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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 5, 2015

U.S. jobs report clears way for Fed interest rate hike

U.S. employment increased at a healthy pace in November, in another sign of the economy's resilience, and will most likely be followed by the first Federal Reserve interest rate rise in a decade later this month.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 4, 2015

Forget 'smart' new cities; India needs old ones to be less dumb

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has grand designs to build 100 futuristic "smart" cities in India, but as this week's devastating flooding in Chennai shows, fixing today's accident-prone metropolises appears to be the more pressing task.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 30, 2015

Memo to Moscow: Syria is Turkey's Ukraine

Ankara is determined to make it clear that no solution for Syria can be reached unless Turkish interests are fully taken into account.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Nov 23, 2015

Fate of troubled Monju reactor hangs in the balance

The prototype fast-breeder reactor's future sits under a cloud after 20 years of misfires.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 23, 2015

Key Democrat Feinstein hits U.S. approach to strengthening, spreading Islamic State

Leading Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein said on Sunday the United States is not doing enough to fight Islamic State, and the group is gaining strength outside Iraq and Syria.
WORLD / Society
Nov 23, 2015

Indonesia may offer islet to process Australia-bound refugees if Canberra funds effort

Indonesia is considering offering a small island to process refugees captured en route to Australia, its security ministry said on Friday, in what would make it the third country this year to offer help with Australia's tough immigration policy.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 22, 2015

Few dissenting voices as France curbs rights after massacre

France calls itself "the homeland of human rights" but has focused in the past week on limiting them as the government pushed through sweeping curbs on basic freedoms in the wake of the Paris massacre.
Japan Times
CULTURE
Nov 21, 2015

Yukio Mishima's enduring, unexpected influence

Forty-five years ago this week — at just after 10 a.m. on the bright, cold morning of Nov. 25, 1970 — a telephone rang at the Tokyo home of popular enka singer Hideo Murata. On the line was author Yukio Mishima, a man who in the short space of his 45 years had lived life more fully than perhaps seemed...
WORLD / Society
Nov 20, 2015

Tech-savvy sex traffickers stay ahead of authorities as lure teens online

When Nicole was age 17 and her mother was sent to prison for white collar crimes, she met a man on Facebook who offered to take care of her.
WORLD
Nov 17, 2015

G-20 leaders stick to 2% extra growth goal despite hurdles, widen focus to pressing issues

The leaders of the world's largest economies stuck to a goal of lifting their collective output by an extra 2 percent by 2018, even though growth remains uneven and weaker than expected globally, they said in a statement Monday.
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JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Nov 14, 2015

Abe and the media get ahead of themselves on driverless cars

In a new TV commercial for Nissan, American actress Charlotte Kate Fox, who appeared in last year's NHK morning drama series, "Massan," is driving on city streets at night. She pushes a button on the dashboard and slowly takes her hands off the steering wheel. The car continues to move, making turns...
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JAPAN
Nov 10, 2015

In first, Japanese researchers observe chimp mother and sister caring for disabled infant

A Japanese study of a chimpanzee mother caring for her disabled infant in the wild has shed light on how humans developed their social behavior.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Nov 10, 2015

U.N. rights review faults Australian asylum policies and discrimination

Australia was criticized on Monday at the United Nations for its offshore processing of asylum claims, detention of child migrants and reports it had sent back legitimate refugees.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 31, 2015

Line Music teams up with U.K.'s Omnifone

Omnifone last week confirmed a partnership with Line Music, the music-streaming site from Japanese texting service Line.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 27, 2015

Turkey-EU deal benefits all parties but refugees

Refugees' rights may get short shrift in a plan being negotiated between Turkey and the EU to stem the flow of displaced people into Europe.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 27, 2015

At least 100 dead after strong quake hits Afghanistan, Pakistan

A powerful earthquake struck a remote area of Afghanistan on Monday, shaking the capital Kabul and killing at least 24 people while 76 were killed in neighbouring Pakistan, officials said.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 20, 2015

Putin fires a shot across Obama's bow

Barack Obama insists that Vladimir Putin's intervention in Syria is a sign of weakness, but the Russian Navy's recent cruise missile launch showed rising strength.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 20, 2015

Too early for TPP cheers

The Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations were a major blow against democracy and good governance, and the deal is studded with measures distorting capitalism and free markets.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Oct 16, 2015

Tall task for Klopp in trying to turn Liverpool around

Those who expect an underachieving Liverpool to suddenly become a Premier League powerhouse because Jürgen Klopp is in charge will be disappointed. The German is an excellent manager, but not a miracle worker as some of the hype would have us believe.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 10, 2015

China warns U.S. it will not allow violations of its waters

China said on Friday it would not stand for violations of its territorial waters in the name of freedom of navigation as the United States considers sailing warships close to China's artificial islands in the South China Sea.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 4, 2015

Hundreds feared dead in Guatemala landslide, hopeful keep digging

Hopes faded of finding any remaining survivors of a massive landslide in Guatemala that killed at least 73 people, even as families scrabbled through rubble to find the bodies of loved-ones, with hundreds of others still missing.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Oct 3, 2015

Stop the presses, Yahoo News is on a roll

The Yomiuri Shimbun boasts that it is the most-read newspaper in the world owing to a "certified" daily circulation that tops 9.2 million. The Wall Street Journal, a truly international newspaper, reports daily circulation of about 1.5 million.
Reader Mail
Oct 2, 2015

NHK has plenty of good content

The letter headlined "TV force-feeding trash to viewers" in the Sept. 20 edition attempting to demean the totality of NHK-TV broadcasts ("worthless programing . . . obviously created by right-wing old men") only betrays the woeful ignorance of its author. The writer would have been well-advised to spend...
Japan Times
Reference / SO WHAT THE HECK IS THAT
Sep 26, 2015

The ups and downs of water taps

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