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BUSINESS
Jun 22, 2018

Japan's financial watchdog tells banks to report suspicious transfers by joint ventures with North Korea

The Financial Services Agency has told banks to report any suspicious money transfers involving 10 Japan-North Korea joint ventures, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said Friday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 22, 2018

Covert cabs: Yokohama taxi company employs 'ninja' drivers to chauffeur customers

As visitors from overseas flock to Japan, companies in the tourism industry are finding creative ways to tap a classic, stealthy image of the country.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 22, 2018

New graduates hope for work-life balance rather than boardroom role

Working long hours to move up the job ladder is a lower priority for newly employed graduates in the nation, according to a recent survey published by the Japan Productivity Center (JPC).
Reader Mail
Jun 22, 2018

Not the usual Japan hospitality

I am a visitor from Singapore and was with my family visiting the information center of Hokkaido University (Sapporo) on the afternoon of June 13. We were there to browse through some brochures and check out some of the university products on sale.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 22, 2018

Despite Trump order, border child separations could go on, legal experts say

The much-vilified U.S. policy of separating children from parents who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border could continue under certain circumstances because of ambiguous language in President Donald Trump's order meant to end the practice, legal experts said.
JAPAN
Jun 22, 2018

Volcano featured in James Bond movie erupts, ejecting smoke and rocks

A Japanese volcano that featured in a 1960s James Bond movie erupted explosively on Friday for the first time since April, sending smoke thousands of meters into the air less than a week after a strong earthquake shook Osaka Prefecture.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 21, 2018

New Zealand leader Jacinda Ardern gives birth to her first child, a girl

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern gave birth to her first child, a girl, on Thursday, Ardern said in a posting on Instagram.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 21, 2018

In interview, Malaysia's Najib says advisers hid corruption from him

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak says he shouldn't be blamed for the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal, and declares he knows nothing about money from the state fund appearing in his personal account.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 21, 2018

Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping agree to boost 'strategic, tactical' cooperation

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed measures to bolster "strategic and tactical" cooperation between the two countries in a second meeting on Wednesday, the North's state media said on Thursday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 21, 2018

Scientific study finds asylum seekers boosting European economies

Asylum seekers moving to Europe have raised their adopted nations' economic output, lowered unemployment and not placed a burden on public finances, scientists said on Wednesday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 20, 2018

Impressions on the Trump-Kim summit

Japan must cooperate as much as possible with the denuclearization of North Korea, fully mindful of the positive impact it will have on its own security.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 20, 2018

Silicon Valley-style coding boot camp seeks to reset Japan Inc.

Barely six months after inaugurating a tiny software-coding boot camp in a basement in Tokyo, Silicon Valley transplant Kani Munidasa stood before some of Japan's top business leaders in February with a warning: Software was threatening their future.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 20, 2018

Hiding from traffickers in 'prison-like' tents, Rohingya girls dream of school

Trapped inside "prison-like" tents in Bangladesh's refugee camps because of fears they will be trafficked or sexually harassed, teenage Rohingya girls dream of going to school and playing outside, aid agencies said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 20, 2018

Stocks dive as Trump threatens almost all imports from China and Beijing fires back

China has underestimated President Donald Trump's resolve to move forward with tariffs unless Beijing changes its "predatory" trade practices, a top U.S. trade adviser said on Tuesday, in comments that diminished the chances of a negotiated settlement to a looming trade war between the world's economic...
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 19, 2018

As Venezuela's health system crumbles, pregnant women flee to Colombia, fearing death at home

Exhausted but relieved, Yariani Flores lay next to her healthy newborn son, along with four other Venezuelan women who just gave birth in a hospital in Colombia's border city of Cucuta.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 18, 2018

Who'll fill the global power vacuum Trumpism is creating?

China? Russia? No one?
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 18, 2018

Japan Display looks to road ahead with automotive displays

Japan Display Inc. has been on a rough road for the past four business years, during which the Tokyo-based display manufacturing giant has faced an uphill battle in smartphone panel markets and ended each year with a net loss.
LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
Jun 18, 2018

Learn how to use 'to tomo ni' while also tackling 'ni tomo natte' in Japanese

Introducing u3068u3068u3082u306b and u306bu3068u3082u306au3063u3066, which express two related changes of action or state.
WORLD
Jun 18, 2018

Syria accuses U.S. of bombing pro-regime positions

Syrian state media said Monday that U.S.-led coalition aircraft had bombed "one of our military positions" in eastern Syria, leading to deaths and injuries, but the U.S. military denied carrying out strikes in the area.
JAPAN
Jun 18, 2018

To counter overstayers, Japan plans new surveillance system to manage foreign residents' data

Japan plans to set up a system to centrally manage information on foreign residents to prevent overstayers from growing as the national labor crunch worsens, officials said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 18, 2018

Latest poll shows Turnbull's popularity has risen, but party still trailing opposition

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's personal popularity is at its highest level in two years, an opinion poll showed Monday, but his government still trails the opposition a month before crucial by-elections.

Longform

Wealthier women in the prewar era had been the targets of various media-related health campaigns that mistakenly encouraged them to avoid everything from riding bicycles to reading novels when their monthly cycles came around.
Menstruation in Japan: Breaking the silence, slowly