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ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 30, 2015

South Korea picks KAI, with Lockheed, for $7.9 billion fighter jet development project

South Korea chose on Monday Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd., which expects to partner Lockheed Martin Corp., to develop a midlevel fighter jet that will cost around 8.7 trillion won ($7.88 billion).
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LIFE / Travel / BACKSTREET STORIES
Mar 28, 2015

Finding your sea legs on Tokyo Bay

It's wretched weather for putting out to sea: gusty winds, cloud banks brooding with rain and water spouts, temperatures a micro-notch above freezing and the waters of Tokyo Bay like wet elephant hide. Nonetheless, at the generous invitation of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Bureau of Port and Harbor,...
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BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 26, 2015

Toyota adopts new business model with cost-saving platform shift

Toyota Motor Corp. will shift half of all vehicles it makes to new cost-saving platforms by 2020, following a similar move by rival Volkswagen AG.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 26, 2015

Road to Mars begins at an asteroid

A NASA robot ship will pluck a large boulder off an asteroid and sling it around the moon, becoming an ad hoc destination to prepare for future human missions to Mars, the U.S. space agency said on Wednesday.
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BASKETBALL
Mar 25, 2015

Kawabuchi doubles down on Japan 2024 Task Force agenda

Change can be quite difficult, and there's often resistance to it.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 25, 2015

As Lee era ends, Singapore braces for change as young worry about future

If Lee Kuan Yew represented the Singapore of yesteryear, his death this week raises the question of whether the generation of leaders in waiting will reshape the mould that transformed the city-state from a colonial backwater to a haven of prosperity.
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BUSINESS
Mar 24, 2015

Cabinet OKs tax breaks for firms to move headquarters from Tokyo

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet approved plans to give tax breaks to companies that move their headquarters out of Tokyo as Japan seeks to revitalize regional economies.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 23, 2015

U.S. forfeiting its leadership in global finance to China

China's plans to set up the Asian International Investment Bank have demonstrated that the U.S. has lost its way and is rapidly forfeiting claims to global financial, economic, political or moral leadership.
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BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 22, 2015

Abe-Kuroda 'honeymoon' risks being soured by fiscal friction

The rift between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his hand-picked central banker is becoming hard to conceal, leaving “Abenomics” and its money-printing program under a dark cloud.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 18, 2015

Sapporo Breweries looks to new brand in growing craft beer tide

Riding a recent craft beer trend, Sapporo Breweries Ltd. said Wednesday it is launching a new brand to attract more beer drinkers who consume in moderation.
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CULTURE / Stage
Mar 18, 2015

All change for Kanze noh theater

Of Japan's many traditional performing arts, noh is the most refined — and among its most prominent figures today is 55-year-old Kiyokazu Kanze, the 26th head of its largest faction, the Kanze School.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 17, 2015

Japan's accounting problem

Japan's 'lost decades' were not quite as disastrous as commonly assumed.
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JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Mar 14, 2015

Failing to rebuild communities in Tohoku

The NHK travel program "Tsurube no Kazoku ni Kampai" ("Tsurube Toasts Families") recently aired a two-parter about the town of Watari in Miyagi Prefecture, which was devastated in the March 11, 2011, tsunami. In the series, rakugo storyteller Shofukutei Tsurube and a celebrity guest visit small towns...
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 13, 2015

It's time to punish Tepco

Four years on, it's still not clear whether Tokyo Electrip Power Co. has learned anything, or why Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has not demanded accountability from the company tht gave the world its worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.
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COMMENTARY / World
Mar 13, 2015

How long will the price of oil remain low?

The real struggle over cheap oil prices is between the 'frackers' and Saudi Arabia, because the latter is the 'swing producer' in the OPEC cartel. Regardless of which side wins, the game should end in two years.
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 12, 2015

NISA investments swell but still not on pace to reach target

Savers held ¥3 trillion in Japan's temporarily tax-free investment accounts at the end of the program's first year, the Financial Services Agency said in a statement on its website.
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JAPAN
Mar 9, 2015

Abe's robot panel aims to give drone industry an edge

The Abe administration is looking to fast-track industry-friendly regulation to give Japan's drone sector an edge over the United States.
JAPAN
Mar 9, 2015

Fuji TV removes blackface segment after outcry

Anti-racist campaigners are celebrating a decision by Fuji TV to remove from a weekly music show a segment that purportedly showed performers sporting blackface makeup.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 9, 2015

Nomura, Daiwa boost hiring of grads as stock market climbs

Nomura Holdings Inc. and Daiwa Securities Group Inc. increased hiring of university graduates this year as a stock market rally brightens prospects for the nation's biggest securities firms.
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JAPAN / ADVANCES IN PROGRESS
Mar 8, 2015

Virtual technology resurrects ancient sites

Mixing virtual reality from the past with present-day reality may sound confusing but it's actually a simple concept.

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