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Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 16, 2015

Architect pair tap 3-D printing, ice to share top NASA prize for Mars habitat design

In the coming decades, as humans leave Earth to expand the bounds of space travel, astronauts are sure to find themselves for the first time in habitats other than the International Space Station.
JAPAN / HOTEL SPECIAL 2015
Oct 16, 2015

Andaz Tavern offers rustic Euro cuisine

The Andaz Tavern serves European provincial cuisine made with fresh Japanese ingredients. Seeking to redefine the fine dining experience, the chefs offer up rustic fare from around Europe, preparing wholesome and hearty dishes.
JAPAN / HOTEL SPECIAL 2015
Oct 16, 2015

Prince Park Tower offers taste of tradition

The Prince Park Tower Tokyo's Japanese traditional restaurant Shiba Zakura is offering two course menus to give diners a taste of authentic Japan through March 31.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Oct 15, 2015

Kawasaki gets ready to do the 'Time Warp' again

Moviegoers in Japan are generally expected to take a vow of silence at the cinema — unless the film happens to be "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Oct 15, 2015

Group petitions for revisions to labor laws to help keep new mothers in work

A Tokyo-based nonprofit organization fighting matahara, workplace discrimination against pregnant women and the intimidation of those trying for a child, is seeking revisions to the child care leave law on the grounds that it discriminates against nonregular workers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 15, 2015

Mayor of London urges Japan Inc. to upgrade payments systems, draw on his city's fintech sector

The mayor of London on Thursday urged Japan to embrace more financial innovations such as mobile payments as it prepares for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Oct 15, 2015

Time for NPB to rethink senseless playoff format

Where else but Japanese baseball can a team lose Game 1 of a playoff series and show up at the ballpark the next day down 0-2?
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 15, 2015

New education minister vows to promote LGBT rights and use Olympics to push social issues

A human rights advocate, former teacher and professional wrestler, and now the newly appointed head of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, said Wednesday he plans to promote support for sexual-minority students at schools.
BUSINESS
Oct 15, 2015

Key Manhattan eatery group to drop time-honored U.S. tipping tradition

A restaurant group that includes some of Manhattan's most well-regarded dining spots said on Wednesday it will take the potentially revolutionary step in the United States of eliminating tipping.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 14, 2015

Trans-Pacific Partnership isn't aimed at China

China is an important trade partner for the countries involved in the TPP, and its future participation in the trade bloc can't be ruled out.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 14, 2015

The future of comedy looks bleak in 'Galaxy Turnpike'

Comedy is hard. That's what many comedians say, at least. Think of Charlie Chaplin filming hundreds of takes per immortal gag.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 14, 2015

Atom Egoyan brings the oppression of winter into 'The Captive'

Every parent's worst nightmare plays out in "The Captive," Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan's followup to "Devil's Knot," which opened in Japan last year.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 14, 2015

China's air force extends long-range strike capabilities: military expert

China's air force can launch long-range precision strikes, state media on Wednesday cited a military expert as saying, as the country works to develop its offensive air capabilities.
WORLD
Oct 14, 2015

Cockpit reconstruction tells story of MH17's last moments

The reconstruction of the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 tells its own vivid story of the impact of the missile that destroyed the aircraft last July, killing all 298 people on board.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 14, 2015

Jeb Bush says Putin's Russia should face consequences over Syria

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush vowed on Tuesday to take a more aggressive approach to countering Russia if he is elected president next year, calling Vladimir Putin an "agile adversary" who is exploiting a vacuum of U.S. leadership in Syria and elsewhere.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 13, 2015

Corporations lie, and some get away with it

In the midst of so many contexts where we expect people sometimes to lie — sports, entertainment, certainly politics — it is disturbing that the one place to which we run for truth is private corporations.
EDITORIALS
Oct 13, 2015

Volkswagen cheats

The Volkswagen scandal has also exposed an uncomfortable truth that has long been known but rarely discussed — virtually all automakers 'cheat' on the emissions tests.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 13, 2015

Japan should avoid making suicidal education mistakes

Japan's educational system will suffer greatly if political ignoramuses who know the price of everything and the value of nothing are allowed to have their way.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Oct 13, 2015

Chinese tourists spill into business hotels along Aichi highway as Nagoya hostelries full

Business hotels located on expressways in Aichi Prefecture are seeing a sharp rise in Chinese customers as those touring the Tokyo-Kansai route seek a place midway to spend the night.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 12, 2015

Crunch time for ex-debate rivals Biden, Ryan to make decisions that could shape future U.S. politics

Former rivals Vice President Joe Biden and Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan are facing looming decisions that will help shape the future of American politics.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 11, 2015

RBMA Radio set to mark 10 years with special show

Last year's Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA) left Tokyo with a four-floor space in Shibuya designed by prize-winning architect Kengo Kuma.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 11, 2015

Volkswagen and the future of corporate honesty

The plummet of Volkswagen's stock shows that honesty is the best policy for corporations that want to maximize value over the long term.
Seven & I and Nissan deal fallout leaves Japan companies vulnerable
The rapid collapse of the plan to take Seven & I private reflects how personal egos and domestic competitiveness ultimately outweighed the nationalistic desire to fend off Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard, whose pursuit of the Japanese retailer emerged last August.
Aboard Japan’s most luxurious train, the journey is the destination
The luxury Seven Stars in Kyushu train trades the hyper-efficiency of typical rail travel in Japan for a slower, more decadent version.
China’s military puts Pacific on notice as U.S. priorities shift
A photo released by the Australia Defense Force showed an Australian Navy ship in the foreground and two Chinese navy ships in the Tasman Sea in February.
Europe's nightmare is here: They have to fight Putin without the U.S.
Ukrainian servicemen play with dogs at their position on a front line in the nation's Zaporizhzhia region on Feb. 21.
Japan struggles to fend off a world without enough matcha
Once a boon to tea farmers' bottom lines, the global matcha craze is now pushing producers and distributors to their limits with few options to adequately meet demand.
Redevelopment and resistance in historic Nishiogikubo
Tsuyoshi Mizukoshi, owner of a pub in Nishiogi’s commercial area, is a community organizer who is rallying local residents against the road development plan.
Aboard Japan’s most luxurious train, the journey is the destination
The luxury Seven Stars in Kyushu train trades the hyper-efficiency of typical rail travel in Japan for a slower, more decadent version.
Taiwan comics on the rise: Local storytellers, global aspirations
Taiwanese comic artist Rishiazao and interpreter Yun-wen Huang greet an attendee at the 2025 Angouleme International Comics Festival in France.
Not even Japan is safe from counterfeit luxury goods
While Japan's luxury goods market remains strong, its seconhand resale market is proving just as much a draw for tourists searching for great bargains — as long as they can manage to get their hands on the real deal.
Nils Nielsen's vision for Nadeshiko Japan comes to life at SheBelieves Cup
Nadeshiko Japan celebrates after winning the SheBelieves Cup in San Diego on Wednesday.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Pedestrians commute through Shibuya Station in central Tokyo, an area that is almost never devoid of people.
As the rest of Japan shrinks, Tokyo grows
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