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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 6, 2017

Japan's 0.5% wage increase last year the biggest since 2010

The wallets of Japan's workers ended up a bit fatter last year, with total earnings rising the most since 2010.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Feb 5, 2017

Koshiro Hino pushes the limits of control as YPY

A couple of years ago, I started to get a sense of deja-vu while loitering on the weirdo fringes of Japan's club scene. Whenever I asked DJs or producers what homegrown music they were most excited about at the moment, the same name kept coming up: Goat.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 5, 2017

Trump's international role model? Rodrigo Duterte

The Phillipines' new president, not Vladimir Putin, is the international leader closest to Trump's heart and mind.
Reader Mail
Feb 5, 2017

Japanese sumo fans can rejoice

Regarding "Kisenosato promoted to sumo's highest rank" (Jan. 26), for Japanese sumo fans this must be a huge relief.
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 4, 2017

Beijing resident crashes car near Tiananmen Square

A car crashed and overturned near Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing on Friday. Police, cautioning against the spreading of rumors, said the driver had lost control on a slippery road.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 4, 2017

German mini-world tourist attraction builds razor wire-topped wall around U.S.

In a dig at President Donald Trump's plan to build a full-sized wall along the border with Mexico, a German tourist attraction that features miniature models of various parts of the world has put up a wall around the United States.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 3, 2017

Critics decry Trump plan to have counter-extremism program focus only on Muslims, not on white supremacists

A Trump administration effort to exclude violent white supremacists from a government anti-terrorism program and focus efforts solely on Islamist extremism drew a sharp backlash Thursday, with New York state's top prosecutor denouncing the move and civil liberties advocates suggesting it is illegal....
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 3, 2017

Mosul's ruined zoo's animals starved when war kept locals from feeding them

A bear paces around a filthy cage next to a starving lion, the only two animals left in Mosul's zoo. At the edge of their tiny enclosures lies a lioness dead from starvation.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Feb 3, 2017

Yazidi child reunites with kin after Islamic State killed his parents, sold him off

His name was Ayman, but the couple who brought the boy home to their Iraqi village after buying him for $500 called him Ahmed.
Feb 2, 2017

The People vs. Fritz Bauer / T-Joy Kyoto / 2017-02-04 to 2017-02-10

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 2, 2017

Abe, beware being 'Trumpled'

Donald Trump is wrong: The world needs leaders with global, not greedy nationalistic, solutions.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 2, 2017

Lead by Tesla, battery storage facilities look to boot fossil fuels from the grid

Tesla Motors Inc. is making a huge bet that millions of small batteries can be strung together to help kick fossil fuels off the grid. The idea is a powerful one — and has been used to help justify the company's $5 billion factory near Reno, Nev. — but batteries have so far only appeared in a handful...
WORLD / Politics
Feb 1, 2017

U.S. Senate approves Chao to lead Transportation Department

Elaine Chao, a former top U.S. labor official, was sworn in on Tuesday to lead the U.S. Transportation Department, which overseas aviation, vehicle, train and pipeline safety.
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 1, 2017

Shadowy killings persist in Manila after police quit drugs war

A young man's body lay in a pool of blood, surrounded by bullet casings. A loved one rushed to the scene in the dark, rundown Manila neighborhood and howled in anguish as onlookers huddled behind a police cordon.
EDITORIALS
Feb 1, 2017

Elusive primary balance goals

The government should not rely solely on unrealistic economic growth forecasts in its bid to achieve its promary balance surplus goals.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 1, 2017

Theresa May got Trumped

However distasteful and dangerous Trump's policies may be, Britain has to find a way of getting on with him without too much damage to its interests and values.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 1, 2017

J-Power aims to burn more natural gas and wood as Abe fights climate change

Japan's biggest electricity wholesaler knows it will take more than cutting-edge coal technology to save the environment.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 1, 2017

Untested Trump seen as threat to EU like Russia, China, radical Islam, stirs German protectionism fears

Donald Trump has joined Russia, China and radical Islam as a threat to the European Union, EU leaders were told on Tuesday by the man chairing a summit where they will debate relations with the United States.
JAPAN
Feb 1, 2017

Japan's refugee rejections set to get fast track

The Justice Ministry said Wednesday it plans to soon decentralize much of its refugee application process, aiming to fast-track rejections amid concerns of a rise in illegitimate requests.

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