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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.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Apr 20, 2016

Views from Kumamoto: What were your experiences of the quakes and their aftermath?

Residents of Kumamoto describe their ordeals as the region continues to suffer aftershocks in the wake of last week's earthquakes.
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.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 20, 2016

The time is ripe to break free from fossil fuels

Record-breaking global temperatures, historic investments in renewable energy and other factors are coming together to create the ideal setting to break free from fossil fuels.
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 20, 2016

Quakes seen to all but rule out possibility of double election for Abe

Aftershocks from the deadly twin earthquakes that rocked the Kyushu region have sent shock waves all the way to Tokyo's Nagata-cho, the political heart of Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 20, 2016

Ginza Kumamoto-kan 'antenna shop' logs record sales for disaster-hit prefecture

As a series of aftershocks continued to rattle Kumamoto Prefecture on Wednesday, swarms of people turned up at an outlet run by its government in Tokyo's Ginza district, hoping to support the disaster-hit region by purchasing local specialties.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 20, 2016

Japanese whisky at ¥100,000 a bottle driving rice farmers to the drink

Japan's burgeoning whisky business is driving rice farmer Hiroshi Tsubouchi to hit the booze.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 20, 2016

Animal hospital in Kumamoto was prepared to house people, pets after a disaster

As evacuees with pets in quake-hit Kumamoto Prefecture shy away or are even banned from moving into evacuation shelters following last week's deadly earthquakes, Ryunosuke Animal Hospital in the city of Kumamoto has opened its doors to pets and their owners.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Apr 20, 2016

Bolt eyes three-peat, world record at Rio Olympics

Sprint king Usain Bolt aims to crown his legacy with an unprecedented Olympic three-peat at the Rio Games, and to top that off by running the first ever sub-19-seconds 200 meters.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 20, 2016

Audit ordered as primary voter rolls come up 125,000 short in Big Apple

Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump were favored to win their parties' U.S. presidential nominating contests in New York state on Tuesday, but voting was overshadowed by official confirmation that more than 125,000 people were missing from New York City voter rolls and reports of other...
EDITORIALS
Apr 19, 2016

Electoral setback for Park Geun-hye

South Korean President Park Geun-hye's job just got a lot tougher following the loss of her party's parliamentary majority.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 19, 2016

Red Sea island sale underlines Egypt's weakness

Egypt's facade of regional greatness came crashing down when it relinquished two islands to Saudi Arabia in exchange for aid.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 19, 2016

Moscow's government in eastern Ukraine

A German tabloid has revealed that breakaway areas of eastern Ukraine are being treated as parts of Russia's sovereign territory.
JAPAN
Apr 19, 2016

Kumamoto Prison opens doors to quake evacuees according to plan

Kumamoto Prison in the city of Kumamoto was housing 110 earthquake survivors in part of its facility as of Tuesday morning.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 19, 2016

Beloved mascot Kumamon's absence since quakes spurs Japan Twitter traffic

Kumamoto mascot Kumamon has been missing in the wake of last week's devastating earthquakes in Kyushu, spurring concern on social media for its safety as well as criticism for the prefectural government's failure to use the furry animal's network to share information.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 19, 2016

As N.Y. showdown looms, Sanders hits Clinton campaign financing, cries DNC foul

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders accused front-runner Hillary Clinton of apparent campaign finance violations on Monday, ratcheting up the rhetoric against his rival one day before New York state's crucial primary elections.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 18, 2016

It's up to you, New York: state takes center stage in presidential primaries

U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is throwing a concert in a park with a dramatic view of Manhattan's skyscrapers. At the opposite end of New York state, Republican front-runner Donald Trump will be holding a rally in Buffalo, a Rust Belt city recovering from economic decline.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 18, 2016

Embassies working to help non-Japanese quake survivors

Foreign embassies and other diplomatic missions were arranging transportation and offering advice for non-Japanese people affected by the recent Kyushu earthquakes as local officials struggled to get a handle on their situation.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 18, 2016

How Brazil can save itself

If President Rousseff's likely impeachment could move Brazil forward if it helps bury beliefs and values that have been holding the country back.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 18, 2016

Histories that shouldn't be secret

U.S. President Barack Obama should release classified documents on the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Bay of Pigs fiasco in Cuba in 1961.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 18, 2016

Time to take sides in the war within Islam

We must acknowledge that two Islams are locked in a fight to the death, and that because the battlefield is the planet and the war threatens values that the West embraces, the fight is not solely the Muslims' affair.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 18, 2016

Despite assurances, quakes prompt calls to switch off Japan's nuclear reactors

Calls in and outside of Japan are growing to shut down the nations' only two operating reactors at the Sendai plant in Kagoshima Prefecture.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 18, 2016

Firms affected by Kyushu earthquakes

Below is a list of key companies affected by the Kyushu earthquakes and the status of their facilities as reported by Reuters and other media.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Apr 18, 2016

Baseball pauses to reflect on Kyushu earthquakes

Seiichi Uchikawa had to pause during his hero interview Friday night following the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks' victory over the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. A rush of emotions had left the Hawks captain searching for words, as tears welled up in his eyes while he answered a question about the situation...
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
Tokyo police care for lost umbrellas, keys and flying squirrels
An employee at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Lost and Found Center in the Iidabashi area of central Tokyo bags, tags and organizes thousands of items.
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Japan approves ¥21.9 trillion stimulus plan
The policy chiefs of the Democratic Party for the People, Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito — Makoto Hamaguchi (left), Itsunori Onodera (center) and Mitsunari Okamoto — shake hands after reaching an agreement on an economic stimulus package on Wednesday.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
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.”

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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