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COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 4, 2015

The veiled cause of Abe's legislative predicament

The national debate over the security bills as been limited to constitutional issues but it should also focus on Japan's significantly enhanced responsibilities in the U.S. defense guidelines.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 2, 2015

Is it Australian Border Security Force or farce?

An operation by the Australian Border Force to check visas on the streets of Melbourne is met with scorn by a public with no interest in accepting 'fascist nonsense.'
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 2, 2015

'Pixels' is more of an insult than ode to Pac-Man

When you're a film critic, you are occasionally assailed by one of two overwhelming urges: first, to quit, and second, to punch Adam Sandler in the face.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 1, 2015

Refugee crisis is suddenly Merkel's biggest challenge

In the past two weeks, Germany has been shaken by a perfect storm of headlines that have elevated the refugee issue to the very top of the public and political agenda.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Sep 1, 2015

Hashimoto continues to wrestle for support

The breakup of Ishin no To and the announcement by Toru Hashimoto that he plans to launch a new party once again exposes the deep rift between his Osaka followers and his detractors.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2015

New MSDF 'family cards' hint at expanded Japan military role abroad: journalist

The Defense Ministry is quietly but steadily preparing for what comes after the controversial security legislation is enacted ? including determining who is eligible to fight in a war, according to journalist Yu Terasawa.
EDITORIALS
Aug 29, 2015

A need to reduce school pressures

The link between the end of school breaks and a rise in child suicides highlights the need to reduce school pressures on students.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Aug 29, 2015

SEALDs student group reinvigorates Japan's anti-war protest movement

Wearing shorts and a baggy T-shirt and clutching a microphone, Aki Okuda stands before a crowd, the pyramid-shaped roof of the Diet building lit up against the night sky behind him.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 28, 2015

Tokyo protests Beijing editorial calling for Emperor to apologize over wartime actions

An editorial by China's official news agency, demanding an apology from Emperor Akihito over Japan's wartime actions, is “very discourteous,” Tokyo says.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 27, 2015

Households take investment risks as stagnant inflation eats into savings

Tomoyo Morie, a housewife who lives in Tokyo with her husband and teenage son, is more afraid that inflation will wreck her savings than gyrating markets.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Aug 26, 2015

Anti-Abe feeling grows in SDF

Sentiment against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is rising in the SDF over fears that his pending security legislation will increase the risk of going to war.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 26, 2015

Obama apologizes to Abe over spying allegations

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga made the announcement, but did not say whether Obama admitted the U.S. had spied on Japanese officials and companies, as alleged by WikiLeaks.
EDITORIALS
Aug 25, 2015

Defense Ministry internal document

The Abe administration needs to provide sufficient explanations on the SDF's activities and operations related to the bills to the Diet to prevent the SDF from making decisions while keeping the Diet and the public in the dark.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 24, 2015

Abe won't visit Beijing for WWII parade

Contrary to earlier media reports, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has decided not to visit China in early September, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga says.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 24, 2015

Steps to reduce the number of teen suicides

How teens handle parental and peer pressure can make the difference between life and death.
EDITORIALS
Aug 24, 2015

Regulating virtual currencies

Along with preventing the abuse of the virtual currency transactions for money laundering and criminal purposes, new cybermoney regulations should aim to protect the interests of its users.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Aug 22, 2015

Abe's revisionism and Japan's divided war memories

The Abe statement, approved by the Cabinet on Aug. 14, has elevated a myopic and exonerating revisionist narrative of history to Japan's official policy.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 21, 2015

Japan condemns North Korean border 'provocation'; experts say military escalation unlikely

After North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared a “quasi state of war” for the nation's troops near the South Korean border, Tokyo expressed “strong concerns.”
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 21, 2015

Russia needs a strategy, not another fake plan

It is advisable for each country to have a sound and realistic economic and social development strategy. At this moment in history, Russia is going through more than one crisis, some of them imposed by the global economic situation and some obviously self-made. So, for this ailing society, a sound strategy...
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 19, 2015

Nakatani defends Joint Staff security bills document

Defense Minister Gen Nakatani admitted Wednesday that the ministry's Joint Staff Office created an internal document in late May about expanding overseas operations of the Self-Defense Forces, based on the assumption that security legislation currently under debate in the Upper House would be enacted....

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