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Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Dec 3, 2016

The British connection

While Brexit may have muddied the waters separating Japan and Britain, the design collaborations between the two island nations are still strong.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Dec 3, 2016

What shape will populism take in modern Japan?

Populism isn't new. A wave of it generated democracy in ancient Greece, circa 500 B.C. Its modern form, born in America in the early 19th century, was a revolt against the planter aristocracy that had governed since independence in 1776. Andrew Jackson — said to be the first president born in a log...
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 3, 2016

Trump reportedly invites Philippines' Duterte to visit next year

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump invited Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte to the White House next year during a "very engaging, animated" phone conversation, a Duterte aide said on Friday, amid rocky relations between their two countries.
EDITORIALS
Dec 2, 2016

Extra budgets and fiscal discipline

Despite promises to the contrary, the Abe administration keeps boosting government spending by making use of supplementary budgets.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 2, 2016

The Park scandal and the fight for Seoul's soul

What is going in South Korea is a clash between a society moving forward and a government creeping backward.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 2, 2016

More adults kept from leaving parents' nests in Asia by harsh economic realities

In some of Asia's biggest economies, young adults are living longer with their parents as they struggle to strike out on their own.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Dec 1, 2016

Japan Basketball Association dismisses men's national team coach Hasegawa

Since his appointment two years ago, Kenji Hasegawa has firmly developed the Japan men's national team.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Dec 1, 2016

Murata keeps focus on upcoming bout, aims to secure title shot

Middleweight boxer Ryota Murata will join other Japanese star fighters in a Dec. 30 event at Ariake Colosseum, where he will take on Mexico's Bruno Sandoval, Teiken Gym announced on Thursday.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League / B. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Dec 1, 2016

Ryukyu struggling to adapt in new era

The Ryukyu Golden Kings have experienced incredible success over the past nine years. The Okinawa-based franchise's record fourth title was its crowning achievement in the final game in bj-league history in May at Ariake Colosseum.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 30, 2016

Facing a crisis in democracy

Japan is facing the same risk as the U.S. in the sense that politics of hatred and division prevail as people's lives get worse.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 30, 2016

Trump confronting China on trade sets up backlash

If U.S. President-elect Donald Trump delivers on campaign pledges to get tough with China on trade, lining up against him likely will be another powerful adversary: American multinational corporations.
SOCCER / J. League
Nov 29, 2016

Reds prevail over Antlers in first leg of championship final

Urawa Reds moved a step closer to winning their first J. League title in a decade after beating Kashima Antlers 1-0 in the first leg of the championship final on Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2016

Estimated cost for Tokyo 2020 Olympics jumps to ¥2 trillion

The figure is about 2.5 times the initial estimate in Tokyo's 2013 bid presentation to win the right to host the sporting extravaganza.
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Nov 29, 2016

LDP ignores needed reform by focusing on term limits

The Liberal Democratic Party is being very shortsighted by focusing its reform effort so narrowly.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 29, 2016

Abenomics has a serious millennials problem

The gloomy view of the future among Japan's young people provides clues about why Abenomics has failed.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 29, 2016

A play on the idea of performance art

By the late 1960s, Japan's early postwar avant-garde had largely petered out. The radicals of yesteryear were now 20 years older and the country had returned to material affluence and international acceptance symbolized by the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 29, 2016

Pakistan says Japan traders among those eyeing LNG tender

Pakistan says Japan's biggest trading houses are among almost two dozen companies eyeing its liquefied natural gas purchase tender that it says is the largest on record.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 29, 2016

Trump looks to Obamacare critic, Indiana expert to overhaul health care

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen a vociferous Obamacare critic and an Indiana policy expert to help him overhaul the U.S. health care system, a transition official told Reuters.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 29, 2016

Otani, Arai win MVP awards

Shohei Otani's historic season of rewriting the record books and challenging conventional baseball wisdom reached its logical conclusion on Monday night.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / WISDOM OF ENTREPRENEURS
Nov 28, 2016

Exporting online no longer a side job, says consultant

Akihiko Tsukahara, an exporter of Japanese products and export consultant, recalled the time he was struggling to gather hundreds of game boards for the game of go to fill an order. It was an order placed by an overseas operator of go classes, worth ¥8 million (the initial purchase order value was ¥12...
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League
Nov 27, 2016

Suzuki, Childress take center stage as NeoPhoenix pound B-Corsairs

Tatsuya Suzuki had a quiet game on Saturday. The San-en NeoPhoenix point guard's stat line included these numbers: zero points, one assist.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Nov 27, 2016

Alabama Shakes take a risk that pays off in 'Sound & Color'

With their blended appearance and a sound steeped in soul yet born of the millennial rock scene, Alabama Shakes could symbolize a post-racial dream that, as the recent U.S. election shows, remains a work in progress.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / STRANGE BOUTIQUE
Nov 27, 2016

A reading list for Japan's music scene

Sometime in the spring of 2014, a friend of mine who works for a small publishing company asked if I would write a book about the Japanese music scene for him.
EDITORIALS
Nov 27, 2016

Better whistleblower protection

The law on whistleblowers lacks the teeth to protect employees who reveal wrongdoings, a situation that needs correcting.
Crashed Jeju jet’s black box failure shows decadeslong gap in power rules
The flight data recorder retrieved from Jeju Air flight 2216, which crashed killing 179 people in December. Black boxes holding the flight data and cockpit voice recorders for the flight stopped recording four minutes before the disaster, South Korea's transport ministry said Saturday.
Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki signs with Dodgers
Roki Sasaki pitches for Japan during the World Baseball Classic at Tokyo Dome on March 11, 2023.
Major Japanese firms pay record winter bonuses
The average figure of winter bonuses agreed on by labor unions and employers stood 4.93% higher than a year earlier.
Yokozuna Terunofuji retires after injury-plagued career
Terunofuji won 10 titles in sumo's top division during his career.
Japan now expects to miss its 2025 primary balance goal
Japan’s primary balance is once again set to miss its long-standing target of achieving a balanced budget by the year ending March 2026.
A slow dive into ‘a moment and an eternity’ with Ryuichi Sakamoto
From the mid-2000s onward, Ryuichi Sakamoto created a number of installation works, often in collaboration with Shiro Takatani, of multimedia art collective Dumb Type.
The efforts to bridge the disaster information gap, 30 years on
Roxana Oshiro and her husband gather their belongings in front of their house in Furukawacho, in Kobe's Suma Ward, after the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995.
Japan looks to up the ante with more money and partners in military aid program
Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and Philippine Foreign Minister Enrique Manalo hold a joint news conference in Taguig City, Metro Manila, the Philippines, on Wednesday.
Possibility of Nankai Trough megaquake now 80%, government panel reports
A map of the hypocentral region of an anticipated Nankai Trough earthquake
With new regional party, Shinji Ishimaru touts rebirth
Shinji Ishimaru announces details of his new regional party at a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.

Podcast

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

Longform

Atsuyoshi Koike, the president and CEO of Rapidus, says there is a “sense of urgency” when it comes to Japan’s efforts in manufacturing semiconductors. “We have to make sure we are successful,” he says.
Atsuyoshi Koike’s big game: Fourth down and 2 nanometers to go
By Kazuaki Nagata and Richard Meyer

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