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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Regional voices: Chubu
Jul 19, 2019

Better known as a manufacturing center, Chubu region is turning its talents to nurturing startups

The Chubu region, with Nagoya at its center, has never been known as a land of startups. Although the area is recognized as one of the nation's largest manufacturing hubs, few IT startups have been established and many students in the region tend to prefer joining big companies to becoming entrepreneurs....
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jul 1, 2019

Abdul Hakim Sani Brown races ahead with confident showing at nationals

His demeanor already stood out before the race.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jun 18, 2019

When it comes to North Korean nukes, Xi wants U.S. and Japan to know that China still wields immense power

When Xi Jinping makes his first visit to North Korea as China's president on Thursday, he'll be broadcasting a message to the U.S. and Japan: When it comes to Pyongyang's nukes, Beijing still wields immense power.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jun 1, 2019

Is disgust with the status quo now feeding nostalgia for the past?

Bulgarian scholar Ivan Krastev, in an interview with the Asahi Shimbun published in March, compared the restless discontent of the 1960s with that of today. Fifty years ago, he said, disgust with the status quo fed hope for the future. Today it feeds nostalgia for the past.
Japan Times
SOCCER / From the Spot
May 22, 2019

Blown call leaves Japanese soccer world scrambling to enact reforms

Friday night's 3-2 win by Shonan Bellmare over Urawa Reds showcased everything great about the J. League, with the plucky underdogs winning in stoppage time to cap a dramatic comeback.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 19, 2019

Taiwan's top diplomat says Chinese Communist Party's official newspaper is 'commie brainwasher' that 'sucks'

Taiwan's top diplomat has ripped into the Chinese Communist Party's official newspaper after it referred to the island nation as part of China in a tweet praising Taipei's passage of a law legalizing same-sex marriage.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
May 11, 2019

Tabloids press pause as nation celebrates dawn of the Reiwa Era

Welcome one and all to Big in Japan, the Reiwa version. During the just-ended 10-day Golden Week holiday, only one general weekly magazine — Aera (May 13) — went to press, giving it the distinction of being the first publication out of the starting gates in the new era. Aera's coverage of imperial...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 11, 2019

Shinjiro Koizumi, Japan's favorite candidate for next leader, says country needs big changes, and fast

The public's top pick to become the next prime minister says the country is not ready for the scale of change he thinks it needs.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Apr 15, 2019

Bear essentials: A forthcoming animated series celebrates Rilakkuma's lackadaisical ethos in all its glory

Few fictional characters in Japan are as laid-back in their overall approach to life as Rilakkuma, which has attracted a loyal following over the years, rising through the ranks to sit alongside such established characters as Hello Kitty and Doraemon.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 2, 2019

Carlos Ghosn's lawyer asks for trial separate from Nissan's and Kelly's to ensure fair hearing

Though the automaker has also been indicted, lawyer Junichiro Hironaka said Nissan has been cozying up to prosecutors, jeopardizing his client's right to “a fair trial.”
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 24, 2019

Trump's North Korea envoy Stephen Biegun: A capable man in an impossible job?

Days before a second U.S.-North Korea summit, much rests on the shoulders of a former auto executive trying to find common ground between an American president seeking a big foreign policy win and a North Korean leader who seems unlikely to hand him one.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 5, 2019

How Narendra Modi’s political priorities ambushed Amazon and Walmart, and benefited India’s richest man

Amazon Inc. and Walmart Inc.'s plans to dominate India's online retail landscape have been ambushed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's political priorities heading into a tightening election.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jan 4, 2019

Saudi prosecutor seeks death for five of 11 suspects in Jamal Khashoggi slaying

Saudi Arabian prosecutors is seeking the death penalty for five of the 11 suspects detained over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the state news agency SPA said on Thursday, as a Saudi court held a first hearing on the case.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Dec 22, 2018

Doors to foreign workers no longer slammed shut

There's no such place as Imizustan. Warabistan is equally fictitious. "Stan" means "homeland" in ancient Persian — hence Pakistan, Afghanistan and so on. A substantial Pakistani community in Imizu, Toyama Prefecture, spawned the nickname Imizustan. Warabi, Saitama Prefecture, hosts a growing community...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / INSIDER REPORT
Nov 12, 2018

Tracing Japan's business giants from the late '80s to the 2000s

In the mid-1980s Japan was considered the most dynamic economy in the world and its manufacturers the most dominant. Japan's GDP growth had averaged around 7 percent per annum for the previous 30 years even with a slight downturn following the first oil shock in the 1970s, and was growing at around 4...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 5, 2018

Seoul moves the goalposts yet again

If the South Koreans remain obsessed with the past and do not respect the rule-based international system, they are committing international political suicide.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 30, 2018

Fiancee says Riyadh behind Jamal Khashoggi's murder, slams Trump response

The fiancee of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has said Saudi authorities are responsible for his murder, and the kingdom should give more details so that those who ordered and carried out the killing can be brought to justice.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 25, 2018

Trump, U.S. defense industry work to save much-touted $110 billion Saudi arms deal

The Trump administration and the U.S. defense industry are scrambling to save the few actual deals in the much-touted $110 billion arms package for Saudi Arabia as concerns rise about the role of the Kingdom's leadership over the death of a prominent critic.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 22, 2018

The real meaning of smoothing over Jamal Kashoggi's death

The Kashoggi affair bares the flawed policies of the world's powers.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / The Big Questions
Oct 21, 2018

Passion for interconnections merge with social initiatives

Playfully known as 'Salon de Melanie,' dinners at Australian consultant Melanie Brock's house are sought-after affairs.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 18, 2018

The world's new disappeared

Those governments reviving the old and effective tactic of kidnapping to silence opponents may yet regret their decision.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 3, 2018

Eyeing Brexit cliff edge, Japan waves goodbye to U.K. as 'gateway to Europe'

After a February meeting between U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May and 19 Japanese business chiefs, Tokyo's ambassador to Britain warned what might happen if Brexit took an unfavorable turn for foreign investors.
EDITORIALS
Jul 29, 2018

Yet another product safety scandal in China

Given Japan's reliance on China for many of its manufacturing products, it must apply intense scrutiny to them — both for the sake of producers' reputations and the lives of consumers.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 7, 2018

China's Hainan province invites 'individuals' to develop uninhabited islands in South China Sea

China's southern Hainan province, which administers the country's claimed islands and waters in the contested South China Sea, is allowing individuals to use uninhabited islets for tourism and construction purposes for up to 50 years, state-run media has reported, citing an official document.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Jun 22, 2018

Peace doesn't pay: How foreign companies have lost a fortune in North Korea

Months before the first summit between the leaders of the two Koreas in 2000, South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Inc. invested $730,000 in Pyongyang's top computer lab. North Korean programmers there would develop online chess games and food recipes for Samsung to sell outside the North.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 1, 2018

Yet another Korean kabuki play?

It is at least the seventh time for Tokyo to see such inter-Korean 'agreements' and, most ominously, they have never been implemented.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 20, 2018

Trump's premature and illegal attack on Syria

The U.N. Charter prohibits the unprovoked attack of any nation against another, except in the cases of self-defense or a U.N. authorized military operation. Neither applies in this case.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Mar 10, 2018

Confusing power with powerlessness

"We're all terrified. It's like living in a mass grave." It's an underground shelter. "No water, no food, no ventilation, no toilets. Explosion after explosion. It never stops."
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

Podcast

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

Longform

Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?
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