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JAPAN XV

COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 9, 2016
Trump stuck in 1980s time warp with Sony rant
Trump's cheap shots at Japan are profoundly ignorant and threaten relations with a critical U.S. ally.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 9, 2016
Is Abe a true nationalist?
Prime Minister Abe should focus on reviving the economy, not revising the Constitution.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 9, 2016
Former Sweden boss Lagerback warns Japan ahead of crunch Olympic clash
Former Sweden manager Lars Lagerback has warned Japan that his countrymen will bring skill as well as steel to their do-or-die Olympic soccer clash on Wednesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / TV & Streaming
Aug 7, 2016
'Invisible Tokyo' seeks out the stories of people living in the capital
What does it actually mean to be connected? To be unique and young in the country's biggest city? A new, self-proclaimed "neo documentary" on Amazon Prime Japan titled "Invisible Tokyo" has taken up the task to answer these ever-evolving questions.
Japan Times
CARTOONS / DAHL'S JAPAN
Aug 6, 2016
Helicopter Money
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 6, 2016
Trump rips U.S. defense of Japan as one-sided, too expensive
Donald Trump blasted as unfair U.S. defense tie-ups with NATO, South Korea and Japan, a reprise of comments that have earned him scorn by many in the national security community.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 5, 2016
China slams Japan's defense minister for ducking Nanking Massacre questions
China on Friday accused Japan's new defense minister of recklessly misrepresenting history after she declined to say whether Japanese troops massacred civilians in China during World War II.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 4, 2016
Putin to meet Abe, South Korean president in early September
Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the first days of September, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2016
In apparent first, North Korea launches ballistic missile into Sea of Japan EEZ
Pyongyang launches a missile that falls into waters inside the exclusive economic zone off Akita Prefecture's Oga Peninsula.
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 3, 2016
U.S. failure to ratify TPP will make Japan rethink security, hurt U.S. credibility in region, Singapore's Lee tells Obama
Relations between the United States and Japan will suffer if U.S. President Barack Obama fails to win Congress approval of a Pacific free trade agreement before leaving office in January, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Tuesday.
Japan rescues Mexican man from Senkakus
A Mexican man rescued near Uotsuri Island in the Senkaku chain in Okinawa Prefecture is believed to have drifted to the area in a canoe from the island of Yonaguni, also in Okinawa.
Japanese government considers taking precautions against mpox
The Foreign Ministry has issued a Level 1 infectious disease alert for seven African countries, urging travelers to take precautions against mpox during visits to those nations.
Takayuki Kobayashi set to announce LDP presidential bid
Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Takayuki Kobayashi speaks to reporters during a visit to Tokyo's war-linked Yasukuni Shrine on Thursday, the 79th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II.
The rule of law is coming for Putin
Efforts to hold the Kremlin accountable for the war in Ukraine have begun, with the International Criminal Court already issuing arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and others for unlawfully deporting Ukrainian children to Russia.
'The Box Man': Absurdist Kobo Abe adaptation speaks to the present
A Tokyo man who scuttles around the city in a dirty cardboard box finds himself fighting off odd characters in Gakuryu Ishii’s “The Box Man.”
Dreading the Big One? How to manage pre-disaster anxiety.
Earthquakes are a fact of life in Japan, but there are strategies to keep yourself from spiraling into stress and despair over future catastrophes.
Hurdles remain in Japan for transplants of pig organs into humans
Surgeons perform the world’s first genetically modified pig kidney transplant into a living human at Massachusetts General Hospital in March.
Kishida's out. Who will likely be Japan's next leader?
Digital minister Taro Kono (left), Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Toshimitsu Motegi (center) and former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba are among the potential candidates for the ruling party's presidential election next month.
New tales in translation to give you chills and thrills this summer
For centuries, Japanese people have been scaring themselves with horror stories as a way of cooling down during the stifling summer months.
Women's sumo takes big step forward with first high school championships
Yuzuki Komiya (left) competes in the first national high school sumo tournament for girls in Tachikawa, western Tokyo, on Saturday.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

The volunteer lifesavers of Nishihama Surf Lifesaving Club never know what's in store at the start of their day.
It's no simple day at the beach for Japan's volunteer lifesavers
By Yuko Tamura

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