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JAPAN
Mar 17, 1999

Events set to mark 400th anniversary of Dutch ties

NAGASAKI -- 2000 marks the 400th anniversary of ties between Japan and the Netherlands, and various events are slated for the year to fete the shared history.
EDITORIALS
Feb 27, 1999

A wakeup call to the nation

After six months of racking their brains, members of a prime ministerial advisory council have produced yet another blueprint designed to nurse the seriously ill Japanese economy back to health. The worthy work of the Economic Strategy Council should be commended. In their final report to Prime Minister...
JAPAN
May 15, 1998

Two Edo copies of Ino maps discovered in library

Two hand-drawn copies of maps made by Ino Tadataka, the first modern cartographer to create precise maps of Japan during the Edo Period, have been discovered in the archives of the Tokyo Metropolitan Central Library, officials said Friday.
JAPAN
Jan 23, 1997

Quake records from 1923 indexed for further study

In an effort to step up urban disaster prevention, a Tokyo institute has published a voluminous index of historical articles concerning the Great Kanto Earthquake.The Tokyo Metropolitan Archives and Records Institute in the city's Minato Ward put together the index of more than 2,000 documents and records....
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 14, 2023

How Trump’s indictment compares to other Espionage Act cases

The former president's defenders are right that his federal indictment is unusual, but his behavior helps distinguish it from most of the precedents.
CULTURE / Books
Jun 14, 2023

Cormac McCarthy, novelist of a darker America, is dead at 89

His characters were outsiders, like him. He lived quietly and determinately outside the literary mainstream.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal / EXPLAINER
Jun 14, 2023

What happens next in the Trump documents case?

At some point, Trump's lawyers are expected to file a motion to dismiss the case for a variety of reasons, including perhaps his claim he declassified the documents before taking them.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 13, 2023

Trump defiant ahead of secret documents court appearance

The runaway front-runner in the 2024 Republican primary said the latest indictment would not force him to quit the race.
Japan Times
Special Supplements / Hiroshima G7 Summit Special
May 19, 2023

International experiences help to contribute to global peace

“World peace is an ideal, and that is all the more reason to strive for it,” said International Christian University President Shoichiro Iwakiri. His position reflects the liberal arts college’s founding charter as a school for realizing that very ideal. Over the past 70 years, this small private...
Japan Times
WORLD
May 15, 2023

Communities torn as Ukraine turns its back on Moscow-linked church

Tensions have surfaced in villages across Ukraine as authorities have cracked down on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 24, 2023

Chinese censorship is quietly rewriting the COVID-19 story

Under government pressure, Chinese scientists have retracted studies and withheld or deleted data. The censorship has stymied efforts to understand the virus.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 10, 2023

Indigenous groups fear culture distortion as AI learns their languages

Critics warn Indigenous groups are at risk from bias that can be embedded within algorithms, while generative AI models may also spread incorrect information.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Apr 7, 2023

Donald Trump makes history — again

Trump has other legal woes as well such as the investigation for an alleged attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Mar 10, 2023

Jean Faut, star pitcher in women’s baseball league, dies at 98

Over eight seasons, the right-handed Faut won 140 games and posted a minuscule 1.23 ERA, a league record.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2023

In the shadow of the Fukushima disaster, an unusual experiment in rewilding

Wild animals have been thriving and expanding their habitat around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant since 2011, giving researchers a glimpse of nature’s resilience to radiation.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 25, 2023

Secret documents land in all the wrong places in messy U.S. system

Recent revelations of mishandled classified documents expose the pitfalls of safeguarding the nation’s secrets.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 24, 2023

Even Democrats are now critical of Biden over documents mess

Some Democrats said the crisis meant Biden no longer held the moral high ground on an issue that had hurt Donald Trump, the former president and Biden’s 2024 rival.
In a first, Japan issues cease-and-desist order against Google
The Google logo is seen at the company's Bay View campus in Mountain View, California. Japanese authorities on Tuesday issued a cease-and-desist order to Google over an alleged violation of the country's anti-monopoly law.
Japan and the U.S. begin tariff talks on good terms, but without breakthroughs
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's chief tariff negotiator, speaks to reporters in Washington on Wednesday.
Trump calls the U.S.-Japan alliance ‘one-sided.’ Tokyo says otherwise.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Thursday in Washington.
Tokyo hotel operators face possible warnings over suspected price cartel
Foreign tourists gather on a platform at Kyoto Station on Wednesday.
China executes man over Japanese school bus stop murder
The bus stop in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, where a Japanese mother, her child, and a Chinese woman were attacked in June 2024
Tokyo hotel operators face possible warnings over suspected price cartel
Foreign tourists gather on a platform at Kyoto Station on Wednesday.
Kyotographie 2025 opts for laughter and levity in the face of global strife
Palestinian American photographer Adam Rouhana’s exhibition at this year’s Kyotographie festival shows Palestinian life, not death and rubble.
Privacy and transparency clash in debate over bill on artificial insemination
Sachiko Ishizuka, who was born via artificial insemination by donor (AID), tells her story to lawmakers from the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan on April 9.
Why Ishiba became the first prime minister to hold talks with Rengo in 16 years
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Japanese Trade Union Confederation chief Tomoko Yoshino in a meeting Tuesday at the Prime Minister's Office
In a first, Japan issues cease-and-desist order against Google
The Google logo is seen at the company's Bay View campus in Mountain View, California. Japanese authorities on Tuesday issued a cease-and-desist order to Google over an alleged violation of the country's anti-monopoly law.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.
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