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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 13, 2019
Top U.S. military brass cautiously optimistic on North Korean diplomacy despite claim Kim won't relinquish his nukes
The top U.S. military commander for Asia and the head of American forces in South Korea have both expressed rare cautious optimism on diplomatic progress with North Korea while also reiterating earlier intelligence assessments that the country was unlikely to relinquish its nuclear arsenal.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 13, 2019
Wreck of USS Hornet, from which first WWII airborne attack on Japan was launched, found in South Pacific
The discovery of the wreck of the USS Hornet aircraft carrier, which played a key role in several monumental points during World War II including the Doolittle Raid on Japan and the pivotal Battle of Midway, was announced Tuesday by U.S. researchers, more than 75 years after the vessel was sunk.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 12, 2019
The state that accepted Japanese-Americans
The relationship between Japan and Colorado has been fantastic, in part because how the state's governor treated Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 12, 2019
Earth's earliest mobile organisms lived 2.1 billion years ago, Gabon shale fossils indicate
Scientists have discovered in 2.1-billion-year-old black shale from a quarry in Gabon the earliest evidence of a revolutionary development in the history of life on Earth, the ability of organisms to move from one place to another on their own.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 11, 2019
Iran cheers U.S. 'dismay' and vaunts military might as revolution turns 40
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians held nationwide rallies on Monday to mark the 40th anniversary of the fall of the Shah and the triumph of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Shiite cleric who led an Islamic Revolution that rattles the West to this day.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 11, 2019
Japan's Taro Kono warns South Korean speaker after call for Emperor to apologize to 'comfort women'
Foreign Minister Taro Kono cautioned South Korea's top legislator against making divisive remarks after the lawmaker urged the Japanese Emperor to make a personal apology to women forced to work in the country's military brothels.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 9, 2019
Top South Korean lawmaker seeks apology from Emperor to end 'comfort women' dispute
The lawmaker was asked how the nations could resolve a worsening diplomatic feud fueled by disagreements over Japan's 1910-45 occupation of the Korean Peninsula.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 8, 2019
Longest-serving member of U.S. Congress, gruff Michigan Democrat John Dingell, dead at 92
John Dingell, a gruff Michigan Democrat who entered the U.S. House of Representatives in 1955 to finish his late father's term and became a legislative heavyweight and longest-serving member of Congress, died on Thursday. He was 92.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 7, 2019
British colony or not, people of Gibraltar worried about life after Brexit
With London fuming over whether Gibraltar should still be called a "colony," residents of the British outpost on the southern tip of Spain are more worried about life after Brexit than about which word best explains their status.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 5, 2019
Reunified Germany in no rush to fill 'special role' and help reconcile Korea, despite ties to both sides
Politicians and campaigners are urging Germany to use the lessons of its own reunification to help bring North and South Korea together, but Berlin is in no rush to take up the challenge.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 26, 2019
Amid tensions with Japan, South Korea to boost world awareness on wartime sex abuses
South Korea is committed to advancing relations with Japan but its foreign minister says Seoul will step up efforts to share with the world its experience of Japanese wartime atrocities, including sexual violence against its women.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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