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JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Apr 3, 2019

From casinos to nuclear power, local issues with national significance to play out at polls across Japan

Municipal mergers, integrated casino resorts, bullet trains and the future of nuclear power plants — local issues with national political repercussions — are expected to be taken up by candidates from Hokkaido to Kyushu in the coming weeks as the country prepares for a series of elections on April...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 3, 2019

Shell to quit U.S. refining lobby over climate disagreement and will back Paris accord

Royal Dutch Shell on Tuesday became the first major oil and gas company to announce plans to leave a leading U.S. refining lobby due to disagreement on climate policies.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 31, 2019

Can Tokyo and Seoul break their deadlock?

Tokyo and Seoul should consider who will be the losers and more importantly, who will be the winners, from a prolonged division in the bilateral relationship?
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB Preview
Mar 27, 2019

Daichi Suzuki driven by passion to succeed with Marines

Daichi Suzuki hasn't missed a game for the Chiba Lotte Marines in over three seasons. In 2015, he missed one. Both years before that, he was on the field for every contest.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2019

Carlos Ghosn's unusual Nissan perk: $601,000 Stanford tuition fees for his kids

Nissan Motor Co. paid tuition for all four of ousted chairman Carlos Ghosn's children when they attended Stanford University between 2004 and 2015, according to people familiar with the matter.
EDITORIALS
Mar 22, 2019

Low turnout, poor competition mar local elections

Add local politics to the host of challenges confronting many of Japan's regions.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Mar 21, 2019

Osaka wrestles with merger plan as campaign for governor kicks off

To merge or not to merge? That is the question Osaka hopes to finally answer as the campaign for Osaka governor kicked off Thursday morning.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 18, 2019

Treat far-right terrorism as the serious threat it is

White supremacists should finally receive the government attention they deserve
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 18, 2019

Japan Post Insurance eyes firms with tech edge in new ESG investment strategy

Japan Post Insurance is shifting its approach to sustainable investing by picking companies with a technological edge for solving global problems, its investment chief said, in a move away from typical ESG selection criteria.
ENVIRONMENT
Mar 9, 2019

Unlocking Japan's geothermal energy potential

How Japan can meet its future energy needs is not necessarily something you think about while enjoying a nice long soak in a hot-spring bath.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Mar 4, 2019

Eagles' Takahiro Norimoto leads NPB group chasing Giants ace Tomoyuki Sugano

Tomoyuki Sugano is the best pitcher in Japanese baseball.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 28, 2019

Vote highlights problems with Henoko plan

The vitally important Futenma replacement facility shouldn't be built on a pack of lies.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Feb 25, 2019

Japan's Ainu recognition bill: What does it mean for Hokkaido's indigenous people?

In a first for Japan, a bill to legally recognize the Ainu as the indigenous people of Japan is about to be submitted to the Diet.
JAPAN / History / Defining the Heisei Era
Feb 23, 2019

Defining the Heisei Era: Women in Japan speak out on inequality

Last April, a female reporter from TV Asahi accused Junichi Fukuda, the top bureaucrat at the Finance Ministry, of sexual harassment.
EDITORIALS
Feb 23, 2019

Empower outside directors

Merely making it mandatory under the law for companies to have outside directors isn't enough. They have to be allowed to improve their company's governance.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 23, 2019

North Korea's surprise new nuclear envoy key to Trump-Kim talks

What little is known about the man North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has tapped to prepare his summit with U.S. President Donald Trump suggests he's more familiar with defending Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal than giving it up.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 23, 2019

Wife of Guatemalan president investigated for cashing illegal checks

The wife of Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales will be investigated on suspicion of cashing illicit checks made out to her and her husband totaling more than $30,000, the country's top prosecutor said on Friday.
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Feb 19, 2019

Ayaka Hosoda content with triple axel achievement, but hopes to skate on

Fame has come late for Ayaka Hosoda, but she acknowledges that is better than it never having come at all.
EDITORIALS
Feb 17, 2019

Find an answer to the question of same-sex marriage

The government, lawmakers and other parties concerned should hold broad discussions on the issue to reach a concensus.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Feb 13, 2019

LGBT couples to file lawsuit on Valentine's Day in push for equal marriage rights in Japan

Last fall, Ai Nakajima, 40, tied the knot in Germany with her long-time partner, Kristina Baumann, a 32-year-old from Berlin. But in Japan, where they live, Nakajima and Baumann share the fate of all same-sex couples in committed relationships — the denial of the right to formally marry their partners....
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 12, 2019

Nissan reports Carlos Ghosn's alleged ¥9.2 billion in understated income on firm's earnings statement

The automaker also slashed its full-year profit forecasts amid sluggish demand in the North America market and other markets worldwide.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / The Big Questions
Feb 10, 2019

Pioneering flexibility and empowerment in retail

Cartier Japan President and CEO Veronica Prat van Thiel and her team are testing the boundaries of the retail experience.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2019

Africa sees nuclear power as answer to continent-wide electrification goal

In a damp office at Addis Ababa University, doctoral student Hailu Geremew fantasizes about working on the nuclear reactor his country is now pondering building.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Pope Francis, radical leader who broke the papal mold, dies at 88
Pope Francis blesses the faithful during the weekly general audience at the Vatican in August 2023.
Japan mulls reviewing car safety rules to strike deal with Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's Economic Revitalization Minister and top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to the press upon his arrival at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Friday.
Japan tariff negotiator rules out quick U.S. deal despite push by Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to reporters upon his arrival at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Friday, a day after talks in Washington.
Shohei Ohtani announces birth of daughter
Shohei Ohtani and his wife Mamiko Tanaka attend a Lakers game in Los Angeles on Dec. 8, 2024.
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
The floor is art: Takuro Tamayama transforms mundanity
Takuro Tamayama’s sculpture “Models (Pair, 6 sets, 12 rings)” comes with a mathematical formation that scales it for different spaces.
Nothing sells like Shohei Ohtani, MLB’s marketing megastar
People walk past an advertisement featuring Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani outside Tokyo Dome on March 18.
Calling all Potterheads: ‘The Goblet of Fire’ comes to Tokyo
The Tokyo version of the globe-trotting exhibition features a Ministry of Magic set, which includes an imposing replica of the Magic Is Might monument representing magical fascism.
Tokyo stock picker advises Trump-proofing portfolios with Godzilla creator Toho
The head of Godzilla, a Japanese monster movie character, is seen on a building of Toho Cinema in Tokyo. Toho is one tariff-defensive stock being recommended by brokers.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.
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