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WORLD
Jul 1, 2016

Muslims, Eastern Europeans targeted as hate crime reports spike 500% in U.K. after Brexit vote

The number of hate crimes reported to British police online, including assaults, has increased by more than 500 percent in the week after the country voted to leave the European Union, a senior police chief said on Thursday.
Japan Times
LIFE / EVENTS AND INFORMATION
Jun 30, 2016

Essay contest examines global trade initiatives

The Japan Foreign Trade Council, Inc. (JFTC) has started accepting entries for its 12th annual essay competition under the topic of "Searching for a New Initiative in Global Trade and the Role of Japanese Companies."
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 30, 2016

No need to rush out of EU

Slowing down the Brexit process would maximize Britain's leverage in its negotiations with the EU.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 30, 2016

Abenomics brings salarymen no relief as wives limit allowances

Japan's long-suffering salaried workers, famous for toiling long hours, have found no relief under the Abenomics reflation program, recording two of the three worst years when it comes to their monthly pocket money.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 29, 2016

Britain, not the European Union, will survive

After Brexit, Europe could finally emerge as a strong international actor, but sadly the political will to achieve such an outcome is unlikely to emerge.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Jun 29, 2016

Matsui happy to be Japan's sixth man

Keijuro Matsui isn't quite like the rest of the 12 players on the Japan men's national team for the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Belgrade.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Jun 29, 2016

Child welfare law revised but tens of thousands remain institutionalized in Japan

A baby lies in a metal-bar cot drinking from a bottle perched on his pillow in a Tokyo orphanage. There's no one to hold and feed him or offer words of comfort.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 29, 2016

France sends data files from crashed EgyptAir jet's repaired black box back to Egypt

Data files from crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 were sent to Egypt on Tuesday after one of the plane's black box flight recorders was repaired in France, bringing investigators closer to explaining the doomed jet's fate.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 28, 2016

Line shoots for ¥112 billion IPO amid market tumult

Line Corp., Japan's most popular mobile-messaging service, and its owners are aiming to raise as much as ¥112 billion in what could become the biggest technology initial public offering globally this year.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 28, 2016

Post-Brexit, Japan redefines idea of safe havens

Risk-averse investors who flocked to the yen in the aftermath of Brexit may want to consider a safer haven.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 28, 2016

Erdogan needs like-minded Putin

What's a mere apology between two dictators who can do a lot to prop each other up?
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 28, 2016

The EU, not Britain, has a democracy deficit

There is no European public to which the EU can be held accountable.
JAPAN
Jun 28, 2016

U.S. sailors in Japan once more allowed on the town after bar ban lifted

Bars near U.S. naval bases in Japan expect business to return to normal now that an in-town drinking ban for sailors has been lifted.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jun 28, 2016

Stranded Syrian refugees' desert plight worsens as Jordan blocks aid

Thousands of Syrian refugees stranded on Jordan's northeastern border with Syria are running out of food after a militant suicide attack prompted the army to shut the area, international relief workers and refugees said on Monday.
EDITORIALS
Jun 27, 2016

Britain, an island again

At their root, the forces behind Brexit are fears of loss — of autonomy and opportunity.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 27, 2016

Abe right to delay tax hike

The prime minister recognizes the need to balance the imperatives of debt reduction and economic growth.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 27, 2016

Tamogami pleads not guilty to paying his campaign staff

Former Air Self-Defense Force chief Toshio Tamogami tells the Tokyo District Court he's innocent.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Jun 27, 2016

La Nina to bring the heat to Japan this summer

Cases of heatstroke are likely to jump as temperatures surge this summer amid Japan's first La Nina phenomenon in six years, according to the Meteorological Agency.
LIFE / Language / COMMUNICATION CUES
Jun 27, 2016

Visitors to A-bomb museum double

The number of visitors to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum during the last weekend of May, following a historic visit by U.S. President Barack Obama, more than doubled from a year earlier to 13,389, the museum said May 30.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 27, 2016

DP's Okada challenges Abe to TV debate ahead of Upper House election in open letter

The president of the biggest opposition party on Monday dared Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to face him in a televised debate over the next two weeks leading up to the Upper House election, calling his refusal to do so unheard-of in recent years.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 27, 2016

What's next? Brexit opens up plethora of plausible scenarios

Stalemate between Britain and the European Union over what happens next following Britons' referendum vote to leave has opened up a host of possible scenarios.
Trump, claiming Japan guiding yen lower, hints at fresh tariffs
U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that if Japan and China try to weaken their currencies and put the United States "at a very unfair disadvantage," he could impose fresh tariffs on them.
Not even Japan is safe from counterfeit luxury goods
While Japan's luxury goods market remains strong, its seconhand resale market is proving just as much a draw for tourists searching for great bargains — as long as they can manage to get their hands on the real deal.
Trump to order U.S. Education Department abolished, WSJ reports
People walk past the Department of Education building in Washington on Feb. 4.
China’s military puts Pacific on notice as U.S. priorities shift
A photo released by the Australia Defense Force showed an Australian Navy ship in the foreground and two Chinese navy ships in the Tasman Sea in February.
Snow forces highway closures in Tokyo
Officials from the Meteorological Agency hold a news conference about the heavy snow forecast, on Sunday in the city of Saitama.
Can Shiori Ito’s documentary open Japan’s black box?
Shiori Ito is the first Japanese director to have been nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary feature film. "Black Box Diaries," which tells the story of her quest for justice following her rape in 2015, hasn't been released in Japan.
Japanese stocks stalled at 1989 levels as investors weigh tariffs and rates
An electronic sign displays the benchmark Nikkei stock average on a street in Tokyo. The stock average has been range-bound between about 38,000 and 40,000 since hitting a new all-time high in July last year.
Redevelopment and resistance in historic Nishiogikubo
Tsuyoshi Mizukoshi, owner of a pub in Nishiogi’s commercial area, is a community organizer who is rallying local residents against the road development plan.
Why the latest Iwate wildfire is so difficult to extinguish
Firefighters work to extinguish the forest fire in the city of Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, in this screenshot of a video footage from the Fire and Disaster Management Agency on Friday.
Japan’s climate heroes show potential and limits of local initiatives
Hidetaka Ishii, an official at the Chiba Municipal Government, says close coordination with private-sector operators is key for regional decarbonization efforts.

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Pedestrians commute through Shibuya Station in central Tokyo, an area that is almost never devoid of people.
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