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EDITORIALS
Jun 3, 2017

AlphaGo AI stuns go community

Humans can learn a lot from how an artificial intelligence program has excelled at playing go.
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JAPAN / Politics
Jun 2, 2017

Email verifies document behind Kake-Abe scandal: Democratic Party

Democratic Party lawmakers say email messages sent to senior education officials suggest the document implicating Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the Kake Gakuen scandal is authentic.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
May 29, 2017

The hidden side of the Japanese-Russian summit

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's approach to Russia is looking increasingly risky.
EDITORIALS
May 28, 2017

Questions that Abe's Article 9 pitch will raise

If indeed the Abe administration is to seek the amendment of Article 9, that effort needs to be accompanied by thorough discussions on what should be the SDF's mission and role.
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JAPAN / Politics
May 25, 2017

Ex-education official vouches for Kake papers, says he has copies

The education ministry's former top bureaucrat says the documents behind Prime Minister Abe's latest scandal are real and that he's willing to testify about it in the Diet.
EDITORIALS
May 24, 2017

Clear up Kake Gakuen suspicions

Instead of merely dismissing the credibility of the documents, the administration should fulfill its duty of accountability by clearing up any suspicions surrounding the project.
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WORLD / Science & Health
May 22, 2017

Time to ditch the polar bears? Climate change looks for a new image

What does climate change look like? For many people, the first — or perhaps only — image that comes to mind is of smokestacks, or polar bears perched on ice floes.
EDITORIALS
May 19, 2017

Japan-India civil nuclear pact

The civil nuclear cooperation pact between Japan and India does not carry a provision to limit the use of Japanese nuclear plant technology to nonmilitary areas.
EDITORIALS
May 14, 2017

Make education free of charge?

Making education more affordable is a great idea, but the government must figure out a responsible way to pay for it.
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WORLD / Politics
May 13, 2017

Actress Melissa McCarthy motors through New York dressed as White House spokesman Sean Spicer

Actress Melissa McCarthy took her impersonation of White House press secretary Sean Spicer to the streets of New York City on Friday, rolling through midtown traffic on a motorized lectern in an apparent shoot for "Saturday Night Live."
EDITORIALS
May 11, 2017

Abe's pitch to amend Article 9

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has many questions to answer before setting a timetable in his quest to amend the Constitution.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
May 9, 2017

Should the U.S. share the 'spear' with Japan?

Is it worth the potentially high political and fiscal costs for Japan to pursue missile-strike capabilities?
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COMMENTARY / World
May 9, 2017

A third nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula

it is difficult to imagine that North Korea, now in possession of nuclear weapons, will accept denuclearization.
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JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
May 6, 2017

Japan Times 1917: 'Tampering with mail at the Post Office'

An extraordinary case of wanton mischief by Post Office employes was recently revealed by Mr. K. Ishikawa of Azabu, who made a formal complaint to the director of mails of the Department of Communications.
COMMENTARY / World
May 1, 2017

The bumpy road to adulthood is getting longer

If adulthood in America ever equated with marrying and settling down, it doesn't now.
EDITORIALS
Apr 27, 2017

Reconstruction minister axed

The resignation of the minister in charge of reconstruction from the March 2011 disasters over inappropriate remarks appears to be yet another sign of the loosening discipline among members of the Abe Cabinet.
EDITORIALS
Apr 14, 2017

Toshiba's bid for survival

Unless Toshiba identifies and addresses the root causes of its management woes, its future may not be guaranteed even if it survives the current crisis.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Apr 14, 2017

Calls for Wenger's dismissal continue to grow louder

The walk from the security-guarded gate at Selhurst Park to the Arsenal coach is about 15 meters, but to the players beaten 3-0 by relegation-threatened Crystal Palace Monday it must have seemed 150 meters.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 14, 2017

A year after Kyushu quakes, Sony's sensor business expands to AR, robots

The earthquakes that jolted Kyushu a year ago killed dozens, left tens of thousands homeless and were a reminder of how much the global supply chain for smartphones and digital cameras depends on Sony Corp.
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ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Apr 10, 2017

Stage set for showdown between Trump and Kim as tensions surge on Korean Peninsula

With a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group steaming toward waters off the Korean Peninsula and important anniversaries looming for nuclear-armed North Korea, the stage has been set for a showdown between U.S. President Donald Trump and the North's leader, Kim Jong Un.
EDITORIALS
Apr 6, 2017

'Amakudari' remains an issue

Bureaucrats landing jobs in the private sector on the basis of the powers of government ministries and agencies sows the seeds of corruption.
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COMMENTARY / World
Apr 5, 2017

Will nuclear history repeat itself in Korea?

By continuing to indulge Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions, China's leaders risk finding themselves surrounded by unfriendly nuclear-armed states or with a nasty war on their border.
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JAPAN / GASTECH JAPAN 2017
Apr 4, 2017

LNG to light way for brighter future

The air has definitely become cleaner and the skies bluer in Japan as various industries have strived since the late 1960s to become energy efficient and eco-friendly. Today, cars are also becoming exhaust-free by adopting hybrid and fuel cell technology. "Compared to the 20th century known as the era...
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ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Apr 4, 2017

When Trump and Xi meet, will it mean conciliation or collision?

When U.S. President Donald Trump meets Chinese President Xi Jinping this week, their summit will be marked not only by deep policy divisions but a clash of personalities between America's brash "tweeter-in-chief" and Beijing's cautious, calculating leader.
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COMMENTARY / Japan / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Apr 3, 2017

Military justice, revenge and an albatross

Japan has produced a great many martyrs, not least in the wake of its defeat in World War II.
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Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Mar 28, 2017

Pressure on Hanyu to reclaim title, display dominance

Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu enters this week's world championships in Helsinki needing to get a big monkey off his back.
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COMMENTARY / World
Mar 27, 2017

North Korea sparks debate in China

The question many are asking in Beijing is whether President Xi Jinping is strong enough to thumb Beijing's nose back at North Korea's supreme leader.
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LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Mar 27, 2017

It's not 'broken' but 'being fixed': semantic games in Japanese when stuff fails

The Japanese language offers a number of words and expressions that help convey bad news in a less painful way.
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CULTURE / Film
Mar 22, 2017

'Jackie': More pomp than circumstance

There's a scene near the end of "Jackie" where the just-widowed first lady Jacqueline Kennedy (played by Natalie Portman) is talking with her priest (John Hurt) about the meaning of life and asks, somewhat bitterly, "Is that all there is?"
EDITORIALS
Mar 21, 2017

SDF peacekeepers' logs fiasco

Public trust in the Self-Defense Forces will be undermined if it turns out the SDF intentionally concealed its South Sudan peacekeeping records.

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