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COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 18, 2016

Why Japan and India must be partners in Myanmar

A Japan-India partnership on major projects in Myanmar can help reduce the salience of Chinese influence there.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 17, 2016

Japan denies reported plan to jointly administer Russian-held islands

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga on Monday denied a media report that the government is discussing jointly administering with Russia the disputed islands off Hokkaido as it seeks a breakthrough deal on a row that has prevented the two nations from inking a peace treaty to formally end World War...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 17, 2016

Duterte visit to Beijing likely to be heavy on business talks, light on South China Sea

Before he was elected president, Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte promised to use a jet ski to reclaim a disputed reef seized by China. Since taking office in June, he has extended the hand of friendship.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 16, 2016

Xi, Putin 'bromance' becomes security bond

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, likely had more than vodka shots and gifts of ice cream to show for their warming relationship after their planned meeting this weekend on the sidelines of a developing nations' summit in India.
EDITORIALS
Oct 16, 2016

Solving the abdication question

It looks like the Abe administration will seek a quick fix to the abdication issue, rather than finding a long-term solution.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 15, 2016

Clinton blasted China over North Korea, slammed Japan over 'nationalist pressures,' hacked emails show

Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said in a private speech to bankers three years ago that she would "ring China with missile defense" if Beijing failed to curb North Korea's nuclear ambitions, while also blasting "nationalist forces" in Japan for stoking the Senkaku row, a hacked...
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 14, 2016

ASDF scrambled against Chinese aircraft over 400 times from April to September

The Air Self-Defense Force scrambled fighter jets against Chinese aircraft approaching Japanese airspace a record 407 times in the first half of fiscal 2016.
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2016

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike removes bureaucrat from top oversight post in Toyosu market scandal

In her latest move to deal with the contaminated Toyosu market site, Koike announces a major managerial reshuffle.
EDITORIALS
Oct 14, 2016

Questioning capital punishment

The time has come for truly meaningful discussions on whether Japan should keep executing prisoners.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 14, 2016

Thai Crown set to pass to prince less revered than his father

Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn has been anointed Thailand's next monarch following his father's death, an elevation that would see him become the 10th king in the Chakri Dynasty and inherit control of a fortune that runs to the tens of billions.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 14, 2016

Philippines wants U.S. to remain top ally: foreign minister

The U.S. will remain the most important partner for the Philippines even as Rodrigo Duterte improves ties with China, his foreign secretary said ahead of the president's trip to Beijing.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League / B. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Oct 13, 2016

Geary has Nagoya thriving with defense

The Nagoya Diamond Dolphins have opened the new season with a strong overall showing over the first three weeks.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Oct 13, 2016

Singapore comes under pressure over female genital cutting of babies

Medical clinics in Singapore are carrying out female genital cutting on babies, according to people with first-hand experience of the procedure, and despite the growing global condemnation of the practice that world leaders have pledged to eradicate.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 13, 2016

Shugo Tokumaru gets his friends involved on new album 'Toss'

A couple of months ago, Shugo Tokumaru released a video on YouTube that showed him preparing an elaborate meal from an unlikely set of ingredients. In it, he took a selection of toy instruments — a ukulele, a recorder, some castanets, a party horn — and chopped them up, dusted a few pieces with flour,...
EDITORIALS
Oct 13, 2016

A historic ruling to protect culture

A country stripped of its history during war is rendered an orphan.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 13, 2016

Putin rejects accusations of meddling in U.S. election

Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted on Wednesday his country was not involved in an effort to influence the U.S. presidential election even as WikiLeaks released another trove of internal documents from Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 12, 2016

'Jason Bourne': The invincible franchise

It's the Bourne revival: Matt Damon is Bourne again. After an unsuccessful attempt to transfer the franchise to Jeremy Renner in 2012's "The Bourne Legacy," Damon has returned to his most iconic role as the brainwashed CIA super-soldier. He's the real deal, the Sean Connery to Renner's George Lazenby,...
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Oct 11, 2016

Aoki leaves lasting legacy on Japan hoops

Whenever he stepped on the court during 11 distinguished seasons as a special ambassador for Japan pro basketball, Cohey Aoki increased the visibility of the sport.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 11, 2016

Once-powerful Philippine Catholic Church divided, subdued over drug killings

Philippine priests of the Roman Catholic Church, an institution that helped to oust two of the country's leaders in the past, say they are afraid and unsure how to speak out against the war on drugs unleashed by new President Rodrigo Duterte.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 11, 2016

TV audience sharply down for second Trump-Clinton debate, despite tape furor

The television audience for the second debate between White House contenders Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton fell sharply from their first, record-breaking encounter, despite the drama caused by a 2005 video of Trump boasting about groping women.
Chinese buyer of Okinawa Island to make visit in summer
Yanaha Island in Okinawa Prefecture as seen from a ferry.
Crashed Jeju jet’s black box failure shows decadeslong gap in power rules
The flight data recorder retrieved from Jeju Air flight 2216, which crashed killing 179 people in December. Black boxes holding the flight data and cockpit voice recorders for the flight stopped recording four minutes before the disaster, South Korea's transport ministry said Saturday.
Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki signs with Dodgers
Roki Sasaki pitches for Japan during the World Baseball Classic at Tokyo Dome on March 11, 2023.
Major Japanese firms pay record winter bonuses
The average figure of winter bonuses agreed on by labor unions and employers stood 4.93% higher than a year earlier.
Yokozuna Terunofuji retires after injury-plagued career
Terunofuji won 10 titles in sumo's top division during his career.
A slow dive into ‘a moment and an eternity’ with Ryuichi Sakamoto
From the mid-2000s onward, Ryuichi Sakamoto created a number of installation works, often in collaboration with Shiro Takatani, of multimedia art collective Dumb Type.
The efforts to bridge the disaster information gap, 30 years on
Roxana Oshiro and her husband gather their belongings in front of their house in Furukawacho, in Kobe's Suma Ward, after the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995.
Japan looks to up the ante with more money and partners in military aid program
Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and Philippine Foreign Minister Enrique Manalo hold a joint news conference in Taguig City, Metro Manila, the Philippines, on Wednesday.
Possibility of Nankai Trough megaquake now 80%, government panel reports
A map of the hypocentral region of an anticipated Nankai Trough earthquake
With new regional party, Shinji Ishimaru touts rebirth
Shinji Ishimaru announces details of his new regional party at a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Atsuyoshi Koike, the president and CEO of Rapidus, says there is a “sense of urgency” when it comes to Japan’s efforts in manufacturing semiconductors. “We have to make sure we are successful,” he says.
Atsuyoshi Koike’s big game: Fourth down and 2 nanometers to go
By Kazuaki Nagata and Richard Meyer

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