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COMMENTARY / World
Mar 15, 2016

How to separate scientific fact from fiction

People must consider not just how to look for evidence that an idea is right, but how they might discover it's wrong.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 15, 2016

Why is change so hard for China's leadership?

Economic reforms in China are much like New Year's diet resolutions: easily announced and easily forgotten.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 15, 2016

Finnish go professional has all the right moves

Antti Tormanen, a native of Finland, was 12 when he developed a passion for the ancient board game of go after reading the Japanese manga "Hikaru no Go."
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 15, 2016

China calls for FBI cooperation in Internet security, counterterrorism

China wants to have deeper Internet security and anti-terrorism cooperation with the United States, China's public security minister told the visiting director of the FBI, the state Xinhua News Agency said.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 15, 2016

China anti-graft campaign to tackle misuse of poverty relief funds

China's anti-graft campaign will take on a new dimension by targeting officials who misuse or embezzle poverty relief funds, the country's top prosecutor told state media in an interview published Tuesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 15, 2016

Trump gears for key state showdown, denies any violence in 'lovefest' campaign

U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump hunted for votes in three states on Monday ahead of a crucial round of nominating contests, and dismissed outbreaks of violence at his campaign events as "a little disruption."
BUSINESS
Mar 15, 2016

Security firms see China link to 'smash and grab' ransomware attacks, possibly by disgruntled spies

Hackers using tactics and tools previously associated with Chinese government-supported computer network intrusions have joined the booming cybercrime industry of ransomware, four security firms that investigated attacks on U.S. companies said.
JAPAN
Mar 14, 2016

Kishida, Wang hold talks in effort to move bilateral ties forward

After several failed attempts to arrange a teleconference, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida was finally able to speak with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, on Monday as Tokyo seeks to defrost chilly bilateral ties.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 14, 2016

U.S. president got foreign policy fundamentals right

There is one overriding task that has guided the exercise of American power abroad since 1945.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 14, 2016

Why 3/11 didn't change Japan

The Fukushima crisis should have been a catalyst for change; instead it sustained policy inertia.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 14, 2016

Vietnam protesters denounce China on anniversary of South China Sea navy battle

Demonstrators marched in Vietnam's capital Monday to mark the 28th anniversary of a bloody naval battle with China and to denounce Beijing's growing assertiveness in the hotly contested waters of the South China Sea.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 13, 2016

LDP voices policies in lead-up to pivotal Upper House election

Delegates at the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's annual convention adopt important policy measures such as revising the Constitution and breathing new life into the moribund economic recovery.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 13, 2016

Hawks owner Son lauds club's business acumen

Masayoshi Son, the founder and CEO of SoftBank Group Corp., is rich. And his telecom and technology company has grown into a giant.
CULTURE / Music
Mar 13, 2016

The Nihilist Spasm Band: 51 years later it's still chaos

Japanese TV had never seen anything like it. During the final episode of irreverent variety show "Tamori's Music is the World" in March 1996, viewers were introduced to a group of silver-haired Canadians billed as "the Rolling Stones of noise music" — a sobriquet that clearly owed more to their age...
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 13, 2016

Interaction benefits toddlers and elderly alike

Partnership between preschools and nursing homes have positive implications for rapidly aging countries like Japan and the U.S.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 13, 2016

Government and opposition far apart over Assad fate before Syria peace talks

Syria's government on Saturday ruled out any discussion of the fate of the presidency at peace talks this week, just as the lead opposition negotiator said a political transition could not even start unless Bashar Assad was no longer president.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 13, 2016

U.S. serves up Korean 'rocket salad' in war drill response to North's threats

There's more to do in South Korea's heavily forested Rocket Valley, just a few kilometers from the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, than fire rockets. In quieter times, people tend vegetable patches along ice-cold streams.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Mar 12, 2016

Nagoya's big names, trains and automobiles

Mount Fuji whizzes by as I drive the Tokaido N700 series shinkansen from Tokyo to Nagoya. "Don't let the speed go above 270 kilometers per hour," warns Kaori Takagi. I heed the warning, though Takagi is not a shinkansen driver instructor. We are, in fact, in the simulator at the SCMAGLEV and Railway...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Mar 12, 2016

Beneath the chaos, an old new order

We are all going to die. Most of us will die miserably — it's in the nature of things. Hopefully none of us, infirm in body and mind, will die falling from an upper story of a nursing care home, pushed to our deaths by a disgruntled care worker. That three people did die in that fashion at one particular...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
Mar 12, 2016

'Rough Living' captures the struggles of being a woman in the Meiji Era

Tokuda Shusei's "Rough Living," a translation of his 1915 novel "Arakure," explores lives of working-class people of the Meiji Era (1868-1912) and the rupturing social transformations taking place in Japan at the time.
SOCCER / J. League
Mar 12, 2016

Koroki leads Reds past Avispa

Shinzo Koroki scored a goal in each half to help Urawa Reds get back to winning ways with a 2-0 victory over promoted Avispa Fukuoka on Saturday.
EDITORIALS
Mar 12, 2016

Sex harassment in the workplace

A survey by the labor ministry finds rampant sexual harassment in the workplace.
EDITORIALS
Mar 12, 2016

Truancy among non-Japanese kids

The education system is ignoring the thousands of non-Japanese students who aren't attending school.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 12, 2016

Sorry Tesla, but China wants golf carts

For a variety of reasons, ranging from affordability to size, low-speed electric vehicles are taking off in China.

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