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WORLD
Jul 5, 2018

EU lawmakers back plan for European Investment Bank to do business in Iran

EU lawmakers gave approval Wednesday for the European Investment Bank (EIB) to do business in Iran, overcoming an attempt to block the move and keeping alive plans to save the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran that Washington has abandoned.
CULTURE / Art
Jul 5, 2018

Pure Land Buddhism and the art of photography

Follow the Sumida River southwest from Asakusa and you'll soon reach Kuramae, an old working-class neighborhood filled with small factories, wholesale shops and temples. The area is changing, though, with single origin coffee roasters and stores selling imported pottery sprouting up next to mom-and-pop...
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 5, 2018

NATO facing deep dilemmas

Can an old-fashioned military alliance like NATO can deliver the security and physical safety modern societies need?
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 5, 2018

Mexico gets its own Trump

Out of Mexico's three presidential contenders, Andres Lopez Obrador was the least prepared to manage the bully in the White House.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 5, 2018

Overcrowded site and packed buses main complaints of Kyoto tourists as visits hit record levels

The city of Kyoto once again saw record levels of tourists in 2017, with 15.57 million foreign and Japanese visitors spending at least one night in the former capital, city officials said Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 5, 2018

Trump will join list of leaders Queen Elizabeth II has met amid protests

Protesters are planning demonstrations when U.S. President Donald Trump arrives in Britain next week for talks with Prime Minister Theresa May and a meeting with Queen Elizabeth II .
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jul 5, 2018

The cover-up: Malaysian officials reveal just how much 1MDB probe was obstructed

The government of former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak spent years systematically obstructing probes into the alleged looting of state fund 1MDB while also ruthlessly muzzling critics, according to current and former government officials.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 4, 2018

U.N. experts seek urgent release of widow of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo

U.N. human rights experts urged China on Wednesday to release Liu Xia, the widow of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, and allow her to seek treatment for deteriorating health, including traveling abroad.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 4, 2018

Co-chairman of China's HNA — one of nation's most indebted companies — dies in fall while on trip in France

HNA Group Co., the once-acquisitive Chinese conglomerate that's been selling billions of dollars in assets this year amid soaring borrowing costs, said that Co-Chairman Wang Jian died after an accident in Provence, France. He was 57.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LEARNING CURVE
Jul 4, 2018

Fukuoka's 'guest teachers' of English outstay their welcome

Job insecurity, excessive secrecy and legal curbs on dispatch teachers come under the spotlight as 120 teachers lose their classes.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 4, 2018

John Williams presents a made-in-Japan take on one of Kafka's classics

Written at the start of World War I and published in 1925 after its author's untimely death, Franz Kafka's "The Trial" is one of those novels everyone knows by reputation (or, in my case, from a fevered reading in high school).
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WORLD / Politics
Jul 4, 2018

Senate Intelligence Committee agrees with intel agencies that Putin meddled in election to help Trump win

The Senate Intelligence Committee strongly backed the finding by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a campaign to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, ultimately intending to help Donald Trump win.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 4, 2018

U.S. gives immigrants faced with removal choice of leaving with or without their children: report

The Trump administration is giving some parents who were separated from their children after entering the United States illegally the option of either being deported with their youngsters or without them, NBC News reported on Tuesday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 4, 2018

Mass rape, cannibalism, dismemberment: U.N. team finds atrocities in Congo war

Rebels and government troops in Congo have committed atrocities including mass rape, cannibalism and the dismemberment of civilians, according to testimony published on Tuesday by a team of U.N. human rights experts who said the world must pay heed.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 3, 2018

Trump's border policy making private prisons great again

Business is booming for America's vast, secretive, politically connected $5 billion private-prison industry.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 3, 2018

Japan's energy and decarbonization challenge

The nation's long-term energy strategy aims to achieve an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 3, 2018

Russians love being victorious underdogs

Why the anti-Putin opposition is mad about the national soccer team, too.
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CULTURE / Art
Jul 3, 2018

Gordon Matta-Clark: Out of the rubble

It's New York in the 1970s. The optimism of '60s America has faded into cynicism and despair. The city is so broke that it's almost bankrupt. People are fleeing to the suburbs and industry New York is shutting down, leaving abandoned warehouses, homes and tenements scattered throughout. Meanwhile, artists...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 3, 2018

Samurai Blue and fans win praise for clean exit, and dignity in defeat

Despite a heartbreaking defeat and exit from the World Cup in Russia on Monday, the Japan national team and its supporters have again won plaudits on social media not only for their fair play and sportsmanship, but also for thoroughly cleaning up the stadium, bench and dressing room.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 3, 2018

Bank of Japan expected to cut price forecasts as inflation expectations stall

The Bank of Japan is likely to cut its price growth forecasts at a policy meeting later this month as long-term inflation expectations stall, sources said, highlighting the central bank's difficulty in hitting its elusive price target.
Japan Times
SOCCER / SOCCER SCENE
Jul 3, 2018

Despite disappointing departure, Samurai Blue exceeded expectations at World Cup

Japan's exit from the World Cup on Monday was soccer at its cruelest, but once the dust has settled the team will be able to look back on its campaign with pride and satisfaction.

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