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Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / NET NEWS WATCH
Apr 21, 2014

Where there's smoke . . . there might be adults giving minors cigarettes

The Kanagawa Prefectural Police on Wednesday sent reports to prosecutors on 33 adults on suspicion of allowing minors to drink and smoke.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Apr 19, 2014

Can a solo career help a mascot stand out?

Several weeks ago Fuji TV's morning news show sent a reporter to the Gunma Prefecture "antenna shop" located across the street from the Kabukiza theater in Tokyo's Ginza district. The store, which sells products made in Gunma, pays ¥64 million a year in rent for the small two-floor space, and an independent...
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Apr 19, 2014

Team Abe's alternate-reality Kool-Aid

Japan's relations with China and South Korea are in tatters, there has been no progress on dealing with North Korea's nuclear weapons program, strains with Washington persist, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks are at an impasse, whaling got harpooned and hopes for a deal with Russia on the northern...
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 19, 2014

Ailing Algerian leader re-elected

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the independence veteran in power for 15 years, won re-election Friday with more than 80 percent of a vote that opponents dismissed as fraud to keep an ailing leader in power.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 18, 2014

Philosophers still vital to our high-tech world

A Harvard University report showing a big dropoff across the U.S. in the proportion of bachelor degree graduates who majored in the humanities contrasts with the finding by a Swiss think tank that three or four of the top five 'Global Thought Leaders' are involved in philosophy.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 17, 2014

Japan misses chance as Abe looks backward

For Abenomics bulls who still hold out hope that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe intends to make good on his pledges to revitalize Japan, the past week must have been at least a little disconcerting.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 14, 2014

Obama picks new health care chief

President Barack Obama's new nominee for health secretary drew some early political fire from Republicans on Sunday in what could foreshadow a stormy election-year confirmation debate in the U.S. Senate over the future of the law known derisively as "Obamacare."
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 14, 2014

How Americans learned to love deleveraging

Now that the ugly process of America's deleveraging seems mostly done, more money can flow into old-fashioned consumer and business spending. The bad news is that this improvement is not assured.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 14, 2014

Three reported dead in shootings at Jewish centers in Kansas

Three people were killed Sunday afternoon at two different Jewish community facilities in a Kansas City-area suburb, and a man was held in custody as police attempted to discover whether or not the shootings were anti-Semitic, authorities said.
JAPAN
Apr 11, 2014

Cabinet OKs new energy policy, kills no-nuclear goal

The Cabinet adopts a new basic energy policy that officially abandons Japan's zero-nuclear goal for atomic energy and aims to restart the nation's idled reactors instead.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 9, 2014

Obokata says STAP cell discovery not fabrication, claims Riken dissuaded her from giving her side of story earlier

Apologetic but resolute in the face of intense international scrutiny of her stem cell research, Haruko Obokata stood by her claim Wednesday that she had discovered so-called STAP cells.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Apr 8, 2014

Obokata files appeal for reinvestigation

Haruko Obokata files an appeal with the government-backed Riken institute demanding a reinvestigation of allegations of misconduct against her.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 7, 2014

Australia says new 'pings' best lead yet in Malaysia jet search

An Australian ship searching for a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner picks up signals consistent with beacons from its black box recorders — the most promising lead yet.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 7, 2014

Jeb Bush says illegal immigration to the U.S. often 'an act of love'

Jeb Bush, a potential Republican presidential candidate in 2016, said Sunday that illegal immigrants who come to the United States to provide for their families are not committing a felony but an "act of love."
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 6, 2014

Two Aegis ships bound for Japan

The United States plans to deploy two additional Aegis destroyers to Japan by 2017 to reinforce missile defenses against increasingly provocative North Korea, visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Sunday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Apr 5, 2014

Pulmonary pest ravages; study of racial hygienics urged; Japan mourns Gen. MacArthur; Takeshita resigns over Recruit scandal

The dreadful pulmonary pest (pneumonic plague) has plunged districts of Omikawa and Moriyama-mura, Chiba, into consternation.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 4, 2014

U.S. denies it created Twitter-like service in Cuba to foment unrest

The U.S. government created a service similar to Twitter in Cuba in a "discreet" operation intended to promote democracy on the communist-ruled island, officials said Thursday, but denied that the $1.2 million effort was aimed at fomenting unrest.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 4, 2014

U.S. Army names Fort Hood shooter, says had mental illness

The soldier suspected of shooting dead three people before killing himself at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas was identified as Ivan Lopez, a man battling mental illness when he went on a rampage, the base commander said on Thursday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 3, 2014

'Wałesa: Man of Hope'

Poland's legendary filmmaker Andrzej Wajda takes on Lech Wałesa, Poland's man of the people, in this fictional documentary "Wałesa: Man of Hope," and it comes as somewhat of a surprise.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Mar 29, 2014

Unpersuasive logic for death penalty in Japan

The death penalty in Japan is imposed in cases of murder, and robbery and/or rape leading to death. In such cases, capital punishment is not mandatory and is usually only imposed in cases of multiple killings, though since 2006 this criteria has not been strictly observed.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 29, 2014

Malaysia Airlines search shifted again, debris quickly spotted

Fresh objects spotted by planes searching for a missing Malaysian passenger jet in a new area of the southern Indian Ocean have again raised hopes of unravelling the three-week old mystery.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 26, 2014

North Korea hopes for 'positive results' in talks with Japan

North Korea said on Tuesday that talks with Japan this month should include a demand for compensation for wartime Korean sex slaves and not only the issue of Japanese abducted decades ago, which it considers closed.
JAPAN / Media / NET NEWS WATCH
Mar 25, 2014

Mysterious suicide goes unnoticed in police-box restroom

A man was found hanged in an apparent suicide in a police-box restroom in Mie Prefecture on March 20, police said.
Funeral held for Princess Yuriko at Tokyo cemetery
Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko, followed by Princess Aiko and Princess Kako, prepare to attend a funeral service for Princess Yuriko at Toshimagaoka Cemetery in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics
According to Similarweb, average monthly user numbers for Bluesky on Android in Japan quintupled in the 12 months to October.
Suspected arson in Sapporo leaves four injured
Firetrucks outside a building in Sapporo where an explosion left four people injured on Tuesday.
Trump pledges 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, and more levies on China
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump attends a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket, in Brownsville, Texas, on Nov. 19. Trump on Monday threatened to slap China, Mexico and Canada with hefty tariffs upon his return to the White House.
False report on Yasukuni Shrine visit 'extremely regrettable,' top spokesperson says
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi during a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday
Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics
According to Similarweb, average monthly user numbers for Bluesky on Android in Japan quintupled in the 12 months to October.
How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can’t seem to quit
A man walks past a gasoline station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Are you leaving your loved ones digital legacies or headaches?
The National Consumer Affairs Center reports a growing number of consultations regarding "digital legacies" — data and online services left behind when people die.
Rayssa Leal and Chloe Covell on Japan’s teen skaters: We are friends, not rivals
Brazil’s Rayssa Leal celebrates after winning the women's Street League Skateboarding competition on Saturday in Tokyo.
An iconic 32-foot doughnut might give Randy’s an edge in Japan
Randy's Donuts in Inglewood, California. Replicas of the giant doughnut sculpture will be installed, where possible, at shops in Japan.

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