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LIFE / Food & Drink / Food Sustainability in Japan
Aug 25, 2018
Turning the table on global food inequality
Masa Kogure started Table For Two in 2007 to address both obesity and global hunger issues and 'flatten out the calorie imbalance.'
EDITORIALS
Aug 25, 2018
A weak, fragmented opposition
A lame opposition camp can't expect to engage in a policy-based competition with the ruling parties and present voters with a viable alternative.
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JAPAN / Politics
Aug 22, 2018
Campaigning begins for leadership of Japan's second-largest opposition party
Campaigning began Wednesday for the leadership contest of the second-largest opposition party, with contenders tasked with boosting the party's support base and cooperating with other members of the opposition camp.
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JAPAN / Society
Jul 26, 2018
Female leaders encourage women to be confident and believe in themselves at Tokyo conference
With "womenomics" often touted as a key policy of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the government has been working to increase women's participation in the workforce, politics and other areas in recent years.
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BUSINESS
Jul 2, 2018
More investors engaging in the battle against climate change: PRI chairman
Global investors are becoming more aware of the risk of the global warming and thinking that their investments can function as a spearhead to counter the problem, said the head of the world's leading organization that advocates responsible investment.
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BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jun 8, 2018
Days are numbered for ATMs in Japan's banking system
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LIFE / Food & Drink / Food Sustainability in Japan
May 26, 2018
Calling on chefs to lead the charge against overfishing
Chefs for the Blue and its partners, NGO Sailors for the Sea Japan and consulting firm Seafood Legacy, are part of a small but growing movement to promote sustainable seafood in Japan.
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CULTURE / Books
May 26, 2018
Twenty-five years on, Alan Booth's voice is brought back to life
'This Great Stage of Fools' offers a collection of Alan Booth's uncollected journalism and writings between 1979 and his untimely death in 1993. Booth is be considered one of the greatest writers on Japan of his generation.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
May 12, 2018
Mayumi Uejima-Carr: Setting the Table For Two in the United States
After reading about the NPO Table For Two, a quick Google search and a 'passionate email,' Mayumi Uejima-Carr now educates American students about the health benefits of Japanese cuisine.
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JAPAN / Politics
May 7, 2018
Rock bottom in opinion polls, Japanese opposition parties Kibo no To and Democratic Party decide to merge
Only 62 of their combined 107 members plan to join the new entity.
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COMMENTARY / World
Mar 27, 2018
NRA's blunders fueled the gun-safety marches
The gun lobby created the movement that threatens to swamp it.
OLYMPICS
Feb 22, 2018
CAS announces Russian curler Alexander Krushelnitsky found guilty of doping
The Court of Arbitration for Sport said on Thursday that Russian curler Alexander Krushelnitsky has been found guilty of an anti-doping violation after testing positive for the banned substance meldonium.
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OLYMPICS
Feb 20, 2018
Slovenia's Ziga Jeglic tests positive for fenoterol, suspended for rest of 2018 Winter Games
Slovenia men's ice hockey player Ziga Jeglic has tested positive for a banned substance and has been suspended for the remainder of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said on Tuesday.
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CULTURE / Music
Feb 13, 2018
Yasuaki Shimizu's artful jingles
An effective commercial jingle wedges itself into your brain. There's the incessant repetition of Meow Mix, the harmony of McDonald's "I'm lovin' it" or the youthful chorus of "Biiiku, biku, biku, Bic Camera."
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JAPAN / Science & Health / A MATTER OF HEALTH
Feb 8, 2018
Japan doctors tap health-monitoring app to help diabetics keep dialysis at bay
In September 2016, freelance journalist Yutaka Hasegawa touched off a firestorm of criticism after writing in his blog that diabetes patients receiving dialysis should pay for the treatment themselves instead of using public health insurance. He argued that it was their "corrupt" lifestyles that spawned...
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CULTURE / Film
Feb 7, 2018
A cinema project expands to forge a bond between Japanese and Ugandan children
A project that began with a simple idea to deliver the magic of cinema to children in Africa has not only led to a cultural exchange but to an unlikely collaboration — the production of a music video by Japanese and Ugandan elementary school children.
OLYMPICS
Feb 2, 2018
Japan sports leaders not happy CAS overturned 28 doping bans
Japanese officials expressed unease after the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Thursday overturned lifetime Olympic bans on 28 Russian athletes.
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CULTURE / Film
Jan 10, 2018
Zen and the art of documentary film
It's the second day of the new year and unseasonably warm outside Pole-Pole Higashi-Nakano, one of Tokyo's few remaining art-house theaters. Husband-and-wife filmmakers Werner Penzel and Ayako Mogi take a seat in the morning sun, taking off their coats while marveling at the weather.
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JAPAN / Society
Jan 10, 2018
Children from low-income households see more after-school assistance from municipal authorities and support groups
Municipalities and support groups are offering after-school care for children who are alone at home because their parents have to work long hours or late at night due to low income, hoping to break the poverty cycle.
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JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Sep 30, 2017
Japan's pensioners are literally getting older
Because of the election announced by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday, the new Cabinet he formed last summer to boost his falling support rate will do no work, since it was launched during the summer vacation and Abe dissolved the Diet as soon as it opened on Thursday.

Longform

Traditional folk rituals like Mizudome-no-mai (dance to stop the rain) provide a sense of agency to a population that feels largely powerless in the face of the climate crisis.
As climate extremes intensify, Japan embraces ancient weather rituals