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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 27, 2011

Summertime's biggest fans

"The first time I went to see a fan dance . . ."
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Aug 27, 2011

Mask maker keeping Shimane tradition alive

Hanging on the walls of Jake Davies' home are around 20 artifacts that seem at odds with the idyllic village in Sakurae, Shimane Prefecture where his rustic abode is set.
EDITORIALS
Aug 27, 2011

Ending famine in East Africa

Acorollary of Murphy's law states, "Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse." Unfortunately, that statement aptly sums up the situation in East Africa — and in particular southern Somalia — which is caught in the clutches of a deadly famine.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Aug 27, 2011

Aichi training medical interpreters for foreigners

The Aichi Prefectural Government is running a project to train medical interpreters in English, Portuguese, Chinese and Spanish to help improve communication between foreign patients and doctors.
BUSINESS
Aug 27, 2011

Honda's tunnel takes wind from rivals' sails

Honda Motor Co. is making $355 million worth of upgrades at plants in Ohio where it opened its first U.S. wind tunnel in 2010, seeking productivity and fuel-economy gains for models designed and built in North America.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 26, 2011

The DPJ face of Obama perplexes Japanese voters

The Aug. 5 edition of The Economist caricatured the U.S. president as mimicking Japan's "absentee" Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who seems content to "lead from behind the crowd" and who is at a loss about what to do to end Japan's political and economic paralysis, even as corporations and ordinary people...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 26, 2011

Drunken dance to hit Tokyo

The Koenji district in the west of Tokyo is known for used-clothing stores and record shops — the perfect spot for any music lover to settle down in.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 26, 2011

Tokyo Jazz Festival plays to a plethora of tastes

Jazz is always progressing. When the first jazz cafes began appearing in Yokohama around 100 years ago, nobody could have imagined the world they'd be a part of. Bebop and blues, tap dancers and turntables — the essential ingredients of the genre have evolved, and that is the main focus of the Tokyo...
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 26, 2011

Five myths about Mormonism

The campaigns by Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman Jr. for the Republican presidential nomination, along with the popular and profane Broadway musical "The Book of Mormon," are putting Mormons in the public eye. But common caricatures — not to mention some of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints'...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 26, 2011

Spooked consumers snapping up cheap Geiger counters

Geiger counter manufacturers and retailers are offering more affordable models to cash in on continued consumer radiation fears six months into the Fukushima triple meltdown crisis.
Reader Mail
Aug 25, 2011

Imagine a more positive future

Regarding Roger Pulvers' Aug. 21 Counterpoint article, "Should wartime and peace allow such different attitudes to murder?": It is sad that many acts are glorified when they are so similar to certain others that are not glorified. Our portrayal of historical incidents is much like advertisements in that...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / IN THE RECORD
Aug 25, 2011

DJ SO

DJ SO (Satoshi Aoyagi) is a central figure at Mindgames, the people behind The Labyrinth festival, where he plays a supporting role as resident with his delicate blend of ambient and techno. The Japan Times peeks into his record bag.
EDITORIALS
Aug 25, 2011

Anniversary of a failed putsch

Twenty years ago, on Aug. 18, conservative Soviet officials, who feared that a draft new Union Treaty among the Soviet republics would break up the Soviet Union, confined President Mikhail Gorbachev and his family, who were on vacation, to his dacha in Foros in the Crimea.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 25, 2011

Schools for the Blind Student Works

Gallery TOM Closes Aug. 31
JAPAN
Aug 24, 2011

Maehara, the favorite, declares candidacy

Former Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara declared his candidacy Tuesday for next week's Democratic Party of Japan presidential election to pick the successor to Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who meanwhile spent the day bidding a premature farewell to his Cabinet.
COMMENTARY
Aug 24, 2011

Squaring the U.S., China, Taiwan triangle

Nothing causes greater discord in relations between the United States and China than the status of Taiwan, officially known as the Republic of China.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 24, 2011

Rick Perry: America's Manchurian candidate

Rick Perry's Texas is Ross Perot's Mexico come north. Through a range of enticements we more commonly associate with Third World nations — low wages, no benefits, high rates of poverty, scant taxes, few regulations and generous corporate subsidies — the state has produced its own "giant sucking sound,"...
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Aug 24, 2011

Lack of preseason games a real problem

It's farcical to suggest that the bj-league actually operates as a professional league most of the time.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Aug 23, 2011

Yamanashi: What's so unique about Yamanashi?

BASKETBALL
Aug 23, 2011

Talented guard Gardener reunites with Nakamura

The Akita Northern Happinets have secured the services of explosive lead guard Michael Gardener for the 2011-12 season. The bj-league club made the announcement on Monday.
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Aug 22, 2011

Bureaucrats blame Kan for sapping their initiative

For the past several months since the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan, an increasing number of bureaucrats have grown "negligent in their duties" because of what they view as the incompetence of Prime Minister Naoto Kan.
Nippon Steel goes quiet after U.S. Steel deal seemingly nixed for good
On Sunday, U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters that U.S. Steel would remain American.
Mao Asada sets out to safeguard the future of Japanese skating
"I hope skaters who train here will go on to shine on the world stage," Olympic silver medalist Mao Asada told the Japan Times at Mao Rink Tachikawa Tachihi, a skating rink in Tachikawa, Tokyo, whose establishment she was involved in, on Jan. 28.
Trump sets 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum, heightening trade war
U.S. President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order on tariffs on aluminum imports in Washington on Monday.
How giving chocolates on Valentine’s Day is evolving in Japan
Giving out courtesy chocolates to coworkers on Valentine's Day is becoming obsolete.
Japan exploring drone production capabilities for military aid program
An unmanned Hamadori drone developed by Japanese company Space Entertainment Laboratory and equipped with various sensor options for surveys is displayed at the Japan Drone 2020 exhibition at Makuhari Messe in the city of Chiba in September 2020.
Ishiba builds inroads with Trump, but challenges still loom
U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to the White House in Washington on Friday.
How giving chocolates on Valentine’s Day is evolving in Japan
Giving out courtesy chocolates to coworkers on Valentine's Day is becoming obsolete.
‘The Hot Spot’: Close encounters of the mundane kind
The new Nippon TV series “The Hot Spot” follows an alien superhero navigating rural Japanese life but focuses more on dialogue than splashy, action-packed plot points.
Yuki Harada's contemplative artworks ponder vanishing
“Light Court” (2024) is based on the “Lightcourt” space at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, designed by metabolist architect Kisho Kurokawa (1934-2007).
A 'joyful' Japan? Ishiba's choice of slogan sparks the opposite feelings
Ishiba eats a mikan tangerine at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Jan. 22.

Podcast

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

Longform

Eme-Ima Kitchen is one of over 10,000 kodomo shokudō in Japan. A term first used in 2012 to describe makeshift eateries offering free or cheap meals to disadvantaged kids, it now refers to a diverse range of individuals, groups and organizations working to provide not only food but a sense of belonging to both children and adults.
Japan’s ‘children’s cafeterias’ are booming — but is that a good thing?
By Alex K.T. Martin

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