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Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Aug 17, 2013

How green is Tohoku's 'Green Connections' project?

On its surface, the plan seems like an environmentalist's dream come true: Take wreckage from the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami in the Tohoku region of Honshu and pile it along the washed-out coastline; cover the crumbled concrete and broken wood with soil; then top it all with...
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Aug 17, 2013

Shock-and-awe art fills festival streets with fun

"Are you tourist?" asked the man seated beside me on the early afternoon flight from Tokyo's Haneda airport to Kochi in Shikoku. He spoke in hesitant English.
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Aug 17, 2013

Sumida River swimmers, brides for Manchoukuo, driving chaos, PM's Recruit incident remarks

'O Joy! Come in and splash me!' The exhilarating shouts of boys and girls are heard all along the Sumida River, which has been turned into a continuous swimming pool by the young men and women of Tokyo, driven out of doors and into the water by the heat.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 17, 2013

Hope for amnesty bill as Thai protests return

The Thai government finds itself beset by renewed street protests as an amnesty bill, for those involved in political violence since 2006, is debated in Parliament.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 16, 2013

Eagles' Tanaka sets NPB record by winning 21st straight decision

Masahiro Tanaka's winning streak has come a long way since his loss to the Seibu Lions last season.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives
Aug 16, 2013

Akiko Kuraoka's documentaries find fresh relevancy amid Fukushima crisis

For Akiko Kuraoka, filmmaker, lecturer and freelance French translator, films have always been her passion. Over a span of nearly four decades, Kuraoka has made three documentaries and is now deep into her fourth. Her films have dealt with chromium pollution, nuclear radiation, war, and the displacement...
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 16, 2013

'Happy go lucky' Australia now adrift in Asia

Australians used to call themselves 'the lucky country,' but today's mineral wealth seems to have created a nation prone to flip-flop foreign policies and crazy economic strategies.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Aug 16, 2013

Chelsea, Man City start as favorites

We know the short list from which the Premier League champion will come.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 15, 2013

Monster-film maker tackles other big menace

Norman England is the world's leading non-Japanese expert on all things Godzilla, if hours logged on the set are any measure. From 1999 to 2004, he spent, by his own estimate, 150 days at Toho Studios watching the king of kaiju (monsters) come to life in film after film, culminating with Ryuhei Kitamura's...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Aug 15, 2013

Light bites of every flavor in Tokyo

Tokyo has seen more and more restaurants recently open with the express purpose of offering casual, light bites, rather than elaborate full-course meals. Close to home is fine, as long as we can nibble and graze, ordering a dish or two at a time, and interspersing food with drink and conversation till...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 15, 2013

'Populaire'

It's "My Fair Lady" meets "Flashdance" meets the sweet, earnest rom-coms of the 1950s. "Populaire" is the feature debut by French filmmaker Régis Roinsard (most famed for Jane Birkin's promotional videos) but the film has the look and feel of a veteran artisan: "Some Like it Hot" director Billy Wilder,...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 15, 2013

'White House Down'

Hollywood movies are all starting to feel the same these days, but in some cases almost literally. Just check out "White House Down," a "Die Hard"-in-D.C. popcorn flick that is almost exactly the same movie as "Olympus Has Fallen," which was released earlier this summer. Great minds think alike, as...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 15, 2013

Abe proxy, Cabinet trio visit Yasukuni

Three Cabinet ministers went to war-related Yasukuni Shrine on Thursday to mark the 68th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, while Prime Minister Shinzo Abe instead made a ritual offering in an apparent effort to avoid more diplomatic friction with China and South Korea.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Aug 14, 2013

Jeté-ing from ballet to kitchen-sink drama

Though she's moved from elegant arabesques to doing the washing up, former prima ballerina Tamiyo Kusakari is stealing the show in "Ani Kaeru (The Older Brother Returns)," a kitchen-sink drama playing every night through Sept. 1 at Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre in Ikebukuro.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 14, 2013

Yuri Nonaka takes viewers on a trip through the imagination

All things weird and wonderful were loved by the Surrealists and there is plenty of the weird and wonderful in the world of their fellow traveler Yuri Nonaka. The Kamakura Annex of the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura and Hayama, is currently holding an exhibition showcasing works that were donated to...
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 14, 2013

Cooked meat overloads senses of taste and smell

According to those who tried it last week, lab-grown beef doesn't really taste like meat. So what exactly gives meat its flavor and makes us beg for more?
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 13, 2013

The scoop on print media tragedies

The effect of the digital revolution is uneven. While China seems to launch newspapers almost weekly, in the U.S. they seem to be folding or changing ownership.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 13, 2013

Hope amid Mideast turmoil

No one put the chances of reviving the Israel-Palestine peace process at more than minimal. Yet it has happened. Now is not the time for despair in the Middle East.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 12, 2013

Presidents' grand plans fail in Detroit

During the Nixon years, Detroit's business elite laid plans for the glittering Renaissance Center retail and office complex. The Ford and Carter administrations brought the "People Mover," an elevated rail loop around downtown that hardly anybody rides today.
Japan Times
LIFE
Aug 10, 2013

Seven years on, and everyone's itching for more

To date, including his all-male production of "The Merchant of Venice" that's set to run next month at Sainokuni Saitama Arts Theater outside Tokyo, Yukio Ninagawa will have staged 29 of the 38 plays attributed to William Shakespeare — and his ambition to direct the entire oeuvre remains undimmed....
Reader Mail
Aug 10, 2013

Real contribution of U.S. bases

There are many problems with Yoshio Shimoji's Aug. 1 letter, "Don't cry for Okinawa's economy." Suffice it to say that the figures that Shimoji cites from "an Okinawa Prefectural Government document" grossly underestimate the economic contribution of the U.S. military bases. Indeed, based on my preliminary...
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 10, 2013

'Broad standard' OKs NSA snooping

The Obama administration on Friday asserted a bold and broad power to collect the phone records of millions of Americans to search for a nugget of information that might thwart a terrorist attack.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives
Aug 9, 2013

Film helps heal A-bombing, and family, wounds

In a poignant scene in the award-winning 2010 documentary "Atomic Mom," filmmaker M.T. Silvia tells the story of Sadako Sasaki, a Hiroshima atomic bombing victim, as she presents 1,000 paper cranes to Silvia's mother, Pauline, a former U.S. Navy biologist involved in radiation testing on animals in the...
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 9, 2013

Enough of America's hypocritical foreign policy

Every new White House administration, irrespective of party, ignores the reality that the U.S., although wealthy and powerful, still cannot micro-manage the globe.
EDITORIALS
Aug 9, 2013

Prosecutors protect their own

The Supreme Public Prosecutors Office's second decision not to indict a former prosecutor accused of false reporting casts doubt on its in-house investigative ability.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Aug 9, 2013

Sounds that stem from quietude — when a tree falls down

Perhaps the best thing about living on a small island in Japan of just 583 people (258 men and 325 women) is that you can walk out your door and kiss the online world goodbye. Here, most people don't walk around glued to their cellphones, the majority don't even have smartphones, and very few take pictures...
Japan researchers develop a simple way to spot signs of Alzheimer's disease
In 2022, the number of elderly people with dementia in Japan reached 4.43 million, according to data from the health ministry.
Tokyo police arrest six Chinese nationals over yami baito scheme
Tokyo police have arrested six Chinese nationals on suspicion of unlawful confinement and attempted extortion involving a 23-year-old exchange student who had become involved in a financial dispute over a yami baito, or a “dark” part-time job.
Japan to overhaul tax exemption system for foreign visitors
The Ginza shopping district in Tokyo in August
‘God of management’ comes back to life as an AI model
A statue of Konosuke Matsushita in the grounds of the Konosuke Matsushita Museum in Kadoma, Osaka Prefecture
Two dead after fire at Upper House lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi’s apartment
A fire broke out on the sixth floor of an apartment building where Upper House lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi resides on Wednesday in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward.
Ishiba sticks to the basics in second policy speech
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers his policy speech at the Lower House of parliament in Tokyo on Friday.
Hiroshi Kurosaki looks beyond Japan for heart-wrenching drama
Hiroshi Kurosaki’s Netflix series “Beyond Goodbye” centers on a woman (Kasumi Arimura, left) who discovers her dead lover’s heart saved the life of a quiet pianist (Kentaro Sakaguchi).
Japan researchers develop a simple way to spot signs of Alzheimer's disease
In 2022, the number of elderly people with dementia in Japan reached 4.43 million, according to data from the health ministry.
‘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.
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.

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