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Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 23, 2017

EU leaders launch new defense plan, shared financing for military cooperation, weapons

European Union leaders launched their the most ambitious defense plan for decades Thursday, agreeing on a multibillion-euro weapons fund, shared financing for battle groups and allowing a coalition of the willing to conduct more missions abroad.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 22, 2017

Intel to sponsor Olympics to showcase VR, 360-degree video, AI and drone technologies

Intel Corp. will sponsor the Olympics through 2024 in the company's latest bid to show off its technology through high-profile sports events.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 22, 2017

Boeing bests Airbus in Paris Air Show orders for first time since 2012

Boeing Co. secured twice as much in order value at the Paris Air Show as rival Airbus SE, marking the U.S. plane maker's first victory in five years at the aviation industry's annual showcase.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2017

Junior high students rip elementary English as 'useless': survey

Around half of junior high school students have called the English skills they acquired in elementary schools “useless,” according to recent findings by education services provider Benesse Holdings Inc.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 20, 2017

Koike announces Tsukiji relocation, plans to retain its 'cultural legacy'

New Toyosu site will serve as the main wholesale market and distribution center, but the timing of the move remains unclear.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 19, 2017

Panasonic cranks up market exposure for home fuel of the future

Panasonic Corp. will begin selling its residential fuel cell systems in the U.K. and Austria this year as it seeks to solidify its lead in a product category that some see as a stepping stone to harnessing hydrogen as the fuel of the future.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FUKUSHIMA FILE
Jun 18, 2017

For Fukushima returnees, security a growing concern in deserted towns

It's like a dream to once again be able to live in my "home, sweet home."
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Jun 18, 2017

Explicit porn pamphlets on display for all to see in Japan's hotels

This week's topic comes courtesy of M.J., who contacted Lifelines after her uncomfortable experience at a Tokyo hotel with her family.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 16, 2017

After decades-long run, McDonald's ends Olympic sponsorship deal early

U.S. fast-food giant McDonald's has ended its 41-year-long Olympic Games sponsorship deal three years early, the International Olympic Committee said on Friday.
Reader Mail
Jun 16, 2017

Train security cameras a positive step in the fight against 'chikan'

Won't the lovely foreign women and girls coming to Tokyo in summer 2020 be thankful for those security cameras? ("JR to install security cameras on Yamanote Line trains", June 8.) In the past, the perverted Japanese salaryman who thinks sexually molesting women and girls of all ages is just an amusing...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 15, 2017

Conspiracy law ramrodded through Diet as opposition reckons with ruling camp tactics

Outcries fall on deaf ears as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition skips committee-level approval to pass controversial bill.
EDITORIALS
Jun 15, 2017

'Conspiracy crime' bill railroaded through the Diet

The ruling coalition's decision to ram the contentious legislation through the Diet hardly seems like the right way to gain the public's support for it.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 13, 2017

Why Japan's poor media grade matters

Japan has a media problem, and it's holding back the economy and undermining Abe's goal of raising Tokyo's global status.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 13, 2017

Giving Japan a military

Abe's proposed consitutional revision provides a solid legal basis for the SDF while holding sacred the universal values of the Constitution about which the Japanese people feel strongly.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Jun 12, 2017

Tokai region aircraft industry attempts to attract new crop of recruits

Aichi, Gifu and Mie prefectures in the Tokai region are working hard to train the next generation of human resources in the aircraft industry, which is involved in the manufacture of Boeing planes and the Mitsubishi Regional Jet, the first jet airliner designed and produced in Japan.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 11, 2017

How May's sure thing became political disaster for the ages

It was 5:15 a.m. when an exhausted Theresa May entered the campaign war room at Tory headquarters to face her demoralized party workers.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jun 10, 2017

Arrogant Abe disrespects U.N. and the press

What is with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's arrogant disrespect for the United Nations?
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 10, 2017

North Korea warns long-range missile test 'not too far away'

North Korea warned Saturday that it was "not too far away" from testing a long-range missile capable of hitting the continental U.S. amid an unprecedented pace of weapons tests by the nuclear-armed nation.

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