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Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Feb 22, 2020

‘33⅓ Japan’ has nerdy but accessible tales of albums and artists

With the '33u2153 Japan' series, music aficionados bring classic Japanese albums and artists to life in nerdy, but accessible, prose.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Feb 18, 2020

Rare release of Xi's speech on coronavirus puzzles top China watchers

China's elite politics are a black box, and the country's leaders like to keep it that way. That's what makes the events of this weekend so perplexing — even to seasoned China watchers.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Feb 17, 2020

Climate change to open up 'frontier' farmland, but experts urge caution

Kenya’s livestock herders planting chile peppers, Pakistan’s mountain farmers rearing fish and tropical fruits being grown in Sicily — farmers around the world are already shifting what they grow and breed to cope with rising temperatures and erratic weather.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LAW OF THE LAND
Feb 17, 2020

Bureaucrats are to blame for copy-happy hotel clerks

With data privacy being a huge issue, you may feel uneasy about hotels photocopying your passport. However, Colin P.A. Jones says the rule is more about bureaucratic culture than privacy.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 31, 2020

Could bionic jellyfish help monitor oceans?

It may sound more like science fiction than science fact, but researchers have created bionic jellyfish by embedding microelectronics into these ubiquitous marine invertebrates with hopes to deploy them to monitor and explore the world's oceans.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jan 31, 2020

Bringing Haruki Murakami's 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle' to Japan's stages

Murakami's enigmatic masterpiece has been adapted for Japanese stage for the first time, with Songha and Daichi Watanabe taking on the role of Toru Okada.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 24, 2020

Remembering Satoshi Kon, one of anime's best-loved creators

The Annie Awards bestows a posthumous honor on anime director Satoshi Kon, who died in 2010 at the age of 46.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Jan 23, 2020

Hoping for a Japanese society in which all of its members can shine

Black Eye columnist Baye McNeil opens the new year with an email from a reader that illustrates the importance of language in dealing with multiracial individuals.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LAW OF THE LAND
Jan 8, 2020

Carlos Ghosn and the 99.9% who don't escape Japan

If I had to identify one event in the Carlos Ghosn case indicitave of concern for foreign perceptions of Japan's criminal justice system, it would be the decision to grant him bail.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jan 5, 2020

Heli-skiing in Japan: The joys of big-mountain powder

From December to March, Hokkaido Backcountry Club runs heli-skiing tours to Mount Shiribetsu near the Niseko and Rusutsu ski resorts. Clip in for the ride.
COMMUNITY / Issues / LAW OF THE LAND
Dec 23, 2019

The Reiwa Daijosai: Pomp, circumstance and litigation

The separation of church and state in Japan comes under scrutiny in the new era. However, we've been down this road before.
Japan Times
CULTURE / CULTURE SMASH
Dec 2, 2019

Gkids brings anime's best to big screens in the U.S.

Though relatively unheralded, Gkids scored the rights to U.S. re-releases of the work of anime giants — including Isao Takahata and Makoto Shinkai — by only showing them in cinemas.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 15, 2019

Green markets for equitable growth

Any realistic solution to the climate crisis must keep the engines of economic growth running. A global carbon market would do just that.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Nov 2, 2019

Portals of the past: Peering into Tokyo's traditional kissaten coffee shops

"Sorry, we're full," I hear someone say as I open the door to Ladrio, a pre-eminent kissaten (traditional coffee shop) situated in a tumbledown alley in Tokyo's Jimbocho neighborhood.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / 2010S: DECADE IN REVIEW
Nov 2, 2019

Our critics' favorite Japanese books of the decade

As 2020 approaches, The Japan Times' book reviewers look back at a decade of literature and their favorite and most impactful books written about Japan or by Japanese writers.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 8, 2019

The Asianized world has arrived

By 2040, Asia is likely to generate more than 50 percent of world GDP, and could account for nearly 40 percent of global consumption.
COMMUNITY / Issues / LAW OF THE LAND
Sep 29, 2019

The Tepco verdict is predictable but not insignificant

Three Tepco executives are acquitted of criminal negligence in the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant disaster. Did the court recognize the unfairness of holding only three people responsible for a crisis that had much broader causes?
Japan Times
CULTURE
Sep 28, 2019

Go for it: Ancient board game holds logical and artistic appeal for players worldwide

The master enters the room several minutes after the scheduled 9 a.m. start.
Reader Mail
Sep 27, 2019

Chellaney wrong on Kashmir issue

In the opinion piece "Dispelling the myths of Kashmir" by Brahma Chellaney in the Sept. 10 issue, the author incorrectly claims that the violence in India-occupied Jammu and Kashmir has been perpetuated by Salafist- oriented "jihadists" while conveniently overlooking the fact that the actual perpetrators...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Sep 1, 2019

Making sense of the oppressiveness of summer in Japan

Japan has a venerable tradition of quirky and inventive means of escape from the oppression of summer, as well as from rigid social constraints and conventions. Some of them take distinctly weird forms. In Edogawa Ranpo's classic story, "The Stalker in the Attic" (1925), for example, the eccentric protagonist...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 27, 2019

Is peace in Afghanistan possible?

A pact with the Taliban is unlikely to bring any respite from the ongoing violence.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Aug 17, 2019

Hong Kong's 1960s chaos holds lessons for city's besieged leaders now

It was a 5-cent fare hike for Hong Kong's iconic Star Ferry that set off the protests. Cars and buildings were set on fire. Riot police patrolled the streets. Tear gas was fired — and still the crowds kept coming.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LAW OF THE LAND
Aug 7, 2019

Seven lessons from a Japanese morality textbook

The textbooks students in Japan use to learn wrong from right are filled with stories of invoices, citizen committees, petitions and other cool stuff kids like.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 2, 2019

South Korean petition to ban imports of sex dolls forces government response

A petition calling for a ban on importing life-size sex dolls into South Korea has gathered nearly a quarter of a million signatures as of Friday, passing a threshold that requires the president's office to respond to the matter.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 2, 2019

Astronomers find that Milky Way is a warped and twisted galaxy

Astronomers have created the most precise map to date of the Milky Way by tracking thousands of big pulsating stars spread throughout the galaxy, demonstrating that its disk of myriad stars is not flat but dramatically warped and twisted in shape.
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.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jul 5, 2019

Quiet luxury in lesser-known Kansai

The Kansai area — think Kyoto, Osaka and surrounds — has some of the country's best anaba (little-known spots) where you can encounter the rich depths of Japanese culture, minus the crowds. Reserve one of these nine luxuriously uncrowded options to take your travels to new levels.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jun 29, 2019

'Gentle Black Giants': Diplomacy, sport and Japan's early love for baseball

'Gentle Black Giants' reveals a little-known chapter of Japanese baseball's early years and the impact that a collection of Negro Leagues players had on its development.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jun 20, 2019

Building bridges to Bangkok through stage

Never at risk of being run of the mill, Chelfitsch — which took its name from a baby's pronunciation of the English word "selfish" and usually stylizes itself with a lowercase "c" — is one of Japan's foremost contemporary theater companies, despite only rarely performing here. Instead, it can mostly...
Ukraine risks losing all Russian land it seized within months, U.S. says
Ukrainian soldiers carry the coffins of three comrades killed in recent fighting in eastern Ukraine during their funeral in the western city of Lviv on Dec. 20.
South Korea's worst plane crash in decades leaves 179 dead
Rescue personnel are seen near the tail section of a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 series aircraft after the plane crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea, on Sunday.
Rejecting the Nippon Steel bid is a slap in the face to Japan
U.S. Steel workers who support the takeover by Nippon Steel rally outside the company's headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in September.
Japanese lawmaker dies in Maldives
Japanese lawmaker Toshiyuki Adachi
Sony's Crunchyroll finds its early lead in anime under attack
A poster depicting the characters of "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" in Tokyo's Shibuya Station in 2023.
How Hokkaido quietly became a culinary treasure trove in 2024
The central Hokkaido city of Asahikawa made headlines this year when one of its suburbs was named as the best place to live in Japan — a ranking earned in part due to the community's many outstanding restaurants and cafes.
Bling-Bang, baby: The J-pop soundtrack of 2024
Hip-hop duo Creepy Nuts' uptempo “Bling-Bang-Bang-Born” quickly became a TikTok favorite after its release days into 2024, which helped turn the song into a Billboard Japan Hot 100 topper for 19 weeks before rising up viral streaming charts around the world.
Flu cases surge above ‘warning’ levels in much of Japan
Authorities are calling for utmost vigilance as Japan heads into the New Year holiday season, when many people plan getaways.
Dodgers voice Stephen Nelson paves way for Japanese Americans in media
Dodgers announcers Stephen Nelson and Jessica Mendoza pose with Ichiro Suzuki before a game against the Mariners in Seattle in 2023.
Start the new year not with one temple visit, but seven
At each shrine and temple, priests create festive, decorative go-shuin stamps, and you can collect the marks of all seven of the lucky gods on one piece of paper (called a shikishi) to serve as a good-luck talisman.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Visitors to Kyoto walk along a street near Kiyomizu Temple in April. A popular tourist spot, Kyoto has seen what locals feel to be an overwhelming amount of tourists in 2024.
Is Japan ready for 60 million tourists?
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