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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 1, 2015

Robot Taxi plans to have Fujisawa residents test driverless car for supermarket rides

Robot Taxi Inc. said Thursday it will invite local residents to try out an experimental self-driving taxi on public roads early next year.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 1, 2015

Japan, China timed announcement of espionage arrests, says expert

Beijing and Tokyo appear to have waited until two of China's key events were over before revealing the detention of two Japanese nationals.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2015

New sports agency chief Suzuki pledges 'new direction' for 2020 Olympics preparations

Former Olympic swimming champion Daichi Suzuki believes the launch of Japan's new sports agency can help lift the gloom surrounding Tokyo's preparations for the games.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 1, 2015

Record number of threatened seals stranded along California

Guadalupe fur seals, a threatened species that breed off Mexico and normally spend much of their time at sea, have washed up dead and dying in record numbers along the California coast this year, another apparent casualty of warming ocean temperatures.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 1, 2015

All Syrian refugees the U.S. takes in now would be booted back under a Trump presidency

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump would send all the Syrian refugees the United States accepts back to Syria if he is elected, he said on Wednesday at an event in Keene, New Hampshire.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Sep 30, 2015

Asian-American politicians challenge Kyoto youngsters to enter politics

Younger Japanese, especially women, should exercise not only their right to vote but also their right to hold elected office and enter politics, a visiting delegation of politicians from the United States said during a conference in Kyoto.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Sep 29, 2015

U.S.-Japan environmental agreement on U.S. bases flawed, experts say

The new accord allows Japanese officials access to U.S. military bases in Japan to conduct environmental surveys, but experts question its effectiveness.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Sep 29, 2015

Reluctant to speak, Fukushima moms admit fear of radiation, pressure from families

To stay or to flee. Mothers in Fukushima Prefecture had to make harsh decisions for their families after the nuclear disaster of March 2011. More than four years on, they still have to.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Sep 28, 2015

Home-sharing services on the rise in Japan as owners cash in on tourist boom

For foreign tourists to Japan, staying at traditional ryokan inns is a popular way to enjoy their trips, but home-sharing services are growing as an alternative form of accommodation.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 28, 2015

China's Japan-bashing: Is there any hope for goodwill?

As China regularly whips itself up into frenzy over Japan, it is easy to forget that the anti-Japanese sentiment is only a recent phenomenon.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / KANSAI PERSPECTIVE
Sep 27, 2015

For Hashimoto, much at stake in name of new national party

Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, who is trying to form a new national party to represent the Kansai region, is tasked with deciding on a suitable name.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 27, 2015

Possible North Korean satellite launch wouldn't be a game-changer in missile technology, experts say

The satellite that North Korea launched into space three years ago circles the earth every 95 minutes at an altitude of about 540 km (335 miles), its orbit decaying.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Sep 26, 2015

Masaki Matsunaga: 'We should enjoy all the emotions we feel'

Japanese entreprenuer on dialects, parents and using balloons to make people float
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA
Sep 25, 2015

Bosh says he's off blood-thinners, cleared for Heat camp

Chris Bosh put on a few pounds this summer, in a good way and for a good reason.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 25, 2015

The Japanese people must face up to new realities

It is time for Japan to reconsider the old question of national identity, Nihonjinron, and to broaden the Japanese umbrella to cover those who are not racially or ethnically Japanese.
Reader Mail
Sep 25, 2015

Rugby World Cup 2019 in danger

Your article "Olympics mess a nation's indictment" (Sept. 16) is a useful assessment of some of the horrendous decision-making that has typified Japan's planning for the 2020 Olympic Games. What both that article and most other commentaries largely overlook is the damage done to Japan in another sporting...
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Sep 25, 2015

City of Brotherly Love shooing parkway's homeless amid security sweep for papal presence

Amid misty waterfalls and art museums along the parkway where Pope Francis will hold a public Mass in Philadelphia Sunday, makeshift abodes belonging to some of the city's homeless are coming down.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Sep 24, 2015

Dramatist Robert Lepage's 'Needles and Opium' gets a shot of modernity

Variously described as "the alchemist of modern imagistic theatre" and a "revered actor and director" by The Guardian, Robert Lepage's hyper-imaginative, highly visual work for theater, films and Cirque du Soleil stands out so much that the term "Lepage magic" has even become part of the arts vocabulary....
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 23, 2015

Startups untapped resource for Japan Inc., says venture capitalist

Venture capitalist Anis Uzzaman has a special affinity for Japan, where he spent five years studying at a university on government scholarships. It's for that reason he is frustrated to see many Japanese firms struggling in global competition.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 23, 2015

Xi seeks to reassure U.S. on trade, security

Chinese President Xi Jinping, facing a skeptical audience on Tuesday, the first day of a weeklong U.S. visit, sought to reassure business and government officials over a long list of irritants, from economic reform to cyberattacks, human rights and commercial theft.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Sep 23, 2015

OECD sees million refugees a year for decade as EU looks to shelter 120,000 amid grievance-fraught vote

European Union interior ministers agreed to shelter 120,000 refugees from Middle Eastern wars and civil strife, while continuing to feud over which countries will take them in.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 22, 2015

Commenting on security bills, Niigata Bar Association goes short but sweet

This isn't right.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 21, 2015

Tokyo at high risk of devastating floods, experts say

It's just a matter of time before Tokyo is struck by the same magnitude of flooding that devastated parts of the northern Kanto region this month.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 21, 2015

Railway companies in eastern Japan set to relax rules for cellphones when near priority seats

Since 2003, railways have asked passengers to turn off their mobile phones when near "silver" priority seats, for fear electromagnetic interference from the devices could interact with pacemakers, harming the wearer.
Japan investigating Amazon for allegedly bullying other businesses
Packages move along a conveyor belt at an Amazon warehouse
DPP’s Tamaki leverages new position with energy proposal
DPP leader Yuichiro Tamaki in Tokyo on Tuesday
Japanese man broke into 1,000 homes to 'relieve stress'
Fukuoka Prefectural Police Headquarters in Fukuoka. Police took a 37-year-old man into custody on Monday on suspicion of trespassing on a property in Dazaifu City.
Wild boar injures six at Himeji child care facility
Hyogo Prefectural Police headquarters. A wild boar attacked children and staff at a child care facility in the prefecture on Tuesday.
Russia says it will respond if U.S. places missiles in Japan
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova at a news conference in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, in June
‘What Divides Us’ producer honors grandfather’s Hiroshima reportage
“What Divides Us" producer Cannon Hersey says his grandfather, who wrote about the aftermath of nuclear destruction in Hiroshima, never spoke about what he had seen while working with Japanese minister Kiyoshi Tanimoto to preserve the stories of survivors.
DPP’s Tamaki leverages new position with energy proposal
DPP leader Yuichiro Tamaki in Tokyo on Tuesday
Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics
According to Similarweb, average monthly user numbers for Bluesky on Android in Japan quintupled in the 12 months to October.
China defense minister being investigated for corruption, report says
Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun attends the opening ceremony of the Xiangshan Forum at the Beijing International Convention Center on Sept. 13. Dong is the third consecutive incumbent or former defense chief to be probed over alleged corruption.
How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can’t seem to quit
A man walks past a gasoline station in Tokyo on Thursday.

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