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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 14, 2017

MUFG plans to hire in Saudi Arabia to tap privatizations valued at $350 billion

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. is looking to hire in Saudi Arabia as the lender seeks to benefit from privatizations valued at more than $350 billion over the next five years.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 14, 2017

Danish police say entrepreneur's submarine seems to have been sunk on purpose

Danish police said Sunday they had found nobody in the wreck of a submarine owned by an inventor charged with the manslaughter of a woman who had been on board — but added the vessel seems to have been deliberately sunk.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Aug 13, 2017

Reconstructing the Japanese house

After very successful runs in Rome and London, "The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945," an exhibition of maquettes, photographs, plans and drawings, is now in the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 13, 2017

Calling the Chinese bully's bluff in the Himalayas

The more power China has accumulated, the more it has attempted to achieve its foreign policy objectives with bluff, bluster and bullying.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 13, 2017

Charlottesville violence tests Trump's presidential mettle

The real world has begun to intrude upon the presidency of Donald Trump.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 13, 2017

Latin America rejects Trump's military threat against Venezuela

After months of attacking Venezuela's unpopular President Nicolas Maduro, Latin America came out strongly against U.S. threats of military action against the crisis-hit nation.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 13, 2017

Russia probe counsel wants to interview senior White House officials

The special counsel investigating whether Russia interfered in the U.S. presidential election and possible collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign wants to speak with current and former senior White House officials, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Aug 12, 2017

METI seeks to pass nuclear buck with release of waste disposal map

Taro Kono's appointment as the new foreign minister is raising eyebrows. Though he hasn't shown any indication that he will buck Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's agenda, Kono is considered a leftish maverick within the Liberal Democratic Party, especially with regard to its nuclear energy policy, which he...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Aug 12, 2017

Larissa Corriveau: Cormorant fisher hooked on the small details

Cormorant fisher in Kyoto discusses her new challenges.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / DESSERT WATCH
Aug 12, 2017

Sesame seed-flavored soft cream: Designed with Instagram in mind

Harajuku has gone gaga over food designed for Instagram. Walk down Takeshita Street and you'll probably see people snapping shots of giant, rainbow-colored cotton candy and the like.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Aug 12, 2017

The role of rules in a 'moral education'

Human beings are born amoral. Infants know no rules, and obey none. They learn a few at home, then go to school and learn more. Everyone agrees rules are necessary. On what the rules should be there is less agreement; less still on the degree of obedience rules call for. There are times and places where...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Aug 12, 2017

The unfinished business of Indian partition

The nightmarish horrors of India's partition by the British 70 years ago on Aug. 15, 1947, cast a long shadow into the 21st century.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Aug 12, 2017

'Last Stop Tokyo': Foreigner fights fate in Tokyo's terra incognita

Novels in which naive Western sojourners in Japan become drawn into a maelstrom of violence are numerous enough to deserve a genre of their own. The most memorable include "Ransom," by Jay McInerny (1985); "Whore Banquets" by Matthew Kneale (1987); "The Bang Devils" by Patrick Foss (2003); "Tokyo" by...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 12, 2017

In bid to go global, MUFG woos overseas talent

Andrew Mitola had never heard of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. until he met recruiters for the bank during his junior year of college.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 11, 2017

China air force chief rips defense white paper, says 'Sea of Japan is not Japan's'

The head of China's air force has blasted a Japanese Defense Ministry white paper critical of Chinese military drills in and over waters near Japan, saying "the Sea of Japan is not Japan's sea."
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 11, 2017

Shigeru Ishiba top pick for next prime minister: poll

Former Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Shigeru Ishiba is the public's top choice as Japan's next leader now that gaffes and scandals have damaged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's image, a poll says.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 11, 2017

Australia cafe adopts 'man tax' to highlight gender pay gap

A Melbourne cafe went viral on social media this week after introducing an 18 percent "man tax" to raise awareness of Australia's gender pay gap.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 11, 2017

Iceland could give Google a lesson on gender policy

The valid points in the fired Google worker's gender diversity manifesto shouldn't be drowned out by a chorus of condemnation.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 11, 2017

Google cancels staff meeting, fearing online harassment over diversity controversy

Alphabet's Google canceled on Thursday a company-wide meeting scheduled to discuss the controversy over a memo opposing diversity policies, the company said, citing concerns about personal attacks on employees from far-right commentators.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 11, 2017

China should stay neutral if North Korea attacks first, official newspaper says

If North Korea launches an attack that threatens the United States then China should stay neutral, but if the United States attacks first and tries to overthrow North Korea's government China will stop them, a Chinese state-run newspaper said Friday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 11, 2017

Pig organs made safer as potential human transplants

Scientists at a Massachusetts company seeking to make pig organs safe enough to be transplanted into humans have used gene-editing technology to clone piglets that lack a potentially dangerous retrovirus, according to a study released Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2017

Japan's young farmers pin hopes on technology to revitalize agricultural industry

A new breed of younger, business- and tech-savvy farmers is transforming Japan's shrinking agriculture sector with cutting-edge techniques and marketing strategies, giving new hope to an industry in slow decline.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 11, 2017

Canadian pastor freed by North Korea is healthy, passes through Japan on way home

A Canadian pastor freed from a North Korean prison on humanitarian grounds is healthy and not in critical condition, his family said on Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / CABINET INTERVIEW 2017
Aug 10, 2017

New justice minister has no plans to boost Japan's refugee intake

Newly appointed Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa says she has no specific plan to increase Japan's intake of refugees despite the number of applicants hitting a record high last year.
Reader Mail
Aug 10, 2017

Why hold Osprey night training in Hokkaido?

Japan and the United States are said to be mulling Futenma-based Ospreys conducting night-flight training in Hokkaido to reduce the burden on Okinawa, which hosts the bulk of U.S. bases in Japan.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 10, 2017

Fugitive Venezuelan mayor urges continued resistance to Maduro as U.S. ups sanctions

A Venezuelan mayor-turned-fugitive has called for anti-government protesters to keep defying leftist President Nicolas Maduro, who has grabbed increased powers through a new legislative superbody stacked with Socialist Party loyalists.

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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.
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