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LIFE / Food & Drink / INVENTING THE TASTE OF JAPAN
Feb 17, 2017

Crab sticks: imitating the genuine article since 1974

The California roll is responsible for popularizing the consumption of sushi in North America.
EDITORIALS
Feb 16, 2017

A growing silence in Russia

The Putin government's need to silence an opposition leader through trumped-up charges shows its insecurity.
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COMMENTARY / World
Feb 16, 2017

U.S. rule of law under threat

The press needs to stand up to political bullying from overly sensitive politicians such as Donald Trump.
EDITORIALS
Feb 15, 2017

South Sudan mission and semantics

The government shouldn't downplay the security situation in South Sudan to justify the deployment of SDF troops there.
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COMMENTARY / World
Feb 15, 2017

Trump vs. loose economics

Trade liberalization is a worthy goal. But it should come about through carefully crafted bilateral deals rather than blunderbuss multilateral agreements.
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JAPAN
Feb 14, 2017

Apa under fire again, this time for anti-Semitic remarks

The Apa Group finds itself once again facing international criticism, this time for anti-Semitic comments made in a magazine distributed to hotels it owns and runs in Canada.
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COMMENTARY / World
Feb 14, 2017

Australia needs to wake up, grow up

Australia must chart an independent foreign policy according to a Canberra-based calculation of national values and interests.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 14, 2017

Shrinks take a stab at what makes Trump tick

What makes Donald Trump tick also makes him a ticking time bomb.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 13, 2017

Southeast Asia pins its hopes on the Japan-U.S. alliance

U.S. President Donald Trump's explicit support for Japan has partly allayed concerns over the U.S. security commitment to Japan and the region.
LIFE / Language / COMMUNICATION CUES
Feb 13, 2017

Kisenosato becomes Japan's 72nd yokozuna

Kisenosato has been officially promoted to the position of 72nd grand champion in sumo history.
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JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Feb 13, 2017

Aichi policewoman takes traffic safety message to seniors, kids

Policewomen in Aichi Prefecture, which has had the highest number of traffic fatalities nationwide for the past 14 years, have teamed up to offer safety seminars for elderly people, children and others who are often the victims of such accidents.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Feb 11, 2017

Dealing with Taiwan's nightmares past and present

On Feb. 28, Taiwan will commemorate the 70th anniversary of what is known as the 2.28 Incident, when Taiwanese rioted against mainlanders from the Kuomintang (KMT) who had taken over control of the island when the Japanese departed in 1945 following their defeat in World War II.
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BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Feb 11, 2017

Resorting to adoption to avoid inheritance tax

Revisions to the inheritance tax went into effect in 2015, and related statistics for that year were recently made public by the National Tax Agency.
Reader Mail
Feb 10, 2017

Abe missing the mark on solving labor shortage

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is in a pinch. In the face of a declining population and the ever-growing lack of eligible workers, it seems only natural that immigration law reform would be on his to-do list.
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JAPAN / Politics
Feb 9, 2017

Can golf diplomacy help Abe score win-win on trade and defense?

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is betting a round of golf with President Donald Trump will help protect Japan's crucial auto industry and strengthen defense ties with the U.S.
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JAPAN / OKINAWA BEAT
Feb 9, 2017

Designated driver service seeks to prevent drunk driving by U.S. forces

Substitute drivers in Okinawa have started giving U.S. service members a ride home inside bases to reduce incidences of drunken driving in a first in Japan.
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COMMENTARY / World
Feb 8, 2017

A call heard round the world

U.S. President Donald Trump is proving to be a master of bad diplomacy.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 8, 2017

Task force report highlights 'precarious' Sino-U.S. ties, urges visit to Japan, China to help repair relations

To better signal that the U.S. has not backed away from its role as an Asia-Pacific nation amid China's rise, President Donald Trump and his senior advisers should visit U.S. ally Japan as soon as possible, according to a new report by an expert task force detailing China policy recommendations for the...
EDITORIALS
Feb 7, 2017

U.S. defense secretary's reassurance

U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to Japan when he visited Tokyo last week.
LIFE / Language / COMMUNICATION CUES
Feb 6, 2017

Eight men hold half of the world's wealth, Oxfam study says

Just eight superrich men own as much wealth as the 3.6 billion people who make up the poorest half of the world's population, according to an analysis by Oxfam.
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JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Feb 6, 2017

Nagoya International School plans expansion to meet surging demand from expat families

Nagoya International School (NIS) in the Chubu region is planning an extension after seeing a sudden increase in students.
Reader Mail
Feb 5, 2017

Sloppy reporting on hydrogen

Regarding "Toyota, Shell betting $10.7 billion on hydrogen" in the Jan. 19 edition, when reporting on environmental matters you owe it to the planet and our children to get your facts clear and correct. Two separate sentences early in the article very strongly imply that hydrogen is an energy source....
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JAPAN / Media / DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN
Feb 4, 2017

Honesty is the best policy for lost property

Last month, I withdrew some money — ¥100,000 to be precise — from an ATM near Tokyo's Shibuya Station.
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LIFE / Food & Drink
Feb 3, 2017

Matt Goulding's 'Rice, Noodle, Fish' makes Japanese-language debut

It's well past midnight on a frigid winter's evening and the back streets are emptying fast in Namba, Osaka's effervescent, neon-lit entertainment district. But behind the unprepossessing door of Teppanyaro, the party is only just getting going.
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BUSINESS
Feb 2, 2017

Lawyers say U.S. tax plan would break WTO rules

A proposed U.S. corporate tax reform would almost certainly contravene international trade rules if implemented, lawyers have said, risking the biggest dispute in the history of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

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