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ELIZABETH II

COMMENTARY / World
Aug 15, 2016
Queen Elizabeth II: longer may she reign
Still going strong at 90, Queen Elizabeth appears determined to keep her promise that she will devote her whole life to the nation's service.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 3, 2016
'Truth': Ask no questions, hear no lies
'The truth is out there" is the tagline from sci-fi thriller TV series "The X-Files," suggesting that perhaps all we had to do was find it and retrieve it like a lost frisbee.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 3, 2016
'High-Rise': J.C. Ballard adaptation topples on screen
In 1955, the city of St. Louis finished construction on the Pruitt-Igoe housing estate, designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki (who would later build New York City's Twin Towers). A raw-concrete sprawl of 33 tower blocks, it was meant to halt the spread of slums by building up, and to give residents parks,...
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 2, 2016
Queen Elizabeth II tells Scottish parliament 'staying calm can be hard'
Queen Elizabeth II told Scottish lawmakers Saturday that staying calm in a fast-changing world can be difficult.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
May 10, 2016
Australia women's squad completes three-game sweep of Japan
The Japan women's basketball team gave world No. 2 Australia a huge fright before succumbing to an 84-73 loss to suffer a series sweep on Tuesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Feb 27, 2016
Tokyo's literature festival resurfaces
The Tokyo International Literary Festival got off to a good start. Both the inaugural 2013 event and the 2014 edition were successful, an auspicious beginning to forging cultural and artistic connections between Eastern and Western writers on a global stage. But since the festival's forced hiatus in...
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 25, 2015
Speculation mounts on possible Biden run, Obama endorsement
President Barack Obama may issue an endorsement in the Democratic primary, his press secretary said Monday, as Vice President Joe Biden considers whether to challenge former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 29, 2015
'Love & Mercy' is a biopic worthy of Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys
Real surfers don't listen to The Beach Boys. That's one of the first things I learned while hanging out at the ocean toting a surfboard, and it's also one of the lines from "Love and Mercy," a biopic about The Beach Boys frontman Brian Wilson. Along with his brothers, Dennis and Carl, and their cousin...
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CULTURE / Film
May 27, 2015
The mysterious appeal of bras, cleavage and singing teenagers in 'Pitch Perfect'
'Pitch Perfect" is a lively, likable movie. I'm not saying that out of a fear of sounding like a curmudgeonly granny who has to Google "peach slapped" to know what it means — but there's always that risk.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 14, 2015
Pressured by liberal Democrats, candidate Clinton goes after CEO pay
Hillary Rodham Clinton, under pressure from the left wing of her Democratic Party to aggressively campaign against income inequality, voiced concern about the hefty paychecks of some corporate executives in an email to supporters.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 28, 2015
Upset by Warren's calls for break-ups, U.S. banks debate halting some Senate campaign donations
Big Wall Street banks are so upset with Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren's call for them to be broken up that some have discussed withholding campaign donations to Senate Democrats in symbolic protest, sources said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 15, 2015
Liberals work to lure Elizabeth Warren into White House race
The scene in the New Hampshire office is one common to any nascent U.S. presidential campaign in the state that holds the country's first primary contest: Young staffers peck away at laptops and unpack boxes of signs with their candidate's name.
JAPAN / History / THE LIVING PAST
Jan 17, 2015
Seeking independence through civilization
For the first time in 600 years Japan was threatened by foreign aggression. One among many differences between the 19th century American threat and the 13th-century Mongol invasions is this: 13th-century Japan was fiercely militarist, 19th-century Japan was impotently militarist.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Dec 3, 2014
Screen icon's son brings women's rights to the stage
"Since I was a child, I always wanted to devote my life to film as my father did," Kenta Fukasaku said during a recent chat in which his late, great role model, the charismatic movie director Kinji Fukasaku, often figured.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 17, 2013
U.S. left gravitates toward 'scourge of Wall Street'
Not many political "rock stars" inspire audience members to knit, but, even by Washington's sedate standards, the darling of America's new left is a quiet revolutionary.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 1, 2013
Queen's secret speech for WWIII revealed
British government files from 1983, opened to the public for the first time Wednesday, include an official's view of the message Queen Elizabeth II would have broadcast to the nation in the event of World War III.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 14, 2013
Imminent birth puts spotlight on monarch
Aging monarchs in the Netherlands and Belgium stepped down this year to make room for the next generation of Europe's crowned heads. But in Britain, the impending birth of a royal baby will have heirs stacking up like planes at London's super-clogged Heathrow Airport.

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