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DEATH

Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal / Longform
Apr 25, 2022
Inside the mind of a mass murderer: Japan's killers increasingly seek notoriety
Violent offenders in Japan are increasingly seeking the notoriety that comes with being sentenced to death for their crimes.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 25, 2022
Japan logged record low number of newborns in 2021 with 842,897
Meanwhile, the number of deaths was 1,452,289, up 67,745 from the year before and the highest figure since the end of World War II.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Nov 20, 2021
Lawsuit seeks to halt execution of death row inmates in Japan without advance notice
Prisoners in Japan are currently informed of their impending executions one or two hours before they are carried out.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 5, 2021
Death row inmates sue over Japan's 'inhumane' same-day notification policy
Those awaiting execution in the country are usually not informed of the date of their punishment until the day itself.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 14, 2021
For a crime at 14, he faces death in a case casting doubt on Saudi reforms
Rights groups cite the case as an example of Saudi Arabia continuing to execute people for crimes committed as minors, despite legal overhauls aimed at limiting the practice.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 21, 2021
A scary plan to revise the definition of death in the U.S.
The current law's silence about how brain death is diagnosed means that someone could be found legally dead in Nevada even if ruled alive in Kansas.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Mar 19, 2021
Support for Fukushima evacuees is essential, but help isn't always there
About 36,000 people are still unable to return, and many of them are worried about their bleak prospects, including dying alone.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 6, 2021
Online funerals and Zen apps keep Japan’s Buddhist temples afloat
As the pandemic forces institutions around the world to change the way they do things, new endeavors are some of the ways that Buddhist groups in Japan are trying to survive.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 25, 2021
Deaths in Japan fall for the first time in more than a decade
The health ministry reported that the number of deaths across the nation dropped by more than 9,300 in 2020 to around 1.4 million.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 19, 2020
Women handling the dead: More female morticians in South Korea as taboo fades
A growing number of South Korean women are training to be morticians, a field from which they had long been excluded, amid changing views on gender roles and a rising preference for women's bodies to be handled by women.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 18, 2020
Putting Japan's coming inheritance windfall to good use
The final journey of Japan's baby boomers is poised to free up inheritance fund flows of as much as u00a5550 trillion (about $5 trillion) over the next ten years alone.
Japan to revise consumption tax exemption for overseas tourists
Tourists walk through Nakamise shopping street near Sensoji Temple in Tokyo in April
Japan's tourism industry hit by cancellations after megaquake alert
A beach closed due to a megaquake alert in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, from Friday to Thursday.
Focus shifts to incoming typhoon as Tropical Storm Maria dissipates
Newly formed Tropical Storm Ampil, which is forecast to approach eastern Japan this weekend, is seen on the left side of this satellite image.
Kishida to step down in September in bid to show ‘LDP has changed’
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference Wednesday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.
Publisher finds surprise audience after translating history textbooks
Yamakawa Shuppansha president Takeshi Nozawa holds the publisher's textbook on Japanese history — used in high schools across Japan — alongside the new English version in Tokyo on May 23.
Economic security is about strengthening and sustaining growth, former minister says
Former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi says changes in the international balance of power, along with deepening economic interdependence, have led some countries to attempt to use their economic power to impose their will on others.
Ice bandanas, convenience store breaks: Running under Japan’s summer sun
Blistering heat is becoming a fixture of summer in Japan, but a few tweaks to your routine can make your outdoor runs bearable — if not enjoyable — until cooler temperatures return.
Japan issued its first-ever megaquake alert. What does that mean?
Naoshi Hirata (center), chairman of a committee tasked with evaluating the risk of a Nankai Trough earthquake, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
France brings down the curtain on its Olympic party with Tom Cruise and Leon Marchand
Fireworks are set off during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics at Stade de France in Saint-Denis on Sunday.
Japan fuels U.S. LNG boom even as climate targets and impacts loom
Flaring at the Cameron LNG export terminal in Hackberry, Louisiana. Flaring, a common sight at LNG plants, is a controlled burning of gas for reasons ranging from depressurizing equipment to disposing of gas that can’t be used. The practice is a "waste of money" and negatively impacts climate change and human health, says the International Energy Agency.

Podcast

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

Longform

Sociologist Gracia Liu-Farrer argues that even though immigration doesn't figure into Japan's autobiography, it is more of a self-perception than a reality.
In search of the ‘Japanese dream’
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