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JAPAN

COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 1, 2016
The usefulness of Zen in management culture
Zen should be an integral part of educational curricula and an inspiring driver of business practices.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 1, 2016
Japan announces financial support for first highway tunnel in Nepal
Japan on Thursday announced $157 million in financial assistance for Nepal to build a 2.5-km tunnel, the country's first, along a key highway connecting Kathmandu to the rest of the country.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 1, 2016
Japan completes transfer of ¥1 billion to South Korean 'comfort women' fund
The foundation was set up in July by the South Korean government to support the survivors of wartime Japanese military brothels.
JAPAN
Sep 1, 2016
Japanese volunteer group receives Magsaysay Award in Philippines
The Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers and five other organizations and individuals from Asia on Wednesday formally received the Ramon Magsaysay Award, often dubbed Asia's equivalent of the Nobel Prize, for "all daring to create social good" in the region.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 31, 2016
Kremlin blindsides Tokyo with premature announcement of Putin visit
The Kremlin on Tuesday announced a visit by President Vladimir Putin to Japan that was news to Tokyo.
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2016
Foreign Ministry wants to chip in for aid workers' security costs
The government should contribute to the cost of protecting aid workers involved in Tokyo-backed development projects in light of the deadly terrorist attack in Bangladesh last month that left seven Japanese dead, the Foreign Ministry says.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Aug 31, 2016
U.S. washes hands of rights violations at Okinawa helipad site
Washington and the Pentagon sidestep issues of injuries to protesters and censorship as police blanket the village of Takae.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 31, 2016
Extra Diet session set to open on Sept. 26, after DP elects new leader
The government and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party have agreed to convene an extraordinary Diet session on Sept. 26, a top LDP official says.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 31, 2016
Inada may visit South Sudan to check SDF security situation
Defense Minister Tomomi Inada is considering visiting conflict-torn South Sudan this month to examine the area where the Self-Defense Forces deploy for U.N. peacekeeping operations, a government source said.
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2016
Japan's sales tax distribution to be revised to help rectify regional income disparities
The government plans to revise its basis for distribution of local consumption tax revenues that is currently concentrated in urban areas, to ease disparity and enable regional governments to increase tax income, government sources said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Aug 31, 2016
North Korea makes progress on missiles, but no evidence of nuclear warhead yet
North Korea has made considerable progress this year on weapons technology, including testing a submarine-launched missile for the first time, but it is still not clear if the isolated nation has developed a nuclear warhead.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2016
Japan Tobacco playing catchup as nation takes to vaping in big way
Competition to sate Japanese nicotine addicts is heating up.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 30, 2016
Inada to visit U.S. in mid-September for meeting with Pentagon chief
Defense Minister Tomomi Inada plans to visit the United States in mid-September to meet with Pentagon chief Ash Carter and affirm their cooperation based on Japan's new security legislation, according to a government source.
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2016
Fresh GSDF mission in South Sudan planned under new security laws
The Defense Ministry is making final arrangements to allow Ground Self-Defense Force personnel to be sent to South Sudan, possibly in mid-November, to conduct a fresh mission in a limited area under new security laws, according to a government source.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 28, 2016
Japan, South Korea to resume currency swap deal
Japan and South Korea agreed Saturday to launch talks on resuming a currency swap deal, reflecting newly cooperative relations between the two neighbors.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 28, 2016
Japan, U.S. blast North Korea's submarine missile launch
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday condemned North Korea for test-firing a submarine-launched ballistic missile in defiance of U.N. resolutions.
Japan Times
CARTOONS / DAHL'S JAPAN
Aug 27, 2016
Obama Rug Pull
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 27, 2016
Senior Japanese, Russian officials hold talks ahead of Abe-Putin meet in Vladivostok
Senior Japanese and Russian officials have held talks on concluding a post-World War II peace treaty as the two countries make final arrangements for a meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Vladimir Putin early next month in Russia.
SUMO
Aug 26, 2016
Veteran maegashira Tokitenku announces retirement
Longtime maegashira Tokitenku, who has been battling malignant lymphoma, will retire and become a sumo elder, the Japan Sumo Association announced Friday.
EDITORIALS
Aug 26, 2016
Improving ties in Northeast Asia
Japan, China and South Korea need to realize that tensions over their differences rise in the absence of top-level diplomatic contacts.
Japanese gymnast Shoko Miyata leaves Olympic team over drinking and smoking
Shoko Miyata had been set to lead the Japanese women's gymnastics team at the Paris Games.
Japan mostly spared in global IT meltdown despite reports of some bugs
A screen displays an error message at a self-checkout terminal of a supermarket in Sydney on Friday.
U.S.-Japan Patriot missile production plan hits Boeing component snag
Self-Defense Forces soldiers walk past a Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missile unit in Tokyo in October 2017.
How to prevent and respond to heatstroke in Japan this summer
A passerby holding a parasol wipes her face as she walks on the street amid a heatstroke alert in Tokyo and other prefectures, in Tokyo on July 9.
Secluded at beach house, Biden stews at allies’ pressure to drop out
U.S. President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama attend a campaign fundraiser at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on June 15.
How to prevent and respond to heatstroke in Japan this summer
A passerby holding a parasol wipes her face as she walks on the street amid a heatstroke alert in Tokyo and other prefectures, in Tokyo on July 9.
Households struggle as Japan’s inflation rises near U.S. levels
The Nishiki market in Kyoto. June’s inflation report shows extraordinary jumps in the prices of some items favored by households, including cabbage (27.6%), potatoes (28.5%) and tomatoes (15.6%).
As risk of heatstroke rises in Japan, so does that of COVID-19
People hold umbrellas while watching baseball to deal with the heat in the city of Shizuoka on July 7.
German, French and Spanish fighter aircraft arrive in Japan for joint drills
Two Air Self-Defense Force F-15s (right) escort two German Air Force Eurofighter jets and an A330MRTT aerial tanker on their arrival in Japan Friday. The ASDF is conducting training exercises with the German, French and Spanish air forces this weekend.
How to beat Japan’s summer heat in ways better for the planet
Tenugui towels hang up to dry at a dyeing company in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on May 8. The durable and versatile tenugui, which many people have in their homes, can be used in many ways to cool one’s body.

Podcast

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Longform

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