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JAPAN / Politics
May 13, 2016

Tokyo governor Yoichi Masuzoe apologizes but remains defiant in face of funds scandal

Yoichi Masuzoe insists his use of political money was legal even as he admits feeling embarrassed and vows to do better for his city.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
May 12, 2016

Fine dining paired with fine ceramics; feast to mark first anniversary; East meets West in natural setting

Fine dining paired with fine ceramics
EDITORIALS
May 10, 2016

The power struggle in Ankara

Ahmet Davutoglu's resignation as Turkey's prime minister signals the beginning of the next phase in President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's efforts to consolidate power.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
May 7, 2016

Conjuring haiku on the trail from Hiroshima to Matsuyama

Riding the shinkansen from Tokyo to Hiroshima, I am glued to my iPhone when Stephen Gill tells me to look outside the window. The countryside — rolling hills and rice paddies — is shrouded in mist. Perhaps inspired by the scene, he begins reciting an English translation of a 17th-century haiku by...
EDITORIALS
May 7, 2016

Find an effective tourism strategy

Tourism based on shopping won't keep growing at its present rate, so the hospitality industry and government need to get cracking on long-term sustainable strategies.
COMMENTARY / World
May 4, 2016

China key to India's future

Is China's success clearing the way for India to take flight?
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
May 2, 2016

Getting abstract in Japanese with 'koto' clauses

A look at X(noun modifier)u3053u3068, which forms noun clauses, and how it differs from Xu306e.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 29, 2016

Japan looks to reform rigid tour guide exams as part of wider tourism push

As Japan begins to adapt to the unprecedented influx of foreign visitors, the tightly regulated tour guide industry prepares for major reform.
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Apr 28, 2016

Celebrating Children's Day with cake; enjoying a taste of Paris in Tokyo; everything is peachy in Yokohama

Celebrating Children's Day with cake
BUSINESS
Apr 28, 2016

SpaceX breaks Boeing-Lockheed monopoly on military space launches

The U.S. Air Force on Wednesday awarded billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX an $83 million contract to launch a GPS satellite, breaking the monopoly Lockheed Martin Corp. and Boeing Co. have held on military space launches for more than a decade.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Apr 25, 2016

World powers keep leaning on economic sanctions that seldom work

To rein in countries from North Korea to Sudan, global powers are boosting their reliance on United Nations sanctions aimed at forcing recalcitrant governments to drop weapons programs, stop attacking their civilians or respect the results of elections. They usually fail.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Apr 23, 2016

Tokyo hotel gets into bed with local artists

When building a new hotel, designers would normally consider the artwork displayed on the walls as a finishing touch. But for BnA Hotel Koenji, which just opened in Tokyo's Koenji neighborhood, the artwork definitely comes first.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 23, 2016

Are U.S. firms running a competition deficit?

Facing slow growth and greater uncertainty, companies are trying to cut costs by getting bigger. But this does not sit well with traditional antitrust thinking.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 22, 2016

Obama to visit Hiroshima, make anti-nuclear speech: Nikkei

The U.S. president is expected to make a speech in the city, which was destroyed by an atomic bomb, calling for the abolition of nuclear arms.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Apr 21, 2016

Showing gratitude to mothers; tasting the best of traditional cuisine; enjoying a ladies night out

Showing gratitude to mothers
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Apr 21, 2016

Rookie sensation Nash raising profile with Firebonds

Fukushima Firebonds forward Le'Bryan Nash has been the league's premier scorer this season.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Apr 20, 2016

Dispatches from the Kumamoto quake zone

Personal accounts relate tales of kindness and resilience after the initial confusion and panic of last week's deadly temblors.
EDITORIALS
Apr 20, 2016

Health of Kumamoto evacuees

The government needs to step forward now to ensure the health of long-term evacuees in the Kyushu quake zone.
Nissan says it will not take new U.S. orders for Mexican-built Infiniti SUVs
A Nissan manufacturing complex in Aguascalientes, Mexico. Nissan says it will not take new orders from the United States for two Mexican-built Infiniti SUVs following new auto tariffs levied by the U.S.
Why Japan is running out of rice — and farmers to grow it
An ongoing shortage of rice has resulted in rising prices for Japan's main food staple.
Nikkei plunges in third-biggest daily loss ever amid Trump tariff concerns
Pedestrians stand in front of an electronic board showing the numbers of the Nikkei Stock Average on the Tokyo Stock Exchange along a street in the Japanese capital on Monday.
Ride-hailing services spreading in Japan
Vehicles used for ride-hailing services in the city of Kiryu, in Gunma Prefecture
Japan responds to Trump's tariffs with a polite phone call and request
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba attends a joint press conference with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington on Feb. 7.
‘Let’s make it practical’: NATO chief eyes greater defense-industrial ties with Japan
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte plans to visit Japan on Tuesday and Wednesday — his first to the Indo-Pacific region since taking office in October, as he seeks to implement lessons from the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Tottori takes a bold leap forward in the arts
The city of Kurayoshi in Tottori Prefecture celebrated the opening of its public art museum with festivities such as a parade that drew 1,000 revelers.
Haruki Murakami TV adaptation revisits 30 years of watershed moments
Though Haruki Murakami's trademark whiff of offbeat existentialism is threaded throughout NHK's "After the Quake," the final episode — conceived as a sequel to the story "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo" — is the most stylized, featuring an anthropomorphic talking frog (voiced by Non) and his erstwhile associate Katagiri (Koichi Sato).
Nintendo to launch the Switch 2 on June 5
The controllers for the Switch 2 will attach to the console magnetically rather than sliding on rails as with the original device.
A new human trafficking trend emerges from Myanmar scam centers
Victims of scam centers who were tricked or trafficked into working in Myanmar gather at a compound inside KK Park, a fraud center on the country's border with Thailand, after a multinational crackdown in February.

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An ongoing shortage of rice has resulted in rising prices for Japan's main food staple.
Why Japan is running out of rice — and farmers to grow it
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