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Reader Mail
Jan 5, 2018

Best wishes for the students of Japan

My wife Sudha and I had a wonderful holiday in Japan in October. During our visit to Hiroshima, we met some schoolgirls on a local train.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 5, 2018

As people in Japan smoke less, Japan Tobacco's new CEO looks abroad for growth

Japan Tobacco Inc.'s Masamichi Terabatake is in the hot seat.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jan 5, 2018

Hip hop and R&B knocked rock off top genre pedestal in U.S. in 2017

Hip hop and R&B surpassed rock for the first time in 2017 as the biggest music genre in the United States, but British artist Ed Sheeran's romantic pop album "Divide" was the year's biggest single draw, according to a Nielsen Music report.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 4, 2018

Economists generally upbeat on Japan's 2018 outlook

Japan is experiencing its second longest economic expansion in the post World War II era, with economists expecting the positive tone to hold through 2018 amid strong demand at home and abroad.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jan 4, 2018

Pies make for delicious blueberry treat

The Story of Blueberry Pie fair will be held at the Imperial Hotel Tokyo through Jan. 31. The hotel's delicatessen, Gargantua has been making blueberry pies since 1971.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 4, 2018

A cloven landscape, a cloven tree, a cloven self

On a recent trip to Tohoku, photographer Naoya Hatakeyama took a picture of a tree. It wasn't a particularly remarkable tree, but it caught his attention all the same.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 4, 2018

Don't renegotiate 'comfort women' deal

Renegotiation efforts, no matter how well-intentioned, would undermine the agreement of 2015, with no guarantee of success and much risk of failure.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 4, 2018

In test, virus injected directly into bloodstream reaches tumors deep inside cancer patients' brains

A trial of a potential new brain cancer treatment has shown that a virus injected directly into the bloodstream can reach tumors deep inside the brain and switch on the body's own defense system to attack them.
COMMUNITY / Issues / JUST BE CAUSE
Jan 3, 2018

In 2017, Japan woke up to the issue of discrimination

The year saw a landmark human rights survey and action on hate speech and pensions — but conditions remain dire for foreign 'trainees' and other workers alike.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Jan 3, 2018

Clad in light gray, North Korea's Kim goes for softer image in New Year address

The light-gray suit and matching tie that North Korea's Kim Jong Un donned for his New Year's address was likely carefully calculated to project a softer, more relaxed image to go with his surprise offer for talks with Seoul.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 3, 2018

Traffickers jailed for enslaving Vietnamese women in U.K. nail salons

Members of a gang who forced Vietnamese girls and women into slavery in nail bars (nail salons) in Britain have been jailed for a total of nine years in what police believe is the first case of its kind.
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Jan 2, 2018

Looking at Hanyu's chances of retaining gold in Pyeongchang

It is the $64 million question.
EDITORIALS
Jan 2, 2018

Scrutiny needed on expanding defense spending

Measures must be taken to cope with the changing security environment, but tight fiscal conditions mean defense spending must still be prioritized.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 2, 2018

The zero hour of Kobe's avant-garde

Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art's present draw card is the Saint Petersburg collection, "Old Masters from the State Hermitage Museum." But on a lower level, at the far end of a long corridor gallery, are photos and grainy videos — the small-scale documentation of one of Japan's little-known postwar...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 2, 2018

The verdict is clear: Putin won

Vladimir Putin has done grave harm to the U.S., the legitimacy of the democratic process and U.S. decision-making.
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Jan 2, 2018

Can agriculture stem its effects on climate in 2018?

After Rene Castro-Salazar attended the first U.N.-led climate talks in Berlin in 1985 as Costa Rica's environment and energy minister, he tried to talk about agriculture and climate change — but few wanted to join the conversation.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 1, 2018

Fiery Costa Rica plane crash claims 12, including 10 Americans

A plane crash in Costa Rica on Sunday killed 10 U.S. citizens and two local pilots, the Costa Rican government said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jan 1, 2018

Libya accord praised as migrant arrivals to Italy by sea fell by a third in 2017

Migrant arrivals to Italy by sea fell by a third in 2017 compared to a year earlier, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday, as Libyan authorities helped to slow departures during the second half of the year.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jan 1, 2018

Amid tight security, hundreds of couples ring in new year at mass Jakarta wedding

Hundreds of Indonesian couples celebrated New Year's Eve on Sunday night by tying the knot in a mass wedding in Jakarta.
Japan Times
JAPAN / IN PICTURES
Jan 1, 2018

The annual rites of passage into the new year

On Sunday, people across Japan marked the passing of 2017 and the arrival of the new year at temples and shrines, both big and small.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 1, 2018

2018 seen as make-or-break year for Abe's constitutional revision quest

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe faces what is perhaps the biggest dilemma of his political career: whether to call the nation's first-ever referendum on revising the postwar Constitution.
The U.S. says Japan has a 700% tariff on American rice. Is that the case?
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds up a piece of paper with information about tariff rates at the White House on Tuesday.
Man arrested in Tokyo stabbing tracked victim through livestream
Kenichi Takano leaves a police station in Tokyo on Thursday to be sent over to prosecutors.
Japanese superfans turn dental clinic into Ohtani mini-museum
Japanese dentist Yusuke Kamimura poses for a photograph in front of a private collection dedicated to MLB player Shohei Ohtani, inside his dental clinic in Koshigaya, north of Tokyo, on Feb. 28, 2025.
Bonsai thefts sweep Japan as miniature trees grow more popular
According to the Nippon Bonsai Growers Cooperative, there were about 30 cases of bonsai theft last year.
U.S. steered Syrian Kurds toward Damascus deal, sources say
A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa (right) and Syrian Democratic Forces commander-in-chief Mazloum Abdi signing an agreement to integrate the SDF into the state institutions, in Damascus on Monday.
Ishiba on shaky ground over budget and gift vouchers
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's reversal over medical co-payments late last week and the revelation he gave gift vouchers to lawmakers have weakened his political standing.
As pollen season peaks, Japan's allergy struggle emerges from hibernation
Urbanization is amplifying pollen-related allergies as grasslands and soft soil give way to concrete and asphalt.
Japan to get tough on businesses not taking heatstroke countermeasures
A construction site in Tokyo in July 2018. Businesses failing to take measures to prevent severe heatstroke among employees will be subjected to criminal punishment from June.
In a sea of Dodger Blue, Japanese superfan ready to cheer on the Cubs
Takuya “Moby” Okamoto after Game 5 of the 2016 World Series, which the Cubs went on to win in seven games to snap a 108-year drought
Drones, budgets and infighting: Taiwan's daunting defense challenges
Officials from Taiwan's Institute for National Defense and Security Research (INDSR), the Ministry of National Defense’s research arm, say the lessons from the Ukraine conflict are clear for the democratic island: drones and other autonomous systems are crucial for its defense.

Podcast

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Longform

Wealthier women in the prewar era had been the targets of various media-related health campaigns that mistakenly encouraged them to avoid everything from riding bicycles to reading novels when their monthly cycles came around.
Menstruation in Japan: Breaking the silence, slowly
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