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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 18, 2015
Muslims should be grateful to Donald Trump
Like anti-Semitism, Islamophobia breeds in the swamp of fear and insecurity that is truly the modern world for many people.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 14, 2015
Europe has plenty of its own Donald Trumps
Populist bigotry about Muslims has already mainstreamed in Europe. Europeans haven't been outraged enough about that.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 9, 2015
The upside to Donald Trump's latest bad idea
Donald Trump's proposal to ban all Muslims from immigrating to the U.S. is a lousy idea, but it's worth thinking through what's wrong with it.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 8, 2015
Lessons of Pearl Harbor: fear itself, then and now
As anti-Muslim sentiment rises in the U.S. in the wake of the San Bernadino shootings, Americans would do well to recall the shameful policy mistakes that happened when fear and anger gripped the nation following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 20, 2015
How alliances of convenience spur deadly terrorist attacks
Western powers must reconsider their regional strategies, which have long depended on allies of convenience ranging from despotic Islamist rulers, as in the Persian Gulf, to Islamist militias.
JAPAN
Nov 16, 2015
Japan's Islamic centers report no threats, feel Islam is misunderstood here
Friday's terrorist attacks in Paris and numerous others by the Islamic State group have forced Muslim communities around the world, including in Japan, to repeat a familiar phrase: Islam isn't the problem.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 2, 2015
Lone Muslim campaigns in Myanmar's radical Buddhist stronghold
The city of Mandalay in northern Myanmar is a Buddhist religious center so crowded with temples, monasteries and monks that they can sometimes seem innumerable.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Oct 19, 2015
Churches torn down in Indonesia's Aceh province after religious violence
Authorities in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province on Monday began tearing down several small Christian churches after hard-line Muslims demanded their closure, citing a lack of building permits. The move follows a spate of religious violence.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 30, 2015
Islam's important statement on climate change
The Islamic Declaration on Climate Change calls on the world's 1.6 billion Muslims be responsible activists for the welfare of the planet.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Aug 21, 2015
Don't take my life, please, as Pakistan's comics roast nation's woes, try not to bomb, blaspheme
The crowd exploded into laughter as Pakistani comedian Shehzad Ghias Shaikh threw them his final punchline, gripping the microphone as he roasted the dating app Tindr and traditional South Asian family matchmaking.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 14, 2015
Islamic State's perverse militarization of 'hijra'
Before 'hijra' became militarized, it was used to hold the present accountable to the past. In this richer, if more elusive, sense, hijra far exceeds — indeed, confounds — Islamic State's remit.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 8, 2015
Al-Shabab targets sleeping Christian quarry workers in Kenya, killing 14
Al-Shabab gunmen killed 14 people, mostly quarry workers, officials said, in an overnight attack on a residential complex in northeast Kenya that the Islamic militant group said had targeted Christians.
EDITORIALS
Jun 12, 2015
Erdogan rebuked — for now
Last weekend's elections in Turkey dealt President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a stunning setback and herald a period of instability in Turkish politics.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 9, 2015
Dark days ahead for Turkey?
The AKP's setback in Sunday's Turkish elections make make President Recep Tayyip Erdogan more autocratic, not less.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 9, 2015
Turkish journalists face jail for Charlie Hebdo cartoon
A Turkish prosecutor is seeking prison terms for two journalists who republished the cover of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo featuring an image of the Prophet Mohammed, their newspaper said on Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 30, 2015
Flush with cash from would-be pilgrims, Indonesia's Islamic banks expect lending to rise
Flush with cash transfers from the state-controlled Hajj fund, Indonesia's Islamic banks expect loan growth to triple in 2015.
Japan to revise consumption tax exemption for overseas tourists
Tourists walk through Nakamise shopping street near Sensoji Temple in Tokyo in April
Japan's tourism industry hit by cancellations after megaquake alert
A beach closed due to a megaquake alert in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, from Friday to Thursday.
Focus shifts to incoming typhoon as Tropical Storm Maria dissipates
Newly formed Tropical Storm Ampil, which is forecast to approach eastern Japan this weekend, is seen on the left side of this satellite image.
Kishida to step down in September in bid to show ‘LDP has changed’
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference Wednesday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.
Publisher finds surprise audience after translating history textbooks
Yamakawa Shuppansha president Takeshi Nozawa holds the publisher's textbook on Japanese history — used in high schools across Japan — alongside the new English version in Tokyo on May 23.
Economic security is about strengthening and sustaining growth, former minister says
Former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi says changes in the international balance of power, along with deepening economic interdependence, have led some countries to attempt to use their economic power to impose their will on others.
Ice bandanas, convenience store breaks: Running under Japan’s summer sun
Blistering heat is becoming a fixture of summer in Japan, but a few tweaks to your routine can make your outdoor runs bearable — if not enjoyable — until cooler temperatures return.
Japan issued its first-ever megaquake alert. What does that mean?
Naoshi Hirata (center), chairman of a committee tasked with evaluating the risk of a Nankai Trough earthquake, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
France brings down the curtain on its Olympic party with Tom Cruise and Leon Marchand
Fireworks are set off during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics at Stade de France in Saint-Denis on Sunday.
Japan fuels U.S. LNG boom even as climate targets and impacts loom
Flaring at the Cameron LNG export terminal in Hackberry, Louisiana. Flaring, a common sight at LNG plants, is a controlled burning of gas for reasons ranging from depressurizing equipment to disposing of gas that can’t be used. The practice is a "waste of money" and negatively impacts climate change and human health, says the International Energy Agency.

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