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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Aug 13, 2017
Indian state suspends hospital chief following deaths of 60 children
The head of an Indian hospital where dozens of children died in recent days has been suspended, as officials traded blame over cash shortfalls that led to supplies of medical oxygen being cut.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 13, 2017
Calling the Chinese bully's bluff in the Himalayas
The more power China has accumulated, the more it has attempted to achieve its foreign policy objectives with bluff, bluster and bullying.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Aug 12, 2017
The unfinished business of Indian partition
The nightmarish horrors of India's partition by the British 70 years ago on Aug. 15, 1947, cast a long shadow into the 21st century.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 8, 2017
Diplomacy to defuse India, China border crisis slams into a wall, sources say
India's diplomatic efforts to end a seven-week military standoff with China have hit a roadblock, people briefed on the talks said, prompting Chinese state-run media to trumpet rhetoric of "unavoidable countermeasures" on the unmarked border.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 7, 2017
Software engineer held for hacking Indian biometric ID platform
Police have arrested a software engineer for stealing sensitive information on more than 50,000 people from India's Aadhaar biometric identity program, the first criminal charges stemming from a government initiative that's been criticized for lacking privacy protections.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 2, 2017
Pakistan's creation — a mistake?
The repercussions of the August 1947 partition of India continue to shake the subcontinent today.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 2, 2017
SoftBank Vision Fund reportedly may invest $2 billion in top Indian e-commerce operator Flipkart
SoftBank Vision Fund, the technology investor founded by Masayoshi Son, is in talks to invest directly in India's Flipkart Online Services Pvt. Ltd., according to people familiar with the matter, after talks to fold SoftBank-backed Snapdeal into Flipkart fell apart.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 30, 2017
It's high noon on the roof the world
The two nuclear powers have to come to terms with the fact that no one will come out a winner if they resort to military action.
EDITORIALS
Jul 25, 2017
Confrontation in the Himalayas
The distrust and the ensuing competition between Asia's two largest nations — both armed with nuclear weapons — must be contained.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 24, 2017
What China's Himalayan warmongering reveals
The Sino-Indian crisis has underscored the centrality of propaganda in China's foreign policy.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 24, 2017
Nomura's India fund approaches ¥400 billion as Japan bets on Modi
The land of Abenomics is betting on "Modinomics."
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 23, 2017
India's botched tax reform
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new goods and services tax is both messy and disruptive.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 23, 2017
It's high noon in the Himalayas
New Delhi's faceoff with Beijing is a sign of the future.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 20, 2017
Will the Doklam standoff lead to a second Sino-Indian war?
While domestic calculations hold New Delhi back from going to war with Beijing, in China's case it is its international image that prevents it from doing so.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 17, 2017
Pakistan says Indian shelling across cease-fire line in Kashmir killed four of its soldiers
Four Pakistani soldiers were killed on Sunday when their army vehicle was struck by Indian shelling from across the Line of Control (LoC) that separates parts of Kashmir held by both countries, the Pakistani military said.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 14, 2017
Asia's hierarchies of humiliation
Historical humiliations can create an all-consuming desire for vengeance that overwhelms more sober foreign policy motivations.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
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.

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