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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
May 23, 2017

The day China's version of the Lehman crisis explodes

Concerns are mounting in international financial circles that the present status of China's economy is getting closer to what had existed in the United States when it was hit by the crisis triggered by the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / NEWS IN NIHONGO
May 22, 2017

Princess Mako, granddaughter of Emperor, to be engaged

Kei Komuro and Princess Mako are set to be engaged.
COMMENTARY / World
May 22, 2017

Newspapers thrive, in India

While print media struggles to survive elsewhere, India's rising literacy rate is keeping its dailies firmly in the black.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
May 22, 2017

Chubu Electric uses artificial nests so crows don't build their own on power towers

Chubu Electric Power Co. has adopted a unique method to deter crows from nesting on transmission towers and causing blackouts by building artificial bird nests far from the power lines.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
May 20, 2017

Will there be a price to free education?

During a Lower House budget committee debate on May 8, Akira Nagatsuma of the main opposition Democratic Party (DP) asked Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to clarify remarks he had recently made about revising the Constitution. On May 3, which happened to be Constitution Day, Abe had delivered a message via...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 19, 2017

Experts question wisdom, achievements of SDF South Sudan peacekeeping mission

With the Ground Self-Defense Force troops in South Sudan scheduled to arrive back in Japan on May 27, experts have called for the government to thoroughly review Japan's peacekeeping mission there amid debate over whether it was in line with the nation's principle of only sending troops to places with...
Reader Mail
May 19, 2017

Abe should tread very carefully

On the 70th anniversary of Japan's Constitution, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe published a video statement regarding his desires for constitutional revision ("Abe declares 2020 as goal for new Constitution" May 4). I hope Abe remembers that, even though the Allies drafted it, the Constitution was highly...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 17, 2017

Toward a global treaty on plastic waste

Plastic pollution is a global scourge that is entirely of our making — and entirely within our power to solve as well.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 17, 2017

Princess Mako's engagement likely to renew debate over female succession

The planned engagement of Princess Mako to a commoner has highlighted a critical question facing the Imperial family: Can the Imperial system survive without drastic reforms to its succession system?
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 17, 2017

Pacific Command chief exhorts Russia and China to bring Kim Jong Un 'to his senses'

The head of the U.S. military's Pacific Command on Wednesday urged Russia and China to step up efforts in reining in North Korea and persuade the reclusive state to halt its nuclear weapons program and related provocations.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 16, 2017

Music schools to sue Japan's largest copyright collection group over plan to collect fees

The school operators said they would file a lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court as early as July, a representative told The Japan Times.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / NEWS IN NIHONGO
May 15, 2017

Kumamoto 'baby hatch' accepted 125 babies in 9 years since launch

'Konotori no yurikago' marks its 10th anniversary
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
May 15, 2017

Nagoya team working on robot to help elderly drivers stay alert, safe

A research team at Nagoya University is developing a system to help the elderly drive safely using a small robot, with the aim of releasing the technology by 2019.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
May 15, 2017

No taboos at Elysee as Mrs. Macron signals change

As Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, settle in to the Elysee Palace, their unconventional partnership stands as a symbol of the changes the new president is aiming to bring about in France.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
May 14, 2017

Unions can offer a hand in dealing with recalcitrant employers

This week's query comes from A.R., who is having some problems with a less-than-cooperative former employer
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
May 14, 2017

Businesses bolster cyberdefenses against new 'WannaCry' ransomware attacks

Japan is among the countries affected by a global cyberattack, according to the cybersecurity firms Trend Micro and Kaspersky Lab, but the extent is not yet known.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FUKUSHIMA FILE
May 14, 2017

Fukushima firm's 'fairy feather' silk gets Hermes' attention

The world's thinnest yarn-dyed silk fabric will soon find its way into Hermes' globally renowned scarves.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
May 13, 2017

North Korea news simmering on front and back burners

Returning from their Golden Week holiday break, the weekly magazines have directed much of their attention to the Korean Peninsula, with a fusillade of commentary by politicians, former diplomats, journalists, academics and the ubiquitous commentators referred to as gunji hyoron-ka — usually translated...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 12, 2017

Is the sun setting on the U.S. imperium?

U.S. policy on Asia seems adrift under the Trump administration.
Reader Mail
May 12, 2017

Teens thrive with engaged parents

The article "Why are Japanese teens so glum?" in the May 2 edition saddened me, because it tells us that "young people in Japan have the lowest mental well-being of 20 major countries."
Reader Mail
May 12, 2017

Ted Rall's appalling attack on a widow

I found the column about Sheryl Sandberg by Ted Rall incredibly insensitive and offensive ("Sheryl Sandberg: world's most annoying person" in the May 3 edition). I can understand one would disagree with her point of views and be critical of her book, but the way he ridicules her deceased husband and...
Japan Times
JAPAN / OKINAWA BEAT
May 11, 2017

Okinawa grapples with mounting garbage, water supply dilemma amid record tourist numbers

As Okinawa continues to mark record high numbers of tourists in recent years, the prefecture is struggling to dispose of snowballing garbage and supplying sufficient amounts of water.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
May 9, 2017

Renick Bell discovers the art inside the algorithms

In 2017, algorithms are everywhere.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / NEWS IN NIHONGO
May 8, 2017

Hiroshima A-bomb museum east building reopens

The east building of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum reopened April 26 following renovations.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
May 8, 2017

Shabani the gorilla credited with keeping Nagoya zoo visitor numbers up despite bird flu outbreak

The total number of visitors to Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in Nagoya reached 2,408,400 in fiscal 2016, the second-highest level in the last 20 years.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
May 6, 2017

Calling card: the evolution of business cards in Japan

On the afternoon of Jan. 26, 1948, a man claiming to be a public health official walked into a branch of Teikoku Ginko (Imperial Bank) in Tokyo's Shiinamachi district and told all 16 people present that dysentery had broken out in the neighborhood.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
May 6, 2017

Corporate zombies need 'rich brains'

Japan has lost something. That's a stark but uncontroversial statement. Few whose memory goes back a generation or more will disagree. Controversy arises when the talk turns to what was lost; when, how and why it was lost; whether the nation is the better or worse for having lost it; and, if the former,...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
May 6, 2017

Japanese tradition denies surrogacy

Most major media covered the March 22 Tokyo news conference where Sachiko Kishimoto of the nonprofit organization Oocyte Donation Network (OD-Net) explained how a woman in her 40s had recently given birth to a daughter who had been conceived using the woman's husband's sperm and an egg from a third party....
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LEARNING CURVE
May 3, 2017

As Japan's JET Programme hits its 30s, the jury's still out

Ambitious program has helped Japan meet the world, but does it have a role to play today?

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