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OLYMPICS
Feb 15, 2018

Ted-Jan Bloemen eclipses Jorrit Bergsma's minutes-old Olympic record, captures 10,000-meter gold

Canada's Ted-Jan Bloemen captured the gold medal in the men's 10,000 meters speedskating at Gangneung Oval on Thursday night in Olympic record time.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 15, 2018

Discovery bets on Olympic Games to break European language barrier

Inside a hulking five-story building at the Winter Olympics, TV production crews are working with video in 21 languages, all part of a plan by their U.S. employer, Discovery Communications, to become the top sports media brand in Europe.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 15, 2018

Don't fall for charm offensive, keep North 'under siege': chief of Lower House foreign affairs panel

South Korea must stay in line with U.S. and Japanese plans to keep North Korea "under siege," the chairman of the Lower House committee on foreign affairs said, referring to the policy of maintaining maximum pressure on Kim Jong Un's regime.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Feb 15, 2018

Trudeau says Canada will create framework to guarantee indigenous rights, ditch colonial policies

Canada will create a legal framework to guarantee the rights of indigenous people in all government decisions, doing away with policies built to serve colonial interests, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Feb 15, 2018

Terrorism ruled out as trio held after trying to drive onto National Security Agency campus, drawing fire

Three people who tried to drive onto the campus of the U.S. National Security Agency near Washington, drawing gunfire from guards, were taken into custody on Wednesday in an incident the FBI said had no link to terrorism.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 15, 2018

SpaceX gets FCC chief's nod to launch satellite-based broadband network

Elon Musk's SpaceX, fresh off the successful launch this month of the world's most powerful rocket, won an endorsement on Wednesday from the top U.S. communications regulator to build a broadband network using satellites.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Beyond Omotenashi
Feb 14, 2018

Rowdy tourists and grumpy monks of Mount Koya could do with a dose of Kukai's wisdom

Could the lessons of the sacred founder buried on Mount Koya bring harmony between foreign visitors and their local hosts?
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 14, 2018

U.S. pursues motion to put Pakistan on global terrorist-financing watchlist

The United States has put forward a motion to place Pakistan on a global terrorist-financing watchlist with an anti-money laundering monitoring group, according to a senior Pakistani official.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 14, 2018

Koch network starts ads in Indiana and Missouri plugging Trump tax plan and attacking Senate Democrats

The political network backed by billionaires Charles and David Koch is launching a $4 million advertising campaign against two Senate Democrats facing re-election in 2018, as it starts to fulfill a pledge to spend $20 million selling the federal tax overhaul passed late last year.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 13, 2018

U.S. strikes said to kill scores of Russian fighters in Syria

U.S. forces killed scores of Russian contract soldiers in Syria last week in what may be the deadliest clash between citizens of the former foes since the Cold War, according to a U.S. official and three Russians familiar with the matter.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 13, 2018

The four mottainai in Okinawan affairs

Opportunities to defuse tensions surrounding the U.S. military presence on Okinawa have been wasted.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Feb 13, 2018

April 1 marks start of Japan's new medical fees and processes

The new medical prices are out.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 13, 2018

10 years on, Osaka fiscal reform started by Toru Hashimoto remains unfinished

Since Toru Hashimoto was elected Osaka governor in January 2008 and subsequently launched a reform drive, the prefecture has turned its debt-heavy public finances around to achieve budget surpluses.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Feb 12, 2018

Japan's staff-heavy banks downsize and turn to technology for survival

These are tough times for banks.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 12, 2018

Toyota's self-muted presence at Winter Olympics a nod to political reality in South Korea

For a major new Olympics sponsor, Toyota Motor Corp. is oddly invisible at the Pyeongchang winter Games.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Feb 12, 2018

China's millennium-old fireworks hub grapples with bans and shifting traditions

From the concrete bunkers carved into the hillside, where workers gingerly handle piles of explosive black powder, to the shop fronts selling colorful boxes of pyrotechnics, time may be catching up with Liuyang's millennium-old fireworks industry.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 12, 2018

Trump's $1.5 trillion plan to overhaul U.S. infrastructure faces significant hurdles

U.S. President Donald Trump will roll out an infrastructure plan on Monday that already faces significant hurdles in Congress because it does not offer as much new federal funding as Democrats want or directly address how to pay for the effort.
JAPAN
Feb 11, 2018

Support for use of dual surnames in Japan rises to over 40% in government survey

In the latest survey, support for the dual surname proposal climbs 7 points as 18-year-olds and 19-year-olds join the mix for the first time.
EDITORIALS
Feb 11, 2018

Elon Musk 'boldly goes ...'

Falcon Heavy's success is a milestone in a new space race, one that is fundamentally different from that of the Cold War.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / HOME TRUTHS
Feb 11, 2018

Condo management is in need of repairs

On Dec. 18, the Supreme Court's petit bench ruled against a man from Fukuoka Prefecture who was suing the management association (kanri kumiai) of his condominium for firing him as its president of the board (rijicho) because the regulations of the association contained no stipulations for dismissal....
Japan Times
JAPAN / GENERATIONAL CHANGE
Feb 11, 2018

Kind act sprouts into grass-roots movement to feed kids

Hiroko Kondo is credited with coining the term kodomo shokudō: makeshift eateries for disadvantaged kids that morphed into a national grass-roots movement to address the growth of poverty in Japan.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 11, 2018

OxyContin maker stops promoting opioids

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP said on Saturday that it has cut its sales force in half and will stop promoting opioids to physicians, following widespread criticism of the ways that drugmakers market addictive painkillers.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Feb 10, 2018

Did press reports of a lawsuit spur an amendment to the welfare ministry's policy on benefits?

On Jan. 16, the Fukushima District Court ruled in favor of a woman and her daughter who had sued the city of Fukushima for cutting their welfare benefits. When the woman’s daughter was in high school, the woman received a grant scholarship to help her child prepare for university by covering expenses...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Feb 10, 2018

Artisan Junichi Mitsubori presents his new art of wagashi

A rapt audience watches in silence as a delicate confection in the shape of a flower blooms in the experienced hands of a wagashi master. Junichi Mitsubori, a third-generation wagashi (Japanese dessert) artisan hailing from Yokosuka City, Kanagawa, does not embellish his movements as he crafts the sugary...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 10, 2018

Trump picks U.S. Pacific Command chief Harry Harris to be ambassador to Australia

U.S. President Donald Trump has chosen Pacific Command chief Adm. Harry Harris — known for his strident views on China's military expansion and nuclear-armed North Korea — to be the United States' next ambassador to Australia.
Japan Times
PRESS / Services
Feb 9, 2018

ジャパンタイムズ、中国新聞社と記事交換を開始

 株式会社ジャパンタイムズ(本社:東京都港区、代表取締役社長:堤丈晴)は2018年2月5日、株式会社中国新聞社(本社:広島県広島市中区、代表取締役社長:岡谷義則)と、お互いの記事交換について合意しました。これにより、両社とも自社になかった特徴あるリソースを獲得することになります。...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 8, 2018

Thaw won't warm South Koreans to unity

Younger South Koreans are either apathetic about or hostile toward North Korea.

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