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Japanese Teen Says School Forced Her to Dye Her Hair

By Kate Samuelson

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Behind the Strange Japanese Trend to Cope With Stress

A new service helps Japanese women deal with the emotional effect of an extreme workplace culture

By Cassidy Paul

Tokyo Elects Its First Woman Governor Yuriko Koike

Koike immediately pledged to rein in spending on the city's 2020 Olympics

By Casey Quackenbush

White House Condemns Mass Stabbing In Japan

"The fact that this attack occurred at a facility for persons with disabilities makes it all the more repugnant and senseless"

By Nash Jenkins

This Is the World's Most Expensive City for Expatriates

Say hello to the $8 cup of coffee

By Rishi Iyengar

6 Tips to Photograph This Year's Cherry Blossoms

Cherry blossoms are back

By TIME Photo

Japan Is Spending $107 Million to Rebuild a Tiny Pacific Island

It is the latest in a series of controversial Asian maritime territorial claims

By Nash Jenkins

Perpetrator of 1985 Air India Bombing Freed

It was the deadliest terrorist strike involving an aircraft until the Sept. 11 attacks

By Nash Jenkins

Tokyo Police to Deploy Net-Carrying Drone to Catch Rogue Drones

The security measures come after a drone with minute traces of radiation was found

By Keith Wagstaff / NBC News

Watch London's Mayor Tackle a 10-Year-Old in Rugby Game

The 225lb Boris Johnson is used to throwing his weight around

By Tessa Berenson Rogers

Japanese Universities Slash Humanities and Social Sciences

The cuts, at the Education Ministry's request, have caused profound concern among academics

By Nash Jenkins

You Can Now Catch Pokémon In Real Life

Well, sort of, thanks to augmented reality technology

By Nash Jenkins

Tokyo Olympic Logo Scrapped After 'Plagiarism' Scandal

Designer Kenjiro Sano denies copying the work of others

By Mark Rivett-Carnac

Iconic Japanese Hotel Okura Closes for Demolition

"It is a destruction of culture”

By Mark Rivett-Carnac

How a Religious Sect Rooted in Yoga Became a Terrorist Group

March 20, 1995: Twelve people are killed and thousands sickened when members of a religious cult release nerve gas in the Tokyo subway

By Jennifer Latson

Is China’s Official News Agency Following Porn on Twitter?

If so, perhaps the notoriously frosty ties between the old East Asia rivals are warming at last

By David Stout

One Last Chance for Japan

If Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is going 
 to kick-start 
 his country, he’ll need to save his trademark economic program

By Michael Schuman/Tokyo
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