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Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Dec 8, 2015

Hanyu, Mao look to make history at Grand Prix Final

Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu and three-time world champ Mao Asada will be looking to add to their already illustrious resumes at the Grand Prix Final this week in Barcelona, Spain.
EDITORIALS
Dec 6, 2015

Legal showdown over Henoko

The court battle that just got underway between Okinawa and the national government over the Futenma replacement base is more likely to exacerbate the conflict than resolve it.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Dec 4, 2015

All U.S. military combat roles to be open to women, Pentagon announces

Women will be allowed in all combat positions throughout the U.S. military, ending decades of exclusion from front-line jobs, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 2, 2015

China behind 'massive' cyberattack on Australian government: ABC

A major cyberattack against Australia's Bureau of Meteorology that may have compromised potentially sensitive national security information is being blamed on China, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported on Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 2, 2015

Paris puts seven accused jihadis on trial, including Islamic State executioner in absentia

The trial began in Paris on Tuesday of seven suspected Islamists, including an alleged Islamic State 'executioner' in Syria — the first such case to go to court since the group killed 130 people in the French capital last month.
EDITORIALS
Nov 28, 2015

New ways to reduce child abuse

While an expert panel looks for better ways to protect children, the government needs to look into the basic issue of how to eliminate the potential seeds of abuse in the first place.
Reader Mail
Nov 28, 2015

Real climate crisis: misdirected funds

Regarding the story "Global warming may impoverish 100 million: World Bank" in the Nov. 10 issue, it is inaccurate to say that "extreme weather (is) tied to warming."
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Nov 27, 2015

The future of conveyor-belt sushi

In October, U.K. sushi chain Yo! Sushi opened a new kaiten (conveyor belt) restaurant in a Florida mall. It is the third branch the chain has established in the United States this year, and more branches are slated to open in 2016. It is a reminder that this automated approach to dining continues to...
JAPAN
Nov 26, 2015

Japan repatriates 22 illegal immigrants to Bangladesh, among them unsuccessful asylum seekers

The government has repatriated 22 illegal immigrants from Bangladesh in the fourth round of its contentious mass deportation program using a state-chartered plane, the Justice Ministry announced Thursday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 26, 2015

Canada's murder rate in 2014 falls to 50-year low

Canada's murder rate in 2014 edged down to a near 50-year low, but aboriginals accounted for a disproportionately high number of victims, official data showed on Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 26, 2015

Florida 'Facebook killer' guilty of second-degree murder

A jury on Wednesday found a Florida man guilty of second-degree murder after he killed his wife and posted a photo of her blood-spattered body on Facebook.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 26, 2015

Japan to push coal technology despite OECD subsidy cut, Japan's environment minister says

Exports of advanced technology for coal-fired power plants will help fight global warming, the nation's environment minister has said, even though the world's richest nations has decided to restrict subsidies on such exports.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 25, 2015

Public education spending in Japan lowest in OECD for sixth straight year

Japan's public spending on education as a percentage of GDP was the lowest among the OECD countries in 2012, marking the sixth consecutive year that the nation was saddled with the ignominy of being the stingiest spender, the group's latest report on education shows.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Nov 24, 2015

'No-future' Brussels youth believed lured to jihad by Rambo appeal, not religion

Khalid Ben Larbi lived a hedonistic lifestyle similar to other European youths and rarely went to the mosque in Molenbeek, the mainly Muslim Moroccan immigrant area where he and three of the suspected Paris attackers grew up in Brussels.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 22, 2015

For the sake of Earth, let fossil fuels rest in peace

The fossil-fuel industry's success in safeguarding its own interests has come at the expense of the health of our planet and its people.
EDITORIALS
Nov 22, 2015

Resolve the Isahaya Bay standoff

The government should get more serious about resolving the legal gridlock surrounding the Isahaya Bay dike in Nagasaki Prefecture.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 19, 2015

Bringing pressure on Africa's ivory poachers

Poaching for ivory is taking a horrible toll on endangered species in Africa, but there is cause for hope as well.
BUSINESS
Nov 19, 2015

Move to improve Japanese corporate governance devolves into compliance game

One day, Japan's biggest overhaul of rules for companies in decades will make them more efficient. Right now it's making things worse.
EDITORIALS
Nov 18, 2015

Court battle over Henoko

The court battle the central government has launched against the Okinawa Prefectural government over the project to relocate Air Station Futenma could further complicate the standoff.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 16, 2015

Paris: Islamic State's strategy

Putting foreign ground troops into Syria would only make matters worse, so the least bad option for all countries concerned is to ride Islamic State's terrorist campaign out.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 13, 2015

Nuclear power — an issue so prominent, it glows in the dark

Walking into Ken + Julia Yonetani's "Wishes" is like stepping into a bad dream. The room is illuminated by hanging chandeliers, their green light eerily flickering against black walls, as Disney's "It's a Small World" repeatedly plays in the background. This first Tokyo solo show for the husband-and-wife...
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Nov 12, 2015

Venezuela's Jimenez puts friendships aside during heated Premier 12 competition

While playing for the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters in 2009 and for the Lotte Giants of the Korea Baseball Organization in 2014, Venezuela's Luis Jimenez developed many friendships on both teams.
Japan Times
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Nov 10, 2015

Mao begins long road to Pyeongchang with victory

"It's just the same as Patrick Chan last week. It's as if she has never been away. In fact, it looked fresher than ever."
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Nov 7, 2015

No relief in sight for Japan's poor single-parent families

How can Japan's single mothers have both the highest poverty and employment rate among the OECD group of developed nations?
WORLD / Society
Nov 6, 2015

Irish women tweet details of menstrual cycle to PM in abortion row

Irish women are tweeting details of their periods to Prime Minister Enda Kenny to help publicize a campaign to repeal restrictive abortion laws.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 6, 2015

China's one-child calamity

The abolition of China's 35-year-old one-child policy closes one of the darkest chapters in the country's history.
Japan Times
PRESS / Publications
Nov 5, 2015

『３割しか話さないのになぜかうまくいくビジネス英会話のルール』発売

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）は、英語を話すためのマインドセットを整えるビジネス書『３割しか話さないのになぜかうまくいく ビジネス英語のルール』を発売しました。
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.
Cases of epidural use in labor rise in Japan alongside concerns
Of the 721,000 childbirths reported in 2024 in Japan, 13.8% involved the use of an epidural, according to the Japan Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
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.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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