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JAPAN / View from Osaka
Jul 15, 2017

Doubt cast over Tomin First's national appeal

"Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be."
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MULTIMEDIA
Jul 14, 2017

July 15, 2017

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JAPAN / Politics
Jul 14, 2017

Abe's support rate slides to under 30%, poll says

Public support for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, battered by a smoldering scandal and a perception that he is taking voters for granted, has fallen below 30 percent, the lowest since he returned to power in 2012, a survey released on Friday showed.
EDITORIALS
Jul 14, 2017

The Dentsu 'karoshi' case goes to trial

The upcoming trial involving the nation's leading advertising agency can serve as a catalyst for enhanced efforts to end overwork.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 14, 2017

Asia's hierarchies of humiliation

Historical humiliations can create an all-consuming desire for vengeance that overwhelms more sober foreign policy motivations.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 14, 2017

Islamic State remains dangerous in defeat

Islamic State soon won't have a physical presence on war-zone maps — but it will live on in other forms.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 14, 2017

Idled mills hope for Trump steel tariff as plants dependent on cheap imports seek status quo

The blast furnaces and slab casters at United States Steel Corp's Granite City Works have been idle for 18 months, and laid-off workers here are pinning their hopes on President Donald Trump imposing broad new restrictions on imported steel.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 14, 2017

Trump hints he could reverse decision to exit Paris climate pact if persuaded

President Donald Trump held the door open to a reversal of his decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord on Thursday, but did not say what he would need in return to persuade him to do so.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 13, 2017

Siemens, AES combine forces for battery-based energy storage venture

Siemens AG and AES Corp., the Virginia-based independent power producer, are forming a venture to focus on a sector that's revolutionizing electricity markets: battery-based energy storage.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 13, 2017

MUFG plans to take on Wall Street banking rivals in lending push

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. is expanding its U.S. investment banking unit to look more like its bigger Wall Street rivals.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / EMBASSY PRESENTS ECO-FRIENDLY LIFESTYLE
Jul 13, 2017

Palau boasts incredible maritime diversity

Palau has boosted its efforts to preserve its rich maritime environment for generations to come, with some of the measures including the introduction of environmental protection taxes and education for children, an official from the Tokyo branch of the country's tourism office said at a recent seminar...
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 13, 2017

Trump claims he was unaware of son's 2016 meeting with Russian lawyer

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he was unaware of his son Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting last year with a Russian lawyer at the heart of a White House controversy, telling Reuters he only learned of it a couple of days ago.
EDITORIALS
Jul 12, 2017

Treaty to ban nuclear weapons is adopted

Humankind has taken an immensely important step forward.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Jul 12, 2017

Joie de viva!: A Hokkaido cross named Viva

Viva is highly intelligent, affectionate, loves other dogs, and would be an excellent companion when she gets to know you and learns to trust you.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 12, 2017

Taiwan says Chinese aircraft carrier sails into its ADIZ

China's Liaoning aircraft carrier entered Taiwan's air defense identification zone (ADIZ) early Wednesday morning on its way back from Hong Kong and was being monitored, Taiwan's Defense Ministry said, adding there was no cause for alarm.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 12, 2017

Trump associates frustrated and concerned by latest crisis, after Donald Jr. tweets emails

Fresh off one foreign trip and preparing for another, Donald Trump was enjoying a period of relative calm — until the White House was rocked by a fresh controversy over contacts between the president's campaign and Russia.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 12, 2017

Trump reportedly may replace Yellen at Fed with economic council head Gary Cohn, ex-Goldman Sachs president

U.S. President Donald Trump is increasingly unlikely to nominate Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen for a second term next year, and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn is the leading candidate to succeed her, Politico reported on Tuesday, citing four people close to the process.
Amid labor shortage, Japan approves guidelines to upskill foreign workers
A Vietnamese worker harvests tomatoes at a farm in the city of Asahi, Chiba Prefecture, in 2018.
China deploys food as a high-impact, low-cost weapon in tariff fight
Boxes of imported pork from the U.S. at a cold storage warehouse in Shanghai
Osaka Expo-linked spending expected to hit ¥1 trillion
The Osaka Expo site on Yumeshima island in December.
Man arrested after fatal stabbing of woman in Shinjuku Ward
Investigators from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police examine the scene where a woman in her 20s was stabbed on Tuesday morning in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.
Nissan CEO Makoto Uchida to step down
Makoto Uchida, CEO of Nissan, will step down from the post at the end of this month.
‘We are not Ukraine’: Top Taiwan officials temper comparisons after U.S. U-turn
People hold a Ukrainian flag and a Taiwan flag during a protest to mark the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Taipei on Feb. 23.
14 years after 3/11 disasters, Fukushima vies to become a startup hub
Aizawa Concrete employees work in the Namie factory in Fukushima Prefecture in January.
Tokyo’s vinyl experts say overseas buyers are ‘sustaining the scene’
Rintaro Sekizuka runs a record store in both London and Tokyo’s Katsushika Ward.
Slowly but surely, Osaka emerges from Kyoto’s fine-dining shadow
Bar Bota, the 37th-floor watering hole at the Four Seasons Osaka, looks out on a glittering cityscape better known for its cheap eats and drinks.
Cherry blossom season set to kick off on March 21 in Tokyo
A Weathernews forecast shows the cherry blossom season will begin on March 21 in Tokyo.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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
By Tomoko Otake

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