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EDITORIALS
Jul 25, 2019

China's ties with Cambodia pay off

Japan, along with other regional governments, must be alert to and concerned by the prospect of Chinese power projection in Southeast Asia.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 25, 2019

Trump administration and native Alaskans strike deal on road through wildlife refuge

The Trump administration has resurrected a plan to carve a road through a national wildlife refuge in Alaska, less than four months after a federal judge struck down an earlier plan as illegal.
EDITORIALS
Jul 23, 2019

Tehran ups the ante again

With tensions mounting and ample opportunities for miscalculation, every diplomatic channel must be operating and explored.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 22, 2019

The day hope landed on the moon

Fifty years later, it's hard to convey how much joy there was when the Eagle finally landed.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Jul 19, 2019

Growing foreign resident population in Fukushima Prefecture now numbers more than 14,000, says new report

Reflecting a nationwide trend of an increasing number of foreign residents in Japan, Fukushima Prefecture is also seeing its foreign community expand.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 19, 2019

Mosque dating from Islam's arrival in Holy Land found

Archaeologists in Israel have discovered the remains of one of the world's oldest rural mosques, built around the time Islam arrived in the Holy Land, they said on Thursday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 19, 2019

Gulp! Jurassic mammal was the first one able to eat politely

A shrew-like primitive mammal that inhabited China 165 million years ago represents a milestone in mammalian evolution, scientists said on Thursday, boasting a key anatomical trait in its throat that helped usher in the era of polite table manners.
WORLD / Society
Jul 18, 2019

After #MeToo, U.S. women seen reporting less workplace harassment

From leering and unwanted touching to being asked for sexual favors, U.S. women say they suffer less sexual harassment in the workplace since #MeToo brought the issue to the fore, but sexism has increased, researchers said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 16, 2019

Move over Trump: China's tweeting diplomats open fresh front in propaganda fight

Tweets from Chinese diplomats abroad, including seasoned Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai, have opened a fresh front in Beijing's increasingly assertive approach to diplomacy and propaganda and may be a sign of things to come.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 16, 2019

The skills that youths will need to succeed in the 21st century

Societies now need young people who learn and master the skills for a dynamic, tech savvy and globalized world.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jul 13, 2019

Asylum-seekers in Japan are stuck in bureaucratic limbo

At the end of June, a Nigerian man in his 40s died at an immigration detention center in Nagasaki. According to a support group, the man had been on a hunger strike to protest his lengthy confinement, which had continued for more than three years. The detention center has yet to reveal the cause of his...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Jul 13, 2019

Aika Miyake: Film editor makes the cut in both Japan and U.S

There aren't many female filmmakers in Japan, making even fewer female film editors. Aika Miyake is an exception.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / THE HIGH GROUNDS
Jul 13, 2019

Raising the brewing bar at Barista Training Lab Tokyo

Barista Training Lab Tokyo offers classes in brewing, roasting and tasting coffee, covering all the skills a professional barista — or interested amateur — needs to know.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KANPAI CULTURE
Jul 13, 2019

Yamagata sake shines on the international stage

On a recent balmy evening, representatives from nine sake breweries in Yamagata Prefecture, clad in understated kimono, bow modestly onstage amid the glow of pink and lavender lights. The bling-drenched ballroom also boasts gold-covered walls and a bold red carpet adorned with a dizzying pattern of colorful...
Reader Mail
Jul 12, 2019

The education ministry's misguided reliance on testing

The education ministry's aim in enforcing tests like TOEIC as part of its requirement for high school students trying to go to college was dubious from the outset ("TOEIC opts out of new university entrance tests," July 3). So it is unsurprising that exam producers like ETS now want nothing to do with...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Jul 10, 2019

Tokyo is big, Kyoto is polite, but Osaka's for the Scots

Writer William Lang says the frankness and openness of Osakans is a common trait of the people he remembers from growing up in Glasgow.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jul 9, 2019

Mastering the art of multilingual performance

Tokyo's cozy 60-odd-seat Komaba Agora Theater isn't perhaps where you would expect a cutting-edge multilingual drama experiment to be staged, but that's just where Oriza Hirata has chosen to work his latest magic.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 9, 2019

Japan's Consumer Affairs Agency cancels plan to fully relocate to Tokushima

The government will shelve a plan to relocate all of the functions of the Consumer Affairs Agency to Tokushima Prefecture, according to sources.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 8, 2019

At Harvard, thoughtcrime is now a punishable offense

In America all it takes to ruin your life is one bad decision. Even if you're just a kid.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jul 6, 2019

Japan faces an uphill battle to reduce plastic consumption

Anyone following recent coverage of the worldwide plastic waste crisis may note a contradiction in the reporting on Japan's place in the discussion. On the one hand, Japan boasts a very high plastic recycling rate owing to local governments' sorting rules, which are some of the strictest in the world....
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 6, 2019

Wahhabism confronted: Sri Lanka curbs Saudi influence after bombings

Sri Lanka is moving to curtail Saudi Arabian influence, after some politicians and Buddhist monks blamed the spread of the kingdom's ultraconservative Wahhabi school of Islam for planting the seeds of militancy that culminated in deadly Easter bomb attacks.
Reader Mail
Jul 5, 2019

Abortion's role in depopulation

Regarding Haruaki Deguchi's opinion piece in the July 1 edition, "Blame gender gap for Japan's low fertility rate," a massive rigorous study of abortions worldwide by Thomas W. Jacobson and Wm. Robert Johnston, titled "Abortion Worldwide Report" says there were "only" 123,000 performed in Japan in 1948,...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional voices: Chubu
Jul 3, 2019

Newly created Aichi fund provides foster children with access to higher education

A fund set up by the Aichi Prefectural Government in March is providing financial aid to students from children's homes seeking to enter higher education.

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