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EDITORIALS
Apr 12, 2018

Can Xi live up to his rhetoric?

Japan, like other countries, should support Xi Jinping's economic reform efforts, but it should demand that China live up to its president's rhetoric.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 12, 2018

Ex-Speaker John Boehner morphs from strong marijuana foe to pot industry adviser

The U.S. marijuana industry has a new spokesman: John Boehner.
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CULTURE / Film
Apr 11, 2018

'Liverleaf': Sadistic school bullies get their comeuppance in a bloody, bleak thriller

From "Battle Royale" to "The World of Kanako," the past 20 years of Japanese cinema have yielded countless examples of school kids behaving very, very badly. Director Eisuke Naito is a specialist in the genre: He started his career with the charmingly titled "Let's Make the Teacher Have a Miscarriage...
EDITORIALS
Apr 11, 2018

Reassess inflation target in Kuroda's second BOJ term

Does the annual 2 percent inflation target still need to be maintained and tied to an exit from the BOJ's massive monetary stimulus?
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COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Apr 11, 2018

Pick up a secondhand book in Japan and unearth a mystery

Perhaps the greatest pleasure to be derived from shopping at secondhand book stores in Japan comes from never knowing what might turn up between their pages.
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ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Apr 11, 2018

North Korea and Trump's dangerous perception gap on denuclearization

Washington's acknowledgment this week that Pyongyang is ready to discuss the "denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula" may sound like a step toward ridding North Korea of its hard-won nuclear weapons, but experts and observers say such a move is extremely unlikely in the near-term and highlights a potentially...
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 10, 2018

Vietnam activists question Facebook on suppressing dissent

Vietnamese human rights activists and independent media groups have written to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Inc.'s chief executive, questioning whether the social media platform was helping suppress dissent in the communist country.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 10, 2018

China defends military buildup in disputed South China Sea

Beijing defended its construction of what it called defensive facilities in the disputed South China Sea on Tuesday, saying the moves were not directed at any specific country, according to a Defense Ministry spokesman.
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CULTURE / Music
Apr 10, 2018

'I can only speak my own truth': Otoboke Beaver rocks tunes not politics

More than 100,000 people are expected to attend this month's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in the Southern California desert. While heavyweight North American pop stars such as Beyonce and The Weeknd are grabbing the most attention, the lineup also features dozens of noteworthy names — including...
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COMMENTARY / World
Apr 10, 2018

Europe must learn to work with its autocrats

Hungary's Viktor Orban may have pushed the boundaries of the acceptable, but he's at home in some mainstream European parties
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Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Apr 10, 2018

Yuzuru Hanyu leads list for season's top efforts by Japan skaters

With the epic Olympic season now concluded, Ice Time has come up with a top 10 list of the best performances by Japanese skaters.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 10, 2018

Finger bone found in Saudi Arabia upends story of human migration out of Africa

A fossil finger bone dating back about 90,000 years that was unearthed in Saudi Arabia's Nefud Desert is pointing to what scientists are calling a new understanding of how our species came out of Africa en route to colonizing the world.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 10, 2018

China demands halt of U.S. arms sales to Taiwan

China has said that it opposed the United States selling weapons to Taiwan, after the Trump administration approved the marketing license required for American manufacturers to sell technology to Taiwan that would allow for building submarines.
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COMMENTARY / World
Apr 9, 2018

Why Pyongyang wants a deal with Washington

Can Vietnam serve as an inspiring example for Kim Jong Un, or is it Belarus?
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech / ANALYSIS
Apr 9, 2018

In shadow of looming China-U.S. trade war, rivals waging high-stakes quantum computing battle

As the U.S. and China threaten to impose tariffs on goods from aluminum to wine, the two nations are waging a separate economic battle that could determine who owns the next wave of computing.
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JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Apr 7, 2018

Magazines indulge Japan's healthy obsession with staying spry

There has been a recent surge of articles in Japan's weekly magazines about diet, health and avoiding illnesses.
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JAPAN / Politics
Apr 6, 2018

Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera announces a fresh set of SDF logs from Iraq have been found in growing scandal

Onodera pledged to further probe the ministry's careless handling of data and promised to announce the result as soon as possible.
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SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Apr 6, 2018

Mighty Man City given reality check by Liverpool

Manchester City has collected compliments and plaudits almost on a weekly basis this season and rightly so, though the premature if inevitable claims about Pep Guardiola's team being the best English side of all-time took a severe dent when Liverpool thrashed — not too strong a word — the visitors...
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LIFE / Travel / BACKSTREET STORIES
Apr 6, 2018

Swordplay and samurai in Tokyo's Maruyamacho district

Traditional businesses are heating up in Shibuya's old geisha quarter.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 5, 2018

Facebook Japan spared from parent's privacy backlash

Despite a series of revelations about privacy oversights at its parent firm, the director of Facebook Japan believes the service will become more secure as a result of the scandal.
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BUSINESS
Apr 5, 2018

Japan faces losses on grain, production fronts if U.S.-China trade war erupts

Firms in Japan could be affected by the escalating trade row if they source production in China, export grain from U.S. subsidiaries, or if U.S.-bound shipments from China fall.
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COMMUNITY / Voices
Apr 4, 2018

Readers' views on intercultural insensitivity, Japanese schooling, English gaps and an inspirational Indian

Some readers' responses to recent stories on the Community pages:
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BUSINESS / Markets
Apr 4, 2018

Bank of Japan wants you to be wary of cryptocurrencies

Bitcoin investing is popular in Japan, but the nation has also had several high-profile cryptocurrency heists. Now, the central bank has come up with a rather negative Q&A for those seeking answers on cryptocurrencies.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 3, 2018

Japan's Indo-Pacific strategy falls short

The government must demonstrate that its commitment to international law and democratic values is more than just a fig leaf.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 3, 2018

New Toshiba CEO says chip unit sale will proceed despite eased delisting fears

New Toshiba Corp. Chairman and CEO Nobuaki Kurumatani emphasized Tuesday that the company does not intend to change plans to sell its lucrative memory chip unit even now that it has staved off financial woes.
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JAPAN
Apr 3, 2018

Defense Ministry finds GSDF logs for Iraq despite earlier denials of existence before Diet

Defense Minister Onodera says he did not find out about Ground Self-Defense Force activity logs from Iraq until 2u00bd months after they were discovered.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 2, 2018

Softbank's Masayoshi Son may be about to surprise us anew

Corporate Japan could do with more of Masayoshi Son's 'swing for the fences' approach to business.

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