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COMMENTARY / World
May 12, 2016

Hillary to Bernie supporters: don't vote for me

Confident that she has the Democratic nomination locked down, Hillary Clinton's surrogates are targeting Bernie Sanders devotees with a low-key sales pitch.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
May 12, 2016

Poll puts Clinton and Trump in dead heat; demographics and Rust Belt appeal to be key election factors

Republican Donald Trump pulled even with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Wednesday, in a dramatic early sign that the Nov. 8 presidential election might be more hotly contested than first thought.
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BUSINESS
May 11, 2016

A Tokyo stock picker watches his nation age

It's an early weekday morning in Tokyo and the Japanese pub is already filled with a boisterous clientele, mostly pensioners. Sitting among them is Kengo Kuzuhara, taking notes.
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BASKETBALL
May 10, 2016

Australia women's squad completes three-game sweep of Japan

The Japan women's basketball team gave world No. 2 Australia a huge fright before succumbing to an 84-73 loss to suffer a series sweep on Tuesday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 10, 2016

Obama's foreign policy guru is the 'Blob' he says he hates

The idea that Barack Obama's chief foreign policy message guru is somehow independent of, or in opposition to, the foreign policy establishment is delusion. He embodies that establishment.
COMMENTARY / World
May 10, 2016

The U.S. Federal Reserve's risky new mandate

The U.S. Federal Reserve has all but explicitly recognized a new role: promoting global financial stability inches closer to achieving its targets for the domestic economy.
Japan Times
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
May 10, 2016

Mao mystery finally solved eight years later

In January 2008 Mao Asada suddenly split from coach Rafael Arutunian after 16 months of working together. It was a move made without warning or explanation, and left a great many in the skating community scratching their heads over the reason behind the decision.
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BUSINESS
May 10, 2016

Unfriendly activist battles Japan CEOs to wrest returns by force

Tsuyoshi Maruki stands out like a lone wolf in Japan, where societal intolerance for aggressive shareholder campaigns has spurred a breed of friendly activists.
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BUSINESS
May 10, 2016

Trump balks on vow to up taxes on rich, pitches plan deemed 'impenetrable'

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday backtracked on his remarks about raising taxes on wealthy Americans, saying the rich might simply get a smaller tax cut than he originally proposed.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
May 10, 2016

Analysts say Sanders plan would hike U.S. incomes but overhauled health care would send deficits soaring

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders' tax and benefit plans would raise income for most Americans but his proposal for single-payer health care would help generate record federal deficits, two Washington think tanks said on Monday.
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MULTIMEDIA
May 10, 2016

[VIDEO] Scenes from Tokyo Rainbow Pride parade 2016

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BASKETBALL
May 9, 2016

Australia crushes Japan in exhibition

Big center Elizabeth Cambage racked up 20 points and 12 rebounds as the Australian women's national team cruised past Japan 81-55 in the second game of their three-game exhibition series at Tokyo's Yoyogi National Gymnasium No. 2 on Monday night.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
May 9, 2016

Abe's questionable handling of the Kumamoto quakes

The Abe administration is making a shameful attempt to use the Kumamoto earthquakes to further and unrelated political agenda.
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JAPAN
May 9, 2016

Kyoto Prize to begin laureate lectures in Oxford

The University of Oxford and the Inamori Foundation on Monday announced that future winners of the Kyoto Prize will be invited to address audiences of decision-makers in the United Kingdom. The program will be called the "Kyoto Prize at Oxford."
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BUSINESS
May 9, 2016

Trump changes his tune, now says he's in favor of tax hikes for wealthy Americans

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Sunday he is open to raising taxes for the rich, backing off his prior proposal to reduce taxes on all Americans and breaking with one of his party's core policies dating back to the 1990s.
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MORE SPORTS
May 8, 2016

Gatlin keeps focus on Bolt after triumph in Kawasaki

Justin Gatlin geared up his bid to unseat sprint king Usain Bolt at this summer's Rio Olympics with a time of 10.02 seconds to win the 100 meters at the Golden Grand Prix on Sunday.
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COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
May 8, 2016

Media show Kumamoto was woefully ill-prepared for disabled evacuees

It was heartening to see newspapers focusing on the difficulties disabled people face when disaster strikes, but far less heartening to hear what they had to say about the facts on the ground in Kumamoto.
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COMMENTARY / World
May 8, 2016

Trump won the GOP's stand-up competition

Donald Trump's remarkable run, however it ends, could be a harbinger of things to come, and future races may well be won by the person with the best stand-up routine.
COMMENTARY / World
May 8, 2016

A role reversal for Myanmar and Thailand

Rarely do next-door neighbors move as rapidly in opposite political directions as Thailand and Myanmar have in the last several years.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
May 8, 2016

Trump's Scottish island ties are a world away from fireworks of U.S. politics

Donald Trump has played up his family roots from Lewis, an island off the northwestern tip of Scotland, but his success in the U.S. Republican presidential battle has not drawn the kind of rapture the billionaire might like from his home crowd.
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CULTURE / Books
May 7, 2016

The vagina, in all its 'obscene' glory

You've probably heard of Japanese artist known as Rokudenashiko ("good for nothing girl"), who was arrested in 2014 for sending the 3-D data of her genitals to patrons of her successful crowdfunding campaign to create a vagina-shaped kayak.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
May 7, 2016

Gomes left Eagles before opportunity to turn season around

"Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye." The title of a 19th century anti-war song.

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