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Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 8, 2015

After Trump and Bush's stumbles, will GOP's only female candidate ride to the rescue?

Donald Trump's caustic confrontation with Fox News Channel presenter Megyn Kelly at Thursday's Republican presidential debate couldn't have come at a less opportune time for a party trying to increase its appeal to women voters.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 8, 2015

Trump main attraction as Republican debate smashes U.S. television record

The Republican candidates' debate on Fox News Channel attracted 24 million viewers, more than double the prior record for a presidential primary forum, with social media data suggesting combative billionaire Donald Trump was the main attraction.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 7, 2015

China accuses prominent rights lawyer of inciting subversion

Police in China have accused a prominent human rights lawyer of inciting subversion and creating a disturbance, her lawyer said on Friday, paving the way for possible formal charges.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 7, 2015

BOJ refrains from adding stimulus as Kuroda bets on rebound

The Bank of Japan refrained Friday from expanding monetary stimulus as Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda bets the world's third-biggest economy will emerge from a recent soft patch and inflation will pick up.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS / THE DOPING EPIDEMIC
Aug 7, 2015

Conte says top officials hindering fight against doping

BALCO founder Victor Conte worked on the 'dark side' when his San Francisco Bay Area company supplied performance-enhancing drugs to elite athletes, including sprinter Marion Jones and MLB home-run king Barry Bonds. That's how Conte has frequently described those years at the start of the 21st century.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 7, 2015

Achieving true reconciliation

It takes two to tango, and to achieve reconciliation.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 7, 2015

Realizing rapprochements with rogue states

With a regime as volatile as North Korea's, patience is never a virtue. The U.S. should begin informal contact with the North to probe Kim Jong Un's intentions.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 6, 2015

New theme park, old problems, but 'Jurassic World' is still wild

Time hasn't been kind to Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park," the 1993 blockbuster that paved the way for every CGI-driven popcorn flick of the past two decades. But it isn't the movie's visual effects that betray its age: it's the setting. The film's titular theme park may have spent millions on cloning...
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 6, 2015

Tokyo, Beijing will get torched by the Olympics

There's a good chance hosting the Olympic Games will actually do more harm than good to the trajectories of Asia's two biggest economies.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 6, 2015

Verizon shift to wireless puts union ranks, with benefits, at huge disadvantage

Verizon Communications Inc., deadlocked in labor talks over pension benefits and health care that caused a strike in 2011, has gained bargaining power this time around after shedding operations that employ older unionized workers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 5, 2015

Japanese smartphone carriers offer mixed responses to Android flaw

A recently discovered security flaw affecting some 95 percent of Android mobile devices means users are at risk of being hacked just by receiving a short message with malicious intent.
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 5, 2015

Corporate earnings in Japan outshine rest of Asia amid weak yen

Japan is emerging as the star of Asia's latest earnings season, with most companies reporting higher-than-expected profit growth as businesses continue to benefit from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic policies.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 4, 2015

Of kimono and cultural appropriation

Clueless identity politics activists in the U.S. are no friends of Japan's struggling kimono industry.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 4, 2015

Najib's critics unbowed after anti-graft agency calls $700 million 'donation'

Malaysian opposition parties and activists kept up pressure on Prime Minister Najib Razak on Tuesday, undeterred by an anti-corruption agency statement apparently clearing him of receiving nearly $700 million from the debt-laden state fund 1MDB.
WORLD
Aug 4, 2015

11 Malian soldiers killed when Islamists raid their Timbuktu base

Suspected Islamist militants killed 11 soldiers in an attack on a Malian army base near the desert city of Timbuktu on Monday, the government said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 4, 2015

Italy nabs 11 in hunt for Sicilian Mafia don of dons on run since '93

Police in Sicily arrested 11 suspected mobsters they believe were helping Sicilian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro evade capture and spread his orders to the rest of the criminal organization.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 3, 2015

Permira turns positive on Japanese firms enacting corporate reforms

Permira Advisers, one of Europe's biggest private-equity firms, is stepping up its investments in Japan, encouraged by government moves to give greater power to shareholders.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 3, 2015

'Not a debater' Trump plans to play nice in first GOP candidate faceoff

Donald Trump, the man to beat in this week's first televised Republican presidential debate, said on Sunday he does not plan to attack his rivals and downplayed expectations for his performance, saying "I'm not a debater."
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Aug 1, 2015

The top-secret flights that ended the war

Seventy years after the atomic bombings, time stands still on the Pacific island of Tinian.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 1, 2015

China, Southeast Asia to set up hotline for South China Sea issues

China and Southeast Asian nations have agreed to set up a foreign ministers' hotline to tackle emergencies in the disputed South China Sea, a senior official of the ASEAN grouping said Friday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 31, 2015

China's Xi swats 'blood-sucking mosquitoes' as graft push goes small

Chinese President Xi Jinping, who has likened his nationwide corruption purge to hunting tigers and swatting flies, is sending Communist Party graft-busters after an even more annoying pest: mosquitoes.
JAPAN / Society
Jul 31, 2015

Changing the culture of long working hours key to increasing Japan's female workforce

The plight of Japan's working women has improved dramatically over the past two decades. Maternity leave has become the norm, slots at nurseries have increased by more than 340,000 and the percentage of female executives or women serving as department chiefs at companies has tripled.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 30, 2015

Despite long odds, independent media battle on in Putin's Russia

Alexei Venediktov, one of Russia's most prominent journalists, doesn't go out without a bodyguard and doesn't answer mobile phone calls for fear of being tracked.

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