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LIFE / Lifestyle
Feb 13, 2015
The gourmet date: Was it love at first bite?
Want to impress on a first date? Try the following: dress to the nines, bring a gift — and get a table at the world's best restaurant halfway around the world.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Feb 12, 2015
Kawabuchi outlines bold ideas for new pro basketball league
As the first J. League chairman, Saburo Kawabuchi demonstrated strong leadership and helped its successful launch as a professional league more than two decades ago.
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Feb 12, 2015
JFA leaders take voluntary pay cut in aftermath of Aguirre ouster
Japan Football Association president Kuniya Daini will take a voluntary 50 percent pay cut for four months as a show of responsibility for the short-lived reign of scandal-tainted manager Javier Aguirre.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 12, 2015
Preparing students for the global economy
It's not uncommon for teachers in Japan to teach a subject well enough but for their stale techniques to teach students to hate the subject for life. That's why it's so important for Japan to move away from its obsession with testing.
Japan Times
SOCCER / SOCCER SCENE
Feb 11, 2015
Fallout from Aguirre affair likely to have limited reach at JFA
The hiring and firing of Javier Aguirre has left the Japan Football Association with a severe bloody nose, but it remains to be seen if anyone at the governing body will pay for it.
EDITORIALS
Feb 11, 2015
JA-Zenchu reform just a first step
The reform of JA-Zenchu alone will not make Japan's troubled agricultural sector more competitive.
SOCCER / J. League
Feb 10, 2015
Former Kashima manager Oliveira says he's not in running to replace Aguirre
Palmeiras manager Oswaldo Oliveira has ruled out the possibility of becoming Japan national team coach, telling Brazilian television on Tuesday that he was hurt at not getting a crack at the job previously.
BUSINESS
Feb 10, 2015
Japan to lower trademark, patent registration fees
The Japan Patent Office said Tuesday it plans to lower trademark and patent registration fees to cut the load on domestic companies amid competition from their foreign rivals and enhance trademark and patent protection.
JAPAN
Feb 10, 2015
Senior government official to attend Takeshima Day ceremony
The government plans to send a senior official to a ceremony this month commemorating the designation of two islets controlled by South Korea as Japanese territory.
BUSINESS / Markets
Feb 10, 2015
BOJ puts bond market on course for extinction by 2027: Japan Credit
At the pace the central bank is purchasing government bonds, Japan's sovereign debt market will be extinct by 2027.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 10, 2015
Cheaper robots predicted to replace more factory workers over coming decade
The falling cost of industrial robots will allow manufacturers to use them to replace more factory workers over the next decade while lowering labor costs, according to new research.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Feb 9, 2015
Injuries to Okinawa anti-base protesters 'laughable,' says U.S. military spokesman
In an email, a top marine official likens protesters hurt in demonstrations to diving soccer players.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 9, 2015
Abbott pledge puts Japanese submarine deal in doubt
Officials in Australia and Japan on Monday expressed skepticism and confusion over a pledge by Prime Minister Tony Abbott to give an Australian state-owned shipbuilder the option to tender for a major submarine contract, heightening the uncertainty around the project.
JAPAN
Feb 9, 2015
University of Tokyo, top school in China to form strategic partnership
Japan and China's top universities will expand their collaboration to open the door for more academic and student exchanges, a move encouraged by the first meeting last year between the two countries' current leaders, university officials said.
Japan Times
Rugby
Feb 8, 2015
Teikyo University stuns NEC in All-Japan Championship
Teikyo University became just the second collegiate side to beat a Top League team in the All-Japan Championship as it beat NEC Green Rockets 31-25 at Prince Chichibu Memorial Rugby Ground on Sunday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 8, 2015
Japan, Poland plan Tokyo summit this month
The Japanese and Polish governments are arranging to hold a postponed summit meeting in Tokyo in late February, diplomatic sources said Saturday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Feb 8, 2015
Is Australia ready to import Japan’s revolving-door-style politics?
Australian politics has worked itself into a frenzy. Prime Minister Tony Abbott, after ridiculing the previous Labor government for its public infighting, faces a leadership challenge from inside his own Liberal Party.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Feb 7, 2015
Kansai proves no barrier to travel
Having planned a family trip from our home in Tokushima Prefecture to Kobe and Osaka, we packed our 14-year-old daughter's wheelchair in the car and took the highway to Awaji Island.
Japan Times
CARTOONS / DAHL'S JAPAN
Feb 7, 2015
Underinflations
EDITORIALS
Feb 7, 2015
20 million tourists no pipe dream
The goal of attracting 20 million foreign visitors to Japan annually by the time Tokyo hosts the 2020 Summer Olympic Games is no longer considered the stuff of dreams if the tourism industry doesn't forget the basics.
Dominant Natsumi Tsunoda delivers Japan's first gold medal at Paris Olympics
Gold medalist Natsumi Tsunoda celebrates on the podium after she won the women's under 48-kg division at the Paris Olympics on Saturday.
Japan's Hifumi Abe defends Olympic title after sister falls early
Hifumi Abe reacts after defending his Olympic title in the judo men's under-66 kg division at the Champ-de-Mars Arena in Paris on Sunday.
When did summer in Japan stop being fun?
Summer in Japan is now consistently brutal enough to drive you indoors and keep you there until autumn.
In historic move, U.S. to upgrade military command structure in Japan
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (left to right), U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and Defense Minister Minoru Kihara prior their "two-plus-two" talks at the Iikura Guest House in Tokyo on Sunday
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.
Doves in ascendancy ahead of big Bank of Japan meeting this week
Taro Kono, Japan's digital transformation minister, during a Bloomberg Television interview in Tokyo, during which he mentioned that the Bank of Japan to needs to introduce a rate hike to stop the weak yen trend.
The Olympic roar is back in Paris after two pandemic-hit Games
French fans cheer on their team during an Olympic rugby sevens match on Sunday. Fans are back in force at the Games and providing a lively atmosphere for the competition after COVID-19 forced the Tokyo and Beijing Olympics to be mostly played without spectators.
For aging Japan, a troubling link between heat and dementia
The latest research indicates that heat stress is likely to worsen the condition of people with Alzheimer’s disease — which accounts for over half of all dementia cases in Japan — by making them more irritated or exacerbating their cognitive decline.
In historic move, U.S. to upgrade military command structure in Japan
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (left to right), U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and Defense Minister Minoru Kihara prior their "two-plus-two" talks at the Iikura Guest House in Tokyo on Sunday
Influencers helped cause overtourism. Can they help fix it?
More tourists than ever are guided around Japan based on the content they consume online, but can those same creators help direct them to less-populated areas of the country?

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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