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FOREIGN

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 19, 2019
How to deal with the Trump tantrum?
The dichotomy of the Trump administration is here to stay.
EDITORIALS
Aug 13, 2019
President Trump, we are confused
U.S. President Donald Trump must convince Japan and the world that he will not accept a nuclear-armed North Korea and that he remains committed to its allies in this part of the world.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 13, 2019
How to deal with the Islamic Republic
Japan should do what it can under existing laws and regulations. Nothing more and nothing less.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 9, 2019
Record 5,160 firms employing foreign trainees in Japan violated labor laws in 2018, ministry says
A record 5,160 business facilities employing foreign technical intern trainees were told in 2018 to correct practices that violated labor-related laws, the labor ministry has said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 7, 2019
Tourists to Japan are fueling a boom in personal translation devices
Takehiko Fujita wouldn't be able to do his job selling eye drops and pain relievers without his pocket translator.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 1, 2019
Japan to toughen eligibility standards for Japanese-language schools
The Immigration Services Agency said Thursday it will toughen eligibility standards for Japanese-language schools that can accept foreign students, effective Sept. 1.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Jul 31, 2019
Passports, maiden names, brackets: Japan Foreign Minister Taro Kono wades into a minefield
When Foreign Minister Taro Kono wrote on Twitter that he would order his ministry to look into the contentious issue of maiden names on passports in response to a tweet in early June, he may not have been aware of the minefield he was about to step into.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 25, 2019
Allies agree to quick access for Japan officials to U.S. military accident sites, but consent still required
Tokyo and Washington revised a set of 2005 guidelines Thursday that deal with off-base U.S. military aircraft accidents in Japan to allow for the "expeditious early entry" of Japanese officials into an inner cordoned off area to be set up around the wreckage, the Foreign Ministry said.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 23, 2019
Trump has been (partly) good for U.S. foreign policy
By shattering outdated norms, the U.S. president has set up his successor to be a transformational figure.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Jul 19, 2019
Growing foreign resident population in Fukushima Prefecture now numbers more than 14,000, says new report
Reflecting a nationwide trend of an increasing number of foreign residents in Japan, Fukushima Prefecture is also seeing its foreign community expand.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 9, 2019
Boycott Japan: South Koreans take to social media in reaction to trade spat
#BoycottJapan is trending in South Korea.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 8, 2019
Is John Bolton our last hope?
U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton is on the same page as Japan when it comes to North Korea, but his hawkish Iran stance is cause for concern.

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Professional cleaner Hirofumi Sakurai takes a moment to appreciate some photographs in a Gotanda apartment whose occupant died alone.
The last cleanup: Life and death in a lonely Japan