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Nancy Snow
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 2, 2019
Hosting the Group of 20 summit did Japan no favors
By chairing a summit dominated by political hot potato centerpieces Japan has diminished its global leadership capacity.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 27, 2018
Â鶹´«Ã½ universities need more global ties
Japanese universities are becoming regionally more powerful, but they still have a long path ahead to rank among the top universities in the world.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 30, 2017
Mayor damages Osaka¡¯s image by cutting ties with San Francisco
The more Japan complains about ¡®comfort women¡¯ memorials, the more attention it draws to the issue.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 8, 2017
Japan has much to teach America about guns
Owning a gun in Japan is not viewed as a freedom equalizer. It¡¯s seen as a social disruption to the smooth and peaceful rhythm of daily life.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 12, 2017
Why Yuriko Koike is the new face of brand Japan
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike¡¯s embrace of the concept ¡®citizens first¡¯ is proving to be a recipe for success.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 5, 2017
Japan must take lead in gender diplomacy
Japan must create work and life conditions for its talented female researchers to want to remain in their native homeland.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 31, 2017
Forget Wall Street gains, U.S. soft power has crashed
The persuasive abilities of the U.S. in global public opinion has hit a new low.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 14, 2016
Is America on track to be the Great Satan again?
Donald Trump¡¯s choice for U.S. secretary of state is the right messenger to magnify the Great Satan message, but the wrong messenger to magnify the Great Protector message.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 26, 2016
Can the ultimate marketing campaign sell peace?
A Peace Age is possible, if we try hard enough.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 7, 2016
Women¡¯s empowerment: The time is now, Japan
While Â鶹´«Ã½ GDP growth is declining, the country is experiencing a rise in gross domestic power of the feminine persuasion.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 21, 2016
Ise Jingu: telling Â鶹´«Ã½ story to the rest of the world
Ise Shrine can offer world leaders a valuable message when they gather there in May.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 26, 2016
The fate of a dolphin activist in Â鶹´«Ã½ flawed democracy
Japan can change its image as the democracy where dissent is in detention by holding a debate with dolphin hunt opponent Ric O¡¯Barry before expelling him.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 23, 2015
Â鶹´«Ã½ future is an OISTer
Â鶹´«Ã½ best-kept educational secret is the world-class Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 4, 2015
In lieu of taking in refugees, Abe opens up checkbook
While Japan has not been open to accepting refugees amid the current world crisis, it has at least increased its financial contributions to addressing the problem.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 16, 2015
The Abe administration¡¯s arrogance of power moment
Before Prime Minister Shinzo Abe flexes his military muscles, indulges himself in historical revisionism and preaches to China about the rule of law, he should observe the principle of rule of law at home.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 16, 2015
Turning Â鶹´«Ã½ universities into genuine global players
If Japan wants to raise its own profile in the world, along with its universities, it must place greater emphasis on group discussion, debate and public presentation.
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 14, 2015
Branding Japan beyond Abe
The people of Japan need to be reminded of their value beyond Tokyo¡¯s central government, its dominant party, the LDP, and its main leader, Shinzo Abe.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 10, 2013
Â鶹´«Ã½ ¡®brand¡¯ as good as the people behind it
Japan should engage its citizens in a seven-year path of public diplomacy leading up to the 2020 Olympics — and to a worldbeating show of cultural history and hospitality.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
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