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VOX POPULI: Photojournalist documents a life in isolation at leprosy facility

The remains of more than 3,000 people were kept in the columbarium, a building where urns containing cremated remains are housed. “The...

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VOX POPULI: Global holiday or not, properly washing your hands is basic safety

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INTERVIEW/ Nobel Peace Prize winner Pillay outraged by U.S. sanctions on ICC

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EDITORIAL: Japan must act now to protect the ICC’s independence

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VOX POPULI: Why is Yana still farm minister if he already failed to serve Tochigi?

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VOX POPULI: Prudential Life scam dredges up old issues with insurance world

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VOX POPULI: When a public pool closes, a community loses a public space

12.10.2026 70

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VOX POPULI: Pasteur’s riddle finds a prepared mind generations later in Japan

09.10.2026 80

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VOX POPULI: It’s a digital age, but handwritten messages remain indispensable

08.10.2026 90

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EDITORIAL: Embattled farm minister Yana must be removed from his post

07.10.2026 80

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VOX POPULI: How many more Hind Rajabs faced the same cruelty in Gaza?

07.10.2026 80

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VOX POPULI: ‘Un-something’ smear needs to become a relic of the distant past

06.10.2026 100

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INTERVIEW/ Jacinda Ardern: Ex-New Zealand prime minister valued empathy, kindness

05.10.2026 100

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EDITORIAL: Todai must offer clarity on how it chose its new president

05.10.2026 100

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VOX POPULI: 16 novelists seek inspiration from the rails on night train to Matsue

05.10.2026 100

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VOX POPULI: The bitter cost, struggles behind keeping a family tofu shop afloat

02.10.2026 100

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VOX POPULI: To lead Okinawa means balancing desires of locals with Tokyo’s

01.10.2026 90

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EDITORIAL: Oversight vital for state control of intelligence agencies

30.09.2026 80

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VOX POPULI: Young voices can change politics when policy does not stifle them

30.09.2026 100

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VOX POPULI: Japan-China tensions sour 54th anniversary of restoring ties

29.09.2026 100

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EDITORIAL: Quota system among measures needed to lower gender disparity

28.09.2026 90

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VOX POPULI: When holy water turns deadly in Nepal, don’t blame the gods

28.09.2026 80

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EDITORIAL: Takaichi must act now to back her vocal support of the ICC

25.09.2026 90

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VOX POPULI: Chiba levee break a new crack in system unfit for extreme weather

25.09.2026 100

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VOX POPULI: Unregulated AI damns us with ‘two scorpions in a bottle’ dilemma

24.09.2026 100

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VOX POPULI: Growing old makes one more keenly feel the weight of ‘today’

21.09.2026 150

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OPINION/ Japan’s history of exclusionism offers timeless lesson

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VOX POPULI: Ueno exhibition explores ‘painter of the wayside’ Shigeo Egami

18.09.2026 100

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VOX POPULI: Women must also support each other to shrink the gender gap

17.09.2026 100

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EDITORIAL: World cannot abandon climate change target in Paris Agreement

16.09.2026 100

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VOX POPULI: The inescapable border politics of U.N.’s world map rescale decision

16.09.2026 100

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VOX POPULI: The warnings were there long before ‘loyal’ AIs ever went rogue

15.09.2026 100

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EDITORIAL: Continued use of force deepens hatred, division after 9/11 attacks

14.09.2026 100

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VOX POPULI: Guardian statue honors Japanese kids who died in Manchuria

14.09.2026 100

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INTERVIEW/ Yume Kitasei: NYC official talks about policy measures of Mayor Mamdani

13.09.2026 150

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VOX POPULI: Baseball great Isao Harimoto melded hardship into kindness

11.09.2026 100

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VOX POPULI: Akihiro Miwa’s advice shifts young woman’s approach to life

10.09.2026 100

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EDITORIAL: With AI getting scarier, the need for global safety standards rises

09.09.2026 100

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VOX POPULI: ‘Chairman Mao’ still towers over China 50 years after his death

09.09.2026 150

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VOX POPULI: An ode to the eggplant, a summer star no matter the recipe

08.09.2026 100

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VOX POPULI: Earthly dramas of a cosmonaut adrift, reporter’s jaunt into space

07.09.2026 100

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EDITORIAL: Government must not lose sight of original mission of ODA

07.09.2026 100

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VOX POPULI: Hit ‘Chiikawa’ movie praised as reflection of our real-world strife

04.09.2026 150

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VOX POPULI: Syed Omar died 81 years ago as a hibakusha far from home

03.09.2026 100

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VOX POPULI: Teen’s winning haiku rejects a life bound by time and its tides

03.09.2026 150

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EDITORIAL: Now is the time for Koike to show the will to face up to the bitter past

03.09.2026 100

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VOX POPULI: Timely reprint of Tezuka manga sums up anxiety of discrimination

01.09.2026 100

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VOX POPULI: Simple exercise to calm down leads artist to finding her craft

31.08.2026 100

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EDITORIAL: Don’t shatter foreigners’ hopes for permanent resident status

31.08.2026 100

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VOX POPULI: Blood clots on the rise among Kumamoto quake evacuees

28.08.2026 100

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