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JAPAN / Politics

Aug 20, 2014

Debate on foreigner voting rights reignites ahead of 2020 Olympics

By Ayako Mie

The debate over voting rights for non-Japanese residents is flaring up again, amid a drive to attract more foreign workers ahead of the Tokyo Summer Olympics in 2020.

JAPAN

Aug 20, 2014

U.S. ice bucket challenge picked up by Japan's movers and shakers

By Tomohiro Osaki

A U.S.-based social media challenge daring people to douse themselves with buckets of ice water spreads to Japan, with celebrities from billionaire Masayoshi Son to singer Ayumi Hamasaki taking up the gauntlet to boost awareness of what is known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

JAPAN / ANALYSIS

Aug 20, 2014

Osaka mayor paints ambitious picture of prefecture in 2025 plan

By Eric Johnston

If Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto has his way, by 2025, as it prepares to host that year's International Expo, Osaka will have become an international entertainment capital, home to a casino resort, the site of a major electronic car race and a bicycle race that rivals the Tour de France.

JAPAN

Aug 20, 2014

ALS Ice Bucket Challenge in Japan

By mkt

JAPAN / Society

Aug 20, 2014

Single fathers emerge from the shadows

By Mami Maruko

Hiroki Yoshida, a father of three children aged 6, 8 and 11, suddenly became a single father four years ago, when his wife walked out without warning.

JAPAN

Aug 20, 2014

Remains found on Mount St. Helens identified as those of Japanese hiker

Human remains discovered on Washington state's Mount St. Helens have been identified as a Japanese hiker who vanished last November while trying to climb to the volcano's summit alone, officials said Tuesday.

ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Aug 20, 2014

Pakistani military gains political power as protests weaken Sharif

Besieged Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been assured by the military there will be no coup, but in return he must "share space with the army," according to a government source who was privy to recent talks between the two sides.

WORLD

Aug 20, 2014

Gaza war rages on; Hamas says Israel tried to kill its military chief

Israeli airstrikes killed 11 Palestinians in Gaza, including the wife and infant son of Hamas' military leader, Mohammed Deif, in what the group said Wednesday was an attempt to assassinate him after a cease-fire collapsed.

WORLD / ANALYSIS

Aug 20, 2014

In riot-hit Ferguson, traffic fines boost tension and budget

By Dan Burns and Megan Davies

When calm and order is finally restored to Ferguson, Missouri, the city's leaders may find little room to maneuver to resolve an issue that has long inflamed racial tensions: traffic tickets.

WORLD / FOCUS

Aug 20, 2014

As Missouri violence flares, fingers point to outsiders

By Scott Malone

As darkness fell on Ferguson, Missouri, the crowd of several hundred people protesting the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teen quickly and radically changed.

WORLD

Aug 20, 2014

Missouri racial violence recalls apartheid, U.N. rights chief says

By Stephanie Nebehay

Clashes between police and protesters in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson are reminiscent of the racial violence spawned by apartheid in her native South Africa, the top U.N. human rights official said in an interview Tuesday.

WORLD

Aug 20, 2014

U.S. views on Missouri shooting vary starkly by race: poll

U.S. blacks are twice as likely as whites to view the fatal Missouri shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer through the lens of race, according to a nationwide poll released on Monday.

WORLD / Crime & Legal

Aug 20, 2014

Indicted Texas governor, Rick Perry, has fingerprints and mug shot taken

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a possible Republican presidential candidate in the 2016 race, was fingerprinted and had his mug shot taken by judicial authorities on Tuesday after being indicted last week on two felony charges of abusing power.

WORLD / Crime & Legal

Aug 20, 2014

U.S. government's nuclear watchdog victim of cyberattacks: report

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission was "successfully hacked" three times in recent years in attacks involving tainted emails, according to an internal investigation on cyberattacks at the agency, Nextgov.com reported on Tuesday.

WORLD

Aug 20, 2014

St. Louis police fatally shoot man with knife, authorities say

Police in St. Louis killed a man they say brandished a knife and refused to drop it.

WORLD / Crime & Legal

Aug 20, 2014

Hackers steal encrypted passwords of MeetMe social network users

Hackers gained access to some names, emails and encrypted passwords of users of MeetMe Inc.'s social network, the company said.

WORLD

Aug 20, 2014

Scene of fighting, grandiose Mosul Dam always beset with problems, threat of collapse

The Mosul Dam was always meant to be a symbol of Iraq's grandiose ambition to escape poverty and underdevelopment.

BUSINESS / Economy

Aug 20, 2014

Exports rebound in boost for Abe's policies

Japan's exports rose more than forecast in July, bouncing back from two straight declines to support an economy that contracted last quarter by the most since the period immediately following the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011.

BUSINESS

Aug 20, 2014

Two Belgian nuclear reactors may be closed permanently

Two Belgian nuclear reactors owned by GDF-Suez unit Electrabel may remain offline until spring and may need to be halted permanently, Belgian state broadcaster VRT reported on Tuesday.

BUSINESS / Economy

Aug 20, 2014

Skepticism over Abe's inflation goal grows as price gauge retreats

Traders are growing more skeptical Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will achieve his 2 percent inflation target after a sales tax increase derailed growth.

EDITORIALS

Aug 20, 2014

Focus less on food self-sufficiency

The government should stop obsessing about raising Japan's food self-sufficiency rate and instead diversify food-import sources.

EDITORIALS

Aug 20, 2014

Watch out for fraudsters

The police, local government officials and community volunteers should strive to educate the elderly members of their community about the danger of fraud.

BASEBALL / MLB

Aug 20, 2014

MLB names four stars for series against Samurai Japan

By Kaz Nagatsuka

As the Nichibei Yakyu extravaganza returns for the first time in eight years, Major League Baseball looks set to bring a serious squad to Japan come November.

MORE SPORTS

Aug 20, 2014

Japan rallies past Russia at World Grand Prix Finals

By Jack Gallagher

Japan came from behind to defeat Russia in four sets (22-25, 25-20, 25-21, 25-17) on the first day of play in the FIVB World Grand Prix Finals at Ariake Colosseum on Wednesday night.

MORE SPORTS

Aug 20, 2014

Lotterer replaces Kobayashi for Belgian Grand Prix

Three-time Le Mans winner Andre Lotterer will make his Formula One debut in Belgium this weekend after Caterham announced on Wednesday the German driver would be replacing experienced Japanese Kamui Kobayashi.

CULTURE / Film

Aug 20, 2014

In the ethnographic realm of the senses: An interview with Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor

By Giovanni Fazio

You may think you know what a documentary film is — "Life as it is," as Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov once put it — but you probably haven't seen any documentaries like the ones being produced by the filmmakers at Harvard University's experimental Sensory Ethnography Lab.

CULTURE / Film

Aug 20, 2014

No leader of the pack, but still a heartthrob

By Mark Schilling

What is it with women and bad boys on motorcycles — including college boys with pretensions to being bad? A conundrum of my youth. Yes, I understood the appeal of a Marlon Brando or James Dean with a big thrumming machine between his legs, but why did the women I knew prefer riding on a Honda with...

CULTURE / Film

Aug 20, 2014

Zulu (Cape Town)

By Giovanni Fazio

Any movie with Orlando Bloom in it is getting an extra star this month because he recently did what so many of us have longed to do: He took a swing at Justin Bieber. Hell, I'd give him five stars if he had landed that punch, but the Beaver was saved by his entourage before "manning up" and taking the...

CULTURE / Film

Aug 20, 2014

The Great Beauty

By Kaori Shoji

'The Great Beauty" recalls two other films set in Rome: "La Dolce Vita" and "Roman Holiday." The former takes huge bites out of the city's decadence and debauchery in much the same way as "The Great Beauty." The latter takes a mere lick at the pleasures proffered by Rome and declares satisfaction. The...

CULTURE / Film

Aug 20, 2014

Leviathan

By Giovanni Fazio

One reviewer jokingly suggested that the alternative title of "Leviathan" could be "David Lynch, Gone Fishin', " and there's some truth to that: While the film is a documentary of a New Bedford fishing trawler working the North Atlantic, the disorienting, woozy aesthetic and soundtrack of industrial...

CULTURE / Film

Aug 20, 2014

Sacro GRA

By Kaori Shoji

"Sacro GRA" takes the all-roads-lead-to-Rome adage one step further by telling us that one of those roads is actually sacred — the 65-odd-km GRA (Grande Raccordo Anulare). It's Italy's most expensive highway, circling Rome in one big loop. Documentarian Gianfranco Rosi took his camera to the GRA (seen...

CULTURE / Film

Aug 20, 2014

Lee Daniels' The Butler (originally released as "The Butler)

By Kaori Shoji

Director: Lee DanielsLanguage: English

CULTURE / Film

Aug 20, 2014

Orphan Black

By Giovanni Fazio

Language: English

CULTURE / Stage

Aug 20, 2014

'Babel' dance speaks volumes

By Nobuko Tanaka

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet have lots in common.

CULTURE / Stage

Aug 20, 2014

Gala time for kabuki icon Sakata Tojuro IV

By Rei Sasaguchi

The eighth annual instalment of NHK Enterprises' Gei-no-Shinzui (Essence of Art) summer kabuki gala, to be staged August 22 at the National Theatre in Tokyo, will star Living National Treasure Sakata Tojuro IV, one of those rare actors as famed for his portrayals of men as for his prowess as an onnagata...

CULTURE / Entertainment news

Aug 20, 2014

Cliff Richard cancels Canterbury Cathedral performance amid sex probe

British singer Cliff Richard, whose house was searched last week by police investigating allegations of a sexual offence involving an underage boy in the 1980s, has canceled a performance he was due to give next month in Canterbury Cathedral, his spokesman said on Tuesday.

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE

Aug 20, 2014

A high price to pay for a little peace of mind

By Baye McNeil

Sometimes it's hard to believe the American that emerged, naked and naive, from Narita International Airport back in 2004 and the person writing this column are one and the same. Life in Japan has made me, unmade me and remade me. I've unpacked and sorted through all sorts of koto (generally, things...

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST

Aug 20, 2014

Dreaming of shoveling snow in high summer

By Thomas Dillon

Yeah, I know. The thermometer is shooting for the moon and the humidity makes each stride forward seem more like a breaststroke.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.

A boom for business tourism in Japan?

By Kathryn Wortley

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