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JAPAN / Regional voices: Chubu
Sep 8, 2018

200-year-old Mie puppet's neck on the line as whaling ban makes crucial part scarce

Onyudo is a giant kimono-clad, long-necked puppet that has been preserved by residents of the Nakanaya area of Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, for more than 200 years.
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JAPAN / Regional voices: Chubu
Sep 3, 2018

As state subsidies decline, Nagoya University turns to crowdfunding to support student activities

Amid cuts in government subsidies for national universities, Nagoya University has turned to crowdfunding to support student activities and educational projects.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / The Big Questions
Sep 2, 2018

Cultural inspiration furthers hobbies outside the office

The Embassy of Mexico occupies a spacious compound in an elegant, tree-lined corner of Chiyoda Ward. The location is somewhat unusual for a foreign embassy in Tokyo, in that it shares a neighborhood with the residences of some of Japan's top officials, including the prime minister and the leaders of both the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors.
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JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Sep 1, 2018

Japan Times 1993: Fatherhood courses to meet children's needs

The Education Ministry appropriated funds to send lecturers to work on fatherhood because men had become too busy with their jobs to maintain adequate contact with their children.
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WORLD / Society
Aug 31, 2018

Conservative media move to front line of battle to undermine Pope Francis

Last March, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano dined on the outskirts of Rome at the home of a conservative Italian Catholic journalist. Over pasta, fish and white wine, the prelate poured out his concern for the future of the Roman Catholic Church.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 30, 2018

China launches AI-backed platform to eliminate 'online rumors'

China has launched a platform, which includes a mobile app, that lets the public report "online rumors" and even uses artificial intelligence to identify reports that are false amid crackdown by Beijing on what it views as socially destabilizing content.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 29, 2018

Trump's bogus Google claims stir up a tech risk

Trump is wrong on the facts, but his complaints underscore the business threats to tech companies from growing and largely disingenuous complaints by right-wingers.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / TELLING LIVES
Aug 29, 2018

Wanting to make a difference, Bolivia-born Noemi Inoue turned Japanese and entered politics

Shocked by gender inequality and wanting to do something about it, Noemi Inoue decided to naturalize and stand for her local council.
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BUSINESS
Aug 28, 2018

China and Japan slowly learning to cooperate in the age of Trump

Finance Minister Taro Aso will travel to Beijing later this week for a meeting with Chinese counterpart Liu Kun that is likely to demonstrate the improving relationship between the world's second- and third-largest economies.
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JAPAN / Regional voices: Chubu
Aug 27, 2018

University student cycles from Aichi to Miyagi to spread messages of hope from disaster victims

Kenshi Yamamoto, a 20-year-old university student from Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, made a 1,746 kilometer round-trip bicycle journey earlier this month to Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, to challenge post-disaster media coverage that he believes focuses excessively on depressing news.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Aug 25, 2018

Japanese media begins to break war orphan taboo

Japan typically reviews the tragedy of World War II in August, focusing almost exclusively on the Japanese who died in the conflict.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / Regional voices: Chubu
Aug 20, 2018

Aichi man recalls abuse his family faced when branded spies before World War II

It was when Hisao Mesaki, now 85, returned to Japan from Saipan in early 1941 with his parents and siblings that an offhand remark to his new classmates aroused suspicion he was from a family of spies.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Aug 19, 2018

Fukushima's recovering farmers scramble to deal with scorching weather

Amid scorching temperatures that have gripped the entire nation, farmers in Fukushima Prefecture are beginning to see the high temperatures and scarce rain take a toll on their carefully tended produce.
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JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Aug 18, 2018

Debate over Fukushima statue takes on a life of its own online

Few topics have proven to be more sensitive online than the present state of Fukushima Prefecture. Years after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster wreaked havoc in the region, the topic of radiation continues to spark intense debate from all corners. A statue that was unveiled in the prefecture...
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BUSINESS
Aug 17, 2018

Hackers at 'China's MIT' targeted U.S. firms, government after Alaska trade mission: researchers

Hackers operating from an elite Chinese university probed American companies and government departments for espionage opportunities following a U.S. trade delegation visit to China earlier this year, security researchers told Reuters.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 15, 2018

Start lifetime learning now

We need to depart from the conventional thinking that a majority of learning takes place when we are young and mainly at school.
Japan Times
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Aug 15, 2018

Utterance of 'remorse' suggests war still haunts Emperor Akihito

Emperor Akihito, 84, was a 47-year-old crown prince on Aug. 7, 1981, when he faced reporters during a news conference in Tokyo.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 14, 2018

'Gendai Gokan and Haruo Tomiyama: A Photographer Who Transcended Language'

Aug. 1-Oct. 31
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JAPAN / Regional voices: Chubu
Aug 13, 2018

Tweet requests public understanding for ambulance crews' need to hydrate

Amid a sharp rise in ambulance dispatches caused by this summer's deadly heat waves, a Twitter post by the Nagoya Municipal Fire Department is attracting attention for asking the public to show patience with the ambulance crews' convenience store breaks.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 10, 2018

Much needs to be done before women can truly 'shine' in Japan

The government has done little to make it feasible for women to be both parents and workers and corporate Japan has repeatedly reinforced the glass ceiling.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news / Regional Voices: Okinawa
Aug 10, 2018

'Namie Amuro generation': Okinawa moms pursue dream of fame

Five Okinawa women in their 40s, who practiced singing and dancing as teens at the same school as pop diva Namie Amuro, have recently relaunched their music careers after a lengthy break with a goal of achieving fame.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 9, 2018

GOP Sen. Rand Paul delivers letter from Trump to Putin's government but White House calls it just intro

Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul said on Wednesday he delivered a letter from President Donald Trump to Russian President Vladimir Putin's government, but the senator and the White House offered different characterizations of the message.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Aug 6, 2018

Spooky Japanese tales will scare the summer's heat out of you

Until recently, summer nights involved turning off the AC and doing things like kurumaza ni natte kaidanbanashi (sitting in a circle and telling ghost stories).
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 6, 2018

SoftBank's Masayoshi Son in his own words — all 303,513 of them

Masayoshi Son has a lot going on these days.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Aug 6, 2018

'Black rain' radiation from 1945 Hiroshima A-bombing can still be detected on survivor's shirt: study

Scientific tests on a shirt worn by a 16-year-old girl who was exposed to rain containing radioactive materials that fell after the Hiroshima atomic bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, known as "black rain," continue to detect slight amounts of cesium 137 more than 70 years after the attack.

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