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Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 26, 2015

There's no need to squint at the work of Guercino

History has not been kind to Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, the Italian Baroque painter who is better known by his artistic nickname, Guercino — "the Squinter."
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BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 26, 2015

Toyota adopts new business model with cost-saving platform shift

Toyota Motor Corp. will shift half of all vehicles it makes to new cost-saving platforms by 2020, following a similar move by rival Volkswagen AG.
EDITORIALS
Mar 26, 2015

A trilateral summit, maybe

Despite the agreement among Japan, China and South Korea to hold a trilateral summit at the earliest convenient time, it is unrealistic to think the relationship between Japan and the other two will thaw soon.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 26, 2015

Toho Zinc to restore Australian mine output amid global deficit

Toho Zinc Co., Japan's third-biggest producer of the metal, will restore full capacity at its Rasp mine in Australia around the middle of this year after improving access to high-grade ore deposits.
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JAPAN
Mar 25, 2015

Noodle-maker revolutionizes ramen culture in the U.S.

At the huge, brightly lit factory in Teterboro, New Jersey, machines from Japan gently mix eggs and flour and turn them into sheets of yellow dough that are then cut into thin wavy ramen.
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CULTURE / Stage
Mar 25, 2015

Noda's 'Egg' scrambles understanding

After his acclaimed French debut last year with "The Bee," news of Hideki Noda's return to the Theatre National de Chaillot in central Paris with his pop-war-and-Olympian extravaganza "Egg" created quite a buzz of anticipation.
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 25, 2015

World's oldest breast cancer identified in ancient Egyptian skeleton

A team from a Spanish university has discovered what Egyptian authorities are calling the world's oldest evidence of breast cancer in the 4,200-year-old skeleton of an adult woman.
MORE SPORTS
Mar 24, 2015

Olympic heptathlete champion Ennis-Hill set for competitive return

Olympic champion Jessica Ennis-Hill will return to competition for the first time in almost two years when she runs in the 100-meter hurdles at the Great City Games in May.
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JAPAN / Politics
Mar 24, 2015

Abe, New Zealand's Key vow TPP progress

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his New Zealand counterpart John Key pledged further cooperation Tuesday to wrap up the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations soon.
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JAPAN / Politics
Mar 24, 2015

In gaffe, Abe refers to SDF as 'military'

Despite Japan's official view that the Self-Defense Forces' legal nature makes it different from the militaries of other nations, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe calls the SDF “our military.”
BASEBALL / SPORTS SCOPE
Mar 24, 2015

Why did Matsui pick Yankees over Giants?

Former Yomiuri Giants star Hideki Matsui made news earlier this month with his decision to take a job with the New York Yankees. The move was seen as a curious one here for several reasons.
WORLD
Mar 24, 2015

Islamic State has recruited 400 kids since January: Syria monitor

Islamic State has recruited at least 400 children in Syria in the past three months and given these so-called "Cubs of the Caliphate" military training and hard-line indoctrination, a monitoring group said Tuesday.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 24, 2015

America's bickering allies

After spending the last six decades defending South Korea and Japan, the U.S. has every reason to demand that its two longtime allies enhance their military cooperation.
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WORLD / Politics
Mar 23, 2015

Spain's Andalusia vote sets stage for sweeping change at national level

Leftist newcomer Podemos made spectacular inroads in elections in the Spanish region of Andalusia on Sunday, with the vote splitting over the political spectrum in a foretaste of the upheaval likely in national elections later in the year.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 23, 2015

Norway sovereign wealth fund eyeing real estate in Tokyo, Singapore

Norway's wealth fund is making final preparations for its first Asian real estate investment as it builds a portfolio of properties in the world's biggest cities.
WORLD
Mar 23, 2015

Syrian insurgents 'mimicking ruthlessness' of army, rights group says

Insurgent groups in Syria have carried out scores of indiscriminate attacks that have killed and maimed civilians in violation of the laws of war, a Human Rights Watch report said on Monday.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 22, 2015

Gunmen strike at the heart of Tunisia's political idealism

The Tunisian government will now have to wake up and acknowledge that the enemies of constitutional democracy view the success of the Tunisian experiment as a threat to their own vision of Islamic law and governance.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 22, 2015

Texas Sen. Cruz to be first to announce 2016 presidential bid: report

U.S. Republican Sen. Ted Cruz plans to announce Monday that he will run for president in 2016, the Houston Chronicle reported on its website.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 21, 2015

Tunisian in museum attack showed no signs of hard-line Islamist ideology

Shortly before he and a friend gunned down 20 foreign tourists — including three Japanese — on Wednesday at the Bardo National Museum in Tunis, Yassine al-Abidi sat down to a breakfast of olive oil and dates with his family and left for work at his travel agency as usual.
EDITORIALS
Mar 20, 2015

Aum's crimes still raise questions

Twenty years on, people are still trying to fathom why so many people — including youths from elite backgrounds — were drawn to a doomsday cult that carried out a deadly sarin gas attack in downtown Tokyo.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 20, 2015

Doctors being targeted in Syria's brutal war

After four years of war in Syria, some medical suppliers now fear being arrested or shut down if they sell gauze or surgical thread to doctors operating in areas under siege by government forces.

Longform

It's back to the classroom for some residents as municipal governments across the country conduct lessons to learn how to use new technologies.
Can aging Japan go digital without leaving anyone behind?