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Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 29, 2014

Lava nears homes of Hawaiian village

A stream of lava from the Kilauea volcano slithered across fields on Tuesday, burning grass and other vegetation as it closed in on a village on Hawaii's Big Island, with the nearest home only 70 yards (64 meters) away.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 29, 2014

Google targets nanoparticle tech for health detection

Google Inc.'s research lab said it's working on nanoparticle technology that could be used in the near future to better detect diseases such as cancer.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 28, 2014

SoftBank unveils smartphone for seniors

SoftBank Corp. announced Tuesday that the company will release its new smartphone in late November and that its easy-to-use design will be particularly convenient for the elderly.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 28, 2014

Idol-pop act Necronomidol is taken to the dark side

It's a week until Necronomidol's big show and, practicing at a dance studio in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward, the four members make a decision to change one line from "We've come to bring about the Apocalypse" to "We've come to enact Armageddon." Manager Ricky Wilson agrees; another problem solved.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 28, 2014

Perilous spirit of the times

A gap has emerged between Japanese and foreign media in their appraisal of Japan's political scene. Some overseas media are growing skeptical that Japan is indeed a champion of freedom and democracy.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 28, 2014

The Cold War and the cold shoulder

From the current Russian regime's perspective, declarations that EU and NATO expansion is about spreading values, accountable institutions and good governance — not military or economic competition — is beyond hypocritical.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 28, 2014

Putin can't be the leader of anti-U.S. resistance

The world may need powers that can challenge the U.S. But Vladimir Putin's Russia doesn't fit the bill because it is not an example anyone would want to follow.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 28, 2014

Musical points to sinister nuclear implications

A recent court-themed musical staged in Tokyo was, to say the least, an audacious dig at the contentious state secrets law scheduled to take effect in December.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 28, 2014

U.S. Coast Guard rescues eight Cuban migrants off Miami; five missing

The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday said it was searching for up to five Cubans migrants after pulling eight others from the waters off Miami.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 28, 2014

Why Israel isn't losing sleep over Islamic State

Israel remains the least concerned and least directly threatened country in a region increasingly rocked by Islamic State's advance. And that's exactly how it's behaving.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 28, 2014

Above all, Hong Kong wants good governance

Rather than demands for democracy, the recent massive public demonstrations by students and young members of Hong Kong's middle class are actually about poor governance by a succession of leaders who were picked by China's central government more for their loyalty than for their competence.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 27, 2014

Egypt rebuilding, backstage

Egypt is marching, slowly but surely, away from the omnipresent and omnipotent state that has dominated Egyptian economic life for many decades.
LIFE / Language / COMMUNICATION CUES
Oct 27, 2014

Volcano erupts in central Japan

A volcano erupted in central Japan on Sept. 27, shooting ash and rocks into the air that forced 150 people to shelter in cabins near the summit.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 27, 2014

After victory in key Iraqi town, Shiite militias take revenge

After helping government forces break the Islamic State's grip over a strategic town just south of Baghdad on Saturday, Shiite militias decided it was time for payback.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 27, 2014

Toronto holds disaster drill following last week's attacks by local radicals

About 100 police, firefighters and other emergency workers held a disaster-response drill in downtown Toronto's deserted financial district Sunday following a week that saw two soldiers killed on Canadian soil.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Oct 27, 2014

'Comfort women' issue refuses to go away

"Comfort women," as Japan refers to the females who were forced into sexual servitude for the nation's wartime forces, have been a constant source of controversy since the early 1990s, when the media started to take a serious look at their ordeal.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 27, 2014

Leftist Rousseff narrowly wins second term in Brazil presidential poll

Brazil's leftist president, Dilma Rousseff, narrowly won re-election Sunday after convincing voters that her party's strong record of reducing poverty over the last 12 years was more important than a recent economic slump.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 26, 2014

As Abe's political ratings fade, top official calls for delay in next sales tax hike

A top government official said Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should delay a planned consumption tax increase, the strongest sign yet that economic weakness is causing concern among those close to Abe ahead of his final decision on the levy.
EDITORIALS
Oct 26, 2014

Moral education's slippery slope

An advisory body to Japan's education minister calls for upgrading grade school 'moral education' — which deals with children's way of thinking and their attitude toward life — to an official subject on a par with mathematics and science.
COMMENTARY / Japan / COUNTERPOINT
Oct 25, 2014

Abe downsized, comfort women reprised

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe now understands why political gurus say that a week is a short time in politics.
Trump team seeks to toughen Biden’s chip controls over China
U.S. President Donald Trump's officials recently met with their Japanese and Dutch counterparts about restricting Tokyo Electron and ASML engineers from maintaining semiconductor gear in China, according to people familiar with the matter.
China adviser pushes to lower legal marriage age to 18 to boost birthrate
A woman fits her wedding dress at a bridal shop in Luliang, northern China's Shanxi province, on Feb. 11.
U.S. defense spending demands could transform global security
Amid rising global defense spending, U.S. President Donald Trump's push for 5% of GDP on military budgets poses a challenge for American allies, including Japan, which is already struggling to meet its 2% target.
Ex-Japan envoy concerned over Trump's foreign aid cuts
Ichiro Fujisaki
About 70% of foreign nationals questioned by police on the streets: survey
Lawyers advising in a racial profiling case speak during a news conference on Wednesday in Tokyo.
Latest sumo ranking sheet has plenty to catch the eye
Hoshoryu holds up the latest "banzuke" sumo ranking chart in Osaka on Tuesday.
Gunma ranks top among city dwellers eyeing countryside, survey shows
Kusatsu Onsen resort, a popular tourist destination in Gunma Prefecture, on Dec. 26, 2022
Japan looks to save seafood and seaweed farming from warming oceans
Asian seabass are bred at the Songkhla Coastal Aquaculture Technology and Innovation Research and Development Center in southern Thailand.
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.

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The building of new high-rise residential buildings has some alarmed that they could empty and fall into disrepair as Japan's population shrinks.
The high cost of letting Japan's condos crumble
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