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JAPAN
Aug 19, 2019

Chinese missile arsenal could embolden Beijing to seize Senkakus and force U.S. from region, report claims

The study by the University of Sydney says a decade of “delayed and unpredictable funding” for the U.S. defense budget has seen Washington lose its primacy in the Western Pacific.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos
Aug 18, 2019

Plan your response before taking on passive prejudice at the office

What should you do when one of your Japanese colleagues makes a problematic comment? Sometimes it's best to keep things light.
EDITORIALS
Aug 17, 2019

Real cost of scrapping reactors

Tepco's recent decision to decommission its Fukushima No. 2 nuclear power plant highlights one of the big challenges for both the power industry and the government — which has pushed for nuclear power as a matter of state policy — in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. Combined with...
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BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 16, 2019

Cathay Pacific CEO Rupert Hogg out as Chinese scrutiny mounts; Augustus Tang takes helm

Cathay Pacific Airways CEO Rupert Hogg resigned in a shock move on Friday, amid mounting Chinese regulatory scrutiny of the Hong Kong carrier over the involvement of its employees in the city's anti-government protests.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 16, 2019

Why normal times will not return

The tiny silicon chip has placed power in mass hands to an unprecedented degree, and drastically weakened old political hierarchies in both democracies and autocracies alike.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Aug 16, 2019

As rains lead to thousands of school meals being binned, Hiroshima weighs how to cut waste

A 30-year-old female reader in Hiroshima contacted the Chugoku Shimbun one day to convey her frustration that school lunches are thrown away when schools shut down due to heavy rain.
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BUSINESS
Aug 16, 2019

As population ages, Japan's convenience stores find future in funerals

It might escape the notice of a passerby that Davius Living Yamato, a one-story building standing unassumingly on a street in Kanagawa Prefecture, is a funeral parlor.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 16, 2019

North Korea fires more 'projectiles' into Sea of Japan and vows not to meet with South

North Korea added insult to injury Friday when, hours after blasting South Korea's leader as "impudent" and vowing not to meet with Seoul officials, it launched two more "projectiles" into the Sea of Japan.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 16, 2019

'Very unusual suicide': Jeffrey Epstein autopsy reportedly shows neck broken in several places

An autopsy of the financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died in an apparent suicide while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, found his neck had been broken in several places, the Washington Post reported late on Wednesday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 14, 2019

Beating the heat at the Tokyo Olympics

Hosting the games will call on the best of Japanese expertise, innovation and imagination to bring out the best in the athletes competing in very challenging conditions.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 14, 2019

History and the logic of empires

Current events in Asia echo the days of British rule.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Aug 14, 2019

A Sophia University student group is building the bridges that refugees need

The Sophia Refugee Support Group offers an opportunity to meet the locals in cafes and classes, and for those in detention centers they provide a sympathetic ear.
EDITORIALS
Aug 13, 2019

President Trump, we are confused

U.S. President Donald Trump must convince Japan and the world that he will not accept a nuclear-armed North Korea and that he remains committed to its allies in this part of the world.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 13, 2019

How to deal with the Islamic Republic

Japan should do what it can under existing laws and regulations. Nothing more and nothing less.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 13, 2019

Ex-aide Anthony Scaramucci says he won't vote for Trump and GOP needs new face

Anthony Scaramucci, who only lasted as Donald Trump's communications director for 11 days, said he won't support the president's re-election and suggested the Republican Party consider a different 2020 nominee.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 12, 2019

Hundreds chant anti-India slogans in seething Kashmir on eve of Eid

Hundreds of people protested in Kashmir's main city of Srinagar on Sunday against India's decision to curb its autonomy, despite new restrictions on travel and a seventh straight day of communications blackout.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 12, 2019

U.S. Homeland chief claims timing of workplace raids that traumatized kids after massacres was unfortunate

The timing of a string of immigration enforcement raids at Mississippi food processing plants last week was "unfortunate," but the actions had been planned for over a year, the top U.S. Homeland Security official said on Sunday.
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COMMENTARY / World
Aug 11, 2019

What will you be wearing when 2030 rolls around?

Silicon Valley needs to transform our closets the way it transformed our desktops.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Aug 10, 2019

Japan-South Korea trade spat gains little traction among youth on social media

The diplomatic rift between Tokyo and Seoul widened earlier this month after Japan removed South Korea from its "whitelist" of preferred trading partners. The apparent reason given for the move is national security: Japan says some strategic materials it sells to South Korea are making their way to third...
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Aug 10, 2019

Masatoshi Takami: Uniting choirs in beautiful harmony

Choral conductor Masatoshi Takami on how he prepares pieces for performance, what surprised him about the American Midwest and which movie has the best soundtrack.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 10, 2019

U.S.-based experts suspect deadly Russian blast involved nuclear-powered 'Skyfall' cruise missile

U.S.-based nuclear experts said on Friday they suspected an accidental blast and radiation release in northern Russia this week occurred during the testing of a nuclear-powered cruise missile vaunted by President Vladimir Putin last year.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 10, 2019

Chinese reports on U.S. diplomat in Hong Kong 'have gone from irresponsible to dangerous,' State Department says

Official Chinese media reports about a U.S. diplomat who met with student leaders of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement "have gone from irresponsible to dangerous" and must stop, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said on Friday.
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COMMENTARY / World
Aug 9, 2019

Why the U.S. owes Central America

Today's refugee wave is a direct consequence of U.S. interference in Latin America's political and economic development.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 9, 2019

Is Nara's future tied to a proposed maglev shinkansen route?

Although Nara has become a favorite of international tourists in recent years, the city, which served as the nation's ancient capital from 710 to 784, has historically been a bit off the beaten path.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 8, 2019

Womenomics 20 years on: Has anything changed?

The desire for greater work-life balance is no longer just for women, but for all of Japanese society.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 8, 2019

Japan OKs first shipment of high-tech chemical to South Korea under tightened controls

Trade minister Hiroshige Seko rejected criticism of the recent decision to scrub South Korea from the so-called whitelist of countries cleared for preferential export screenings.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LAW OF THE LAND
Aug 7, 2019

Seven lessons from a Japanese morality textbook

The textbooks students in Japan use to learn wrong from right are filled with stories of invoices, citizen committees, petitions and other cool stuff kids like.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 7, 2019

China boycotts Taiwan's movie awards

China's film regulator on Wednesday said it was suspending mainland Chinese movies and their personnel from participating in Taiwan's annual Golden Horse Awards this year, without giving a reason.
BUSINESS
Aug 7, 2019

U.S. probes Chinese banks' role in North Korean nuclear arms

The U.S. is investigating a chain of financial transactions involving three big Chinese banks that allegedly helped finance North Korea's nuclear weapons program, according to an appeals court opinion unsealed Tuesday.

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