the homes of Palestinians has no deterrent value and denies their residents the basic right to live in peace.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 14, 2015

U.S. tells China to take back undocumented immigrants

In early June, in cities across the U.S., immigration agents arrested more than two dozen Chinese nationals with unfulfilled deportation orders, telling them that after years of delay, China was finally taking steps to provide the paperwork needed to expel them from the U.S.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / YEN FOR LIVING
Sep 12, 2015

Japan's treasury hopes flat-rate beer tax will drive drinkers to maltier fare and pad coffers

Who will benefit from plans to levy the same tax rate on all three categories of beers?
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Sep 11, 2015

Manchester United-Liverpool rivalry always fierce, bitter clash

This is a game Louis van Gaal dare not lose. English football's clasico between Manchester United and Liverpool today is, like Barcelona vs. Real Madrid, not a derby, but it represents the fiercest and most hostile rivalry in English football.
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.
U.S. delays enforcement of order blocking Nippon Steel-U.S. Steel deal
The exterior of a blast furnace building run by Nippon Steel in Kashima, Ibaraki Prefecture.
Japan may provide support to boost rollout of smartphone-based health cards
A clinic in Urawa, Saitama Prefecture, in May 2020
NATO won't back Trump's new defense spending target but will raise its sights
U.S. Army soldiers with the NATO multinational battle group on the territory of Bulgaria stand in formation with a U.S. flag and an armored vehicle during a visit by NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte at the Novo Selo military ground near Mokren, Bulgaria, on Dec. 19.
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.
‘Dorayaki’ creators say flavors trump the dessert’s murky origins
'Dorayaki' (red bean paste-filled pancakes) are humble treats with delicate sweetness — and the two Tokyo shops who may have created the treat are similarly light-handed in the way they pursue their claims as the originator of the morsel.
The case for Japan-ifying everything you cook
Pan-roasted baby beets, carrots, turnips and orange may be an otherwise American dish, but Sonoko Sakai's addition of lemon-miso yogurt turns it into a 'wafū' (Japanese style) marvel.
American stationery nerds are fueling a Japanese notebook boom
Hobonichi's 'techō' notebooks come in both set and customizable formats, and a thriving community of enthusiasts means there are even extensive guides on how to make the journal even more unique to your individual approach to journaling.
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.

Podcast

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

Longform

It's back to the classroom for some residents as municipal governments across the country conduct lessons to learn how to use new technologies.
Can aging Japan go digital without leaving anyone behind?
By Tomoko Otake

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