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LIFE / Style & Design
Jul 28, 2019

Finding time in Tokujin Yoshioka's design

Tokujin Yoshioka's design for Homme Plisse Issey Miyake/Aoyama, Issey Miyake Homme Plisse's first flagship, includes gravity-defying clothing rails, raw concrete minimalism and a showstopping special pleating machine.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Jul 27, 2019

Yumi Nagashima: Keeping the funny side up

Vancouver comedian subverts the demure Japanese woman stereotype.
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WORLD
Jul 27, 2019

Saudi-led forces and Israel among states blacklisted by U.N. for killing children

A Saudi Arabia-led military coalition fighting in Yemen killed or injured 729 children during 2018, accounting for nearly half the total child casualties, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a report to the Security Council on Friday that blacklisted the coalition for a third year....
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WORLD / Politics
Jul 27, 2019

U.S. Supreme Court lets Trump use disputed Pentagon funds for border wall

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday handed President Donald Trump a victory by letting his administration redirect $2.5 billion in money approved by Congress for the Pentagon to help build his promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border even though lawmakers refused to provide funding.
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COMMENTARY / World
Jul 26, 2019

With joint air patrol, Russia and China divide U.S. allies

Encounters involving hostile states needling U.S. allies while avoiding confrontation with U.S. forces are becoming more widespread.
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Rugby
Jul 26, 2019

Pacific Nations Cup provides vital testing ground before Rugby World Cup

With just under two months remaining before Japan faces Russia in the opening match of the 2019 Rugby World Cup, the Brave Blossoms return to the Pacific Nations Cup after a three-year hiatus.
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BUSINESS
Jul 26, 2019

SoftBank to be top investor in $108 billion second Vision Fund, with CEO Son silent on Saudi role

The conglomerate aims to raise $108 billion for a second Vision Fund, replacing Saudi Arabia as the largest investor as its targets opportunities in cutting-edge technologies.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 26, 2019

Singapore promotes gardening for elderly in bid to fight loneliness

Since her mother died last year, 74-year-old Lim Yeo Hong has been living alone in a flat on the outskirts of Singapore, scavenging for cardboard scraps which she sells for a living.
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WORLD / Politics
Jul 26, 2019

Joe Biden shows strong South Carolina lead in poll

Joe Biden has a commanding lead over his 2020 Democratic rivals in South Carolina, where a majority of black voters back him, a Monmouth University Poll shows.
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WORLD / Politics
Jul 26, 2019

I'll make Britain great again: Johnson echoes Trump over Brexit

Boris Johnson promised on Thursday that Brexit would make Britain the greatest place on Earth, echoing the patriotic rhetoric of U.S. President Donald Trump in a debut speech as prime minister before Parliament.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 25, 2019

North Korea raises stakes with firing of two short-range missiles into Sea of Japan

Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya said that Japan was still analyzing whether the projectiles were, in fact, ballistic missiles.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 25, 2019

Abe's chase for glory at the 2020 Olympics

Don't expect Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to pursue constitutional revisionism in earnest until the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
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WORLD / Politics
Jul 25, 2019

Boris Johnson purges Cabinet, vows 'a better deal' on Brexit

Boris Johnson executed a brutal clearing-out of more than half of his predecessor's top team, installing Brexit supporters in key roles as the new prime minister signaled his intent to deliver an exit in 98 days.
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WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 25, 2019

Robert Mueller says he did not seek FBI director job under Trump

Former U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller on Wednesday disputed assertions that he had interviewed with President Donald Trump in 2017 to serve as FBI director before he was appointed to oversee the Russia investigation.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 24, 2019

Alleged Sagamihara killer won't claim lack of criminal responsibility in forthcoming trial

Satoshi Uematsu, accused of the 2016 massacre at a care home for people with mental disabilities in Kanagawa Prefecture, has said he will not claim that he is too mentally incompetent to take responsibility for the attack in his upcoming trial.
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CULTURE / Film
Jul 24, 2019

'A Girl Missing': You can run, but you can't hide

Mariko Tsutsui already had many stage, TV and film credits when she appeared in Koji Fukada's 2016 drama "Harmonium." But her performance as a woman whose life is destroyed by Tadanobu Asano's seductive ex-con was a revelation. She made the leap from the naive and sexually starved wife of the film's...
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COMMENTARY / World
Jul 23, 2019

Trump has been (partly) good for U.S. foreign policy

By shattering outdated norms, the U.S. president has set up his successor to be a transformational figure.
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JAPAN
Jul 23, 2019

We'll all be losers in 2020, anti-Olympic activists say

Activists opposed to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games say the events will hurt individuals and businesses through high costs and disruption, and will provide only fleeting gains for a small number of people in the political, economic and media elite.
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JAPAN / Society
Jul 23, 2019

Prominent feminist says Japan 'should not feel complacent' despite signs of progress on women's empowerment

Japan "should not feel complacent" amid signs of progress on female empowerment, sociologist and prominent feminist Chizuko Ueno has urged, saying much work remains to be done.
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BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 23, 2019

Negative rates hit pocketbooks of Japan's bankers

It's not just banks that are feeling the squeeze from the Bank of Japan's negative interest rates, their employees are too.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 23, 2019

Elizabeth Warren's 'economic crash' call spotlights Democrats' line of attack on Trump

Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren highlighted burgeoning debt levels and recent declines in manufacturing as factors making the U.S. economy vulnerable to a downturn, previewing a line of attack Donald Trump's opponents will use to pierce the aura of a record-long expansion and half-century...
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BUSINESS
Jul 23, 2019

Halliburton cuts 8% of North American jobs as fracking slackens

Halliburton Co. is shifting strategy in its largest region to deal with subdued customer spending by trimming 8 percent of its North American workforce and shelving unused frack gear.
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WORLD
Jul 22, 2019

Iran to execute members of alleged CIA-trained spy network

Iran, locked in a worsening political standoff with Western powers, has handed down death sentences to several nationals accused of being part of a CIA-trained spy network uncovered earlier this year, an official said on Monday.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 22, 2019

Okinawa contradictions need to be fixed

The LDP has lost almost all elections in Okinawa despite the government's candidates consistently being the more qualified and experienced.
EDITORIALS
Jul 22, 2019

What next after yet another coalition win?

The Upper House election on Sunday, which gave voters another chance to pass judgment on the 6 ½ years of the Abe administration, ended with the Liberal Democratic Party-Komeito ruling coalition alliance winning a majority of the seats contested, maintaining a stable political foothold for Prime Minister...

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