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CULTURE / Art
Feb 20, 2018

The best pick and mix of modern art

The current exhibition at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art could be considered a retrospective of Toshio Hara's career as a collector. Surprisingly, given that the museum was founded in 1979, it's the first time that the director and president has personally curated a show there, and the title is...
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JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Feb 3, 2018

Has Christel Takigawa cursed Japan with her 2020 Olympics omotenashi pitch?

"One thing made clear from (our) survey is that the wholehearted looking after guests is not necessarily appreciated."
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JAPAN
Jan 27, 2018

Cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck loses ¥58 billion in hacking attack

Echoing the Mt. Gox fiasco that happened nearly four years ago, Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck disclosed Friday that a hacker had stolen about ¥58 billion ($532 million) worth of its holdings, sending clients into a panic about the fate of their virtual assets.
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BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 15, 2018

Mystery Twitter user 'Okasanman' has vast, and growing, following of Japan traders

On a day when billions in profits and losses would be determined by split-second trades, the salaried professionals of Japan's financial markets were glued to their news terminals. Another group was staring at the feed of an anonymous Twitter account.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 10, 2017

U.S. travel site TripAdvisor to show which hotels had sexual attacks

Women's anti-violence groups on Thursday welcomed a new warning system on the online travel site TripAdvisor Inc that shows which hotels are believed to have been sites of sexual assault.
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BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2017

Facing government pressure amid Russia probe, Facebook, Google to rethink handling of politics ads

Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google have little choice but to rein in internet political ads in the face of growing U.S. government pressure, a panel of advertising consultants and executives said on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 24, 2017

U.S. State Department science envoy quits in public disgust over Trump's Charlottesville remarks

One of the U.S. State Department's science envoys publicly resigned on Wednesday, the latest in a wave of defections over President Donald Trump's response to a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Aug 21, 2017

The failure of Abe's Trump-dependent diplomacy

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's diplomacy faces the risk of coming to an end without tangible accomplishments.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 10, 2017

Why U.S. hasn't brought 'fire and fury' to N. Korea

Seoul stands in the way of a U.S. pre-emptive strike on North Korea.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LEARNING CURVE
Jul 5, 2017

Spoken English tests among entrance exam reforms Japan's students will face in 2020

Upcoming changes to Japanese university admissions have students, parents and teachers raising their hands to ask questions.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 5, 2017

Job-changing reaches a seven-year high as Japan Inc. scrambles to cope with labor shortages

Japan's labor shortage has pushed the number of people changing jobs and employers during their career to its highest level since the global financial crisis, as companies scramble for workers with experience amid a rapidly-aging economy.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Jul 1, 2017

Blogger Namiko Chen satisfies an appetite for Japanese fare

Every day for the past six years, Namiko Chen has been sending recipes from her cookbook of Japanese dishes out into the world from her home in San Francisco via her website and through a mix of social media channels.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 19, 2017

New Beijing chief vows to finally win fight against pollution

Beijing's new top official vowed to tackle the city's smog problem, a simmering cause of discontent among China's expanding middle class.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 17, 2017

Why Trump is so hated by liberals

Pick a Trump outrage that's got liberals in a tizzy and you can find a similar policy they had no problem with when it was authored by Obama.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 16, 2017

Toshiba underlines why Abenomics is failing

Toshiba is the poster child for how little headway the government has made in modernizing corporate governance practices.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 17, 2017

Chinese official fired after calling Mao a 'devil'

An official in northern China has been fired after he called the founder of modern China, Mao Zedong, a "devil" on social media and called the annual commemoration of Mao's birthday "the world's largest cult activity."
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COMMENTARY / World
Jan 11, 2017

What Alibaba's Jack Ma can teach Xi Jinping

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump isn't an emperor, or Jack Ma a lowly tributary. But in paying tribute to the incoming leader of the reigning superpower, Ma hopes to avoid the wrath of Trump Nation.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 22, 2016

Japan pays UNESCO dues after reforms soften ire over Nanjing Massacre documents

Japan has made its annual contribution to UNESCO after withholding the funds over the U.N. heritage body's decision to include "Documents of Nanjing Massacre" in its Memory of the World program, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Thursday, citing UNESCO reforms as the reason for the change of heart....
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ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Dec 21, 2016

Smog chokes Chinese cities for fifth day, closing schools and factories

Northern China was shrouded in almost-record pollution for a fifth day on Wednesday, closing factories and schools and disrupting flights, traffic and shipping, with some residents complaining that emergency anti-smog measures were not operating.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 17, 2016

Beijing throws down the gauntlet, seizes U.S. undersea drone in South China Sea

China's navy has seized a U.S. underwater survey drone in international waters in the South China Sea, prompting a formal diplomatic protest and a demand for its return Friday, in a confrontation likely to exacerbate already rising tensions.
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WORLD / Politics
Oct 3, 2016

Britain's May to trigger EU divorce by end of March

Prime Minister Theresa May said on Sunday she would trigger the process to leave the EU by the end of March, offering the first glimpse of a timetable for a divorce that will redefine Britain's ties with its biggest trading partner.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 30, 2016

The siren song of 'strongmania'

The embrace of political strongmen reflects widespread ignorance of the nature and consequences of populist rule.
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COMMENTARY / World
Aug 14, 2016

Jingoism is the ugly side of the Olympic Games

The Olympics should focus more on the feats of human athletic attainment and less on the nationalities of the competitors.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 2, 2016

Refusal to nominate Rudd betrays Turnbull's weakness

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's rejection of Kevin Rudd's quest to lead the U.N. is a sorry reminder of the creeping U.S.-style partisanship of Australian politics.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 25, 2016

Brexit doesn't doom the Japan-U.K. partnership

Japan should be aggressive in trying to shape post-Brexit trade relations with Britain.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 12, 2016

The end of America's love affair with cars?

The quintessential symbol of American mobility may be losing its grip on the national psyche.

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