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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Feb 6, 2020

Desserts brimming with style and flavor

Valentine's Day chocolates in Japan often translate to stunning works of art that belie the simplicity of their components. Such is the case of the creations from the Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel, available for reservations until Feb. 13 and pickup on the big day itself.
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CULTURE / Music
Feb 6, 2020

Tortoise: The band that pushed back against Gen-X apathy

Quirky Chicago band Tortoise heads to Japan for a three-day six-show appearance in Tokyo, playing a classic album in full along with a 'greatest hits' set.
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CULTURE / Film
Feb 6, 2020

'Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku': A musical take on an otaku romance

This film adaptation of a web comic by single-named artist Fujita has the central couple dancing and singing their way to love.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 6, 2020

Canadian military town prepares for coronavirus evacuees from China

A small town in central Canada that is host to the country's largest air force base is preparing, with some apprehension, for the arrival of some 200 evacuees from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of a coronavirus outbreak.
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WORLD / Society
Feb 6, 2020

Cold and disease threaten more than half a million Syrians fleeing toward Turkey amid Idlib fighting

Cold weather, disease and a lack of shelter and medicine threaten hundreds of thousands of civilians as they flee fighting in Idlib province, in one of the biggest upheavals of Syria's nine-year civil war, aid groups and doctors said.
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COMMENTARY / World
Feb 5, 2020

Is the world growing softer or just becoming wiser?

It is becoming slowly recognized that violence backfires and that soft methods, rather than harsh and confrontational measures and battle plans, now stand the best chance of stabilizing societies.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health / FOCUS
Feb 5, 2020

Coronavirus outbreak likely began with bats, an omen for next epidemic

Somewhere in China, perhaps in the southern Yunnan province, there's a cave that may hold the mysterious origins of the deadly coronavirus that's infected thousands, cut off millions of Chinese from their jobs and families and wreaked havoc in global financial markets.
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Mexico report 2020
Feb 5, 2020

IMEMSA works hand in hand with Yamaha in leading Mexico’s marine industry

As Yamaha’s exclusive distributor of marine equipment in Mexico, Industria Mexicana de Equipo Marino (IMEMSA) has grown to become a market leader in the country’s marine industry in a span of over 45 years. 
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BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 4, 2020

AI startup digs up business opportunity in aging water pipes in Japan and elsewhere

When a fifth of the people living in the city of Wakayama faced a three-day water stoppage last month to fix a 60-year-old pipe network, they rushed to get ready, only to learn that the repairs could be made without a shutdown.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 3, 2020

Trump's bogus Middle East peace plan

The U.S. president's peace plan is a shameless ploy to violate international law, Palestinian human rights and basic principles of fairness.
Japan Times
CULTURE / CULTURE SMASH
Feb 3, 2020

GeeXPlus brings anime YouTubers to Japan

One Japanese major publisher and producer is seeking to capitalize on YouTube influencers with a highly unusual approach: inviting non-Japanese anime YouTubers to live and produce content within Tokyo.
Japan Times
ESG CONSORTIUM
Feb 2, 2020

Seino works toward environmental change

Seino Holdings Co. is making sure it stands at the forefront of efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the economically critical transport industry.
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JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 2, 2020

Justice chief Masako Mori defends Japan's judicial system but says debate could spark change

Justice Minister Masako Mori has hinted the government may push for amending the criminal justice system if debate over its fairness continues at the national level.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 1, 2020

Wuhan coronavirus' mild symptoms open a path for spread of infection

Ebola kills half of the people who get it. China's last worrying viral outbreak, SARS, killed 10 percent.
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JAPAN / Science & Health
Jan 30, 2020

What we know so far about the deadly coronavirus 2019-nCoV

As reports of the coronavirus being transmitted in Japan start to trickle in, questions are growing about the disease — including how it is passed on and how its spread can be prevented. Below is some basic information about the new strain of coronavirus:
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 29, 2020

Article 9, ittaika and Japan's liaison officer corps

The Constitution's Article 9 has shaped the SDF in ways that are deeper than most observers, analysts and policymakers realize.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 28, 2020

Japan's rise as a space power

Nation emerges as a key leader in the peaceful exploration of the cosmos.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 26, 2020

First test flight of Boeing's 777X jetliner is success

Boeing Co. successfully staged the first flight of the world's largest twin-engine jetliner on Saturday, a respite from the crisis over its smallest model, the grounded 737 Max.
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JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jan 25, 2020

Decline of social engagement may betray democracy

Japan's three leading newspapers, disagreeing on much, agree on this: Japan's democracy is in crisis.
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CULTURE / Stage
Jan 25, 2020

The art of condensing Shakespeare's oeuvre

Shuntaro Fujita brings 'Tempo 12-nen no Shakespeare' to Tokyo, modernising a story that encompases elements from each of the Bard's 37 plays.
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CULTURE / Art
Jan 25, 2020

'Tiida: The Sun'

Feb.4-29
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JAPAN / Regional Voices: Okinawa
Jan 24, 2020

Indian entrepreneurs create water-saving solution for farmers out of Okinawa fruit scraps

Two Indian entrepreneurs in Okinawa Prefecture are developing an organic polymer made from fruit scraps that can retain water 50 times its weight, in a potential breakthrough for farming in water-scarce regions.
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JAPAN
Jan 24, 2020

Special course on disaster prevention spurs Kobe survivor's mission to teach others

Early on the morning of Jan. 17, 1995, Kurumi Kishimoto was awakened abruptly by "earth-rumbling sounds" like something she had never experienced. Her family's seventh-floor apartment in Kobe's Hyogo Ward was shaken violently, with dishes falling from the shelves. As dawn was breaking, Kishimoto was...
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JAPAN / Regional voices: Chubu
Jan 24, 2020

Shaken by Kobe quake, Peruvian works to help Hyogo's Spanish speakers in times of disaster

Roxana Oshiro, a Peruvian of Japanese descent, came to Japan in 1991 and was living in a dormitory in Kobe with her husband and child when the Great Hanshin Earthquake hit the region in 1995.
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WORLD
Jan 23, 2020

U.N. experts demand probe into alleged Saudi hack of Amazon boss Jeff Bezos

U.N. experts have demanded an immediate investigation by the U.S. and other authorities into allegations that Saudi Arabia's crown prince was involved in a plot to hack the phone of Amazon boss and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jan 23, 2020

Chocolate embodying style, romantic fervor

Some matches are meant to be. That's certainly the case with one of Tokyo's most iconic hotels, The Okura Tokyo, and celebrated Belgian Royal Warrant chocolatier Pierre Marcolini with the release of the Silver Heart Coffret ed. 2020 from Feb. 1 to March 31 (¥3,000 plus consumption tax) — just in time...
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LIFE / EVENTS AND INFORMATION
Jan 23, 2020

Selected swords, tsuba on display

First founded during the Meiji Period (1868 to 1912), Japan Sword Co. has amassed a vast number of collections of Samurai Art over the course of its history. Today, the gallery has grown to become one of the most renowned sword shops around the globe for not only selling replicas of traditional Japanese...
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 23, 2020

Inside China's virus zone, unease grips a city in lockdown

In Wuhan, the central Chinese city that's ground zero of the deadly new virus spreading through the country, a sense of fear is rapidly taking hold.
Japan Times
SUMO
Jan 22, 2020

Kitazakura known best for talent, attitude outside ring

Rikishi who are famous for something other than results in the ring usually achieve that status through some notable aspect of their personality.

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