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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Dec 6, 2017

U.N. official's visit to North Korea may set stage for talks on nuclear issue

Timing, the old adage goes, is everything, and in attempting to peel back the thick layer of mystery surrounding North Korea's nuclear intentions, the timing of its decision to follow through on its long-standing invite for a top United Nations official to visit may offer insight into a renewed diplomatic...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 6, 2017

'52Hz, I Love You' upends the stereotype that Asian cinema can't do romantic musicals

Once upon a time (a decade ago), the unspoken consensus in the movie world seemed to be that Asians couldn't do love stories, much less musical love stories. Happy, soaring, blockbuster types that would send audiences home with goofy smiles and humming a tune from the soundtrack? Not happening.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 6, 2017

France's war on waste makes it most food-sustainable country, followed by Japan

A war on food waste in France, where supermarkets are banned from throwing away unsold food and restaurants must provide doggy bags when asked, has helped it secure the top spot in a ranking of countries by their food sustainability.
Japan Times
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Dec 5, 2017

Yuna Shiraiwa impresses in first season as a senior

She is the longest of long shots to make Japan's team for the Pyeonchang Olympics, but in the long view her prospects are very bright.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 5, 2017

Sierra Leone Peace Diamond nets $6.5 million in auction to raise funds for West African nation

Sierra Leone sold one of the world's largest uncut diamonds for $6.5 million at a New York auction Monday to raise funds for development projects in the West African country.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 5, 2017

Hokusai's great wave that swept Europe

Innovative, creative, and immensely prolific, Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was celebrated during his lifetime in his native Japan. His works were among the first major examples of Japanese art to be widely appreciated overseas in the second half of the 19th century.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Dec 5, 2017

Nobel Peace Prize winner's son likens North Korean ICBM to 'a flare signaling the start of negotiations'

The youngest son of former President Kim Dae-jung is one of just a few South Koreans to have met Kim Jong Un. He hopes a second meeting isn't far away.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 5, 2017

Trump's son and ex-business partner due before House panel this week over Russia probe

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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 4, 2017

A cake is food, not speech, so why bully the baker?

Less bullying and more magniminity from the victors in the fight for same-sex marriage would be seemly.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 4, 2017

Beware a U.S. economic boom — really

U.S economic history suggests that a boom economy now could create bigger problems down the road.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 4, 2017

The upside of giving up on North Korea

It's time to focus on a battle the U.S. hasn't yet lost: improving its deterrence against North Korea's military threat.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 4, 2017

Don't worry, China isn't taking over the world just yet

Some of China's greatest economic advances depend heavily on local conditions.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Dec 4, 2017

Frederik Schodt recalls the 'different world' of manga translation in the 1970s

'I loved manga but there was no way to make a living (with it),' recalls manga translation pioneer Frederik Schodt.
LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
Dec 4, 2017

Introducing 'ttara' and 'to kitara'

How do you say 'What's up with Mr. Mita?' in Japanese?
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Dec 4, 2017

Let's discuss the Emperor's abdication

The government looks likely to choose April 30, 2019, as the date for Emperor Akihito's abdication.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 4, 2017

Turnbull gets some good news as poll finds voters have tired of leadership roundabout

Embattled Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull received an unexpected boost from an opinion poll Monday that showed voters want their leaders to govern for their full terms rather than the revolving door that has marked Australian politics.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 4, 2017

Poll finds half of Britons support second Brexit vote as talks with EU come down to the wire

Half of Britons support a second vote on whether to leave the European Union and a third think will be worse off financially outside the world's largest trading bloc, according to a new opinion poll.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 3, 2017

Top White House official says odds of war with North Korea are 'increasing every day'

A top White House official said Saturday that the odds of war breaking out with Pyongyang are moving closer to reality with each day, remarks that came just ahead of joint U.S.-South Korean air force drills — including simulated attacks on mock North Korean nuclear and missile targets.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Dec 2, 2017

Japan's plan to export arms is lacking ammo

When U.S. President Donald Trump was here last month, he said Japan should be buying more military hardware from America, and seemed to believe it would. Trump's penchant for talking off-the-cuff is well-known, but Japan's reluctance to address the matter forthrightly may have more to do with the fact...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Dec 2, 2017

Yasunari Kawabata's surrealist window on the world

Opening with one of the most famous lines in Japanese literature — "Emerging from the long border tunnel, they entered snow country," shifting us at speed from the darkness of the tunnel into the bright light of the snow — Yasunari Kawabata's novel "Snow Country" tells of a city-dwelling, worldly...

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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