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COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 21, 2013

From ADB to BOJ: a 'twofer' for Abe?

As President Barack Obama struggles to get his Defense and Treasury choices in place, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has his own personnel challenges.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 20, 2013

EU shoots down bid to arm Syrian rebels

Rejecting a push by Britain, European governments on Monday decided against providing weapons to Syrian rebel forces, expressing fears that more arms would only lead to more bloodshed in a conflict that already has taken nearly 70,000 lives.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Feb 20, 2013

Indians allege army in war of rape, killing

Tens of thousands of Indian troops are deployed to these remote borderlands, their mission to fight a decades-long armed separatist rebellion.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / TRAVEL INSIDER
Feb 20, 2013

British Airways' high tea; Cathay Pacific's new lounge; Singapore Airlines' new video games

Taking tea to new highs
JAPAN
Feb 19, 2013

Mori to meet Putin on Thursday

Former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori will visit Moscow to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday to prepare for a possible visit by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Russia, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihike Suga said Monday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Feb 19, 2013

Millions of dogs and cats coddled, 200,000 gassed each year in pet-mad Japan

Cast in bronze, Hachiko sits in a position of prominence befitting a storied daimyo or prime minister, right next to the busiest intersection in Japan, if not the world.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Feb 19, 2013

Mastermind moves on, American Apparel is at home in Japan and Primitive London takes a trip to Tokyo

It's a bittersweet finale for the famed Japanese fashion brand Mastermind, as it officially ends its 15-year run with the release of its 2013 spring/summer — and final — collection.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 18, 2013

Asian pivot turns African

In his first term, President Barack Obama instructed the Pentagon to pivot its forces and reorient its strategy toward fast-growing Asia. Instead, the U.S. military finds itself drawn into a string of messy wars in a much poorer part of the world: Africa.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Feb 17, 2013

Vibrant novel offers rich pleasures

UNEXPECTED LESSONS IN LOVE, by Bernardine Bishop. John Murray, 2013, 378 pp., ￡16.99 (hardcover)
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Feb 16, 2013

Ronaldo should rise to occasion at Old Trafford

You just knew Cristiano Ronaldo would score in Madrid on Wednesday and Manchester United fans are bracing themselves for more of the same at Old Trafford when he makes an emotional return to the Theatre of Dreams.
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Feb 15, 2013

J-blip: Youtube Space Tokyo

YouTube Space brings fresh production facilities to Tokyo.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Feb 15, 2013

India's doctors using illegal sex-selection in own families

Some doctors' families in India are having more sons than daughters, a new study in the U.S. journal Demography claims, implying that they, too, may be using illegal sex-selective practices that are thought to be widespread in the country.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Feb 14, 2013

Pianist Yazawa looks to the past to find security in the future

Pianist Tomoko Yazawa always thinks about her music with the future in mind. However, for her latest album, "Playing in the Dark," she made a rare diversion into the past — specifically, France at the end of the 19th century.
WORLD
Feb 14, 2013

Russia approves public smoking ban

Russia's lower house of Parliament on Tuesday passed a bill prohibiting smoking in public places, an extraordinary measure in a country where about 60 percent of adult men smoke.
Reader Mail
Feb 14, 2013

Partnership deserves scrutiny

Keeping the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in the spotlight, as Reiji Yoshida has done with his Feb. 6 article, "Abe to meet Obama with hands tied," is a fine idea.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / NOTEBOOK
Feb 13, 2013

Study abroad, working holiday fair; special seminar on infrastructure maintenance

EVENTS
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 13, 2013

Faith in renewed growth is an ill-advised policy

Americans are treating the present economy as if the bubbly growth from 2000 to 2007 will return. It may simply be time to learn how to live with less.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 10, 2013

Gold rush: Japan Inc. flocks to Myanmar

Political reforms are happening because the military/political leaders wanted to end their nation's isolation and benefit from having a more prosperous economy.
Japan researchers develop a simple way to spot signs of Alzheimer's disease
In 2022, the number of elderly people with dementia in Japan reached 4.43 million, according to data from the health ministry.
Japan to overhaul tax exemption system for foreign visitors
The Ginza shopping district in Tokyo in August
Two dead after fire at Upper House lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi’s apartment
A fire broke out on the sixth floor of an apartment building where Upper House lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi resides on Wednesday in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward.
Real-life ‘Tokyo Swindlers’ ordered to pay ¥1 billion in damages
High-rise buildings in Tokyo. Through faking documents and passports a criminal group conspired to pose as the owner of a real-estate plot and buildings in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward in 2017, defrauding Sekisui House of ¥5.5 billion.
Real estate worth ¥25 trillion puts Japan companies in spotlight
Elliott Investment Management's stake in Tokyo Gas is centered around getting the utility to sell off its real estate holdings, including Shinjuku Park Tower, which houses the Park Hyatt Hotel Tokyo.
Hiroshi Kurosaki looks beyond Japan for heart-wrenching drama
Hiroshi Kurosaki’s Netflix series “Beyond Goodbye” centers on a woman (Kasumi Arimura, left) who discovers her dead lover’s heart saved the life of a quiet pianist (Kentaro Sakaguchi).
Japan researchers develop a simple way to spot signs of Alzheimer's disease
In 2022, the number of elderly people with dementia in Japan reached 4.43 million, according to data from the health ministry.
‘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.

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