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COMMENTARY / World
Jan 30, 2017

How print beats digital in the book world

The book industry is making a convincing case that the printed word remains profitable.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Jan 30, 2017

A woman's lowly place in Japan, mirrored in its language

Given that so many demeaning and negative words related to women endure, is it any surprise that sexism is still rife in Japan?
JAPAN
Jan 29, 2017

Nearly two years after Goto beheading, journalist Tsuneoka asks: Did Tokyo do enough?

Early on the morning of Feb. 1, 2015, Japan woke to the news that Japanese freelance journalist Kenji Goto, held hostage by Islamic State militants, had been beheaded.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LABOR PAINS
Jan 29, 2017

Tokyo court rulings chip away at labor unions' right to free speech

Workers sued for millions of yen over protests outside the company that fired them take their case to the Supreme Court.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 29, 2017

Vocational universities may be the way forward

Universities in Japan and the U.S. face unprecedented challenges that will make them unrecognizable in the years ahead.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 29, 2017

How Trump's abrupt Muslim ban sowed confusion at airports and agencies

After immigration agents detained two Iraqis on Saturday at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, their lawyers and two U.S. representatives accompanying them tried to cross into a secure area — and were stopped themselves.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 29, 2017

Canada's Trudeau welcomes refugees; airline force to turn back U.S.-bound passengers

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau welcomed those fleeing war and persecution on Saturday even as Canadian airlines said they would turn back U.S.-bound passengers to comply with an immigration ban on people from seven Muslim-majority countries.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / BACKSTREET STORIES
Jan 28, 2017

Good fortune in the Tokyo suburbs

The Tokyu Setagaya Line, a sweet little tramline, makes stops between Sangenjaya and Shimotakaido stations. A mere 5.1 kilometers long and one of only two trams left in Tokyo (the other being the Toden Arakawa Line), the Setagaya Line boasts a sleek fleet in candy colors. I hop onto a cherry red one...
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jan 28, 2017

Sino-Japanese propaganda wars are heating up

Both Japan and China are wielding history like a cudgel to bash the other and assert a sanctimonious nationalism that impedes reconciliation.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 28, 2017

Singapore Biennale takes a good hard look in the mirror

Malaysian artist Azizan Paiman tells me that to lose weight, all I have to do is make sure that the calories I expend are more than the calories I consume. I already know that, but he's done it, and I haven't. He also tells the small group assembled in his temporary cafe that we need to love each other,...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 28, 2017

Japanese graffiti artist 281_Anti Nuke takes aim at Trump

Japanese graffiti artist 281_Anti Nuke says his politically charged placards plastered around central Tokyo are meant to serve as a warning to the dangers of new U.S. President Donald Trump.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 28, 2017

Three scorching years don't make a trend

The run of record-breaking temperatures doesn't mean we should expect every year to be relentlessly hotter than the last.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 28, 2017

No U.S. review of treaties, U.N. funding at this time, Trump official says

The Trump administration will not issue executive orders calling for a review of international treaties and U.S. funding for the United Nations and other international bodies "at this time," a senior U.S. administration official said on Friday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 27, 2017

Abe, Trump and a suddently foggy alliance

Shinzo Abe needs to act with care as the Trump administration will provide confusion instead of serving Washington's traditional role as a stabilizing force.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 27, 2017

India snake charmers struggle to survive as tradition slowly dies out

Buti Nath flips the lid of a basket and a cobra slowly emerges. The deadly reptile begins to sway as Buti plays his gourd flute.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 27, 2017

Beijing tells officials not to set off New Year fireworks to curb smog

The Beijing city government has told officials to lead by example and not set off fireworks or firecrackers to welcome the Lunar New Year on Friday to help prevent smog, after the city was blanketed in choking smog earlier this month.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 27, 2017

Ceausescu bunker offers a window into Romania's brutal communist past

The hermetically sealed heavy steel door to the bunker of Romania's late communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, opens with a squeak, releasing a burst of cool air.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 26, 2017

America starts making China great again

By pulling the U.S. out of the TPP, Trump has hurt American business, pulled the rug out from under U.S. allies and damaged American prestige in the most economically critical region in the world.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 26, 2017

Abe warms to bilateral trade deal with U.S. but vows to still protect farmers

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday gave the clearest indication yet that Tokyo may accept Washington's departure from the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 26, 2017

Abe's kanji gaffe makes Twitter's trend tally

Reading kanji characters can be treacherous, and it seems even Prime Minister Shinzo Abe isn't immune to the pitfalls.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 26, 2017

Stingy pay raises pull the handbrake on Japan's inflation drive

As the world puts the worst of the disinflationary threat behind it, tepid wage growth is shaping up as a key restraint to a genuine reflationary era taking hold in some economies. Nowhere is this more so than Japan.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jan 26, 2017

Craft beer for winter cheer

In good news for beer-lovers, the Hyatt Regency Tokyo is offering two free-flowing beverage courses through Feb. 28 at the Caffe. The first is the Yona Yona Beer Plan (¥6,000), featuring the amber-colored Yona Yona Ale, an early pioneer of Japan's craft beer that boasts a rich citrus aroma.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 26, 2017

Toshiba said to plan selling chip unit stake to multiple buyers

Toshiba Corp. is planning to split the sale of a stake in its chip unit among several investors, including Canon Inc. and private equity funds, a person familiar with the matter said.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 26, 2017

China may be developing 'breakthrough' long-range air-to-air missile

China may be testing a new, long-range air-to-air missile that could take out early warning aircraft and aerial refueling aircraft, a state-run newspaper said on Thursday, after pictures of the new missile surfaced online.
As Trump hails taking back of Panama Canal, Hong Kong Inc. walks tightrope
Balboa Port, operated by Panama Ports Company, at the Panama Canal. Conglomerate CK Hutchison, controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, has agreed to sell its ports network, including assets along the Panama Canal, to a U.S. consortium led by BlackRock.
Woman sentenced to 23 years over Asahikawa girl's murder
The bridge in the city of Asahikawa where a female high school student died after being pushed off in April last year
Tokyo’s vinyl experts say overseas buyers are ‘sustaining the scene’
Rintaro Sekizuka runs a record store in both London and Tokyo’s Katsushika Ward.
Tokyo responds to Trump remarks on 'interesting' Japan-U.S. security pact
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (left) and U.S. President Donald Trump arrive for a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, on Feb. 7.
Japan must fix 'misunderstanding' it is manipulating yen, says ex-BOJ chief Kuroda
Former Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda said Japan must fix "any misunderstanding" held by U.S. President Donald Trump that its central bank was intentionally weakening the yen with monetary policy.
Tokyo’s vinyl experts say overseas buyers are ‘sustaining the scene’
Rintaro Sekizuka runs a record store in both London and Tokyo’s Katsushika Ward.
Cherry blossom season set to kick off on March 21 in Tokyo
A Weathernews forecast shows the cherry blossom season will begin on March 21 in Tokyo.
Grief ebbs and flows between two tragedies in 'The Place of Shells'
“The Place of Shells” takes place mostly in Gottingen, Germany, where both the author and the book's narrator live, while also jumping both geographically and temporally to Sendai, Japan, through memories of the 3/11 disaster and its aftermath.
‘Granny hobbies’ are the new self-care
Yarn shortages are a sign that hobbies like knitting and crochet are gaining in popularity.
Can Shiori Ito’s documentary open Japan’s black box?
Shiori Ito is the first Japanese director to have been nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary feature film. "Black Box Diaries," which tells the story of her quest for justice following her rape in 2015, hasn't been released in Japan.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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
By Tomoko Otake

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