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Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 23, 2018
EU, Britain agree on draft deal on future relations but Gibraltar issue clouds final OK
Britain and the European Union have agreed a draft text setting out a close post-Brexit relationship, though wrangling with Spain over control of Gibraltar must still be settled before EU leaders meet Sunday in order to rubber-stamp the pact.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 23, 2018
British PM Theresa May's Brexit deal: If she doesn't have the votes, what might come next?
Prime Minister Theresa May has now presented the results of her two-year Brexit negotiation to Parliament. Next month she's set to ask lawmakers to approve the deal. And everyone — except perhaps the prime minister herself — agrees that she'll probably lose the vote. What no one agrees is what happens...
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 22, 2018
May to address Parliament as EU and Britain agree on draft deal for post-Brexit ties
Britain and the European Union have agreed in principle to a text setting out their future relationship that can be endorsed by EU leaders at a summit, European Council President Donald Tusk said on Thursday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 22, 2018
Brilliant Brexit plan gets a bad reception
Faced with the only possible withdrawal plan, all the party factions, like angry children, continue to demand the impossible.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Nov 21, 2018
What might a no-deal Brexit look like?
Britain is due to leave the European Union in just over four months' time but it still cannot count on a transition period to cushion the shock for its economy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 19, 2018
The prolonged torture that is Brexit
The only force that could save Theresa May's deal is the Labour Party, but hopes are very thin.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 19, 2018
May faces day of reckoning on Monday, lawmaker says
British Prime Minister Theresa May faces a day of reckoning on Monday as mutinous lawmakers try to trigger a no confidence vote over their opposition to her draft European Union divorce deal, a rebel member of her Conservative Party said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 18, 2018
Brexit is killing the great British curry house
Syed Joynu was in for a rude shock on a September morning when he walked into Indos — the curry house he owns just outside London. It was already 10:30 a.m. and not a single employee had turned up.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 18, 2018
May sees 'no alternative' to her Brexit plan
British Prime Minister Theresa May says she sees no alternative to the Brexit deal she presented earlier this week, amid reports that some of her senior ministers want her to renegotiate the draft agreement before meeting EU leaders next weekend.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 17, 2018
More than two years after Brexit vote, U.K.'s path forward remains up in the air
To leave, or not to leave: Two and a half years since the United Kingdom voted to exit the EU, that is still the question.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 17, 2018
May takes control of Brexit endgame as ministers defy her plans
Theresa May rolled the dice with a dramatic reshuffle of her ministerial team as she battles to cling onto her job and stop her own party from tearing up her Brexit deal.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 16, 2018
Brexiteers bet U.K. can defy gravity in post-divorce trade
The U.K.'s hard-line Brexit backers are making their move. If they get their way on the U.K.'s new trade arrangements, they will face a test of gravity.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 16, 2018
May vows to carry on as Brexit's hard-liners try to topple her
British Prime Minister Theresa May is defying demands to quit as she battles to keep control of her fractious government long enough to deliver a Brexit deal that has drawn ire from across the political spectrum.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 16, 2018
How Britain's Dominic Raab tripped on 'Barnier's staircase' during British exit negotiations
Dominic Raab tripped up on Michel Barnier's Brexit staircase — that is how EU negotiators see how the reworking of a draft deal reached a month ago led to new demands on Britain that prompted him and other ministers to resign.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 16, 2018
Business bosses alarmed as U.K. Cabinet resignations imperil Brexit deal
Business leaders expressed growing alarm on Thursday as a draft Brexit agreement seen as the only chance of preserving some stability in U.K.-EU trading threatened to unravel, sending stock prices and the pound plunging.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 15, 2018
U.K. Conservative lawmaker Rees-Mogg to submit letter of no confidence in Prime Minister Theresa May
Senior euroskeptic U.K. Conservative lawmaker Jacob Rees-Mogg will submit a letter of no confidence in Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday, a spokesman for the influential euroskeptic group of Conservative lawmakers he leads said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 14, 2018
May puts Brexit deal to U.K. Cabinet as political perils mount
Prime Minister Theresa May has clinched a Brexit deal with the European Union after months of deadlock. She now has to convince a skeptical Cabinet that it's not a sellout and overcome near impossible odds to get it through Parliament.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 13, 2018
Brexit deal possible in 24 to 48 hours, May's deputy says
Britain and the European Union are on the cusp of a Brexit deal which could be clinched in the next 24 to 48 hours, Prime Minister Theresa May's de facto deputy said on Tuesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 12, 2018
May stares into the Brexit abyss as domestic opposition mounts
Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit strategy came under attack from all sides Monday, increasing the risk that her plan for leaving the European Union will be voted down by parliament and thrust the United Kingdom towards a potentially chaotic "no-deal" Brexit.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 10, 2018
U.K. ministers reportedly present May with 'plan B' for no-deal Brexit scenario
British Cabinet ministers have drawn up a "plan B" for a no-deal Brexit in case Parliament votes down Prime Minister Theresa May's proposed plan to leave the European Union, The Sun reported on Friday.
Japan to revise consumption tax exemption for overseas tourists
Tourists walk through Nakamise shopping street near Sensoji Temple in Tokyo in April
Japan's tourism industry hit by cancellations after megaquake alert
A beach closed due to a megaquake alert in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, from Friday to Thursday.
Focus shifts to incoming typhoon as Tropical Storm Maria dissipates
Newly formed Tropical Storm Ampil, which is forecast to approach eastern Japan this weekend, is seen on the left side of this satellite image.
Kishida to step down in September in bid to show ‘LDP has changed’
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference Wednesday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.
Publisher finds surprise audience after translating history textbooks
Yamakawa Shuppansha president Takeshi Nozawa holds the publisher's textbook on Japanese history — used in high schools across Japan — alongside the new English version in Tokyo on May 23.
Economic security is about strengthening and sustaining growth, former minister says
Former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi says changes in the international balance of power, along with deepening economic interdependence, have led some countries to attempt to use their economic power to impose their will on others.
Ice bandanas, convenience store breaks: Running under Japan’s summer sun
Blistering heat is becoming a fixture of summer in Japan, but a few tweaks to your routine can make your outdoor runs bearable — if not enjoyable — until cooler temperatures return.
Japan issued its first-ever megaquake alert. What does that mean?
Naoshi Hirata (center), chairman of a committee tasked with evaluating the risk of a Nankai Trough earthquake, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
France brings down the curtain on its Olympic party with Tom Cruise and Leon Marchand
Fireworks are set off during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics at Stade de France in Saint-Denis on Sunday.
Japan fuels U.S. LNG boom even as climate targets and impacts loom
Flaring at the Cameron LNG export terminal in Hackberry, Louisiana. Flaring, a common sight at LNG plants, is a controlled burning of gas for reasons ranging from depressurizing equipment to disposing of gas that can’t be used. The practice is a "waste of money" and negatively impacts climate change and human health, says the International Energy Agency.

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