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BUSINESS / IEC GENERAL MEETING IN TOKYO
Nov 4, 2014

UL working to realize smart grid built on clean energy

The smart grid is one of the key drivers of the future development of a smarter world. As it continues to grow, many complex new products will enter the marketplace and demands for ensuring their safety and reliability will increase. As a premier global independent safety science company, UL has been...
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TENNIS
Nov 3, 2014

Nishikori rises to No. 5

When Kei Nishikori became the first Asian man to break into the top 10 in the ATP Tour rankings back in May, he said his next goal was to make the top five.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Nov 3, 2014

Tigers can only lick wounds after falling short of goal in Japan Series

For 29 years, diehard Hanshin Tigers fans have waited for the club add to its lone Japan Series title, won in 1985, and for a while it looked like 2014 might mark the end of the drought.
COMMENTARY
Nov 3, 2014

Avoiding Western networks

All five BRICS countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — have vested interests in developing long-term alternative financial institutions for parking their money and moving it internationally, independent of the West's bullying instincts and addiction to sanctions.
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WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 3, 2014

'Psychopathic' British banker charged with killing two prostitutes in Hong Kong

A British investment banker appears in a Hong Kong court charged with murdering two Asian prostitutes whose bodies were discovered by police in his apartment.
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WORLD / Politics
Nov 3, 2014

Courting liberals, Clinton takes tougher line on big business

Long viewed as an ally by Wall Street, likely 2016 presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton has increasingly been taking banks and big business to task while on the campaign trail for Democrats across the United States.
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WORLD
Nov 3, 2014

Virgin Galactic CEO expects new spacecraft to be ready next year, after crash probe wraps up

Virgin Galactic could have a new spacecraft ready to fly by next year, the chief executive of Richard Branson's space tourism company said in an interview published on Sunday, reacting to concerns about the safety of technology used in the Virgin craft that crashed Friday.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 31, 2014

Nomura sees Chiba Bank blazing bond trail for regionals

Chiba Bank Ltd. was rewarded for pushing ahead with the first dollar bond sale by a Japanese regional bank even as U.S. corporate borrowing costs leaped.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Oct 31, 2014

In Guangdong, nervy Chinese ramp up Ebola watch

Chinese authorities have identified the southern province of Guangdong, home to Asia's biggest African population, as a front line in their efforts to prevent the deadly Ebola virus from entering mainland China.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 31, 2014

Does right-wing extremism threaten Japan's democracy?

Japan's image abroad is suffering as a result of the apparently growing influence of right-wing extremists in the government. It is in Japan's national interest to discourage revisionists from propagating historical lies that might threaten the democratic processes.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 31, 2014

Why Russian jets are testing NATO's airspace

The danger of the new Cold War is that there is complete disagreement between Russia on one side and the U.S. and EU on the other as to the dividing lines. For most Russians, the borders created by the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991 aren't a given.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 31, 2014

German court sentences 'Autobahn gunman' to 10 years in jail

A German court on Thursday sentenced a truck driver to 10½ years in prison for shooting hundreds of times from his cab at other vehicles.
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JAPAN
Oct 31, 2014

Japan's 3/11 tsunami evacuees caught in $30 billion money trap

Some ¥3.28 trillion in funding for roads, bridges and thousands of new homes in areas devastated by the tsunami in Tohoku 3½ years ago is still languishing unspent in the bank. That means Keiko Abe is heading into a fourth winter of subzero temperatures in a cramped, temporary dwelling that is succumbing...
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CULTURE / Art
Oct 30, 2014

Kunisaki Art Festival shows works worth the hike

To visit Antony Gormley's "Another Time" — a life-sized iron figure which looks eastward across Oita Prefecture's Sento district of Kunisaki from atop a mountain ledge — is a breathtaking experience. Not just because it's a stong piece of art or that the location offers a stunning vista of verdant...
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JAPAN / Politics
Oct 30, 2014

Okinawa gubernatorial election kicks off with four candidates

The Okinawa gubernatorial race kicks off with four candidates in an election that could sink Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's political fortunes and strain military ties with the United States.
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WORLD / Society
Oct 30, 2014

Thai junta's focus on school reforms raises eyebrows

Sixteen years old and studying 13 hours a day, high school pupil Worapot doesn't have time to waste meeting a military-led government's idea of what makes a good Thai.
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WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 30, 2014

Assad's warnings start to ring true as Syrian strife arrives at Turkey's doorstep

When Sunni rebels rose up against Syria's Bashar Assad in 2011, Turkey reclassified its protege as a pariah, expecting him to lose power within months and join the autocrats of Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen on the scrap heap of the Arab Spring.
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BASKETBALL
Oct 29, 2014

Japan Basketball Association chief Maruo says new league will launch in 2016 despite failure to meet FIBA deadline

Despite facing an expected suspension from FIBA, Japan Basketball Association acting president Mitsuru Maruo insisted that the country's governing body would not stop trying to address and fix its problems, including the unification of the nation's two men's top leagues.
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BASKETBALL
Oct 29, 2014

NBL executive Yamaya steps down; president Maruo plans to quit

NBL executive Takashi Yamaya stepped down as chief operating officer, while league president Mitsuru Maruo also expressed his intention of resigning, the league announced on Wednesday.
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JAPAN / Society / ANALYSIS
Oct 29, 2014

Town divided after Sendai nuclear plant restart clears another hurdle

The city hosting the Sendai nuclear plant in Kagoshima Prefecture has decided to approve a resumption of operations at the facility, highlighting a conflict between people who benefit from the largesse of the industry and those who do not.
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CULTURE / Stage
Oct 29, 2014

Millepied's L.A. Dance Project arrives with a triple bill of disparate delights

Two years after its inaugural performance, L.A. Dance Project is already a must-see company. In part that's because its founder and artistic director is the legendary French-born ballet dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied — but also because of its trendy innovations in contemporary dance and...
EDITORIALS
Oct 29, 2014

Proposed temp law bad for workers

The Abe administration's move to meet business demands for more irregular workers without establishing the principle of 'same work, same pay' will only increase the job insecurity of many of the nation's workers.
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JAPAN
Oct 29, 2014

Confidence key to female success, say panelists at Tokyo forum

Women's advances in society are now a "must" in Japan, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration pledging to make every woman shine. But many still find it difficult to break the glass ceiling in a male-dominated society —mainly due to their lack of self-confidence, speakers at a recent Tokyo...
WORLD
Oct 29, 2014

Qatar emir to face questions on jihadist funding on U.K. state visit

The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, is expected to reject allegations that his country is funding Islamic State militants during a three-day state visit to Britain that began on Tuesday.
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WORLD
Oct 29, 2014

Fatal '13 train crash in New York caused by engineer with sleep disorder: NTSB

A fatal New York City train derailment last year was likely caused by the engineer at the controls who fell asleep due to an undiagnosed sleep disorder, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday.
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COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Oct 28, 2014

Organizational flaws, collusive ties taking a toll on the WHO

Critics of the World Health Organization say its inability to fight Ebola thus far can be traced not only to its own organizational problems but also to its 'collusive relations' with the pharmaceutical industry.

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Totopa in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward was picked by consultants TTNE as the best sauna of the year.
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