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LIFE / Food & Drink / JAPANESE KITCHEN
Apr 14, 2018

Celebrating the spring with homemade Japanese sweets

Spring is a great time for fans of wagashi, traditional Japanese sweets. While many wagashi reflect the seasons all year long visually — especially the colorful, beautifully formed nerikiri created by skilled artisans — this is the time of year when you can taste, as well as see, the season as it...
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COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Apr 11, 2018

Type 1 diabetic travelers to Japan, be prepared

Traveling to Japan with Type 1 diabetes can be tough, but only if you allow it to be.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 30, 2018

Trump escalates attack on Amazon, focusing on tax and shipping but offering no evidence

U.S. President Donald Trump accused Amazon.com Inc. on Thursday of not paying enough tax, taking advantage of the U.S. postal system and putting small retailers out of business, but did not present any evidence to back up his criticisms or suggest any specific actions he planned to take.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Mar 26, 2018

Let's discuss the sushi restaurant YouTube video

A YouTube video filmed from a Tokyo sushi restaurant's conveyor belt has sparked a great deal of debate online.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 23, 2018

New post-Brexit British passport to be made by Franco-Dutch firm De La Rue

The new blue British passports that Prime Minister Theresa May called "an expression of our independence and sovereignty" after Brexit will be made by a Franco-Dutch firm, the boss of the British company which lost the contract said Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Mar 17, 2018

Reactions to GoPro sushi train video reflect gaps in etiquette between East and West

Every piece of content on the internet can be divisive these days, even the innocuous stuff. This truism was on full display over the past week and a half thanks to a now-removed YouTube video set in a Tokyo sushi restaurant, which charmed many Western viewers and angered a few Japanese.
Japan Times
Mar 16, 2018

Japanese Animation Using Japanese Denim “denimation”

The Bitchu Bingo region (Ibara City and other parts of western Okayama Prefecture, Fukuyama City and other parts of eastern Hiroshima Prefecture) is known as a production center of high-quality Japanese denim where denim-related businesses are collected together. Here, as the “Bitchu Bingo Japan Denim...
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JAPAN / 3/11: Rebuilding Tohoku
Mar 11, 2018

Fukushima powers toward 100% goal on renewables as grid and cost woes linger

Seven years after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, Fukushima Prefecture remains committed to becoming an international center for renewable-energy research and a domestic pioneer by meeting 100 percent of its energy demand via renewables by 2040.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 9, 2018

FDR's gun-control strategy was based on taxes

His administration gave gangsters 3,700 reasons to stop buying machine guns.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Mar 6, 2018

JBIC delivers blunt critique of Japan men's basketball issues, demands talks with JBA

Observing the dismal results of their men's national team in the ongoing FIBA World Cup qualifiers, former Olympic basketball players and coaches are deepening their worries.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 2, 2018

Massachusetts man charged in Trump Jr. hoax threat letter

Federal prosecutors in Boston on Thursday charged a Massachusetts man with sending a series of threatening letters containing a suspicious powder, including one addressed to U.S. President Donald Trump's eldest son.
Japan Times
PRESS / Events
Feb 21, 2018

GPIF水野 弘道氏、PRI森澤 充世氏などを招いて
設立記念フォーラム(参加無料)を3月12日(月)に開催

Japan Times ESG推進コンソーシアム(代表:堤 丈晴、株式会社ジャパンタイムズ・代表取締役社長)は、2018年3月12日(月)に設立記念フォーラムを開催致します。
Japan Times
PRESS / Events
Feb 20, 2018

第9 回The Japan Times Bee 3 月3 日開催

 株式会社ジャパンタイムズ(本社:東京都港区、代表取締役:堤丈晴、以下「ジャパンタイムズ」)は2018 年3 月3 日(土)、ジャパンタイムズニフコホール(東京都・芝浦)にて、小中学生が英単語の正しいつづり方を競う、第9...
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WORLD / Politics
Feb 15, 2018

Congress probing when White House learned of 'disqualifying' info on ex-Trump aide

President Donald Trump faced new pressure on Wednesday from his Republican allies in Congress over domestic abuse allegations against a former aide as lawmakers questioned whether his administration has properly vetted top staffers.
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COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Feb 11, 2018

Views from Osaka: What's the best time you've ever had in this city?

Young people recall their best-ever moments spent out and about in Kansai's famously lively commercial hub.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 9, 2018

White House aide ousted over abuse claims never had security OK, putting chief John Kelly in hot seat

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly knew that President Donald Trump's staff secretary had issues in his past possibly impeding a permanent security clearance before news reports this week on domestic violence allegations against the aide, people familiar with the matter said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / MBA SPECIAL 2018
Feb 5, 2018

Global Top-Ranked Canadian MBA in Tokyo

Since 1998, the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University has been proud to offer the top Master of Business Administration (MBA) program in conveniently located Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. The McGill MBA Japan program is a weekend MBA program taught entirely in English by professors who fly in...
Japan Times
JAPAN / MBA SPECIAL 2018
Feb 5, 2018

Japan's No. 1 MBA

GLOBIS University is Japan's largest business school (No. 1 in enrollment, 2017 MEXT data), offering Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree programs in the heart of Tokyo and online.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 1, 2018

Artist Asako Iwama explores the relationship between food and language

Food and the desire to eat has always been mysterious to Asako Iwama. When the artist and cook was a young child, she could not understand why she had to eat. Her earliest memories of food are of her grandmother's cooking in a strange yet fascinating kitchen far away from home.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 29, 2018

Trump says tweets, sometimes composed in bed, are his weapon against 'fake news'

U.S. President Donald Trump, who has garnered a large following on social media with rambunctious postings, said he sometimes tweets from bed, though he occasionally allows others to post his words.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jan 15, 2018

Japan's parcel firms test drop-off lockers, as social change increases the costs and reduces the appeal of face-to-face deliveries

The timely and secure delivery of packages through face-to-face services has long been a source of pride for Japanese couriers.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Jan 8, 2018

Village in Nagano comes up with hunk calendar to help 12 bachelors find mates

Women hoping to find Mr. Right in 2018 should check for dates on the Otoko Goyomi (Men's Calendar) published by the village of Otari in Nagano Prefecture. The calendar showcases a dozen local bachelors who are looking for wives.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League / HOOP SCOOP
Jan 5, 2018

Tyler Smith pleased by reaction to new book on hoop life

Tyler Smith, whose pro basketball career included stints with the Hitachi Sunrockers and Link Tochigi Brex in the now-disbanded JBL, has published his first book, "Called for Traveling: My Nomadic Life Playing Pro Basketball around the World."
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Dec 31, 2017

Views From Osaka: What are your hopes for yourself, Japan and the world for 2018?

Young people in Kansai's commercial hub talk about their wishes for the coming year.
Dec 19, 2017

Establishment of Japan Times ESG Consortium
Disseminating information overseas about Japan’s ESG activities

Tokyo, Dec 19, 2017 ー The Japan Times (Minato-ku, Tokyo. Representative: Takeharu Tsutsumi) will establish a new consortium in January 2018 named the “Japan Times ESG Consortium” to disseminate information in English overseas about corporate Japan’s ESG (Environmental / Social / Governance) initiatives...
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WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 17, 2017

Canadian police probe mysterious deaths of billionaire pharma couple

Canadian police are investigating the mysterious deaths of pharmaceuticals billionaire Barry Sherman, founder of Apotex Inc., and his wife, Honey, whose bodies were found in their Toronto mansion on Friday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Dec 16, 2017

Heart of gold: The Ginza Line celebrates its 90th birthday

Born of disasters, war and massive infrastructure projects, 21st-century Tokyo has plenty of ghosts buried underground. If you ride the subway these days, you can catch a fleeting glimpse of two of them but, if you blink, you'll miss them. The Ginza Line is marking 90 years since its opening with the...
WORLD / Society
Dec 13, 2017

'Not going to stop having sex': Trump's cuts leave U.S. rural teens at pregnancy risk

Teenage girls in rural America could be the first to see a rise in unplanned pregnancies as drastic cuts in access to health care, contraception and insurance take effect under President Donald Trump's policies, say family planning campaigners.

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