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JAPAN XV

JAPAN / Politics
May 4, 2015
Abe missed chance in U.S. to mend ties, South Korea's Park says
South Korean President Park Geun-hye says Prime Minister Shinzo Abe missed an opportunity to improve ties between their countries by not apologizing for Japan's wartime use of sex slaves during his U.S. trip.
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 3, 2015
Blame Abe's bad history on diplomat George Kennan
U.S. diplomat George Kennan was instrumental in reversing U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's efforts to liberalize Japan's economy and society.
Japan Times
CARTOONS / DAHL'S JAPAN
May 2, 2015
Abe Koinobori
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 2, 2015
North says Japan's abduction summit in NYC a bid to deceive world
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tells more than 200 business leaders in Los Angeles during his visit to the United States that an aversion to risk has hindered Japan's attempts to replicate the success of Silicon Valley as a hub of innovation.
EDITORIALS
May 1, 2015
Abe must address home audience
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe needs consider whether singling out China as the reason for strengthening of Japan's security alliance with the U.S. will, in fact, help make the region 'remarkably more stable.'
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 1, 2015
Japan Tobacco to buy U.S. e-cigarette brand as operating profit falls
Japan Tobacco Inc.'s first-quarter operating profit declined 8.4 percent as domestic cigarette sales fell and the weakness of the Russian ruble hurt earnings from its biggest overseas market.

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Sociologist Gracia Liu-Farrer argues that even though immigration doesn't figure into Japan's autobiography, it is more of a self-perception than a reality.
In search of the ‘Japanese dream’