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EDITORIALS
Mar 10, 2016

The 3/11 disasters, five years on

The five years since March 2011 show that massive public spending alone won't rebuild people's lives.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Mar 9, 2016

Japan national team balancing present needs with future development

With the Olympic men's basketball qualifying tournaments set for July, Japan national head coach Kenji Hasegawa assembled 27 players from the NBL, bj-league and college ranks for a two-day training camp that started Monday.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 7, 2016

Trump, Clinton meet 'Beijing put'

The People's Bank of China didn't take to Twitter to troll Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. It used an old-school reserve ratio cut to spite those critical of Beijing's currency policies.
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 7, 2016

BOJ's Kuroda says impact of next sales tax hike to be less than in 2014

Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda said Monday that the impact of a sales tax increase scheduled for April 2017 would be much less than that which resulted from the hike in 2014 — sending Japan into a recession.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 7, 2016

Drugmaker wins big in Japan as its gamble leads to landmark cancer drug

Ten years ago, representatives from Japan's Ono Pharmaceutical Co. went from hospital to hospital, attempting to convince doctors to test a new product under development: drugs that helped the body's immune system fight cancer. But nobody would listen.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Mar 5, 2016

Our new school's on song despite cabals

Almost exactly five years ago, on March 11, 2011, an earthquake followed by a devastating tsunami wreaked havoc in the northeastern Tohoku region. Here where I live amid the faraway mountains of Nagano Prefecture, all of us connected with the C.W. Nicol Afan Woodland Trust wondered what we could do to...
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 1, 2016

The Pentagon's big lie about the South China Sea

The notion that China's actions in the South China Sea threaten commercial shipping is a load of analytical rubbish.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 29, 2016

Humans can't keep trashing the oceans forever

The oceans are a critical ally of life on Earth, and we must do everything in our power to safeguard them.
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 26, 2016

Japan's government talks of postponing 2017 tax hike

The government is ready to postpone a scheduled hike in the consumption tax if the move looks like it would weaken the economy and reduce total tax revenues, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a regular news conference Friday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Feb 26, 2016

Japan's cutbacks handicap monitoring of changes in Pacific Ocean

The global lens used to follow El Nino has become a bit less accurate after Japan cut by about half the number of buoys in the Western Pacific that monitor changes in the ocean. It will take another four to five offline next year.
WORLD
Feb 24, 2016

U.S. must deploy anti-ship missile in Asia soon, admiral says

The U.S. should deploy a new anti-ship missile made by Lockheed Martin Corp. as quickly as possible to counter improved Chinese and Russian naval capabilities in Asian waters, the top U.S. Pacific commander said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 23, 2016

Up to 90 million more Takata air bag inflators may face U.S. recalls

U.S. auto safety regulators are examining whether an additional 70 million to 90 million Takata Corp. air bag inflators should be recalled because they may endanger drivers, according to a source with knowledge of the matter.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Feb 20, 2016

Growing chorus of experts is raising ethical questions about the future of robotics

Crowds filter through a darkened corner of Tokyo's National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation on a recent Saturday, seeking to catch a glimpse of what the future may be like.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Feb 20, 2016

1936 coup failed, but rebels killed Japan's 'Keynes'

This Friday marks the 80th anniversary of the February 26th Incident, a coup staged by young military officers who hoped to spark a general uprising, but whose revolt was quashed on the orders of Emperor Hirohito.
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 19, 2016

North Korea satellite tumbling in orbit again: U.S. sources

North Korea's recently launched satellite is once again tumbling in orbit after stabilizing briefly, according to a U.S. official and other sources.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 18, 2016

For Sanders and Clinton, politics is personal

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders represent two worldviews: one for whom wealth and privilege have long been assumed as her due, the other whose sympathies lie with those who are less fortunate because he once was.
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 18, 2016

Japan's LNG imports fall on warm weather and atomic restarts

The world's biggest buyer of liquefied natural gas said imports fell the most in more than six years as nuclear reactors restarted and warm weather cut demand.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 17, 2016

Polls show Abe is riding out storm of bad news

The opposition camp is failing to gain any traction with the public by lashing out at Abenomics or the scandals that have beset the Abe administration.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / Wide Angle
Feb 17, 2016

Tokyo festival for 'alternative visions' is loaded with art films

The Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2016 is on until Feb. 20 and is taking place in one of Tokyo's most highfalutin chunks of real estate: the area around Yebisu Garden Place in the Ebisu neighborhood.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Feb 17, 2016

Top court-frozen Obama climate plan may get new legal life with Scalia's death

A vote to block the Obama administration's ambitious climate regulation was one of Antonin Scalia's last acts as a Supreme Court justice. His sudden death may have opened a new path to the rule's survival.

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