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JAPANESE

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.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 30, 2016
Finance Ministry vs. the currency speculators
The Finance Ministry remains hesitant to back its tough talk with action, not least because of U.S. disapproval of supposed 'currency manipulation.'
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Aug 27, 2016
Japan's super-rich: fun to envy, difficult to emulate
Japanese multimillionaires are the object of intense study by members of the country's middle class, especially those who entertain probably unrealistic hopes of emulating them.
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2016
Rengo poll finds 20% of respondents know of workplace LGBT harassment
More than 20 percent of workers have seen discriminatory acts against LGBT people in the workplace, according to a survey by the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo).

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