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CULTURE / Books
Jun 24, 2017

'Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push For Global Power': Waking up to China's dream of holding court

By now, even the most casual observer of goings on in Asia will have noted the aggressive geopolitical maneuvering of China, a country news outlets have taken to calling "resurgent."
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Jun 24, 2017

Nobuko Kiyomiya: Judging a bookbinder in France by her covers

Kiyomiya is keeping alive a way of thinking about books that may be finding itself under threat in our world of Kindles.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / OSAKA RESTAURANTS
Jun 24, 2017

Kinki Daigaku Suisan Kenkyujo: Take the farm-grown bluefin tuna taste test

Some fish swim in universities. Or university-run fish farms, to be exact, and upon graduation they end up as sashimi served over a bed of crushed ice.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
Jun 24, 2017

'The Informer': Portrait of a pivotal period in Japan

Based on the true story of a stock trader, the 1965 novel "The Informer" is remarkably prescient in describing the greed and venality that was, two decades later, to become a hallmark of the delirious days of Japan's bubble-era economy.
CULTURE / Books
Jun 24, 2017

'Discover Sumo: Stories from Yobidashi Hideo': A jack-of-all-trades sheds light on the sport

The rituals, theatrical constructs and sartorial styles connected to this ancient martial art may seem visually arresting to the uninitiated, but as "Discover Sumo" tells us, there is much more to Japan's national sport than meets the eye.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 24, 2017

Firms need new strategies in new world order

Facing anti-globalization, companies need a chief global strategist combining economic acumen with a political/power strategy mindset and intercultural charm.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Jun 24, 2017

Japan's shelters provide little comfort to abused children

Japan's shelters for neglected children are known for their suffocating discipline, but no one has come up with a good way to reform them in the past 70 years.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 24, 2017

North Korea denies torturing Warmbier, says it is 'biggest victim' in U.S. student's death

North Korea has issued its first comments on the death of U.S. college student Otto Warmbier, who had been held by Pyongyang for more than a year before his June 13 release, calling the 22-year-old's passing "a mystery" and labeling themselves as "the biggest victim of this incident."
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 23, 2017

Probe Abe's ties with the media, Maekawa urges

The former education ministry official vouching for the documents behind the Kake Gakuen scandal urges closer scrutiny of Prime Minister Abe's media ties.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 23, 2017

Iran and the Saudi deflection campaign

Donald Trump appears to have no idea that the principal source of support that Salafist terrorists use has Saudi Arabia written all over it.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jun 23, 2017

Patriots QB Brady wraps up tour of Asia with trip to Tokyo

In the span of six days, Tom Brady threw passes on the Great Wall of China, rubbed shoulders with a Korean pop star in Shanghai, and spent a morning in the company of sumo wrestlers in Tokyo.
Reader Mail
Jun 23, 2017

Let North Korea be, in exchange for denuclearization

To affirm the unassailable rule of the Kim dynasty, even at the expense of its own people, the discomfiture of its neighbors and the misgivings of the world, North Korea asserts the freedom to misgovern and project itself without interference. Looking at it from the outside, especially with its ballistic...
EDITORIALS
Jun 22, 2017

Feasibility of Koike's Tsukiji market decision

Yuriko Koike's plan to relocate the capital's Tsukiji wholesale market to the new site in the Toyosu waterfront area — while also redeveloping the Tsukiji site in five years without selling it off as scheduled— seems to raise more questions than answer
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 22, 2017

North Korea's real strategy

The idea that North Korea will abandon its weapons programs in exchange for the promise of security and regime survival has been tested has failed whenever it has been tested.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 22, 2017

Lexus slides in quality rankings as Kia and Hyundai grab top spots

Toyota Motor Corp.'s Lexus line has slipped below the industry average in a closely watched study of new-car quality, while South Korean automakers that only recently supplanted Japanese and German brands gained more momentum.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 22, 2017

Intel to sponsor Olympics to showcase VR, 360-degree video, AI and drone technologies

Intel Corp. will sponsor the Olympics through 2024 in the company's latest bid to show off its technology through high-profile sports events.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 22, 2017

U.S. asks China to do more to rein in North Korea

The United States pressed China to exert more economic and diplomatic pressure on North Korea to help rein in its nuclear and missile programs during a round of high-level talks in Washington on Wednesday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Jun 21, 2017

U.S. military under fire for gun safety breaches on Okinawa

A series of incidents over the past few years have raised concerns the U.S. military on Okinawa is failing to securely manage its weapons in the prefecture.
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Jun 21, 2017

Deafening silence from U.S. government as Okinawa defoliants quietly destroy children's futures

Lt. Col. Kris E. Roberts, who found dozens of barrels of hazardous waste buried at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in 1981, reflects on the consequences of that discovery.
JAPAN / Society
Jun 21, 2017

New magazine offers convicts hope of escaping from a life of crime

To prevent those with criminal convictions from committing further offenses after leaving correctional facilities, a job magazine for people with a history of crime or delinquency will be distributed at prisons and juvenile training schools nationwide starting mid-July.

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