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CULTURE / Music
Jun 19, 2015

Akiko Kiyama's twisted techno turns to new kind of sound

Akiko Kiyama has made a name for herself as one of the most prominent female Japanese techno artists. Since returning to Tokyo this past December after living in Berlin for several years, she has already launched her own label, Kebko Music, with two releases in a matter of months.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / Japan Pulse
Jun 19, 2015

Dominique Ansel caters to Tokyo's (semi)sweet tooth with cronuts and s'more

Long queues will mark the spot where Dominique Ansel wil be serving a vast array of creative desserts and, of course, his famed Cronut.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jun 19, 2015

One of Tokyo's best ramen shops is hidden under Ginza Station

Thick, rich, creamy white soup, delicate noodles, elegant toppings of chicken breast and seasonal vegetables — Kagari serves some of the finest, most seductive ramen in the city. There's only one downside: the wait in line can sometimes take up to an hour.
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JAPAN
Jun 19, 2015

Volunteer guides kick off project to help tourists in Tokyo

There's help at last for those lost-looking foreigners wandering around Tokyo's most popular tourism destinations.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 19, 2015

Onaga spells out anti-base stance in first talks with Kennedy

Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga on Friday met with U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy in Tokyo and told her of his opposition to U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa. It was Onaga's first meeting with the ambassador since he took office in December.
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WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 19, 2015

Obama calls shooting in Charleston church a violation of a 'sacred place'

President Barack Obama said the killer who opened fire at a black church in South Carolina violated a "sacred place" in America's history and the mass shooting once again raised troubling questions about racial tension and easy access to firearms.
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JAPAN / Politics
Jun 18, 2015

National ruckus over security bills puts spotlight on Supreme Court

The verbal war over the national security bills is heating up now that Japan's constitutional scholars have clearly branded Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's reinterpretation of war-renouncing Article 9 and all legislation based on it as unconstitutional.
EDITORIALS
Jun 18, 2015

Inbound tourism boom

The goal of having 20 million people visit Japan annually by 2020 appears to be within reach thanks to a tourism boom.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 18, 2015

SoftBank's Pepper robot now has emotions, Son claims

After months of delay, SoftBank Corp. announced Thursday that it would make Pepper, its humanoid robot, available to the general public on Saturday, but with an extra twist.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 18, 2015

China OKs plan for civilian ships to be used by military

The Chinese government has approved a plan requiring civilian shipbuilders to ensure that new ships can be used by the military during an emergency, a state-run newspaper said Thursday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 18, 2015

New drug compound may beat malaria with single $1 dose

Scientists have discovered a new anti-malarial compound that could treat patients with a single $1 dose, including those with strains of the mosquito-borne disease that are resistant to current drugs.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 18, 2015

Cyberattack takes down Canada government websites; Anonymous claims credit

Several Canadian government websites and servers were taken down in a cyberattack on Wednesday, the government said, with the hacking group Anonymous taking responsibility in what it said was retaliation for a new anti-terrorism law passed by Canada's lawmakers.
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ENVIRONMENT
Jun 18, 2015

Warm currents washing swarms of red crabs up on Southern California beaches

Hundreds of thousands of tiny crabs have been washing up on Southern California beaches, marring the sandy coastline with streaks of red, as warm ocean currents carry them farther north and closer to shore than usual, officials said on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 17, 2015

Ishin no To leader lashes Abe over security bills

The ruling bloc had hoped Ishin no To would help the Cabinet enact controversial national security bills, but the party's leader flatly denied that.
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CULTURE / Film
Jun 17, 2015

John Junkerman documentary 'Okinawa: The Afterburn' sheds light on the ferocious anger against U.S. bases

The issue of the large U.S. military presence in Okinawa is divisive, deeply rooted and, frankly, one I have never completely understood. Anti-base protests have been going on for decades, and while locals elsewhere in the developed world may have been unhappy with the bases in their vicinity, the Okinawans...
WORLD
Jun 17, 2015

U.S. government agency thwarts hackers 10 million times per month

Attacks such as the one that exposed the personal data of millions of U.S. federal workers will continue and are likely to increase, said the head of one agency that thwarts 10 million attempted hacks every month.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 17, 2015

Clinton ally Blumenthal testifies before closed-door Benghazi panel

Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime ally of Hillary Rodham Clinton who was an unofficial adviser when she was U.S. secretary of state, arrived to testify on Tuesday behind closed doors before the House of Representatives panel probing the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 17, 2015

Environmentalist, whaling foe Paul Watson can reapply for passport, Canada says

The Canadian government said on Tuesday it will allow environmentalist Paul Watson to reapply for his passport, three years after the document was confiscated by German authorities.
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MORE SPORTS
Jun 16, 2015

Kurihara aims high for national team, NFL aspirations

Reaching the NFL is every football player's dream. And that's no exception for Takashi Kurihara.
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COMMENTARY / World
Jun 16, 2015

Tragedy should prompt a zoo rethink

The Tbilisi zoo tragedy should make governments reconsider the rules for keeping wild animals in captivity.
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COMMENTARY / World
Jun 16, 2015

Greece's Tsipras isn't on the side of democracy

The question for Greeks today is whether they think the leftist policies of Syriza will give them a better future with default, capital controls and the drachma.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 16, 2015

Time to hit the reset button on Tokyo-Seoul relations

The chilly relationship between South Korea and Japan doesn't serve either country well in the long run.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 16, 2015

Unfortunately, corporate Japan thinks it's 1985

Japan's biggest companies are greeting reforms aimed at improving corporate governance with a halfhearted shrug.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 16, 2015

Oil is not inexorably fading from the world stage

The age of oil will endure for the forceable future.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 16, 2015

Nissan award echoes a maturing art world

The biennial Nissan Art Award isn't new now, and it wasn't really new when it began in 2013, either — something Nissan President and CEO Carlos Ghosn is fully aware of.

Longform

The building of new high-rise residential buildings has some alarmed that they could empty and fall into disrepair as Japan's population shrinks.
The high cost of letting Japan's condos crumble