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JAPANESE

BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 14, 2016
'Safety net' needed to get young consumers to spend more: economist
Kazuhisa Takemura has an idea for helping Japan's struggling economy: Entice younger consumers to spend more by providing them a financial and emotional cushion.
EDITORIALS
Sep 13, 2016
BOJ's upcoming policy review
The Bank of Japan should candidly assess the impact of its monetary policy and consider whether it's still worth pursuing.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 13, 2016
Central bank's policies impeding recovery
Central bankers' 'central planning' of the financial sector with controlled prices for credit are failing for the same reason as central planners of communist economies failed. It's time to allow financial markets to determine interest rates.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 13, 2016
Leonard Foujita et ses modeles
Sept. 17-Jan. 15
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 13, 2016
Jiro Yoshihara: Leader of Gutai — Seeking for the New
Sept. 17-Nov. 27
WORLD
Sep 12, 2016
Bangladesh cafe attack suspect killed himself as police closed in on flat
A suspected militant believed by Bangladesh police to have been among the planners of a July cafe attack that killed 22 people killed himself during a police raid on a hideout in the capital, police said Sunday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KANPAI CULTURE
Sep 9, 2016
Japanese wine is no longer a novelty
Five years ago, Japanese wine was still considered a novelty, and finding it in Tokyo required a fair amount of searching. These days, most shops carry at least a few varieties and some have entire shelves dedicated to domestic wine. Popular magazines now run features on local producers and ways to match...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Sep 9, 2016
Being young, Japanese, a woman and a chef — in Paris
Chiho Kanzaki has been cooking for as long as she can remember. Growing up in Tokyo, she used to watch her father prepare dinner for their family and would climb onto a stool to imitate his movements in the kitchen. Like a lot of little girls enamored of the food world, she imagined herself as a baker...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 7, 2016
Japan shows why the Fed should hike rates
Tokyo's lesson is that keeping rates at zero for too long may do more to deaden confidence than instill it.
CULTURE / Film / Wide Angle
Sep 7, 2016
The Yufuin Film Festival: a movie paradise on Earth
Before attending my first Yufuin Film Festival, which was held Aug. 24-28 this year, I wondered what attracted Japanese film folk — from nationally known actors to directors of zero-budget documentaries — to this town in northern Kyushu.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 6, 2016
'Craft Arts: Innovation of "Tradition and Avant-Garde," and the Present Day'
Sept. 17-Dec. 4
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 6, 2016
'Similarity and Difference: Who's Who by Kazuo Okazaki'
Sept. 7-Oct. 30
EDITORIALS
Sep 2, 2016
DP's leadership race begins
The Democratic Party needs to choose a leader capable of transforming the party into contender capable of taking over the reins of government.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 30, 2016
'Hiroshi Sugimoto: Lost Human Genetic Archive'
Sept. 3-Nov. 13
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 30, 2016
'Meiji Kogei: Amazing Japanese Art'
Sept. 7-Oct. 30
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 30, 2016
BOJ stuck in the Stone Age
Haruhiko Kuroda's use of primitive monetary policy tools makes him the Fred Flintstone of central bankers.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
Tokyo police care for lost umbrellas, keys and flying squirrels
An employee at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Lost and Found Center in the Iidabashi area of central Tokyo bags, tags and organizes thousands of items.
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Japan approves ¥21.9 trillion stimulus plan
The policy chiefs of the Democratic Party for the People, Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito — Makoto Hamaguchi (left), Itsunori Onodera (center) and Mitsunari Okamoto — shake hands after reaching an agreement on an economic stimulus package on Wednesday.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.

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