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Jan 12, 2018

Sprinter Chisato Fukushima upbeat about training in new environment

Chisato Fukushima holds the national records in the 100 and 200 meters and has won numerous national titles. She has made three trips to the Summer Olympics, starting with the 2008 Beijing Games.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 12, 2018

Japan's quiet #MeToo movement says everything

As the #MeToo movement spans the globe, Japan is conspicuous for a relative silence, particularly where it matters most.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 12, 2018

Bain says the record year for Japan private equity is no one-off

Japan's banner year for buyouts is just the start of a bigger boom in the market, says the fund responsible for more than four-fifths of private equity deals in the country by value in 2017.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 12, 2018

GM applies to deploy self-driving Cruise AV robo-taxi next year

General Motors Co. is seeking U.S. government approval to include a fully autonomous car — one without a steering wheel, brake pedal or accelerator pedal — in its first commercial ride-sharing fleet in 2019, executives said.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 12, 2018

Myanmar admission that soldiers killed Rohingya 'an important step,' U.S. envoy says

Myanmar's admission that soldiers were involved in the murder of 10 Muslims in September was an important step and the United States hoped it would be followed by more transparency and accountability, the U.S. ambassador said on Thursday.
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WORLD / Society
Jan 12, 2018

Nigeria holds mass burial for 73 killed in clashes between farmers and herdsmen seeking fertile land

Seventy-three people killed since the start of the year in communal violence between semi-nomadic herdsmen and farmers were buried in Nigeria on Thursday highlighting a bloody conflict over fertile land that is taking on political significance.
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BUSINESS / Tech
Jan 11, 2018

After 12-year wait, Sony relaunches robot dog Aibo to much fanfare

Sony Corp. relaunched the Aibo on Thursday, with fans expressing excitement at the second unleashing of the robot dog.
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JAPAN
Jan 11, 2018

As deadline looms, Japanese team in lunar probe contest still determined to shoot for the moon

A Japanese team participating in an international lunar probe competition said Thursday it will not give up its plan to launch a rocket to send its rover to the moon, even as prospects for doing so by the deadline — the end of March — grow dim.
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JAPAN / Society
Jan 11, 2018

YouTube pares back Logan Paul partnership after Japan suicide video

YouTube said Wednesday it is removing popular American celebrity YouTuber Logan Paul from its Google Preferred platform and putting future projects with him on hold, after Paul posted a video on the platform that included footage of a suicide victim in Japan.
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JAPAN
Jan 11, 2018

Olympic athletes unlikely to eat free-range eggs in 2020, if Japan's farmers have their way

Welfare standards for hens are at risk of flying the coop in 2020 because eggs from caged hens are likely to be served up to athletes at the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
WORLD
Jan 11, 2018

Saudi-led coalition says it foiled Houthi attack on oil tanker near key port

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Wednesday it had thwarted an attack on a Saudi oil tanker over the weekend by Houthi fighters near the Red Sea port of Hodeida.
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CULTURE / Film
Jan 10, 2018

Zen and the art of documentary film

It's the second day of the new year and unseasonably warm outside Pole-Pole Higashi-Nakano, one of Tokyo's few remaining art-house theaters. Husband-and-wife filmmakers Werner Penzel and Ayako Mogi take a seat in the morning sun, taking off their coats while marveling at the weather.
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BASKETBALL / B. League
Jan 10, 2018

Rizing Zephyr rapidly climbing B. League ladder

Without much fanfare, the Rizing Zephyr Fukuoka are in the midst of an impressive, yet steady climb up the Japan pro basketball ladder.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jan 10, 2018

Myanmar police charge Reuters reporters under Official Secrets Act

Japan wants to raise the matter of two Reuters reporters detained in Myanmar with the country's government at appropriate opportunities, including a visit by Foreign Minister Taro Kono to that country this week, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Wednesday.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 10, 2018

Can the 'Indo-Pacific' compete with China?

It seems like everyone in the Pacific and Indian Ocean area has decided to treat the region as a unified strategic theater.
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JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 10, 2018

Newly minted Japanese Supreme Court justice will issue rulings under maiden name, breaking with long tradition

Yuko Miyazaki, newly appointed to the country's top court, says she will issue her legal judgments under her maiden name — Miyazaki — becoming Japan's first woman to abandon the court's long tradition of using one's legal name after marriage.
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BUSINESS
Jan 10, 2018

Boeing seen topping Airbus with record 763 jets in 2017 as it keeps output flow moving

Boeing Co. said on Tuesday it delivered an industry-record 763 jetliners in 2017, likely beating European rival Airbus SE to retain the title of world's biggest plane maker.
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WORLD / Society
Jan 10, 2018

Survivors say some 50 migrants may have drowned off Libya after 300 are rescued

Survivors from a boat that sank off Libya's coast on Tuesday said about 50 people who had embarked with them were missing and feared dead.
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WORLD
Jan 10, 2018

Yemen's Houthis threaten to block vital shipping lane if Saudi-led force tries to take key Red Sea port

Yemen's armed Houthi movement threatened to block the strategic Red Sea shipping lane if the Saudi-led coalition it is fighting keeps pushing toward the port of Hodeida it controls, the Houthi-run SABA news agency reported.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 10, 2018

Washington now hails Seoul-Pyongyang talks despite Kim's refusal to discuss its nuclear threat

North and South Korea held their first talks in over two years on Tuesday, and Washington welcomed them as a first step to solving the North Korean nuclear weapons crisis, even though Pyongyang said those were aimed only at the United States and not up for discussion.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 10, 2018

Unlike Facebook and Google, Twitter misses deadline to provide info to U.S. Senate in Russia probe

Twitter Inc. missed a deadline on Monday to provide the U.S. Senate Intelligence committee with information about alleged Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election, a spokeswoman for the committee's top Democrat, Sen. Mark Warner, said on Tuesday.

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