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Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
May 22, 2014

'The Bay'

Found footage becomes a different animal under the direction of a major-league director like Barry Levinson ("Rain Man" and "Diner"). "The Bay" is plenty scary but this isn't your usual found footage horror fare; it's a faux documentary carrying a very real eco-message.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 21, 2014

Retailers scrambling to empty fat foreign wallets

In graying Japan, retailers are waking up to a hot new demographic: foreign visitors.
WORLD / Politics
May 21, 2014

Russia turns fire on dual citizens

Parliament approved legislation on Tuesday requiring Russians to declare dual citizenship or face criminal prosecution after President Vladimir Putin endorsed the measure as part of a more nationalist course taken since his annexation of Crimea.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
May 21, 2014

Shirai triumphs with 'The Tempest'

"I'd like 'The Tempest' I am creating to be on the smallest scale ever, but as it's a very spacious stage at the New National Theatre, Tokyo, it won't have the most compact set. Nonetheless, I will try to present it as stories from within the confines of one man's memory."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 21, 2014

Naonori Oshima: What you see is less than what you actually get

'ON Harmonic Balance' is a dark, claustrophobic collection of images that, although they illustrate many of the tropes that are often associated with the snapshot aesthetic, come across as guileless and unforced.
Reader Mail
May 21, 2014

Clear view of immigration bias

It was good to read about Hidenori Sakanaka, former director of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau, essentially admitting that, despite its international treaty obligations, Japan is a determinedly anti-immigration country with a racial prejudice ("Population fixes have anti-foreign bias, official...
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
May 20, 2014

'Unfinished business' fires up MVP Fazekas, Toshiba

Having wrapped up team practice, center Nick Fazekas took off his 38-cm (15-inch) shoes and sat on the bench in a relaxed manner.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB / MAN ABOUT SPORTS
May 20, 2014

Outlook for Nationals reliant upon health of DC3

How many times in sports have you heard it: As so-and-so goes, so goes team such-and-such?
COMMENTARY / World
May 20, 2014

Forgetful of history amid today's territorial tiffs

For all China's stern injunctions to Japan to remember wartime history, its recent bumbling aggression in Southeast Asia suggests it also could use a refresher course.
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 20, 2014

Design tests to measure priority outcomes

The discovery of fraud in the adminstration of the high-stakes TOEFL and TOEIC tests is disturbing, but the larger issue — which has been given short shrift — is that these tests are designed to emphasize written English rather than spoken English.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 20, 2014

China slams U.S. charges over hacking, data theft

The United States on Monday charged five Chinese military officers and accused them of hacking into American nuclear, metal and solar companies to steal trade secrets, ratcheting up tensions between the two world powers over cyberespionage.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
May 19, 2014

No time to rest as Cepeda hits ground running in Japan

Frederich Cepeda has had quite the week.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 19, 2014

In Indonesian first, ethnic Chinese becomes capital's acting governor

Indonesia's presidential race isn't until July. But there is already one winner.
EDITORIALS
May 19, 2014

Hope beats fear in India election

While the prospect of a strong Indian government led by Narendra Modi appeals to those who decry the horse-trading that has sapped the energy of previous Delhi governments, others worry that Modi could prove to be a Hindu nationalist who ratchets up tensions in South Asia.
COMMENTARY / World
May 19, 2014

Double-edged legacy of LBJ's War on Poverty

The American Enterprise Institute's Nicholas Eberstadt wonders if it's simply a coincidence that male 'flight from work' and family breakdown have coincided with the Great Society policies instituted 50 years ago.
COMMENTARY / World
May 19, 2014

Trash troubles pile up in China's Garbage Era

Chinese consumers, as much if not more than industry or the government, are at the root of the country's solid-waste problem. Yet protests over garbage incinerators, as an alternative to landfills, are turning violent.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / ON: TECH
May 19, 2014

Robots, video, skincare and even nail art — all enhanced by your smartphone

Robotic fun
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 19, 2014

Japanese galleries bank on Art Basel in Hong Kong

Whoever said the Swiss were boring? For Art Basel in Hong Kong, they put on a hell of a party, and the 20 participating galleries from Japan, while not exactly dominating the landscape, certainly made the most of it.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
May 18, 2014

Cold-shouldered by West, Putin will hope for some China sympathy

Increasingly isolated by the West over Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin will hope for a sympathetic ear on a visit next week to China, which is also being more assertive in its territorial disputes with smaller neighbors.
Japan Times
JAPAN / NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT
May 18, 2014

Icho's ethnic vitality poses future model for Japan

If Japan throws its doors open to immigrants it might start looking like a certain neighborhood in Yokohama with multilingual street signs, ethnic eateries, and a babel of languages spoken in the streets.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
May 18, 2014

Japan's working poor left behind by 'Abenomics'

Last Christmas Eve, Ririko Saito and her 11-year-old daughter gathered some plastic bottles, pots and a kettle and made several trips to a nearby park to get water. Their utility had just turned off the tap after months of unpaid bills.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
May 18, 2014

A dog named Gran: Perfect poodle

Five-year-old Gran is a standard poodle, but only in terms of his breed. His personality and temperament are definitely high-end.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
May 18, 2014

Translating movie titles into Japanese can get a bit wairudo

For one of my classes recently, I needed to get the Japanese movie version of Harper Lee's classic novel "To Kill a Mockingbird." When I looked for it on Amazon Japan, I was a little confused because they didn't seem to have it. Instead they kept offering me a DVD titled "Arabama monogatari" (「アラバマ物語」)....
EDITORIALS
May 18, 2014

Boosting the female workforce

The Abe administration is pushing for a review of household tax and social security benefits under the belief that current rules discourage many women from participating in the labor force — even as the nation faces a steep decline in its working-age population.
EDITORIALS
May 18, 2014

Protecting the water cycle

The Diet has enacted a basic law on the water cycle, but the law falls short of meeting local governments' demand to legally define underground water as common public property.
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.
Yen volatility nears six-week high as Tokyo inflation gauge eyed
Samples of newly-designed Japanese yen banknotes at the National Printing Bureau Tokyo plant in June 2024.
SoftBank among eFishery investors facing near wipeout
In all, global investors plowed around $315 million into eFishery’s preferred shares over five funding rounds.
Men, media and MAGA deepen South Korea’s split
A rally in support of South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on Jan. 18. Young men have emerged as a key demographic that has come out in support of Yoon, in contrast to the many young women participating in protests opposing him.
Japan looks to save seafood and seaweed farming from warming oceans
Asian seabass are bred at the Songkhla Coastal Aquaculture Technology and Innovation Research and Development Center in southern Thailand.
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.
As Ukraine rift emerges, Kyiv's envoy says Japan must take on bigger global role
Ukrainian Ambassador to Japan Sergiy Korsunsky speaks during an interview at the Ukrainian Embassy in Tokyo on Monday.
Attempting the classics: Deciphering impermanence in ‘Hojoki’
The poet and essayist Kamo no Chomei wrote “Hojoki” in 1212 after bearing witness to a series of natural and man-made disasters. His experiences caused him to withdraw into a hermetic lifestyle.
Japan release of Shiori Ito's documentary in limbo
Shiori Ito, who won a civil suit over a rape case against a TV reporter, in 2018. Her former lawyers claim her documentary includes footage used without the consent of sources.

Podcast

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

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
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