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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 1, 2018

The challenges facing Japan's universities

Cultivating students' power to think requires a strong financial foundation
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Mar 31, 2018

Japan's companies are beginning to rethink paternity leave policies

When it comes to child care in Japan, women typically take on the lion’s share of the workload. Men, by comparison, are generally too exhausted after work to help out in any way.
EDITORIALS
Mar 31, 2018

Diversify forms of local assemblies

The recent proposal by a panel of experts for more diverse forms of municipal assemblies seeks to address a grim challenge to sustaining democracy in Japan's rural areas.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 29, 2018

Kiyoshi Koyama: A life lived with jazz

"I have lived a life alongside jazz," says Kiyoshi Koyama, jazz critic, journalist and radio host. This is apparent on a recent visit to his home in Chiba Prefecture, where he and his wife live surrounded by walls of neatly organized records, CDs, books and other archives — a lifetime of research and...
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Mar 29, 2018

How will Kim tell his country he's ready to give up nuclear arms?

State media calls North Korea's nuclear weapons a "treasured sword of justice."
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Mar 28, 2018

Abe's best chance for survival as LDP chief lies in his diplomatic skills

The passage of a record-high 2018 spending budget brings to closure a first half year in the Diet that saw the prime minister's approval rating nosedive.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Mar 26, 2018

Catalan separatists face reality check after leader Carles Puigdemont's detention in Germany

Carles Puigdemont's removal from Catalonia's political scene to a German jail forces the separatist movement to make a decision: keep bickering on the way ahead, or set aside differences and form a regional government.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 23, 2018

LDP and Komeito at odds over casino resort rules, dashing deadline hopes

The two members of Japan's ruling coalition can't agree on how many gambling resorts to build, how much to charge and whether to prioritize profit over addiction prevention.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Mar 23, 2018

Russia's Me Too moment puts lawmakers in focus amid media boycott

Russia may be having its Me Too moment amid a backlash over the decision of a parliamentary ethics committee to dismiss sexual harassment allegations against a senior legislator.
Reader Mail
Mar 23, 2018

Trump-Kim talks beat the alternative

When The Japan Times editorializes against a summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un ("Trump rolls the dice on North Korea" in the March 13 issue), one must ask: Why?
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 23, 2018

Strikes halt trains, ground flights, spark clashes across France in challenge to Macron reforms

Tens of thousands of nurses, teachers and other public-sector workers joined forces to march against French President Emmanuel Macron's reforms on Thursday, causing widespread travel disruptions and bringing brief clashes with police in some cities.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 20, 2018

U.K. investigates Facebook over data breach as it plans raid of Cambridge Analytica

Britain is investigating whether Facebook did enough to protect data after a whistleblower said a London-based political consultancy hired by Donald Trump improperly accessed information on 50 million Facebook users to sway public opinion.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 20, 2018

Xi to launch 'Voice of China' broadcaster to boost global image

China has approved the creation of one of the world's largest propaganda machines as it looks to improve its global image, according to a person familiar with the matter.
EDITORIALS
Mar 20, 2018

Expect a more assertive Russia after Putin win

Putin needed a large majority of voters to go to the polls. In this — as in so many other things — he got his wish.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 20, 2018

Putin's hawks got the result they wanted

With Russian strongman's re-election, West must brace itself for an extended period with a tough, hostile opponent.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 18, 2018

Putin on track for commanding win as Russians head to polls

Russians voted in a presidential election Sunday that was expected to give Vladimir Putin an easy victory, but his opponents alleged officials were compelling people to come to the polls so that a low turnout does not tarnish the win.
EDITORIALS
Mar 18, 2018

Time to rethink the nation's post-3/11 energy policy

even years on, the government should revisit the lessons of the Tepco plant accident and reconsider whether it should continue to promote nuclear power despite the increased social and economic costs,
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 15, 2018

LDP panel fails to form consensus over revision of war-renouncing Article 9

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party's panel on constitutional revisions failed to reach a consensus Thursday over how the war-renouncing Article 9 should be revised, facing resistance from rank-and-file members calling for more radical revision than the ideas proposed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 15, 2018

Supreme Court breaks new ground, ruling in favor of U.S.-based Japanese father in international custody battle

The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in favor of a U.S.-based Japanese father seeking to reunite with his teenage son, who was taken by his estranged wife to Japan in 2016, concluding that the wife's dogged refusal to abide by an earlier court order mandating the minor's repatriation amounts to her "illegally...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 15, 2018

For Putin's Russia, a poisoned spy sends a political message

The poisoning is a sign of how just committed Vladimir Putin's Kremlin has become at eradicating its enemies — and reminding others it can do so.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Mar 14, 2018

The Japanese lessons of a 'plastic Paddy'

A Briton of Irish stock finds the 'Irishness' he seeks not on the Emerald Isle itself but in the expat pubs of his adopted land.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Mar 14, 2018

Turkish Kurd seeking refugee status in Japan losing hope amid what critics call a flawed system

On a chilly afternoon in mid-January, more than 30 Kurdish asylum-seekers gathered in front of United Nations University in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward to call for U.N. action on Turkey's continued all-out attacks on Kurds in the northern Syrian town of Afrin.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 13, 2018

Why fossil fuels will survive

The real obstacle to dealing with climate change is the world's vast dependence on oil, natural gas and coal.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 13, 2018

The end of little Germany?

With a new government taking power, Europe's powerhouse must start thinking of itself as the major economic player it is.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Mar 12, 2018

Abe's route to revising Article 9 crosses minefield of legalese

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party is now entering a critical phase of debate on what has been one of the most contentious political issues throughout the postwar years: whether and how the war-renouncing Article 9 of the Constitution should be revised.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Mar 11, 2018

A shooting at my school, Florida's Douglas High, viewed from afar in Japan but still so close

The rest of the world cannot understand America's problem with guns. This hit home for me when yet another school shooting occurred at my alma mater in Parkland, Florida.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 9, 2018

Abe to visit U.S. in April to discuss North Korea with Trump

U.S. President Donald Trump's plans to meet with the North Korean leader might give Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a chance to resolve the abduction issue.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Mar 9, 2018

Wenger putting off the inevitable

Yes, it was a big win. No, Arsenal was not expected to beat AC Milan 2-0 at San Siro in the Europa League.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Mar 7, 2018

The strange taste of Japanese immigration Kool-Aid: How living in Japan can transform you into a conservative

When it comes to thinking of the role that they themselves should play in Japan, many progressive expats are actually more in line with the Tiki-torch-carrying nationalists back home than against them.
Taiwan stuns Samurai Japan to capture Premier12 title
Japan starter Shosei Togo reacts after allowing a three-run home run against Taiwan in the fifth inning of the Premier12 final on Sunday.
Japan and U.S. to form missile plan in case of Taiwan emergency
A U.S. Marine Corps M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) and a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force Type 12 Surface-to-Ship Missile (12SSM) system are put on display at a symposium at a base in Kisarazu, Japan, in June 2022.
Preparations for Osaka Expo well underway amid lack of excitement
The Grand Ring, a symbol of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka
Ishiba shelves proposal for liaison offices with North Korea amid rising tensions
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks on Saturday in Tokyo at a rally that was held by a group of families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea decades ago to demand the immediate return of all abductees.
'Kohaku' still matters for J-pop bragging rights
Emerging Gen Z J-pop group ME:I will perform on this year's "Kohaku Uta Gassen," national broadcaster NHK’s New Year's Eve spectacle.
Are you leaving your loved ones digital legacies or headaches?
The National Consumer Affairs Center reports a growing number of consultations regarding "digital legacies" — data and online services left behind when people die.
How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can’t seem to quit
A man walks past a gasoline station in Tokyo on Thursday.
An iconic 32-foot doughnut might give Randy’s an edge in Japan
Randy's Donuts in Inglewood, California. Replicas of the giant doughnut sculpture will be installed, where possible, at shops in Japan.
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu

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Japan’s sauna movement: Relax, refresh, repeat
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