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JAPAN XV

Japan Times
CARTOONS / DAHL'S JAPAN
Aug 8, 2015
Electoral Maze
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 7, 2015
Achieving true reconciliation
It takes two to tango, and to achieve reconciliation.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 7, 2015
China accuses Manila, Tokyo of joining forces over South China Sea
Japan and the Philippines teamed up at a regional security forum this week to attack China over the disputed South China Sea, China's Foreign Ministry said, as details emerged of sometimes testy exchanges during the talks in Malaysia.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Aug 6, 2015
China, Philippines vying to host 2019 FIBA World Cup
Before the start of the three-day FIBA Central Board meeting on Friday, the Japan Basketball Association hosted a welcome party for the sport's executives at a Tokyo hotel. The dignitaries included FIBA president Horacio Muratore and FIBA secretary general Patrick Baumann on Thursday night.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 6, 2015
Abe advisory panel cites wartime 'aggression' but fails to address recent revisionism
A key advisory panel to Shinzo Abe published its report Thursday on Japan's modern history and postwar reconciliation, strongly criticizing the wartime "aggression" against other Asian countries but touching little on recent controversies over what is widely regarded as the prime minister's revisionist...
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Aug 6, 2015
Spirited send-off inspires Team Japan before IAAF World Championships
The Japanese athletes showed their collective spirit at a send-off event held by the Japan Association of Athletics Federations on Thursday, heading into the IAAF World Athletics Championships, which will be held Aug. 22-30 at Beijing's National Stadium.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 6, 2015
Tokyo, Beijing will get torched by the Olympics
There's a good chance hosting the Olympic Games will actually do more harm than good to the trajectories of Asia's two biggest economies.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Japan Pulse
Aug 6, 2015
Smart absolutions: Send off your sins with just one click
The two-step method to purification.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 5, 2015
China's foreign minister dismisses talk of Abe-Xi meeting in September
Last month, China's top diplomat told the head of Japan's National Security Council that China was preparing for “high-level political dialogue” with Japan, stoking hopes of a leaders' meeting.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / Japan Pulse
Aug 4, 2015
Attack of the plant hunters, green carnivores and fleshy girls
Never promised you a rose garden, but how about a fleshy plant or a stag-horn fern?
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 4, 2015
Abbott earmarks billions for domestic shipbuilding as overseas sub deal looms
Canberra will spend 89 billion Australian dollars ($64.9 billion) on ships and submarines for its navy over the next 20 years, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Tuesday, A$40 billion of which has been earmarked to build surface ships domestically.
BUSINESS
Aug 4, 2015
BOJ likely to maintain current easing policy, attention on China
The Bank of Japan is likely to keep intact its ultra-easy monetary policy at its two-day policy meeting starting Thursday, with focus on production and consumer spending amid the slowing Chinese economy, sources said Monday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 3, 2015
Abe, Renzi agree to beef up security, economic ties
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his visiting Italian counterpart, Matteo Renzi, agreed Monday to strengthen bilateral security and economic ties, and cooperate further on a wide range of global issues.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 3, 2015
A few more pennies won't perk up Japan's economy
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe needs to tap into the audacity he's displayed elsewhere if he is to enact the reforms necessary to turn Japan's economy around.
Typhoon Ampil lashes eastern Japan with heavy rain and wind
Waves crash ashore amid Typhoon Ampil on Tokyo's Hachijojima Island on Friday. The dangerous storm is brushing by the Kanto region but will not make landfall.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

Podcast

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

Longform

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’
By Thu-Huong Ha

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