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BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 18, 2017

Toyota targets 1,000-km driving range with fuel cell concept car

Toyota Motor Corp. is set to unveil a fuel cell concept car that aims to offer 50 percent more driving range than its current hydrogen-powered sedan in a technology push that defies a rising wave of battery-powered vehicles.
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CULTURE / Film
Oct 18, 2017

'Dawn Wind in My Poncho': Boys come of age on a typical road trip

Japanese road movies are many; ones featuring high school kids, relatively few. One was Daigo Matsui's 2015 "Our Huff and Puff Journey," about four high school girls in Fukuoka who set off on their commuter bikes to see a concert in Tokyo.
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WORLD / ANALYSIS
Oct 18, 2017

Islamic State's defeat in Raqqa brings U.S. new challenge to commit to a strategy for region

The defeat of the Islamic State group in its de facto capital of Raqqa, Syria, may be only the start of a wider struggle by the United States to contain any insurgency launched by the militants and to stabilize the region as Washington struggles to define a comprehensive strategy in Syria.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Oct 18, 2017

Victims in Las Vegas shooting may secure damages from affluent gunman's estate

Victims of mass shootings in the United States often win little or no damages from perpetrators, but the Las Vegas massacre may be different because the shooter is thought to have been a wealthy man, lawyers said.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 17, 2017

Trump is strengthening Iran's radicals

Shelving the 2015 nuclear deal would not only heighten regional tensions; it would also embolden the Iranian hardliners that the U.S. has been seeking to contain.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 16, 2017

The Iran nuclear deal is bad — and necessary

So long as Tehran remains compliant, the nuclear deal — however bad it is — remains our best chance to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power.
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JAPAN / Politics / Decision 2017
Oct 16, 2017

Edano taking center stage as CDP gains momentum

Yukio Edano, founder and president of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, is taking the spotlight ahead of the general election.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 15, 2017

Vietnamese child trafficking victims in U.K. vanishing from foster homes

Vietnamese children rescued from traffickers in Britain are vanishing from local authority care, with many feared at risk of re-enslavement by criminals, charities said on Friday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 14, 2017

Shake Shack experiments with automated order kiosks in U.S.

Beloved burger chain Shake Shack recently announced plans to use automated kiosks in lieu of employees to take orders at its new Astor Place location in New York.
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CULTURE / Books
Oct 14, 2017

'Asia's Reckoning': Australian journalist sheds light on Asia's fraught and complex ties

Wittingly or otherwise, Japan, the United States and China — Asia's top powers — all have their guns simultaneously trained on each other, in what Australian journalist Richard McGregor likens to a geopolitical Mexican standoff in his new book, "Asia's Reckoning."
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BASKETBALL / B. League
Oct 14, 2017

Cartier Martin brings NBA skills to B. League

Cartier Martin made a dynamic debut last weekend for the San-en NeoPhoenix.
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WORLD
Oct 14, 2017

California wildfires rage as death toll hits record 35

Fire officials in Northern California reported further headway on Friday against the most lethal outbreak of wildfires in state history, as the death toll rose to 35 and teams with cadaver dogs combed charred ruins for human remains.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / ANALYSIS
Oct 13, 2017

Kobe Steel cheating scandal driven by competition to improve metals, especially for automakers

Behind the scandal engulfing Kobe Steel Ltd. over the falsification of data for some of the materials it supplied is a harsh reality for Japanese steel companies: the need to provide higher and higher quality metals to compete.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 12, 2017

Someone needs to light a fuse under Japan

Danny Risberg, chairman of both the European Business Council in Japan and Philips Electronics Japan, wants Japanese to become fast, smart and independent decision-makers.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / Decision 2017
Oct 12, 2017

Koike's Kibo no To takes a hit as popular Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura cuts support

Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura has withdrawn his support for Kibo no To in a blow to Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, who is also the fledgling party's chief. This setback comes less than two weeks after Omura agreed to cooperate with Koike and Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui, who serves as Nippon Ishin no Kai's co-leader....
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CULTURE / Stage / Backstage Pass
Oct 12, 2017

Dance forms mix in pair of shows

Like many art forms in our rapidly shrinking world, dance is constantly experimenting with variants of the cross-cultural, extending and blending boundaries into innovative re-imaginings of genre. Choreographers such as Akram Khan, an English dancer of Bangladeshi descent, have found great success by...
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WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 12, 2017

From thin air to stone: Greenhouse gas test starts in Iceland

A Swiss company will start to extract carbon dioxide from thin air in Iceland on Thursday, seeking to transform the gas into rock far below ground in a first test of a costly technology meant to slow climate change.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 12, 2017

African-Americans twice as likely as whites to default on student debt: DOE

Nearly half of black Americans who borrowed from the federal government to attend college defaulted on their student loans — more than double the rate among white student debtors, according to new data from the U.S. Department of Education.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / A MATTER OF HEALTH
Oct 11, 2017

Japan's health ministry enlists anime hero in battle against overuse of antibiotics

The health ministry has enlisted the help of Amuro, the protagonist of the popular anime series "Mobile Suit Gundam," in its battle against the misuse and overuse of antibiotics — which can lead to antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
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COMMENTARY / World
Oct 11, 2017

Don't expect China's new leaders to change

We now have five years of data on Xi Jinping's policies and predilections, and very little of it suggests he is deeply invested in a pro-market, reformist agenda.

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