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PRESS / Corporate Trends
Feb 21, 2014

The Japan Times On Sunday wins Award of Excellence in International design competition

The Japan Times, Ltd. is pleased to announce that The Japan Times On Sunday, its Sunday newspaper, has received an Award of Excellence for Redesign (Overall newspaper) in the 35th annual "The Best of News Design" Creative Competition, run by the American-based Society of News Design.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 20, 2014

McConaughey, Leto transform for roles in 'Dallas Buyers Club'

Acadamy Award nominee Jared Leto, who plays a transgender person with AIDS in the film "Dallas Buyers Club," says he was recently called a shape-shifter.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 4, 2014

Abe's reactionary leadership

The Japanese government has so far failed to give meaningful reassurances about how the reactionary and potentially dangerous state secrets law, rammed through the Japanese Diet in December, will operate.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jan 26, 2014

'Masters' and 'dilettantes': The murky world of hit men in Britain

They are classified as novices, journeymen, dilettantes or masters. They are Britain's hit men — killers who ply their deadly trade in return for cash, and who for the first time have become the subject of a major academic study.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives
Jan 17, 2014

Fortune, fame or betrayal? It's all in the omikuji

All Japanese shrines have omikuji (fortune-telling sticks) — just like all McDonald's have fries.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 30, 2013

Mirrorless cameras offer glimmer of hope to makers

Japan, once a leader in manufacturing, has lost its competitive edge in various electronics products, including televisions, video recorders and portable music players.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Dec 15, 2013

To stay here long term, visa seekers need to prove they can pay their way

From finding a residence status that suits your circumstances to signing up a sponsor, getting a visa to stay in Japan for the long term can be a challenge.
WORLD
Dec 2, 2013

Weak hurricane season puzzles researchers

It was a hurricane season almost without hurricanes. There were just two, Humberto and Ingrid, and both were relatively wimpy, Category 1 storms. That made the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season, which ended Saturday, the least active in more than 30 years — for reasons that remain puzzling.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 23, 2013

Honda betting on fun with mini sports car as drivers look to cut costs

Honda Motor Co., which expects half of the vehicles it sells in Japan this year to be minicars, will unveil its first mini sports car since 1996 amid booming demand for more fuel-efficient, cheaper autos.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 6, 2013

Separating Jesus from the legends

There's enough biblical scholarship about the historical Jesus to raise questions about some of the myths that have formed around Him over the past 2,000 years.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Oct 5, 2013

Online drug bazaar's alleged boss paired eBay-style site with heroin, murder plot

The Silk Road website, before being shut this week by the U.S., was a cyber-bazaar of the criminal underworld that connected buyers and sellers of heroin, cocaine and hacking services. It combined eBay-style customer reviews and shipping tips with an open disregard for the law.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Sep 19, 2013

Festival brings old films out of storage

Every year, nearly 100 of the films produced in Japan are said to "go into storage."
Japan Times
BUSINESS / INNOVATIVE CITY FORUM
Sep 17, 2013

Capital strikes gold with 2020 Olympics

Now that Tokyo has won the bid to host the 2020 Olympics, the capital may gain a top-three spot in the next Global Power City Index.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 23, 2013

No. 1 plant leak clouds Abe nuke spiel

Radiation spreading from the Fukushima No. 1 plant threatens to derail Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's efforts to revive nuclear power and deliver the lower energy prices needed to power his economic reforms.
WORLD
Aug 22, 2013

Disrupting muscle function, nerve agents can kill fast even in tiny doses

The descriptions of victims arriving at clinics near Damascus on Wednesday point to possible signs of poisoning by a nerve agent, the most deadly of the seven types of chemical weapons recognized by experts.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Aug 17, 2013

Image-flip for male rhythmic gymnasts

Smirks and snickering tend to greet any mention of "men's rhythmic gymnastics," as the phrase conjures up images of chaps in tights prancing around swinging ribbons or clutching squeezy balls to their chests like the sport's female exponents.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Jul 21, 2013

Beware your heroes and heed the lesson of stargazer Galileo Galilei

A scene from "The Life of Galilei" seems to encapsulate the dilemma Japan faces as it gropes for new leadership.
LIFE / Travel / TRAVEL INSIDER
Jul 9, 2013

American Airlines celebrity poll; Cathay's Change for Good results; Jetstar available at Lawson

AA celebrity poll
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BUSINESS
Jun 12, 2013

And the top toy for girls: chameleon Licca-chan

Takara Tomy's Triple Color Change Licca-chan doll, whose hair color changes with the temperature, won the girls' toy category of the Japan Toy Prize on Tuesday, preceding the 52nd Annual International Toy Show that kicks off Thursday.
Reader Mail
Jun 6, 2013

Revisionist who lost credibility

The recent exchanges among various readers regarding religious matters have been interesting, but Thomas Clark's May 30 letter on the subject, "The power of ideas over time," brings up a most important point that readers should bear in mind — namely, in every war, be it secular or religious, there...
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
May 27, 2013

South Korea's 'export' crisis

South Korea ranks at the bottom of OECD member nations in 'technology trade balance,' which doesn't say much for the design capabilities of manufacturers.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Apr 3, 2013

Local government attempts to make citizens rat on welfare recipients

Welfare recipients made to feel guilty for guilty pleasures.

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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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