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JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
May 1, 2020
Cities in Japan flush bad image with upgraded public toilets
Municipalities are teaming up with corporations when carrying out renovations aimed at improving experience for tourists and families.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Apr 28, 2020
Odd couple: LDP-Komeito political marriage faces testing times
Power struggles in Abe's party could further strain the two-decades-old coalition in the weeks to come
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JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Apr 19, 2020
Komeito cash handout demand highlights Abe's fading power amid outbreak
The turnabout marked an extraordinary moment in the over seven-year-long reign of Abe, providing a glimpse of the ruling coalition's mounting exasperation with his administration.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / KANPAI CULTURE
Mar 7, 2020
Nagayamahonke Shuzojo: Sake with terroir takes root in Yamaguchi
At sake brewery, Nagayamahonke Shuzojo, brewer Takahiro Nagayama prioritizes organic rice, water and sustainability over technology. The result: sake with distinct local flavor.
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JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Feb 10, 2020
Nuclear energy exhibit to be turned into clinic for doctor-hungry Yamaguchi town
In an unusual move, a nuclear power exhibition facility in a small town in Yamaguchi Prefecture, which has been seeing a steady decline in the number of visitors in recent years, will reopen as a medical clinic when a new doctor starts work there in April.
BUSINESS / Markets
Feb 10, 2020
Japanese asset manager awaits flood of money from regional banks
Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Holdings Inc. anticipates a flood of money from yield-starved regional banks that need help reinvesting cash after redeeming government bonds.
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JAPAN / Media / DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN
Feb 1, 2020
What's in a name? For the yakuza, quite a lot
The Yamaguchi-gumi is one of the most feared crime syndicates in Japan and yet its name may become a relic of the past in 2020 if recent reports are to be believed.
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CULTURE / Art
Jan 25, 2020
'Impossible Architecture': Consider the impossible — find the visionaries
From Vladimir Tatlin's 'Monument to the Third International' (1920) to Zaha Hadid's plan for the New National Stadium of Japan, 'Impossible Architecture: The Architects' Dreams' eulogizes aborted artistic conceptions — some that technically would have been possible, others purposely preposterous.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 23, 2019
Japan's unviable whaling nationalism
The cultural nationalist project to re-imagine whaling as a national culinary culture will likely fail since it appears unlikely that whaling can become a viable commercial enterprise.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 18, 2019
Japan journalist Shiori Ito awarded ¥3.3 million in damages in high-profile rape case
Ito said she hopes her case and the court's decision will lead to changes in the criminal law that will offer victims greater protection.

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Professional cleaner Hirofumi Sakurai takes a moment to appreciate some photographs in a Gotanda apartment whose occupant died alone.
The last cleanup: Life and death in a lonely Japan