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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 28, 2019

Japan's retail sales see deepest slump since 2015 as tax hike hits demand

The drop was the biggest since a 9.7 percent fall in March 2015, and was worse than a 4.4 percent decline predicted by economists.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 10, 2019

Tunisia imprisons seven for life over massacres at museum and hotel in 2015

A Tunisian court imprisoned seven people for life on Saturday for their involvement in two deadly militant attacks in 2015, one on a museum in Tunis and the other on a hotel in a Mediterranean resort.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 6, 2018

New video emerges of Japanese journalist Jumpei Yasuda, kidnapped in Syria in 2015

A new video showing kidnapped Japanese journalist Jumpei Yasuda, abducted by an armed group in Syria just over three years ago while reporting on the country's bloody civil war, emerges.
Japan Times
Rugby / ADDING THE EXTRAS
Apr 25, 2018

Same old squabbles preventing Japanese rugby from capitalizing on gains of 2015

Rock legend Bruce Springsteen may not be the most obvious person to quote when starting a new column on Japanese rugby.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 27, 2017

Argentine judge first to rule prosecutor Alberto Nisman's 2015 death was murder, not suicide

Alberto Nisman, the Argentine prosecutor who was found dead days after accusing former President Cristina Fernandez of covering up Iran's role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center, was murdered, a federal judge said on Tuesday.
WORLD / Society
Dec 22, 2017

Over 220,000 women were groped, kissed, sexually harassed on French public transport in 2015-'16, crime agency finds

More than 220,000 women were sexually harassed on public transport in France over two years, the national crime statistics agency said in its first report on the subject, describing it as a "conservative estimate."
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Oct 11, 2017

NFL owners mull ban on kneeling during anthem after Trump targets tax breaks they gave up in 2015

NFL team owners will consider requiring players to stand for the U.S. national anthem after President Donald Trump on Tuesday stepped up his criticism of silent player protests against racial injustice by targeting the league on taxes.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Nov 10, 2016

Star sprinter Sani Brown decides to attend University of Florida

Sprint phenom Abdul Hakim Sani Brown is set to enroll at the University of Florida, the Japan Association of Athletics Federations announced on Thursday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 11, 2016

Iran executions hit 20-year high in 2015, U.N. investigator says

Iran executed nearly 1,000 prisoners last year, the highest number in two decades, and hundreds of journalists, activists and opposition figures languish in custody, a United Nations investigator said Thursday.

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