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JAPAN / Media / DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN
Dec 6, 2014

Obscenity arrest may be hiding dirty politics

What constitutes obscenity in Japan? The term, both legally and morally, has different meanings in Japanese, just as it does in English. In a strictly legal sense, the Japanese word for obscenity, waisetsu, refers to something that maliciously stimulates sexual desire in an inappropriate and immoral...
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Dec 5, 2014

Swansea's Bony making presence felt after being passed over by big clubs

He cost Swansea City just £12 million from Vitesse Arnhem in 2013. That is more like an agent's cut than a transfer fee these days. Yet no player has scored more Premier League goals in 2014 than Wilfried Bony — 18.
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PRESS / Services
Dec 5, 2014

116-Year Japan Times Digital Archives now available by subscription

Tokyo, December. 5, 2014 — The Japan Times, Ltd. is pleased to announce that the Japan Times Archives, which includes every issue of the newspaper published between 1897 and 2013, is now available by annual subscription.
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PRESS / Services
Dec 5, 2014

『The Japan Times Archives』年間購読型サービスの提供開始

株式会社ジャパンタイムズ(本社:東京都港区、代表取締役:堤丈晴)は、1897年の創刊から2013年までの116年分の全紙面をデジタル化し、検索機能をつけた『The Japan Times Archives』オンライン版の年間購読型サービスの提供を開始しました。...
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ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 4, 2014

China's railway giant flexes muscles abroad

It will take more than the abrupt cancellation of a high-speed train deal with Mexico to derail China Railway Construction Corp.'s ambition to become a global force in transport projects and take on the likes of Siemens, Alstom and Bombardier.
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CULTURE / Film
Dec 3, 2014

Girls in the Psychic Club: Idols attempt ESP in odd sci-fi mockumentary

Nobuhiro Yamashita has never been one to do the obvious, which in his case would have meant churning out more charmingly offbeat teen comedies like his 2005 breakout "Linda Linda Linda." Instead Yamashita stretched himself with films like "Matsugane Ransha Jiken (The Matsugane Potshot Affair)" from 2006,...
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JAPAN
Dec 3, 2014

NPO lends support to Filipino dropouts

A charity in the Philippines is helping an important but often overlooked segment of the population: school dropouts.
WORLD
Dec 3, 2014

Iranian hacking targeting airlines, energy, infrastructure firms said posing serious physical threat

Iranian hackers have infiltrated some of the world's top energy, transport and infrastructure companies over the past two years in a campaign that could allow them to eventually cause physical damage, according to U.S. cybersecurity firm Cylance.
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BASKETBALL / ONE-ON-ONE WITH ...
Dec 1, 2014

Iwate's Randall stays focused on winning

The Japan Times features periodic interviews with players in the bj-league. Scootie Randall of the Eastern Conference-leading Iwate Big Bulls is the subject of this week's profile.
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BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 1, 2014

Abe needs to butter up dairy industry as weakening yen wreaks havoc

Japan's dairies and cake lovers just cannot seem to catch a break.
BUSINESS
Dec 1, 2014

Dairies seen losing cost battle as Abe weakens yen

apan's dairies and cake lovers just can't seem to catch a break.
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JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Nov 29, 2014

Newspapers take sides on 'Abenomics'

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's dissolution of the Diet has become another point of contention between right- and left-leaning entities in Japan. One of the more revealing responses involved a website set up by a member of a nonprofit organization called Bokura no Ippo ga Nihon wo Kaeru (Our One Step Will...
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Nov 28, 2014

Voting disparity to help LDP stay in charge amid Supreme Court inaction

In Japanese elections, it can take five city dwellers to match the voting power of a single farmer.
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BUSINESS
Nov 28, 2014

Horie sees bitcoin as route to more security, less government

The failure earlier this year of Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox may have stirred Japanese doubts about the credibility of the digital currency.
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COMMENTARY / World
Nov 28, 2014

Missing out on an Iran deal

Negotiators may have let slip the most opportune moment for ending the standoff on Iran's nuclear program.
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PRESS / Publications
Nov 28, 2014

『英語で味わうシェイクスピアの世界』発売

株式会社ジャパンタイムズ(本社:東京都港区、代表取締役:堤丈晴)は、2014年に生誕450年を迎えたウィリアム・シェイクスピアの格調高い戯曲4作品を、現代英語で楽しめる学習教材を発売しました。
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CULTURE / Film
Nov 26, 2014

Documentaries at the margins of modern life

There is no film festival in Japan quite like the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (YIDFF).
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CULTURE / Music
Nov 25, 2014

Bo Ningen teams up with Savages for Dadaist jam

For many music fans, getting up early at multiday music outings is no easy task. But the few thousand folks who mustered the energy to get to the Red Marquee stage for the start of Fuji Rock 2013's final day were treated to one of that summer's festival highlights, Bo Ningen.
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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Nov 24, 2014

Long-term African expats and new migrants alike face growing 'integration gap' in Japan

With dysfunctional Japanese immigration policies having led to a sharp increase in incarceration rates among African immigrants, a growing number have given up on integration in favor of living a double life: married with children in both Japan and Africa.
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JAPAN
Nov 24, 2014

Chinese tourists step up for Abe as Japanese tighten belts

When Jingyan Hou made her first trip to Japan in 1997, the office worker from Beijing spent ¥200,000 during a weeklong stay on accommodations, meals, transport and souvenirs.
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WORLD
Nov 23, 2014

In opaque Pentagon deal with Russians, big profits for a tiny Florida firm

For months, a powerful U.S. senator has been pushing for details of a murky deal under which a Russian manufacturer supplies the rocket engines used to launch America's spy satellites into space.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Nov 22, 2014

Dueling goals drove Samurai Japan

One way of looking at Samurai Japan's victory in the MLB-Japan All-Star Series is from the point of view that the Japanese team proved once again it could hold its own against the major leaguers.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 18, 2014

Iran sending funds via China bank to elite Quds force, report says

There is no trace of Shenzhen Lanhao Days Electronic Technology Co. Ltd. at its listed address in the beige and pink-tiled "Fragrant Villa" apartment complex in this southern Chinese city. The building's managers say they've never heard of it.
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JAPAN
Nov 18, 2014

Japan helps too few refugees: UNHCR chief

The ongoing conflicts in Syria and Iraq have produced more than 12 million refugees and internally displaced people. They are flooding across borders in the region, and some neighboring states have reached their limit. One-third of Lebanon's population now comprises refugees.
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PRESS / Publications
Nov 18, 2014

『イムラン先生のみんなの英会話』発売

株式会社ジャパンタイムズ(本社:東京都港区、代表取締役:堤丈晴)は英語学習初心者向けに、使いやすい英語表現を対話形式で集めた英会話教材『イムラン先生の みんなの英会話』を発売しました。 オンラインで延べ12万人の登録者を誇る動画「英語一日一言」を運営しているイムラン・スィディキ氏と、英会話スクール「コペル英会話」の講師陣(シモン先生、シロウ先生、マナ先生)がリアルな対話を再現し、解説。まるで英会話クラスで授業を受けているような感覚で学べます。...
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 17, 2014

For whom the Berlin Wall fell?

A quarter century after the fall of the Berlin Wall, democracy and prosperity have not really arrived for most people in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

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