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JAPAN
Nov 18, 2015

Tokyo criticized after advertises for part-time anti-terrorism analyst

Experts voiced doubt Wednesday at just how serious Tokyo is in trying to collect intelligence on terrorism after the Foreign Ministry posted a job offer on its website in September seeking a part-time security analyst on global terrorism.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 18, 2015

Tokyo condos for sale dropped 6.5% in October amid scandal over piling work

Fewer apartments have been put up for sale in Tokyo since flaws were found in hundreds of buildings with falsified construction data, threatening to cut short a rally in home prices.
WORLD
Nov 18, 2015

Air France flights from U.S. to Paris diverted after threats: FAA

Two Air France flights en route to Paris from the United States were diverted on Tuesday following anonymous threats, and passengers and crew were safely removed, the airline and the Federal Aviation Administration said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 18, 2015

U.N. says Ban won't visit North Korea on upcoming trip

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's upcoming schedule does not include a trip to North Korea, according to an itinerary released by his spokesman after Chinese media reported that Ban would visit the North on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 18, 2015

South Korea to boost counterterrorism budget after Paris attacks

South Korea plans to increase its counterterrorism budget by around 100 billion won ($85 million) in the wake of Friday's attacks in Paris, the ruling party said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 17, 2015

Anti-nuclear firebrand's case heads to Canadian court over death threats against Fukushima environmental scientists

An activist who alleges a global cover-up over the extent of pollution from the Fukushima No. 1 disaster is due in court in Victoria, Canada, on Wednesday over threats he allegedly made against the lives of two environmental scientists.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 17, 2015

Few clues about radicalization in hunt for 'ghostlike' alleged mastermind of Paris attacks

French investigators think they know who masterminded the deadliest terrorist assault in peacetime France: Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a 20-something Belgian who joined the ranks of the Islamic State group a few years ago.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 17, 2015

Obama takes Pacific trade agreement momentum to Asia summits

U.S. President Barack Obama heads to Asia on Tuesday with an ace in his hand that wasn't there last time he visited the continent — a long-awaited Pacific trade pact that's just off the printer.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 17, 2015

Pentagon bans service members, civilian personnel from unofficial travel to Paris

The U.S. military has banned troops and civilian personnel from any nonwork-related travel to Paris, a Pentagon spokesman said on Monday, after deadly attacks across the French capital last week.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 17, 2015

Islamic State vows in video to attack Washington, 'crusader campaign' allies

Islamic State warned in a new video on Monday that countries taking part in airstrikes against Syria would suffer the same fate as France, and threatened to attack Washington.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 16, 2015

Anchorwoman who fled Japan during Fukushima crisis to get lost salary from NHK

The Tokyo District Court nullifies a decision by NHK to end the contract of a French anchorwoman who temporarily fled Japan during the Fukushima nuclear crisis in March 2011.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 16, 2015

What does the Islamic State think it is doing?

Islamic State and its supporters may be congratulating themselves, seeing a barbaric victory in Paris, but they are forgetting the fate suffered by the Taliban in the months following the 9/11 attacks.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Nov 16, 2015

Pope says Lutherans, Catholics must 'seek pardon' for persecution

Pope Francis, in a visit to Rome's Lutheran church on Sunday, said both sides, Catholics and Lutherans, should seek forgiveness for past persecutions.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 16, 2015

Recession ignored by Japan investors as profits drive rally

If Japan's economy is in trouble, you wouldn't know it from the stock market.
WORLD
Nov 16, 2015

U.S. carries out second delivery of ammunition to Syrian Arab fighters battling Islamic State

The United States has carried out a fresh delivery of ammunition to fighters from the Syrian Arab Coalition battling the Islamic State group in northern Syria, pushing ahead with a strategy that initially unnerved ally Turkey, a U.S. official said Sunday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Nov 16, 2015

She wants more, more, more: a kitten named Be-bop

Be-bop, now 5 months old, was rescued in August when someone called to say three cats had fallen into a creek.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 16, 2015

Denmark F-16s to return to fight Islamic State; foreign minister seeks Syria strikes

Denmark's fighter jets, which had been in action in Iraq earlier this year and will return next year, should also have the mandate to bomb Islamic State positions in Syria, the Danish foreign minister was quoted as saying on Sunday following the attacks in Paris.
WORLD
Nov 16, 2015

French fighters bomb Islamic State's Raqqa bastion

French fighter jets launched their biggest raids in Syria to date targeting the Islamic State's stronghold in Raqqa just two days after the group claimed coordinated attacks in Paris that killed more than 130 people, the defense ministry said.
CULTURE / Music
Nov 15, 2015

Spangle call Lilli line returns with a new sound and a familiar vibe

'Ghost Is Dead," the 10th album from Tokyo's Spangle call Lilli line, shouldn't exist. Regular life caught up with the trio, leaving them with little time to contemplate creating new music: Lead singer Kana Otsubo had a baby and her bandmates saw their day jobs eat up more and more of their personal...
CULTURE / Music
Nov 15, 2015

Electronica producer Madegg gets warped on 'New' album

Something has gone awfully askew in the music of Madegg. The 23-year-old producer, real name Kazumichi Komatsu, used to delight in creating warm, shimmering electronica that seemed to come bathed in the lambent glow of a late summer evening.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 15, 2015

Wrong way for China's airline industry to take off

China's first indigenously designed passenger jet should serve as a lesson that bottomless funding, a will to succeed and a large domestic market are not enough to create innovative products.
Seven & I and Nissan deal fallout leaves Japan companies vulnerable
The rapid collapse of the plan to take Seven & I private reflects how personal egos and domestic competitiveness ultimately outweighed the nationalistic desire to fend off Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard, whose pursuit of the Japanese retailer emerged last August.
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.
Japan struggles to fend off a world without enough matcha
Once a boon to tea farmers' bottom lines, the global matcha craze is now pushing producers and distributors to their limits with few options to adequately meet demand.
7-Eleven owner to appoint first foreign CEO, report says
Seven & I Holdings CEO Ryuichi Isaka is stepping down from his position, the Nikkei newspaper has reported.
Wayne Gretzky faces backlash in Canada over support for Donald Trump
Wayne Gretzky arrives for the inauguration ceremony before Donald Trump is sworn in at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, on Jan. 20.
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.
Aboard Japan’s most luxurious train, the journey is the destination
The luxury Seven Stars in Kyushu train trades the hyper-efficiency of typical rail travel in Japan for a slower, more decadent version.
Taiwan comics on the rise: Local storytellers, global aspirations
Taiwanese comic artist Rishiazao and interpreter Yun-wen Huang greet an attendee at the 2025 Angouleme International Comics Festival in France.
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.
Nils Nielsen's vision for Nadeshiko Japan comes to life at SheBelieves Cup
Nadeshiko Japan celebrates after winning the SheBelieves Cup in San Diego on Wednesday.

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