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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Jan 16, 2018
Plan for joint Olympics team with North gets icy reception in South Korea
While Seoul forges ahead with plans to use the upcoming Winter Olympics to showcase inter-Korean unity, some South Korean athletes are "furious" at proposals to form joint teams with North Koreans, highlighting a broader lack of enthusiasm for some of the government's peace-making plans.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jan 16, 2018
China rights lawyer says legal license revoked after criticizing President Xi Jinping
A prominent Chinese rights lawyer who wrote an open letter criticizing President Xi Jinping said Monday that authorities had revoked his license to practice law.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 15, 2018
A Sino-Japanese tug of war taking place in Thailand
Thailand has emerged as a critical Southeast Asian theater in the Japan-China rivalry.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 15, 2018
Inside the growing backlash against China
Chinese President Xi Jinping's increasingly aggressive and high-profile foreign policy is drawing fire from both Western and developing nations.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jan 15, 2018
Black smoke billows from tanker sinking site as worries grows over Japan EEZ sea damage
Black smoke was billowing from the East China Sea site where a burning Iranian oil tanker sank, Japanese authorities said Monday, as worries grow about damage to the marine ecosystem from the worst oil ship disaster in decades.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 15, 2018
North Korea agrees to send orchestra to South as Pyongyang's harsh words cast cloud over Olympic talks
Pyongyang and Seoul agreed Monday to send a 140-member orchestra to South Korea for next month's Pyeongchang Winter Olympics and hold concerts in Seoul, just a day after the North laid into South Korean President Moon Jae-in for pushing the nuclear issue and what it called a "brown-nosing attitude."
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 15, 2018
Young Japanese bureaucrats to resume exchanges with elite Chinese students
Japan and China plan to resume an exchange program between young Japanese bureaucrats and aspiring Chinese government officials in 2018 after a more than five-year hiatus, bilateral sources say.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jan 15, 2018
China revokes professor's academic title over accusation of sexual harassment
China's Education Ministry has revoked the prestigious academic title of a university professor accused of sexually harassing students, state media said, in a case that has sparked national media coverage and a nascent #MeToo movement in the country.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jan 15, 2018
China punishes local officials for tampering with smog monitoring
China has punished officials in the provinces of Jiangxi and Henan for tampering with pollution monitoring equipment in order to reduce smog readings, the environment ministry said.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 15, 2018
China absence looms over Vancouver meeting on how to pressure North Korea
Foreign ministers from around 20 nations gather on Tuesday to discuss how to curb North Korea's nuclear ambitions through diplomatic and financial pressure, but China, seen as a key player in any long-term solution, will be absent.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 14, 2018
Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono to call for boosted pressure on nuclear-armed North Korea at Munich security meeting
Foreign Minister Taro Kono plans to call for international cooperation in ratcheting up pressure on North Korea to give up its nuclear ambitions, at an international security conference next month in Germany, a government source has said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 14, 2018
Pentagon chief Mattis eyes China visit in spring: official
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis plans to pay his first official visit to China in the spring, a senior Pentagon official said recently, the prospective trip coming as East Asia faces down North Korea's nuclear ambitions among a host of other security challenges.
JAPAN
Jan 13, 2018
In new role, MSDF patrolling waters around Koreas to foil oil smuggling
The Maritime Self-Defense Force is sending naval ships up the western side of the Korean Peninsula to make sure the U.N. oil embargo on North Korea sticks.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 13, 2018
Defense Ministry mulls adding cruise missile interception capability to Aegis Ashore
The government might add a cruise missile interception function to Aegis Ashore, the land-based defense system it plans to install against North Korean ballistic missiles, Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 13, 2018
China steps up policing of multinationals over sovereignty, territorial claims
China is stepping up its policing of international companies such as Inditex SA-owned Zara and Delta Air Lines Inc. and demanding they respect the government's position on long-standing territorial disputes from Taiwan to Tibet.
WORLD
Jan 13, 2018
U.S. sticking to ICBM test flights schedule amid North Korea tensions
The U.S. Air Force is going ahead with two long-planned flight tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles next month despite efforts to damp tensions over North Korea's nuclear ambitions and encourage fragile talks with South Korea.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 13, 2018
Chinese trade with North Korea dropped 50 percent last month
China's trade with North Korea shrank by more than half last month, as Beijing implements United Nations sanctions against Kim Jong Un's nuclear weapons program.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 11, 2018
U.S. deploys three powerful B-2 stealth bombers to Guam amid cooling tensions on Korean Peninsula
The U.S. Air Force has sent three B-2 nuclear-capable stealth bombers to Andersen Air Force Base on the island territory of Guam amid cooling tensions with North Korea.
JAPAN
Jan 11, 2018
WWF urges Japan to ban domestic trade in ivory by 2020
The conservation group said Thursday that Japan should ban in principle all ivory trade within the country, saying its domestic market undermines international efforts to abolish illegal trade in ivory.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 11, 2018
China said wary about U.S. Treasury, raising bond jitters
China is adding to bond investors' jitters as traders brace for what they fear could be the end of a three-decade bull market.

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