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BREXIT

Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 28, 2020
Brexit talks enter key week with time and trust running out
If a deal isn't reached, Britain would be almost certain to crash out of the EU's single market without a trade accord.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 21, 2020
Japan-U.K. trade deal: Cheer amidst the gloom
It could be that the golden era of U.K. relations with China is set to be replaced by a golden era of relations with Japan.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 20, 2020
Tories may warm to Biden, but they’ll miss Trump
Chances are that Joe Biden, if he wins in November, would be a little less interested in Britain and a little frostier toward Boris Johnson.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 15, 2020
Boris Johnson’s lawbreaking Brexit bill passes first Parliament hurdle
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan to renege on part of the Brexit divorce deal passed its first hurdle in Parliament late Monday after a bruising debate in which senior members of his own party denounced the move.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 14, 2020
Johnson sends Brexit proposals to Parliament as rebellion grows
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson will send his Brexit law-breaking proposals to Parliament this week, facing a growing rebellion from his MPs and further criticism from former premiers and European Union leaders.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Sep 12, 2020
For Japan-U.K. trade deal, speed was of the essence
Although both countries have touted a handful of differences, a fast-approaching year-end deadline meant the agreement mostly reproduces an earlier Japan-EU pact.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 8, 2020
Boris Johnson takes Brexit in a crazy direction
Trade negotiations are stuck primarily over the question of state-aid rules.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Sep 8, 2020
Boris Johnson’s taste for Brexit danger could doom EU trade deal
For economists, business leaders and European Union officials, the question is whether to believe that he won't back down.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 7, 2020
Boris Johnson gambles on no-deal plans as EU talks run short of time
Boris Johnson will tell the European Union on Monday he's willing to walk away rather than compromise on what he sees as the core principles of Brexit.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 5, 2020
Boris Johnson’s party wonders if he’s losing his grip
After months of policy blunders and with the economy deep in recession, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson needed a new enforcer to help him rescue a leadership in trouble. So he called the future king.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 26, 2020
The never-ending negotiation
Even with a broad agreement, EU-U.K. talks will go on and on — but that is only natural.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 22, 2020
Flagging Brexit negotiations revive the specter of 'no deal' again
As trade talks with the European Union started to flag in June, Boris Johnson borrowed a phrase from a series of 1950s gasoline ads, promising he would "put a tiger in the tank” to rev up the negotiations.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 18, 2020
Keeping the United Kingdom united
As the U.K. fights its way out of the COVID-19 lockdown, and at the same time stumbles toward the its exit from the EU, a new preoccupation takes hold.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 8, 2020
Japan and U.K. pushing to seal bilateral free trade deal this month
After meeting in person to speed up the talks, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi says he and British Trade Secretary Liz Truss are now in agreement on the main issues.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 29, 2020
U.K. and Japan close to post-Brexit trade accord replacing EU deal
The U.K. and Japan are close to agreeing on a post-Brexit trade accord, a deal that would replace the free-trade agreement Britain enjoys through its membership of the European Union and avoid the introduction of tariffs next year.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 25, 2020
Japan and Britain agree to protect encryption keys in upcoming trade pact, report says
The two are expected to protect the free flow of data by not forcing firms to set up servers and other related facilities within their borders.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 22, 2020
Britain's economy racing as lockdown lifts, but outlook has not improved
Britain will expand at its quickest pace in decades this quarter after shrinking at its fastest pace in centuries last quarter, a Reuters poll found, as vast swathes of the economy have reopened following a nationwide shutdown to control the coronavirus.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 21, 2020
Russia meddled in Scottish vote, but unclear on Brexit, says report
Russia sought to meddle in the 2014 Scottish referendum and intelligence agencies should produce an assessment of potential interference in the Brexit referendum, a report by the British parliament's intelligence and security committee said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 5, 2020
Pandemic offers solution to tech industry’s big Brexit problem
The pandemic taught Britain’s technology executives that business can still happen even if everyone’s working from home. That lesson is providing a source of relief as the nation’s year-end departure from the European Union looms.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Jul 1, 2020
With Merkel at the helm, Europe faces a crisis with many fronts
For a leader who has steered Europe through two economic meltdowns, a migration crisis and a simmering showdown with Russia, Angela Merkel’s final act as German chancellor may be her biggest performance yet.
Japan's elderly population grows to record 36.25 million
The proportion of people aged 65 and over has risen since the 1950s and is expected to hit 34.8% by 2040, when the second baby boomers (born 1971-1974) will join that group.
'Shogun' becomes first non-English-language winner of best drama Emmy
Japanese actress Anna Sawai, winner of the outstanding lead actress in a drama series award for "Shogun," and Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada, winner of the outstanding lead actor in a drama series award for the show, pose in the press room during the 76th Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Japan jumps to No. 2, from sixth place, in Best Countries index
Pedestrians cross an intersection in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. Japan has experienced a postpandemic travel boom, with tourists pouring back in after restrictions closed the country’s borders to travelers.
South Korea is facing deepfake porn crisis
Activists hold up symbolic eye masks during a protest against deepfake porn in Seoul on Aug. 30.
Second assassination attempt on Trump is latest jolt in chaotic campaign
U.S. Secret Service and Homeland Security agents check a former home of a Ryan Routh, a suspect in an alleged assassination attempt on former U.S. President Donald Trump, in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Sunday.
‘Shogun’ and the painstaking art of ‘getting it right’
Hiroyuki Sanada and the cast and crew of "Shogun" accept the award for best drama series at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California.
Japan’s schools battle to keep kids cool, with or without AC
Students sit under a misting system during recess at Hikarigaoka Haru no Kaze Elementary School in Nerima Ward, Tokyo, on Sept. 6.
Chris Broad's new bar puts cocktails first, YouTube second
A self-proclaimed lover of great cocktails, YouTuber Chris Broad says his new Shibuya watering hole is more a place to get yourself a solid drink than it is anything related to his social media career.
In LDP presidential poll, three kingmakers hold all the cards
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo in January as former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (left) looks on.
How China’s dominance of solar and batteries is impacting Japan’s energy transition
Solar panels and wind turbines at a power plant in Hami in China's Xinjiang region. The U.S. and other countries have described China’s actions against Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region, a key cog in the cleantech supply chain, as a genocidal campaign aimed at erasing an entire culture.

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