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VIEWS FROM THE STREET

Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
May 1, 2007
What are your reactions to the verdict on rapist Joji Obara?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Apr 24, 2007
What are your plans for Golden Week?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Apr 17, 2007
Is Japan a safe country?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Apr 3, 2007
What are your alternative remedies?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Mar 27, 2007
How can the government better spend its money?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Mar 20, 2007
Where do you browse online?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Mar 13, 2007
Where do you hang out in Tokyo?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Mar 6, 2007
What exactly is White Day?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Feb 20, 2007
What's your opinion on the comment made by the health minister?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Feb 6, 2007
Some truly dreadful jokes from public
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Jan 30, 2007
What has been your most seismic experience in this earthquake-prone nation?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Jan 23, 2007
Do you think Japan is a tolerant society?
Thomasina Larkin asks people whether they think Japan is a tolerant or intolerant society
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Jan 16, 2007
With a pension crisis looming, how do people plan to finance their twilight years?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Jan 9, 2007
What's your 2007 resolution (if you have any)?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Dec 19, 2006
What's the best gift you've ever given?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Dec 5, 2006
Views from Tokyo: What are the best ways to tackle bullying in schools?
Thomasina Larkin asks about the best ways to tackle bullying in schools
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Nov 28, 2006
Will changes to the education law foster nationalism in classrooms?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Nov 21, 2006
Where are your favorite night haunts?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Nov 14, 2006
Should Japan approve surrogate births?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Oct 31, 2006
Is the ongoing battle against global warming a losing one?
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
Yen melt-up nudges Japanese stocks into correction territory
Japanese stocks are down 10% from their July peak as the yen strengthens.
‘Crazy’ yen rally is at risk of shattering as soon as Wednesday
Some investors are warning that a yen rally is fragile, as was on show this week when the yen rapidly retraced an advance after Thursday’s stronger-than-expected U.S. economic growth figures.
Japan's average life expectancy rises for first time in three years
A decline in COVID-19-caused deaths likely helped boost the average life expectancy for Japanese men and women to rise for the first time in three years in 2023.
The Japanese Olympians looking to shine in Paris
Rim Nakamura, who is attempting to win Japan's first Olympic gold medal in cycling, will be one of the top Japanese athletes to watch at the Paris Games.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
Japan midfielder Yu Hirakawa controls the ball during a match against the United States in Kansas City, Kansas, on June 11.

Podcast

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

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
By Alex K.T. Martin

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