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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 4, 2019

Rewriting the future of work

Three common assumptions skew economists' forecasts of automation's impact on employment.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Feb 2, 2019

Back from the brink: Reviving abandoned vineyards in Osaka

Although wine production in the Kansai region dates back over 100 years, changing demographics have since taken their toll on local grape cultivation. To help save the prefecture's remaining fields from abandonment, Tomofumi Fujimaru opened the Shimanouchi Fujimaru Winery in the heart of Osaka.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 29, 2019

Perennials aside, 2019 promises movie classics in Japan

As a program advisor for the Udine Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy, I have spent the last few months scouting Japanese films for the next edition, which will be held April 26 to May 4. This doesn't mean I've seen all the upcoming releases — sales companies are often not ready to screen their...
EDITORIALS
Jan 22, 2019

Addressing serious recidivism among the elderly

Repeat offenses by the nation's elderly population are an increasingly serious problem that demands attention and action.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 21, 2019

After Westgate debacle, quick end to latest Kenyan attack shows progress in counterterror planning

The relatively swift end to an attack on a Nairobi hotel and office complex highlights improvements in Kenya's counterterrorism capabilities since Somali militants overran a shopping mall in the same neighborhood five years ago.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 18, 2019

The global decline of Japanese universities

Dark clouds hang over the future of Japanese universities due to the government's failure to recognize the importance of education and research.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Jan 7, 2019

Yusei Kikuchi's move shows revised posting system not great for NPB clubs

Why would an NPB team post its best players now?
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Dec 30, 2018

Stars switching numbers, changing names becoming staple of NPB offseasons

Offseasons in NPB are about change, just not exactly the type that immediately springs to mind.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 26, 2018

For Nigel Farage and a Brexit pollster, a world of gamblers and gambling

Behind the luxury hotels lining London's Park Lane, just across from a service entrance, Nigel Farage stood outside a squat office building streaked with soot. Britain's famous anti-European Union campaigner was flanked by a couple of minor sports celebrities and two young women in matching dresses who...
Dec 21, 2018

Announcement: awasake specialty site "awasake.com" OPEN

ima Inc. (Headquarters: Taito-ku, Tokyo, Founder CEO: Miura Ami) has opened on 21st of December, 2018, an awasake online shop: “awasake.com". Until now, awasake could not be easily compared, reviewed or even purchased within the same website. Through opening an ecommerce site specializing in
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League / B. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Dec 20, 2018

Sunrockers orchestrate impressive turnaround under new bench boss Tsutomu Isa

Sometimes teams need to shake things up to produce the desired results.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 18, 2018

Beijing's South China Sea grab

In the last five years, China has turned its contrived historical claims to the South China Sea into reality and gained strategic depth.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League / B. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Dec 13, 2018

Tochigi flourishing with solid team play

The Tochigi Brex are playing at an astonishingly high level this season.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League
Dec 6, 2018

Levanga part ways with bench boss Jose Neto, promote Tomohide Utsumi

As the Levanga Hokkaido return to action after the B. League's break due to FIBA World Cup Asia qualifying, a new bench boss will be calling the shots.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 2, 2018

Only American sedans are dead

The supremacy of Japanese cars has been 40-plus years in the making.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Nov 14, 2018

Indigenous Indonesians work to claim traditional lands to stave off threats from mining and palm oil plantations

In a community hall, a group of men sit cross-legged on mats, poring over documents and maps marked with forests, farmland, a river and the village of Gajah Bertalut on Indonesia's Sumatra island.
CULTURE / Music
Nov 8, 2018

Beverly Caimen: 'Music is universal and goes beyond languages'

When Beverly Caimen moved from the Philippines to Japan in 2016 she was a relative unknown who could barely speak the language. Several months later, however, an unexpected encounter with actor Shun Oguri drastically changed her life.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 7, 2018

LGBT+ people erased from books in Russia under 'gay propaganda' law

"Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls," a bestselling children's book featuring 100 stories of prominent women, was published in Russia this year — but with one story missing.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 31, 2018

Boston Irish mob boss James 'Whitey' Bulger, inspiration for film 'The Departed,' killed in prison

James "Whitey" Bulger, who lived a double life as one of Boston's most notorious mobsters and as a secret FBI informant before going on the run for 16 years, was killed at a federal prison in West Virginia, sources said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Oct 26, 2018

No one wanted Trump portrait, so his charity had to buy it, his lawyer argues

When Donald Trump offered to pay $10,000 from his personal charitable foundation for a six-foot oil portrait of himself, the future president only meant to "get the bidding started" during a 2014 auction at his Mar-a-Lago resort, his lawyer told a New York judge.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 24, 2018

Despite climate pledges, China struggles to break coal habit

In a former mining district in eastern China, authorities have shut dozens of pits and invested billions of yuan to resculpt the broken landscape, creating gardens, forest walks and wetland parks, as well as a small museum dedicated to coal.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 22, 2018

Investors' gloomy take on Japan may be upended by inflation, analysts say

The Abenomics trade is so 2013. Foreign investors haven't been much interested in Japan lately, despite the strongest economy in two decades. What could turn that around, some market observers say, is a surprise revival of inflation.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 21, 2018

Ahead of Abe's visit to Beijing a look at Japan-China ties through the years

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to China from Thursday, which will include the first formal summit between the two countries' leaders since 2011 and comes as they mark the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, is expected to cap a warming trend in once chilly Sino-Japanese...
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.
Japan buys first South Korean rice in over two decades as prices surge
Bags of rice at a warehouse in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. Japan imported South Korean rice for the first time since 1999 this month amid soaring domestic prices for the staple grain.
Nvidia CEO lobbies Japan to generate more power to fuel AI
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang answers questions from reporters after his meeting with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Monday.
Nvidia CEO urges LDP to build up Japan’s AI infrastructure
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba receives a gift from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the start of their meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Monday.
Yen on the march as Plaza Accord 2.0 debate grows
The yen strengthened dramatically this month — hitting ¥139.9 to the dollar on Tuesday — and could become a topic of conversation in trade talks between the United States and Japan.
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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