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Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
May 20, 2017

Looking back on the final days of the Dojunkai apartments

On the fourth anniversary of Uenoshita's demolition, we revisit how its last residents left it.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / THE LIVING PAST
May 20, 2017

Hokkaido's ancient place in the modern world

"Even the birds do not fly to Ezo," went a popular 19th-century saying about Japan's northernmost island. "Ezo" means "land of barbarians." Settlement tamed it into "Hokkaido" — "north sea road." But it was a rough passage.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
May 19, 2017

Slowing down time with a trip to Okinawa's Zamami Island

Growing up in a small beach town on the west coast of Florida, much of my free time as a youth was spent in or around the Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf was almost always warm, not unlike bath water, yet it provided the perfect respite from the stifling heat of the Florida summers.
Reader Mail
May 19, 2017

Kindred nuclear spirit in France

Regarding the story "Film, shows tell stories of Fukushima evacuees" in the May 6 edition, I was one of the 60 people in Amberieu en Bugey — a small town outside Lyon, France — who had the privilege to see Hidenobu Fukumoto's film "Munen" and to listen to him and the four evacuees who were with him...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 16, 2017

Why U.S. should get used to the North's ICBMs

The sooner the U.S. accepts that a North Korean ICBM capability is a reality, the sooner it can focus on how to deal with the North Korean problem more comprehensively, moving beyond mere security.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 15, 2017

What can China do about North Korea?

It remains improbable at best that Beijing will see it in its interests to oblige North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to change course
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / ON: TECH
May 14, 2017

Today's modern home helpers

Robotic window wiping
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
May 14, 2017

Unions can offer a hand in dealing with recalcitrant employers

This week's query comes from A.R., who is having some problems with a less-than-cooperative former employer
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
May 13, 2017

Japan's fisheries still swimming upstream

In March, the internet news site Videonews.com posted a conversation between environmental journalist Tetsuji Ida and Waseda University researcher Yasuhiro Sanada, who writes about fisheries. During the talk, Sanada said that whaling is a "dead industry," and seemed to think that the ongoing controversy...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
May 13, 2017

'The Ryukyu Kingdom: Cornerstone of East Asia': A look at Okinawa's distant past

On May 15, Japan will mark the 45th anniversary of the return of Okinawa. For 27 years prior, the U.S. administered the islands, a continuous period of occupation that began after the Battle of Okinawa in June 1945. This makes the new translation of Mamoru Akamine's 'The Ryukyu Kingdom: Cornerstone of East Asia' both welcome and timely.
COMMENTARY / World
May 13, 2017

Preventing disabilities in the elderly

No one can stop the aging process, but there are many ways to minimize its negative effects.
ASIA PACIFIC
May 13, 2017

Australia says China is conducting extensive espionage

China is conducting extensive espionage against Australia, Canberra's most senior defense official said on Friday in a rare public accusation against its largest trading partner.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 13, 2017

Hackers exploit stolen U.S. spy agency tool to launch global cyberattack

A global cyberattack leveraging hacking tools widely believed by researchers to have been developed by the U.S. National Security Agency hit international shipper FedEx, disrupted Britain's health system and infected computers in nearly 100 countries on Friday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
May 12, 2017

Japan waking up to the problems of sleeping cash

In recent weeks there have been two well-reported robberies of people carrying large amounts of cash on the street. Thieves got away with ¥384 million after attacking a merchant in a Fukuoka parking lot. In Tokyo's Ginza district, a mugger managed to take ¥40 million from a man walking along a popular...
Reader Mail
May 12, 2017

Kingston errs on 'comfort women'

Jeff Kingston's Counterpoint columns in the April 16 and 23 editions regarding the "comfort women" issue contain clearly erroneous assertions and could lead to misunderstanding among readers. I would like to share several points that the author failed to mention or erroneously presented in his articles....
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 11, 2017

The road to revising the pacifist Constitution

Amending the pacifist Constitution might be in Japan's national interest, but Abe will require plenty of skill if he is to extract himself and the country from the political quagmire of constitutional revision.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 10, 2017

Unending Middle East dilemmas

The Middle East remains a nightmare of complexity, second only to North Korea as a threat to global security.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / TELLING LIVES
May 10, 2017

Skills forged in Kyushu, blades forged in Oregon

After failing to win respect for his craft in Japan, 17th-generation bladesmith Murray Carter brought the Yoshimoto name to Portland.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 10, 2017

Toyota's profits decline on stronger yen, political instability

Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday its net profit declined for the first time in five years in a downward trend it expects to continue in the near future.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / A MATTER OF HEALTH
May 10, 2017

Yamagata town to test using dogs to detect cancers

Dogs are not only loving companions. They could also be our most reliable weapon against cancer.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 9, 2017

U.S. anti-Muslim bias incidents increased in 2016, group says

When the Masjid Al-Kareem mosque in Providence, Rhode Island, received a threatening letter in November calling Muslims a "vile and filthy people," its members were frightened enough they asked for and got extra police protection.
WORLD
May 8, 2017

Putin holds out olive branch to Macron

Russian President Vladimir Putin told France's President-elect Emmanuel Macron on Monday he wanted to put mistrust aside and work with him, in a change of tack after the Kremlin expressed support for Macron's rivals in the presidential race.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 6, 2017

Reflecting on Trump's first 100 days, experts say unclear East Asia policy remains huge concern

Reflecting on U.S. President Donald Trump's first 100 days, his policy toward East Asia and what lies ahead, foreign affairs experts said Saturday that his unpredictability has left many Asian leaders troubled, a trend likely to continue so long as his overall Asia policy remains unclear and focused...
COMMENTARY / World
May 6, 2017

'Fintech' can empower Africa's poor

Africa's greatest hope may be in the commercial advance of technology.
Japan investigating Amazon for allegedly bullying other businesses
Packages move along a conveyor belt at an Amazon warehouse
DPP’s Tamaki leverages new position with energy proposal
DPP leader Yuichiro Tamaki in Tokyo on Tuesday
Japanese man broke into 1,000 homes to 'relieve stress'
Fukuoka Prefectural Police Headquarters in Fukuoka. Police took a 37-year-old man into custody on Monday on suspicion of trespassing on a property in Dazaifu City.
Wild boar injures six at Himeji child care facility
Hyogo Prefectural Police headquarters. A wild boar attacked children and staff at a child care facility in the prefecture on Tuesday.
Russia says it will respond if U.S. places missiles in Japan
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova at a news conference in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, in June
‘What Divides Us’ producer honors grandfather’s Hiroshima reportage
“What Divides Us" producer Cannon Hersey says his grandfather, who wrote about the aftermath of nuclear destruction in Hiroshima, never spoke about what he had seen while working with Japanese minister Kiyoshi Tanimoto to preserve the stories of survivors.
DPP’s Tamaki leverages new position with energy proposal
DPP leader Yuichiro Tamaki in Tokyo on Tuesday
Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics
According to Similarweb, average monthly user numbers for Bluesky on Android in Japan quintupled in the 12 months to October.
China defense minister being investigated for corruption, report says
Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun attends the opening ceremony of the Xiangshan Forum at the Beijing International Convention Center on Sept. 13. Dong is the third consecutive incumbent or former defense chief to be probed over alleged corruption.
How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can’t seem to quit
A man walks past a gasoline station in Tokyo on Thursday.

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