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JAPAN XV

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 5, 2016
Is China winning the contest for South China Sea control?
China views the U.S. as a declining power that would not be able to sustain a major war in Asia.
Japan Times
CARTOONS / DAHL'S JAPAN
Jun 4, 2016
Golf Hazards
EDITORIALS
Jun 3, 2016
The July Upper House election
Much will be at stake in the July 10 Upper House election. The nation's youngest voters should make their voices heard.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Jun 3, 2016
Following the 'Girls' to Japan
Feet-eating fish! Cat cafes! S&M bars! We map out the locales from Shoshanna's wild adventures in Japan.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2016
Japan ranked most popular spot for international conferences in Asia for fourth consecutive year
But a tally of countries that hosted international meetings says that Japan ranked seventh globally in 2015.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 2, 2016
Japan vs. the hostage-takers
Hostage-taking prompts reactionary thinking and calls for more security in any country, not just Japan.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 2, 2016
Four carmakers still installing defective Takata air bags: U.S. lawmaker
Toyota Motor Corp., Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV, Volkswagen AG and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. are still selling new vehicles with defective air bags that will eventually need to be recalled, according to a report by a U.S. lawmaker overseeing the agency handling the largest-ever auto safety recall.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Jun 1, 2016
Views from Hiroshima: What did you make of President Obama's visit?
People in Hiroshima offer their views on last week's historic trip by U.S. President Barack Obama.
EDITORIALS
Jun 1, 2016
Problematic criminal justice reforms
Revisions to three laws are ostensibly aimed at reducing the prevalence of false charges in criminal cases but they could have the opposite effect.
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.”
Love was a most subversive affair in Edo Japan
Only two other class of persons were treated with anything like the merciless ferocity meted out to lovers: subversives and Christians.
Prepare for a new wave of anime-born bands
Produced by Toei Animation, “Girls Band Cry” follows five young women who form a band and navigate the Japanese rock landscape.
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.
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.
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.

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