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Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 4, 2019

Trump denies retreat on census citizenship question, contradicting own officials

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said his administration had not dropped its efforts to add a contentious citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. census, contradicting statements made by his own officials, including Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 28, 2019

Trump fumes as U.S. Supreme Court blocks census citizenship question

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday handed President Donald Trump a stinging defeat, blocking his contentious citizenship question planned for the 2020 census because officials gave a "contrived" rationale and prompting Trump to suggest an extraordinary delay in the constitutionally mandated population...
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Apr 2, 2019

Trump declares U.S. census 'meaningless' without citizenship question

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday injected himself into one of the most consequential cases of the current Supreme Court term, saying the nation's 2020 census would be "meaningless" without adding a citizenship question to the questionnaire.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 3, 2019

U.S. drops fight to add census citizenship question, New York says

The Trump administration is abandoning its hard-fought plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census after the U.S. Supreme Court questioned its justification.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 12, 2018

Wilbur Ross spoke to immigration foe Steve Bannon about citizenship question on census, DOJ says

Wilbur Ross spoke with Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump's former chief strategist, before including on the 2020 census a question about people's citizenship, the Justice Department said in a court document that appears to contradict what the commerce secretary told Congress.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 27, 2018

Abe says question time has outlived its usefulness

The one-on-one question time of the prime minister by opposition party leaders — introduced in 2000 to reinvigorate parliamentary debates — has outlived its usefulness and no longer functions in the Diet, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe argued Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 16, 2018

University entrance exam question on Moomins series leaves Japanese students bewildered

A confusing question on the annual university entrance exam featuring hippopotamus-like creatures and Nordic languages left many Japanese high school students scratching their heads.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 28, 2019

In apparent first, North Korea's Kim responds to question from foreign media

In an apparent first, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has directly responded to a question from a foreign reporter Thursday in Hanoi, ahead of one-on-one talks with U.S. President Donald Trump at the pair's second summit.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 3, 2018

U.S. top court won't halt trial over census citizenship question

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected a request by President Donald Trump's administration to halt a trial set to begin on Monday that will test the legality of the government's contentious decision to ask people taking part in the 2020 national census whether they are citizens.
JAPAN
Aug 15, 2000

Dental test question allegedly leaked

A question contained in the National Dentistry Examination conducted in March was leaked to dentistry department students at Ohu University, a private university in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, Health and Welfare Ministry officials said Monday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 30, 2021

How the Irish question affects us all

Partition of Ireland was the solution in the last century, but now it persists as the impossible problem in this one.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 17, 2020

Chinese media blasts 'lawless' Hong Kong schools over Japan history question

Chinese state media said Hong Kong schools have become "lawless" as controversy builds over a history question in a school exam, rekindling tensions over academic freedoms in the semiautonomous city.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech / FOCUS
Feb 19, 2020

Edison, Morse and Watson? AI poses question of who's an inventor

Computers using artificial intelligence are discovering medicines, designing better golf clubs and creating video games.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 1, 2022

With the invasion of Ukraine, the test of wills begins

The West hoped to deter Putin from invading. It failed. Now the question is whether the countries aligned against him can impose sufficient pain to force a retreat.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 11, 2021

Biden-Xi phone call raises key question: Who will blink first?

For Biden, giving in on any of China's requests could prove politically difficult, even as a contingent of Wall Street veterans push to improve ties.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Mar 28, 2018

New York attorney general to lead multistate suit to block Census citizenship question

New York state's attorney general said on Tuesday he will lead a multistate lawsuit to try to stop the federal government from asking people whether they are citizens in the 2020 Census, arguing the move will discourage immigrants from participating.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 24, 2016

The Brexit question that nobody has asked

Is Britain's less-than-full-hearted commitment to the European adventure best pursued as an increasingly anomalous member of a broken EU or as a concerned and friendly neighbor?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / HOTLINE TO NAGATACHO
Dec 10, 2014

Question of negligence hangs over nuclear firms in U.S. case over Fukushima fallout

Why hasn't the Japanese government, like the USS Ronald Reagan sailors, filed its own lawsuits against these nuclear companies to determine their legal liability for the Fukushima disaster?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 18, 2014

Hideaki Anno: emotional deconstructionist

With dozens of the renowned filmmaker's works scheduled to be screened at the Tokyo International Film Festival over the next two weeks, we speak to the man behind the 'Evangelion' sci-fi franchise about his apocalyptic influences and prod him on the question that is on every fan's lips
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 16, 2014

Scottish referendum asking the wrong question

By allowing the Sept. 18 referendum question to be framed as 'Should Scotland be an independent country?' the U.K. government may have unwittingly skewed the outcome in favor of a 'yes' vote.
LIFE / Digital / TECH_JAPAN
Sep 21, 2011

Interviewed like a star: Anonymous question and answer site is proving popular in Japan

Over the last month or so, a new social service has risen out of the blue in the Japanese Web.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
May 29, 2009

Kirihito "Question"

With a reputation for furious, hypnotic live performances, and a sound that evades all attempts to pin it down with the usual genre cliches, Tokyo-based duo Kirihito have gradually carved themselves a position as legends in the underground-music scene despite only releasing albums sporadically over the...
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Sep 8, 2005

Could chimp genome answer Plato's question?

In the 1960s, Toshisada Nishida, of Kyoto University, set up a long-term research project in the Mahale Mountains of Tanzania. His aim was to study our closest relatives in the wild. His work, and that of Jane Goodall, whose field site was some 170 km north, in Gombe, transformed the way we view chimps....
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (left) and Yuichiro Tamaki (right), leader of the Democratic Party for the People, hold a party leaders' debate in June 2021.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 28, 2024

Is Japan-style 'question time' facing abolition in parliament?

Both ruling and opposition parties have shown a lack of enthusiasm for holding such events, with some forces even advocating for its abolition.
Sam Altman, then-CEO of OpenAI, attends the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO summit in San Francisco on Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 20, 2023

The AI safety debate after OpenAI CEO's ouster

It's important to align technology with human interests as AI systems are more likely to lower than raise existential risks.
The Dvorak Dreams project leveraged AI to retrieve, synthesize and extend the legacy of an earlier cultural pioneer.
COMMENTARY / The Year Ahead
Dec 28, 2023

The AI question we should be asking

Artists working with AI can map out a path for the technology’s role across society more broadly.
Activists opposed to lethal autonomous weapons, or so-called killer robots, protest in Berlin in March 2019.
COMMENTARY
Mar 27, 2024

Don’t fear AI in war, fear autonomous weapons

It’s not the algorithmic intelligence in our weapons and nukes but automaticity that poses an existential risk.
Taiwan stuns Samurai Japan to capture Premier12 title
Japan starter Shosei Togo reacts after allowing a three-run home run against Taiwan in the fifth inning of the Premier12 final on Sunday.
Japan and U.S. to form missile plan in case of Taiwan emergency
A U.S. Marine Corps M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) and a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force Type 12 Surface-to-Ship Missile (12SSM) system are put on display at a symposium at a base in Kisarazu, Japan, in June 2022.
Preparations for Osaka Expo well underway amid lack of excitement
The Grand Ring, a symbol of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka
Ishiba shelves proposal for liaison offices with North Korea amid rising tensions
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks on Saturday in Tokyo at a rally that was held by a group of families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea decades ago to demand the immediate return of all abductees.
'Kohaku' still matters for J-pop bragging rights
Emerging Gen Z J-pop group ME:I will perform on this year's "Kohaku Uta Gassen," national broadcaster NHK’s New Year's Eve spectacle.
How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can’t seem to quit
A man walks past a gasoline station in Tokyo on Thursday.
An iconic 32-foot doughnut might give Randy’s an edge in Japan
Randy's Donuts in Inglewood, California. Replicas of the giant doughnut sculpture will be installed, where possible, at shops in Japan.
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.

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