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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 27, 2015

Toshiba claims ignorance in Westinghouse scandal

Scandal-hit Toshiba Corp. apologized Friday for not disclosing the massive impairment loss of U.S. nuclear power plant maker Westinghouse Electric Co. and vowed to be committed to more proactive information disclosure.
EDITORIALS
Nov 27, 2015

Time to fix the vote-value disparity

Lawmakers have dallied long enough: Chastised again by the Supreme Court, it's time they got down to business and resolved the disparity in vote values between districts.
JAPAN
Nov 27, 2015

Niigata editor suspended after pseudonymous, slanderous tweets come to light

A head of the news section at a regional newspaper has been punished with unpaid, indefinite suspension after slandering a lawyer and other people on a social network service website, the newspaper revealed Friday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 27, 2015

South Korea trains young hackers, plays catch-up years after North's elite unit proved abilities

In a darkened "war room" dozens of South Korea's brightest college students are practicing hacking each other as part of a government program to train them to battle some of the world's best — the shadowy techno-soldiers of Kim Jong Un's regime.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Nov 26, 2015

Battle-hardened Hannaryz looking to contend for title

For the Kyoto Hannaryz, last season's 44-8 record — the best in bj-league history — was no fluke.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Nov 26, 2015

Nile Rodgers, Chic set to tour a legacy

'Music gives people hope." Nile Rodgers understands this statement better than most.
JAPAN
Nov 26, 2015

Japan pledges ¥1.3 trillion yearly to developing nations by 2020 ahead of Paris climate talks

In a bid to fight global warming, Japan promises to boost its assistance for developing nations to u00a51.3 trillion a year by 2020.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 26, 2015

Man pleads guilty to stealing human brains from Indiana medical museum

A 23-year-old Indiana man pleaded guilty Wednesday to breaking into a medical museum and stealing preserved human brains and other tissue that he then sold online, authorities said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 26, 2015

Tunisia shuts Libya border, confirms suicide bomber blew up bus in Islamic State attack

Tunisian authorities said on Wednesday a suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with plastic explosive blew up a presidential guard bus a day earlier, killing at least 12 troops in an attack claimed by Islamic State militants.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Nov 26, 2015

Pope shrugs off terror fears, starts Africa tour in bid to bridge Christian-Muslim divide

Pope Francis called on Wednesday for ethnic and religious reconcilation at the start of his first tour of Africa, where he will address a fast-growing Catholic population and seek to heal Christian-Muslim divisions.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 25, 2015

Hideo Nakata's 'Ghost Theater' recalls true horror

A decade or so ago, J-horror (Japanese horror) was a hot genre worldwide. Thinking they had a sure-fire box-office formula — implacable ghosts scaring the bejesus out of attractive women — filmmakers mass-produced sequels, spinoffs and knock-offs, to mostly diminishing returns.
Japan Times
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Nov 25, 2015

Kitanoumi’s death overshadows Harumafuji’s triumph

On Sunday, when yokozuna Harumafuji was presented with the Emperor's Cup for the seventh time, the world of sumo was still reeling from the news that Sumo Association Chairman Kitanoumi had died 48 hours earlier from complications related to rectal cancer aged only 62.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 25, 2015

Yakult's Yamada, Softbank's Yanagita win MVP Awards

It was a no-brainer. The two were simply the most dominant players in the 2015 NPB season.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LEARNING CURVE
Nov 25, 2015

In an age of global terrorism, what should we tell the children?

As parents, should we shelter and protect our children from the horrors of terrorism, or does that promote the very ignorance it thrives on?
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 25, 2015

Japan's immigration policy rift widens as population decline forces need for foreign workers

Shigeru Ishiba says Japan should let in more immigrants to mitigate issues related to the nation's declining population.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 24, 2015

Asia's $89 billion sexism issue

Japan is one of the worst offenders when it comes to sexism. Shinzo Abe needs to prove 'womenomics' is more than tokenism.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 24, 2015

French jets pound Islamic State targets in Iraq; Britain offers Cyprus base

French jets from the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle struck Islamic State targets in Iraq on Monday while Britain offered France the use of an air base on Cyprus to hit the militants behind the Paris attacks.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Nov 23, 2015

Fate of troubled Monju reactor hangs in the balance

The prototype fast-breeder reactor's future sits under a cloud after 20 years of misfires.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 23, 2015

Islamic State is an existential threat to the West

Western leaders are wrong: Islamic State does pose an existential threat.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Nov 23, 2015

Toyohashi embarks on 'rubbish' project to achieve biomass power goals

The Aichi Prefecture city of Toyohashi, with a population of 380,000, is set to embark on a unique and challenging project in fiscal 2017 of collecting biodegradable waste from households and companies for a combined biomass power generation facility.
Japan investigating Amazon for allegedly bullying other businesses
Packages move along a conveyor belt at an Amazon warehouse
DPP’s Tamaki leverages new position with energy proposal
DPP leader Yuichiro Tamaki in Tokyo on Tuesday
Japanese man broke into 1,000 homes to 'relieve stress'
Fukuoka Prefectural Police Headquarters in Fukuoka. Police took a 37-year-old man into custody on Monday on suspicion of trespassing on a property in Dazaifu City.
Wild boar injures six at Himeji child care facility
Hyogo Prefectural Police headquarters. A wild boar attacked children and staff at a child care facility in the prefecture on Tuesday.
Russia says it will respond if U.S. places missiles in Japan
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova at a news conference in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, in June
‘What Divides Us’ producer honors grandfather’s Hiroshima reportage
“What Divides Us" producer Cannon Hersey says his grandfather, who wrote about the aftermath of nuclear destruction in Hiroshima, never spoke about what he had seen while working with Japanese minister Kiyoshi Tanimoto to preserve the stories of survivors.
DPP’s Tamaki leverages new position with energy proposal
DPP leader Yuichiro Tamaki 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.
China defense minister being investigated for corruption, report says
Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun attends the opening ceremony of the Xiangshan Forum at the Beijing International Convention Center on Sept. 13. Dong is the third consecutive incumbent or former defense chief to be probed over alleged corruption.
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.

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