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WORLD / Politics
Sep 26, 2014
Iran blames 'errors' of outsiders for rise of Islamic State
Iran President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday blamed the rise of the Islamic State group and other militants on the mistakes of the West and said the solution to stopping them must come from the Middle East.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 25, 2014
Kurdish forces push back Islamic State in northern Syria
Kurdish forces in northern Syria pushed back an advance by Islamic State fighters toward a strategic town on the Turkish border Thursday and appealed for U.S.-led airstrikes to target the insurgents' tanks and heavy armaments.
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Sep 24, 2014
Obama forges disparate coalition to combat Islamic State, but will it stick?
The Arabs are in. Turkey is on the fence. Britain, still smarting from an earlier Iraq war, is cautiously edging toward expanded action. Even Greece wants to help — if someone would tell it how.
WORLD
Sep 24, 2014
United States defends Syria airstrikes in letter to U.N. chief
The United States told the United Nations on Tuesday it led airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Syria because President Bashar al-Assad's government had failed to wipe out safe havens used by the group to launch attacks on Iraq.
WORLD
Sep 23, 2014
Britain appears close to joining U.S.-led airstrikes against Islamic State
Prime Minister David Cameron may announce as early as Wednesday that Britain is ready to join airstrikes against Islamic State in Iraq and that he plans to seek parliament's approval for such action, government sources said Tuesday.
EDITORIALS
Sep 22, 2014
To defeat and destroy Islamic State
Islamic State forces in Iraq and Syria can be defeated, but doing so will require a serious and thoughtful strategy, not a knee-jerk, emotional reaction to its brutality.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 21, 2014
Iraqi Christians fly to new life in France after escaping Islamic State
On a warm evening at Irbil International Airport in Iraqi Kurdistan, some 150 mostly Christian refugees anxiously waited to flee their homeland aboard a French government plane.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 19, 2014
Alliance invites a hollow laugh
A U.S. senator has gone on record touting Syria and Iran as having, together, the means, ability and motivation to wipe out the Islamic State. But President Barack Obama and State Secretary John Kerry — as well as both parties in the U.S. Congress — are not interested.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 19, 2014
Obama picking targets while missing the point
Even if President Barack Obama cobbles together a plan to destroy the Islamic State, the problems bedeviling the Persian Gulf, and the greater Middle East more broadly, won't be going away anytime soon.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 18, 2014
Obama vows U.S. will not fight another ground war in Iraq
President Barack Obama, trying to reassure war-weary Americans, vowed on Wednesday the United States will not fight another ground war in Iraq but his spokesman said some military advisers could end up in front-line positions against Islamic State.
WORLD
Sep 17, 2014
NSA chief on tech-savvy Islamic State: 'I'm watching'
While U.S. military leaders appeared before Congress to outline their strategy to fight Islamic State militants on the battlefield, the National Security Agency chief said on Tuesday he was watching the media-savvy group's cybercapabilities.
WORLD
Sep 14, 2014
Iraq leader vows to protect civilians after airstrikes against Islamic State
Iraq's Shiite Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Saturday that he had ordered his air force to halt strikes on civilian areas, following attacks by both Iraqi and U.S. jets in large areas of the country held by fighters from the Islamic State group.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 10, 2014
U.S. Iraq air raids help Kurds and Shiites, but at the expense of Sunnis
A small group of people pick through putrefying human remains laid out on plastic sheets by the side of a road in northern Iraq, searching for any trace of missing friends and relatives.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 9, 2014
Islamic State makes inroads in South Asia
Islamic State pamphlets and flags have appeared in parts of Pakistan and India, alongside signs that the ultraradical group is inspiring militants even in the strongholds of the Taliban and al-Qaida.
WORLD
Sep 7, 2014
U.S. airstrikes target Islamic State insurgents near Iraq's Haditha Dam
U.S. warplanes on Sunday carried out four strikes on Islamic State insurgents menacing Iraq's Haditha Dam, witnesses and officials said, widening what President Barack Obama called a campaign to curb and ultimately defeat the jihadist movement.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 7, 2014
Strategy against Islamic State in hand, Obama now must make it work
It took President Barack Obama and his top aides a week to explain that he does in fact have a strategy for confronting the Islamic State militancy. Now he has to prove that he can make it work.
WORLD
Sep 7, 2014
For Iraqi families, survivors, answers remain elusive months after Islamic State bloodbath
No one disputes the horrific outcome: Iraqi military recruits were led off their base unarmed and murdered in the hundreds, machine-gunned in mass graves by the Islamic State, whose fighters boasted proudly of the killings on the Internet.
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
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The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
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Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
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Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
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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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