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ARMED CONFLICTS

Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 23, 2015
Crashed Syrian army helicopter crew captured by rebels; one executed
A Syrian military helicopter crashed in northwestern Syria on Sunday and at least four of its crew were captured by rebels, according to a monitoring group.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 23, 2015
Chadian helicopters bomb Boko Haram on Nigeria-Niger border
Two Chadian army helicopters bombed Nigerian Boko Haram positions on Sunday, killing several dozen militants near a village on the border with Niger, a senior Niger military official told Reuters.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 22, 2015
Attacks on Islamic State militants highlight bubbling anger with group
Almost two years since Islamic State militants started taking territory to form their so-called caliphate, residents of a Syrian town are showing how people are now fighting back.
WORLD
Mar 22, 2015
Nine British medical students believed to have traveled to Syria
Nine British medical students have traveled to Syria, apparently to work in hospitals controlled by Islamic State, Britain's Observer newspaper reported Saturday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 22, 2015
Islamic State urges backers to kill U.S. military personnel after posting names, addresses, photos online
The Islamic State group has posted online what it says are the names, U.S. addresses and photos of 100 American military service members, and called upon its "brothers residing in America" to kill them.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 22, 2015
Weary of Russian invasion, nervous Poles join volunteer militias
Spurred by the war in Ukraine, growing numbers of Poles are joining volunteer paramilitary groups to get basic military training and prepare to defend their homeland from what some see as a looming Russian invasion.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 21, 2015
Retreating Boko Haram leaves mass of throat-slit corpses near Nigerian town
Soldiers from Niger and Chad who liberated the Nigerian town of Damasak from Boko Haram militants have discovered the bodies of at least 70 people, many with their throats slit, scattered under a bridge, a witness said.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 18, 2015
U.S. Navy urges joint Southeast Asia patrols of South China Sea
The commander of the U.S. Navy Seventh Fleet called on Southeast Asian nations to form a combined maritime force to patrol areas of the South China Sea where territorial tensions flare with China.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 17, 2015
Monitor says Syrian army killed six in toxic gas attack; military denies it
A group monitoring the Syrian civil war said Tuesday government forces carried out a poison gas attack that killed six people in the northwest, and medics posted videos of children suffering what they said was suffocation.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 17, 2015
Kurds report more chlorine attacks; Iraq pauses Tikrit offensive
Iraq paused its Tikrit offensive on Monday and officials called for more airstrikes against Islamic State militants, while an officer said Kurdish forces sustained two more chlorine gas attacks by insurgents.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 17, 2015
Fighting rages near Donetsk airport despite Ukraine cease-fire
Heavy machine gun and light artillery fire pounded a district of Donetsk, the biggest city of eastern Ukraine, on Monday and pro-Russian rebels said there had been no lull in the fighting since a February cease-fire.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 16, 2015
Kerry suggests place for Assad in Syria talks
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States would have to negotiate with Syrian President Bashar Assad for a political transition in Syria and was exploring ways with other countries to pressure him into agreeing to talks.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 16, 2015
Ukrainians leave, citing rebel area mismanagement
Looking out over the several hundred cars lined up to cross into Russia from rebel-held eastern Ukraine, Vladimir curses the separatist authorities who he says are forcing people to venture out of the rebel stronghold in search of basic needs.
JAPAN
Mar 14, 2015
Musashi broke up on descent because of torpedoes, researchers say
Some of the first video taken of the sunken battleship Musashi reveals that it broke apart before coming to rest on the seafloor near the Philippines in 1944.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Mar 14, 2015
Examples of linguistic gap between South, North Korea
AP — After 70 years of separation, people in North and South Korea speak in increasingly different ways. South Koreans have incorporated many English words and phrases into their language while isolated communist North Korea has eliminated words with foreign origins and created homegrown substitutes....
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 13, 2015
Chad troops fighting Boko Haram redeploy to Cameroon, signaling possible new push
Much of the Chadian force fighting Boko Haram in Nigeria has withdrawn to Cameroon and is deploying farther south, Chadian soldiers and a Cameroonian military official said on Thursday, signaling the potential start of a new offensive.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LAW OF THE LAND
Mar 11, 2015
Why robots will be granted a license to kill, in Japan and everywhere else
As long as we feel the need to occasionally harm our fellow human beings, most of us will happily let other people — or things — do the dirty work.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 11, 2015
Iraqi troops, militia retake strategic town north of Tikrit from Islamic State
Iraqi troops and militias drove Islamic State insurgents out of the town of al-Alam on Tuesday, clearing a final hurdle before a planned assault on Saddam Hussein's home city of Tikrit in their biggest offensive yet against the ultra-radical group.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 10, 2015
Taiwan to mark WWII end, return of isle from Japanese rule with events
Taiwan will hold a military display in July to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, the island's government said Monday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Mar 10, 2015
Forty years after escaping war, 'boat people' find fortune back in Vietnam
As one of the Vietnam War's final battles raged four decades ago, Quynh Pham lay with her mother in a field covered in a stranger's blood. They survived only by pretending to be dead.
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
Yen melt-up nudges Japanese stocks into correction territory
Japanese stocks are down 10% from their July peak as the yen strengthens.
‘Crazy’ yen rally is at risk of shattering as soon as Wednesday
Some investors are warning that a yen rally is fragile, as was on show this week when the yen rapidly retraced an advance after Thursday’s stronger-than-expected U.S. economic growth figures.
Paris Olympics kick off with rain-soaked — but grandiose — opening ceremony
Japan's 2024 Olympic team moves down the Seine River in Paris during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics on Friday.
The Japanese Olympians looking to shine in Paris
Rim Nakamura, who is attempting to win Japan's first Olympic gold medal in cycling, will be one of the top Japanese athletes to watch at the Paris Games.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
Japan midfielder Yu Hirakawa controls the ball during a match against the United States in Kansas City, Kansas, on June 11.

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