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ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 7, 2019

Pentagon pushes back after North Korea slams scaled-down maneuvers with South

The Pentagon on Thursday pushed back against North Korean criticism of joint U.S. military exercises with South Korea scheduled for next month.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 5, 2019

Steve Bannon's Trump defense loses White House support as strains grow

White House officials are distancing themselves from a campaign Donald Trump's former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, has mounted to defend the president from impeachment, after tensions flared again this weekend between Bannon and Jared Kushner.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 4, 2019

U.S. baseball fans are too old, too white and too few

One thrilling World Series can't make the sport's viewership problems go away.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 4, 2019

Germany's windmills are wildly unpopular

In renewable energy, competition from fossil fuels isn't the only problem: Local politics may be an even higher hurdle.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 31, 2019

Blow for Johnson as Cabinet member Nicky Morgan quits ahead of Brexit election battle

Boris Johnson suffered a surprise blow to his election campaign on day one of the contest when senior Cabinet minister Nicky Morgan announced she was quitting politics.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 30, 2019

U.S. set to disappoint Asia with downgraded delegation for key regional summits

The United States has downgraded its participation in back-to-back Asia-Pacific summits in Bangkok next week, a move bound to disappoint Asian partners worried by China's expanding influence.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 29, 2019

BayStars slugger Yoshitomo Tsutsugo ready to give majors a shot

Yoshitomo Tsutsugo, after the end of the Yokohama BayStars' season, took a trip to the United States and watched a game of this year's ALCS between the Houston Astros and New York Yankees.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 28, 2019

Secretive U.S. military spaceplane lands in Florida after record-long two-year orbital flight

The Pentagon's secretive X-37B spaceplane landed in Florida on Sunday after a record-long orbital flight lasting more than two years, the U.S. Air Force said, capping the latest test mission for an array of military technologies.
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WORLD
Oct 28, 2019

Islamic State's Baghdadi: A trail of horror and death

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Iraqi jihadist who rose from obscurity to declare himself "caliph" of all Muslims as the leader of Islamic State, has died in a raid by U.S. special forces in northwest Syria.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 24, 2019

A reset in Japan-China relations?

Comparing the state of Japan-China relations in the wake of Shinzo Abe's return to the prime ministership in December 2012 to today, the bilateral relationship has come back to a semblance of normality.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 23, 2019

Tokyo Motor Show gets kid-friendly, future-oriented reboot in bid to reverse flagging attendance

The 46th Tokyo Motor Show slated to kick off Thursday will not just focus on futuristic, cutting-edge vehicles, such as self-driving cars, it will also shine a light on unconventional mobility devices and exhibitions for children aimed at reversing flagging attendance.
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WORLD / Society
Oct 23, 2019

Norway at top, Yemen at bottom of rankings for women's quality of life

Norway and Switzerland are the best countries to be a woman and Yemen and Afghanistan the worst, said research Tuesday that found the state of women's rights is not "all doom and gloom" around the world.
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WORLD / Politics
Oct 18, 2019

Thousands gather in Barcelona for fourth day of protests for separate Catalonia

Thousands gathered in Barcelona in a fourth day of protests that have led to the worst sustained street violence in Spain in decades after Catalan leaders were sentenced to lengthy prison sentences for their roles in a 2017 bid for independence.
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WORLD
Oct 17, 2019

Kenya opens $1.5 billion Chinese-built railway linking Rift Valley town and Nairobi

Kenya opened a $1.5 billion Chinese-built railway line linking Nairobi to Naivasha on Wednesday, despite delays in building an industrial park in the Rift Valley town to encourage freight.
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WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 14, 2019

Spain braces for landmark ruling on 12 in Catalan independence trial

Spain's Supreme Court is expected to announce on Monday its highly anticipated verdict in the trial of 12 Catalan separatist leaders over their role in the region's 2017 banned referendum and short-lived independence declaration.
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JAPAN
Oct 11, 2019

Tokyo's Toyosu fish market still pestered by problems a year after move from Tsukiji

The first anniversary of the costly and contentious relocation of Tokyo's famous Tsukiji fish market from Chuo Ward to the site of a former gas plant 2 km south along Tokyo Bay was commemorated by a tuna auction Friday morning.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA
Oct 8, 2019

Pascal Siakam leads Toronto Raptors to victory over Houston Rockets in Japan

Preseason games give fans a glimpse of the supreme talent on display in the NBA every day during the long season.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 8, 2019

Anti-NHK party leader plans to step down from Upper House to run in Saitama by-election

Political rebel and leader of the controversial NHK Kara Kokumin o Mamoru To (Party to Protect the People from NHK) Takashi Tachibana announced Tuesday that he plans to step down as an Upper House lawmaker — for now.
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2019

60 rescued after North Korean fishing vessel collides with patrol boat belonging to Japan's Fisheries Agency

The incident took place inside Japan's exclusive economic zone off the coast of the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / ON: GAMES
Oct 6, 2019

Why mess with the originals?

Games so good that high-def re-releases are worth the wait.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2019

Action taken against 112 firms last year for abuses under Japan's foreign intern training program

With cases of abuse ranging from trainees forced to pay illegal deposits to an intern who was forced to work 225 hours of overtime in a month, authorities last year took disciplinary action against 112 firms using the state-sponsored Technical Intern Training Program.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 4, 2019

Ecuador declares state of emergency as end to fuel subsidies brings violent protests

Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno declared a state of emergency on Thursday as protesters hurled stones and erected burning barricades after the end of decades-old fuel subsidies as part of a $2 billion government fiscal reform package.
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2019

North Korea fires ballistic missile built to be launched from submarine into Japan's EEZ

North Korea tested a suspected sub-launched ballistic missile in a technological advancement, if successful, could make it significantly more difficult to destroy its nuclear arsenal.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 27, 2019

How a sanctions-busting smartphone business thrives in North Korea

North Korea is evading U.N. sanctions by profiting on the soaring domestic demand for smartphones, according to defectors, experts and an analysis of North Korean-made phones.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 25, 2019

Why Trump relishes the upcoming impeachment battle

The U.S. president is lucky that his would-be impeachers have their own credibility issues.

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Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.