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Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 23, 2017

MSDF destroyers kick off drills with USS Carl Vinson strike group in Western Pacific

Two Maritime Self-Defense Force ships begin joint drills with the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson and its escort vessels in the Western Pacific as the strike group nears the Sea of Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN / KANSAI PERSPECTIVE
Apr 23, 2017

Kansai leaders grope for ways to keep regional population stable amid projected slide

A projection showing that Japan's population could fall from 127.09 million in 2015 to 88.08 million by 2065 has pushed Kansai leaders harder for more policies and funding to increase the local birthrate, keep younger people from leaving and protect the growing ranks of the elderly.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 22, 2017

U.S. carrier to arrive in Sea of Japan 'within days,' Pence says

The USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier strike group is expected to arrive in the Sea of Japan "within a matter of days," U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said Saturday amid tensions with North Korea.
EDITORIALS
Apr 21, 2017

May's bold election gambit

Prime Minister Theresa May is seeking to strengthen her hand domestically as she enters into difficult Brexit negotiations.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 21, 2017

Goodbye Lenin? Russian lawmakers introduce law to get him buried

The embalmed corpse of Vladimir Lenin has lain in a mausoleum on Red Square since his death in 1924 but now, a century after the revolution he spearheaded, legislation designed to turf him out has been introduced into the Russian parliament.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 20, 2017

Why is the U.K. holding an election now?

Theresa May's present small majority of 17 seats in the House of Commons leaves her dangerously vulnerable to challenges from both sides of the Brexit equation.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Apr 20, 2017

Trump mulls military options for North Korea. They're all grim.

Three weeks before becoming president, Donald Trump weighed in on the threat of North Korea developing a nuclear warhead capable of reaching the U.S. "It won't happen," he vowed on Twitter.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 20, 2017

White House defends portrayal of Korean Peninsula-bound 'armada' but snafu draws jibes

President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday denied being misleading about a U.S. carrier strike group's push toward the Korean Peninsula, saying it never gave an arrival date and that the ships were still on their way.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 19, 2017

Roger Pulvers challenges the idea of a hero in directorial debut, 'Star Sand'

Roger Pulvers has had the sort of free-ranging, multifaceted career that seems like a dream in this specialized age, when academics labor in their narrow professional silos.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 18, 2017

U.S. aircraft carrier strike group still thousands of kilometers from South Korea, photos show

The USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier, initially believed to be arriving soon in waters off the Korean Peninsula as part of a show of force to Pyongyang by the U.S., appears to still be thousands of kilometers away, photos posted to the navy's website have shown.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 18, 2017

Kyotographie: from Kyoto, with love

Kyotographie — the brainchild of photographer Lucille Reyboz and lighting artist Yusuke Nakanishi — is 5 this year. Conceived and nurtured in Kyoto, it is now one of few substantial photography festivals in Japan, inarguably rivaling, even surpassing, many of the country's other calendar art events....
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 18, 2017

Hackers exploit Japan's army of mobile gamers with fake rewards

Gamers beware: hackers offering free virtual trinkets don't care about your passwords or personal data — they are after your employer's most closely guarded secrets.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Apr 17, 2017

Japan softball team excited to take first steps toward Tokyo 2020

There may still be three years to go until the Tokyo Olympics, but Japan women's softball national team head coach Reika Utsugi and players Yukiko Ueno and Eri Yamada are already psyched up.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 16, 2017

Trump more believable and moral than Putin?

In the Syrian strikes Trump effectively followed the policy of 'bomb first, prove later' — exactly the sequence Bush followed in Iraq in 2003 to commit the greatest geopolitical blunder since World War II.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Apr 15, 2017

Abe's self-inflicted statue wounds fester in Seoul

Abe face-planted by sending back Japan's ambassador to Seoul without resolving the statue issue, one that should never have been made into such a big deal in the first place.
JAPAN / View from Osaka
Apr 15, 2017

The real Moritomo Gakuen story is clear as mud

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." — Mark Twain
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 14, 2017

British startup hopes to cut plastic waste with innovative water balls

Small transparent spheres filled with natural or flavored water could help provide a solution to London's plastic waste problem, according to the startup company based in the British capital that manufactures them.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 14, 2017

China warns against using force on North Korea as Pyongyang readies for important event

Military force cannot resolve tension over North Korea, China said Thursday, while an influential Chinese newspaper urged the North to halt its nuclear program in exchange for Chinese protection.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Apr 13, 2017

Two more die as Venezuela riots spread to poor areas

Venezuelans in poor areas blocked streets and lit fires during scattered protests across the country on Tuesday night, and two people were killed during the growing unrest in the midst of a crippling economic crisis.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 13, 2017

Pyongyang tells foreign journalists to prepare for 'big and important event'

Foreign journalists visiting North Korea have been told to prepare for a "big and important event" on Thursday, although there were no indications it was directly linked to tensions in the region over the isolated state's nuclear weapons program.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 12, 2017

A grimace and a shrug, but no fear of U.S. strike in Pyongyang

Residents thronged the wide boulevards of North Korea's capital Pyongyang on Wednesday, some practicing for a parade to be held during the weekend, with no visible signs of the tensions engulfing the region over the isolated state's weapons programs.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LAW OF THE LAND
Apr 12, 2017

Japanese people v. the United States et al

Stories of the Japanese people whom fate — and, more often than not, citizenship — brought before America's highest court.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 11, 2017

Blame Woodrow Wilson for the U.S.' constant wars

It's time for U.S. presidents to work hard for peace rather than take what has become the far easier path to war.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Apr 11, 2017

Ramen flavored with insects attracts thrillseekers in Tokyo

Within about four hours, the Ramen Nagi restaurant had sold out of the 100 bowls of "insect tsukemen" noodles it had prepared for Sunday's single-day event.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Apr 10, 2017

One of the healthiest parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef damaged by Cyclone Debbie

A cyclone that left a trail of destruction in northeast Australia and New Zealand has also damaged one of the few healthy sections of the Great Barrier Reef to have escaped large-scale bleaching, scientists said Monday.
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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