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ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Apr 6, 2015

Environment reporter arrested in China over suspected extortion

Beijing police have arrested an environmental reporter and his associates in an apparent extortion scandal, as China works to crack down on corruption in the news media.
JAPAN / Media / DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN
Apr 4, 2015

Learning valuable lessons from the yakuza?

"He had connections and interactions with individuals related to the yakuza. Why on earth would he be appointed a (Cabinet) minister? The responsibility of the prime minister for appointing him to this position is tremendously weighty."
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 3, 2015

Putin and the neoconservatives

The national ambitions harbored by Vladimir Putin and American neoconservatives are troublingly similar.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / DESSERT WATCH
Apr 3, 2015

Kobeya Kitchen hops into Easter

The Kobeya Kitchen chain of bakeries found mostly around major train stations is celebrating Easter with a limited-edition treat in the form of a dessert shaped like a rabbit (¥238).
EDITORIALS
Apr 2, 2015

Ambitious Nankai quake plan

The government must verify and review its highly ambitious reponse plan for the predicted Nankai Trough quake to ensure it can be implemented smoothly when disaster strikes.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 1, 2015

'Pride' is a brilliant film that comes before the fall of U.K. mining

The lesbian and gay communities have come a long, long way in both real life and cinema, and "Pride" is evidence of that. The film is set in 1984-85 England, when miners across the country went on strike to protest the government's closing of a large number of mines and the loss of more than 20,000 jobs....
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JAPAN / Society
Apr 1, 2015

The thankless task of cleaning up the aftermaths of lonely deaths in Japan

In March, the body of an elderly man was found on the floor of his apartment in downtown Tokyo. He had been dead for a month.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Mar 31, 2015

Konan W.U. students set to mark 50 years of Shakespeare in English

In 1964, the late Polish theater scholar Jan Kott wrote "Shakespeare, Our Contemporary," an influential book that questioned the processes of producing Shakespeare in the here and now and whether the Bard's texts should serve as clues for an archeological dig to recover something of their original history...
BUSINESS / Japan Pulse
Mar 30, 2015

R2-D2 toy keeps fans company and food fresh

A new R2-D2 toy will beep and boop if you accidentally leave the refrigerator door open.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Mar 28, 2015

Soraku-en: Kobe's well-grounded garden

On Jan. 17, 1995, as the city of Kobe suffered one of the country's worst earthquakes in living memory, the rocks, artificial hills and root systems of Soraku-en, a Meiji period (1868-1912) circuit garden, held firm.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 28, 2015

China's Xi preaches peace in keynote address

Chinese President Xi Jinping said Saturday that turmoil at home or abroad were not in the country's interests as its bitter past has shown, pledging that Beijing will never stray from its proclaimed path of peaceful development.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 27, 2015

$50 media player making waves in changing North Korea

A $50 portable media player is providing many North Koreans a window to the outside world despite the government's efforts to keep its people isolated, a symbol of change in one of the world's most repressed societies.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 26, 2015

There's no need to squint at the work of Guercino

History has not been kind to Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, the Italian Baroque painter who is better known by his artistic nickname, Guercino — "the Squinter."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 26, 2015

'Keith Haring Multiplexism'

March 21-Jan. 4, 2016
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CULTURE / Art
Mar 26, 2015

'Special Exhibition: The Great Battle of Sekigahara'

March 28-May 17
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 26, 2015

Where political 'fox' LKY stands in Singapore history

The late Lee Kuan Yew showed the world that economic self-improvement in Singapore had to have public policies grounded in best-practice pragmatisms rather than in ideological schematics.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 26, 2015

Sunken warship spurs Korea tensions five years after crew deaths

Seconds after impact, the 1,200-ton South Korean navy ship Cheonan tilted and began to sink. Petty Officer Jeon Jun Young's first thought as he scrambled through darkened corridors to escape was that North Korea had attacked.
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CULTURE / Film
Mar 25, 2015

'Jupiter Ascending' is kitsch rubbish featuring a wolf-eared alien on rocket-powered Rollerblades

There's a scene in "Jupiter Ascending" where 14,000-year-old intergalactic noblewoman (or something like that) Kalique Abrasax passes on to earthling Jupiter Jones an important piece of wisdom: "Time," she says, looking straight at the camera, "is the most precious commodity you have."
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CULTURE / Film
Mar 25, 2015

Disappointment, delusion and eternal love in 'Cafe de Flore'

Jean-Marc Vallee, whose "Dallas Buyers Club" bagged three Oscars last year, released a film in 2011 called "Cafe de Flore." The two works are radically different in style and content but it feels like they share a common thread. In both films, Vallee treats love as a precious, mysterious and ultimately...
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CULTURE / Film
Mar 25, 2015

An unrelenting depiction of Polish-Romany poet Bronislawa Wajs' merciless world

"Papusza" is a fascinating if bleak portrait of Polish-Romany poet Bronislawa Wajs, better known by her Roma — or Gypsy — name Papusza ("doll"). It's a decidedly unromantic look at Roma life, covering the 1940s and '50s, which saw two-thirds of Poland's Roma community massacred by the Nazis and the...
Japan Times
SOCCER / SOCCER SCENE
Mar 25, 2015

Halilhodzic gets to work as Japan starts from scratch again

The short, unhappy reign of former national team manager Javier Aguirre has cast a long shadow over Japanese soccer, but replacement Vahid Halilhodzic will care for nothing but the future when he leads the team out for the first time on Friday.
JAPAN
Mar 25, 2015

Saitama city blocks 'one-sided' exhibit on 'comfort women'

The city of Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, is refusing to let a citizens' group use a municipal facility for an exhibition on “comfort women,” claiming the display would promote the views of a particular group on the controversial issue.
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CULTURE / Stage
Mar 25, 2015

Summit spotlights school dramatists

"Diversity is the outstanding attraction of high school drama, so I'm always appreciating afresh theater's myriad charms," the prominent director Keisuke Tanaka said with a beaming smile during a recent interview ahead of the fifth annual High School Drama Summit at Tokyo's leading Agora Theater.
Japan Times
SPORTS / MAN ABOUT SPORTS
Mar 24, 2015

Hall of Famer Molitor facing real challenge with Twins

If you're a Minnesota Twins fan, it's been either feast or famine over the last quarter century.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / THE PERSISTENT VEGETARIAN
Mar 24, 2015

A perpetual quest for the perfect veggie burger

The "Big Three" in veggie burger making are tofu, beans and mushrooms. Japan prides itself on tofu — and by extension beans — and mushroom varieties are a mainstay of the nation's cuisine. So it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise that Japan cooks up a variety of veggie burgers.

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