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Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 25, 2018

Democrats tie Trump's violent rhetoric to spate of mailed pipe bombs

The undercurrent of rage that has been driving U.S. politics for the past few years surfaced on Wednesday in a series of apparent bombs sent to prominent U.S. Democrats and the news outlet CNN less than two weeks before congressional elections.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 20, 2018

Migrant caravan halted on Mexico-Guatemala border as pressure to turn back mounts

Hundreds of people in a caravan of migrants that crossed from Honduras into Guatemala tried unsuccessfully to breach the Mexican border on Friday as local governments began making preparations to disperse the convoy.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2018

KYB names 70 government and municipal office buildings that may be using substandard earthquake shock absorbers

On the list was the Finance Ministry in Tokyo as well as the Osaka and Hokkaido prefectural government offices.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Oct 14, 2018

Do the elderly and disabled people in Japan want robots to look after them?

What appears to be lacking are detailed surveys and studies, asking questions of the elderly and disabled people whose quality of life Japan's new legion of robots are supposed to improve.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 9, 2018

Aung San Suu Kyi 'appreciates' Japan's concerns over Rohingya crisis, says investigation panel has 'extensive and powerful authority'

Visiting Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi told reporters Tuesday that she appreciates Japan's "straightforward" discussion on its concerns over Muslim refugees from the Southeast Asian country's Rakhine state after meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 9, 2018

Mike Pompeo faced hard bargain from start of his Pyongyang trip

From the moment U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Pyongyang on Sunday, North Korean officials made clear who was in control and how little space the top U.S. diplomat would have in setting the terms of the discussion that would follow.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 6, 2018

Hong Kong press freedom in question as Financial Times journalist denied visa

Hong Kong has refused to renew a work visa for the Asia news editor of the Financial Times, who is also an official of the city's Foreign Correspondents' Club (FCC), a decision that has shocked many in the financial hub's international community.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 2, 2018

Brett Kavanaugh college visit to bar erupted in fight in 1985, classmate says

Future Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and two fellow Yale University students were in an off-campus bar back in 1985.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 26, 2018

Trump calls allegations against his top court nominee a 'con game being played by the Democrats'

President Donald Trump, fighting to shore up his nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court in a divided U.S. Senate, on Tuesday called sexual misconduct allegations against the judge "a con game being played by the Democrats."
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 22, 2018

Kim Jong Un planning to visit Seoul in December: report

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is planning to make his landmark visit to Seoul in December, the head of a South Korean conglomerate said Friday, according to a report.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Sep 17, 2018

Floyd Mayweather Jr. looks to expand brand in Japan

Floyd Mayweather says he doesn't really miss fighting yet and is looking forward to expanding his brand through business.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 17, 2018

Pussy Riot-linked anti-Kremlin activist seen doing better in German hospital after apparent poisoning in Moscow

An anti-Kremlin activist lost his sight, hearing and ability to walk in a suspected poisoning last week but is doing better since he arrived in Berlin for treatment, two friends said Sunday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 6, 2018

Kim agrees to 'cooperate closely' with U.S. on denuclearizing, says 'stronger' measures possible

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has agreed to "cooperate closely" with the U.S. — even possibly accepting "stronger" denuclearization measures — a top South Korean official said Thursday, amid an apparent rift over progress in U.S.-North Korean nuclear talks.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 5, 2018

South Korean special envoy visits Pyongyang, delivers letter to North's Kim

A South Korean special envoy delivered a letter from President Moon Jae-in to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday during a rare visit to Pyongyang — part of a bid to help break an impasse in nuclear negotiations with the U.S. and plan for Moon's third summit with Kim later this month.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Sep 5, 2018

Wives of Reuters reporters jailed in Myanmar call for their release

The wives of two Reuters journalists in Myanmar jailed for seven years on official secrets charges insisted on Tuesday that the men were innocent and called for them to be released and reunited with their young families as soon as possible.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 5, 2018

Syrian and Russian warplanes pound Idlib before talks on expected attack, killing 13 civilians: monitor

Russian and Syrian jets hammered a major rebel stronghold on Tuesday, a war monitor said, days before leaders of Russia, Iran and Turkey meet to discuss an expected Syrian government offensive that could spark a humanitarian disaster.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 4, 2018

Xi to send China's No. 3 to Pyongyang for 70th anniversary celebrations

Chinese leader Xi Jinping will not make his inaugural visit as president to Pyongyang to attend ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of North Korea's founding, the official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 31, 2018

Trump reportedly ready to back $200 billion in China tariffs next week

President Donald Trump wants to move ahead with a plan to impose tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports as soon as a public-comment period concludes next week, according to six people familiar with the matter.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 31, 2018

Myanmar army seen falsifying photos to smear Rohingya 'Bengalis'

The grainy black-and-white photo, printed in a new book on the Rohingya crisis authored by Myanmar's army, shows a man standing over two bodies, wielding a farming tool. "Bengalis killed local ethnics brutally," reads the caption.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Aug 31, 2018

Conservative media move to front line of battle to undermine Pope Francis

Last March, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano dined on the outskirts of Rome at the home of a conservative Italian Catholic journalist. Over pasta, fish and white wine, the prelate poured out his concern for the future of the Roman Catholic Church.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / NEWS IN NIHONGO
Aug 27, 2018

Diary entry shows late Emperor's anguish over war responsibility

The diaries of the late Chamberlain Shinobu Kobayashi from 1987, when Emperor Showa was 85 years old, reveal how the Emperor was troubled by his war responsibilities.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 27, 2018

LDP's No. 2 faction pushes Abe for constitutional referendum by next summer as leadership election approaches

The second-largest group in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has proposed a national plebiscite on the issue to generate political momentum for revising the war-renouncing Article 9.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2018

North Korea expels detained Japanese tourist as neighbors' hot-and-cold relationship continues

Man who allegedly broke the law during a recent tour of the country was freed on humanitarian grounds, according the North's official Korean Central News Agency.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 21, 2018

Lessons from the 30 years of the Heisei Era

Policy discussions during the Heisei Era had the characteristics of being molded by the opinions exchanged on TV news and variety shows.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Aug 18, 2018

Japan's bears are widely vilified and little understood

On Aug. 6, the BBC aired a story about four Ussuri brown bears being successfully transported from a museum in Hokkaido to a wildlife park in England. In the story, a British organization called Wild Welfare said it had become "concerned" about the animals' living situation at the Ainu Museum, where...
WORLD / Politics
Aug 17, 2018

U.S. Senate adopts resolution backing free press after Trump brands media enemy of the people

The U.S. Senate on Thursday unanimously adopted a resolution affirming support for a free press and declaring that "the press is not the enemy of the people."
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 15, 2018

Sony's catch-up plan to break into pro camera market

Eight seconds — that's how long a cowboy needs to stay on a bucking bronco to qualify for a rodeo score. For photographers, that's barely enough time to take just a few blurry, often unusable pictures.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 15, 2018

Trump calls ex-'Apprentice' star and axed White House aide a 'dog'

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday called former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman a "dog" and his campaign took legal action against her as the two former reality TV stars escalated their public feud.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Japan approves ¥21.9 trillion stimulus plan
The policy chiefs of the Democratic Party for the People, Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito — Makoto Hamaguchi (left), Itsunori Onodera (center) and Mitsunari Okamoto — shake hands after reaching an agreement on an economic stimulus package on Wednesday.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
Japan will spend ¥325 million in government funds on Princess Yuriko's funeral
Princess Yuriko waves during the New Year's public greeting at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in January 2019.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.

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