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ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jan 31, 2018

U.S. 'cautiously optimistic' over reduction in Philippine extrajudicial killings

The U.S. government is "cautiously optimistic" on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs following a decline in extrajudicial killings, a U.S. senior narcotics official said Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Jan 31, 2018

Lingering effects of 2011 disaster take toll in fallout-hit Fukushima, experts warn

There are fewer and fewer headlines these days about the catastrophe resulting from the triple core meltdown in March 2011 at Tepco's Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. But participants at a recent symposium stressed that the disaster's lingering effects continue to weigh heavily on people and municipalities...
BUSINESS
Jan 31, 2018

Coal firms plead to courts and Trump for West Coast export terminals amid snub by states

The ailing U.S. coal industry is ramping up its political and legal offensive to win approval for West Coast export terminals that could provide a lifeline to lucrative Asia markets.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Jan 29, 2018

Nagoya group home helps troubled youths build a better path to self-reliance

A nonprofit organization in Nagoya is running a self-reliance assistance home for young delinquents with no place to return to after they leave juvenile correctional facilities.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Jan 27, 2018

Game on! Japan's live-action games offer players a fleeting escape from reality

A group of surly guards inspect a line of inmates on death row standing in front of a prison.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 27, 2018

In step to national stage, a young Kennedy to rebut Trump address

U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy III, a politician with a very well-known name but relatively little prominence outside of his home state of Massachusetts, will deliver next week's Democratic rebuttal to President Donald Trump's State of the Union address.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 26, 2018

The junkies and dealers of today's social media

Monopolistic Internet platforms, especially Facebook, enable the powerful to inflict harm on the powerless in politics, foreign policy and commerce.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 25, 2018

Suspect in Sagamihara massacre planned second attack on same day

Satoshi Uematsu, awaiting trial for the 2016 massacre on a facility for the mentally disabled in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, has told Jiji Press that he planned to attack another such facility in the same prefecture on the same day.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 25, 2018

In spite of Tesla's full embrace of robots, Honda still relies on human touch

More than three decades after Honda Motor Co. first built an Accord sedan at its Marysville, Ohio, factory in 1982, humans are still an integral part of the assembly process — and that's unlikely to change anytime soon.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jan 25, 2018

Robert Mueller asked U.S. intel officials about Trump in probe of obstruction: sources

Senior U.S. intelligence officers including CIA Director Mike Pompeo have been questioned by the U.S. special counsel's team about whether President Donald Trump tried to obstruct justice in the Russia probe, sources told Reuters on Wednesday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 22, 2018

Can fake news be outlawed?

Fake news is a global problem, and it will require a global solution
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jan 22, 2018

'Fake news' crutch used by Southeast Asian leaders to control media, critics charge

Governments across Southeast Asia have a history of using laws and the judiciary to curb press freedoms — now, they have found a handy crutch to lean on as they intensify clampdowns: U.S. President Donald Trump's "fake news" mantra.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 17, 2018

Japan-EU trade agreement is about freedom

The Japan-EU FTA sends a powerful sign that U.S. retrenchment on trade will not see the democratic world abandoning the open, rules-based trading system.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 17, 2018

Blockchain and drones could play a role in Tepco's fight for survival

Shattered by the enormity of the Fukushima nuclear disaster and bleeding customers to nimbler rivals, Tokyo's lumbering, 66-year-old electric-power behemoth has a new strategy for long-term survival: reinventing itself as a cutting-edge innovator.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jan 15, 2018

Japan's parcel firms test drop-off lockers, as social change increases the costs and reduces the appeal of face-to-face deliveries

The timely and secure delivery of packages through face-to-face services has long been a source of pride for Japanese couriers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 15, 2018

High-speed rail now gives flight routes in Asia and Europe a run for their money

Across Asia and Europe, high-speed rail is providing a competitive alternative to air travel on the same routes, in terms of price and the all-important barometer of time.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 15, 2018

Mystery Twitter user 'Okasanman' has vast, and growing, following of Japan traders

On a day when billions in profits and losses would be determined by split-second trades, the salaried professionals of Japan's financial markets were glued to their news terminals. Another group was staring at the feed of an anonymous Twitter account.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / The Big Questions
Jan 14, 2018

Philip O'Neill: McGill degree offers potential to open doors for global professionals

The adage of one door closing and another opening is at best, apt, and at worst, a cliche. However, as the director of McGill University's MBA Japan Program for the past decade, O'Neill's ongoing dedication to his students centers around a refreshing truth dating all the way back to his late 20s when he first arrived in Japan.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 13, 2018

China steps up policing of multinationals over sovereignty, territorial claims

China is stepping up its policing of international companies such as Inditex SA-owned Zara and Delta Air Lines Inc. and demanding they respect the government's position on long-standing territorial disputes from Taiwan to Tibet.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
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.
Tokyo police care for lost umbrellas, keys and flying squirrels
An employee at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Lost and Found Center in the Iidabashi area of central Tokyo bags, tags and organizes thousands of items.
Japan to aid introduction of multilingual ride-hailing apps
A Nihon Kotsu Co. taxi departs one of the company's service offices in Tokyo.
Seven & I founding family sounded out KKR and others about buyout: report
A 7-Eleven convenience store in Tokyo
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.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?
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