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JOE BIDEN

Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jan 10, 2021
Trump's Taiwan policy ends much as it started — by blowing up status quo
The U.S. has lifted decades-old restrictions on contacts between U.S. officials and their Taiwanese counterparts, just days before President-elect Joe Biden is due to take office.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 10, 2021
Trump chaos peaks: First ‘I need 11,000 votes,’ then a riot
A seven-day stretch that began with a call demanding Georgia officials help overturn the state's election crescendoed with him inciting a mob toward the nation's Capitol.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 10, 2021
Banished by Twitter, an isolated Trump faces looming impeachment threat
Democratic members of the House of Representatives will introduce formal articles of impeachment on Monday, Rep. Ted Lieu said on Twitter.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jan 9, 2021
North Korea's Kim greets Biden era with plan to upgrade nuclear capabilities
Kim vows to bolster arsenal — including via new weapons tests — but leaves door open to diplomacy with the United States.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 9, 2021
Democrats poised to act against Trump if he doesn’t resign
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that Democrats 'will preserve every option” to force Trump from office, either through the 25th Amendment or impeachment.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 9, 2021
Biden plans accelerated release of COVID-19 vaccine to U.S. states
Biden hopes to jump-start lagging inoculations that have made little impact on the pandemic one week into the new year.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 8, 2021
Send the right message: Remove Trump now
The violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, incited by Trump, represents something new and profane in American history.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 8, 2021
Facebook’s Trump ban is necessary triage
Both Facebook and Twitter have struggled in recent months to take a harder stance over Trump's often inflammatory posts.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 8, 2021
Ten hours that shook America
America now finds itself confronting something that hasn't happened since the time of Abraham Lincoln: rejection of the constitutional order by a significant share of the electorate.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 8, 2021
North Korea's Kim hints at improving inter-Korean ties and foreign policy
The leader teased the possibility of improved ties with Seoul and vowed to expand 'external relations' in his first remarks on foreign policy since Joe Biden's election.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 8, 2021
A shattering blow to America’s troubled democratic image
The institutions of democracy prevailed in the early hours of the following morning, but the images of mob rule in Washington touched a particular nerve in fractured Western societies.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 8, 2021
Trump acknowledges Biden will be next president in wake of Capitol chaos
Top Democrats have said Vice President Mike Pence and the Cabinet should invoke the 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to remove the president.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 8, 2021
Merkel blames Trump for violence, but Europe also sees reason for hope
Angela Merkel placed the blame for violence at the U.S. Capitol squarely on Donald Trump, although she and other leaders of U.S. allies expressed faith in the strength of American democracy.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 7, 2021
Biden’s presidency is certified after day of debate and violence
Trump says after the certification that there will be an orderly transition when Biden takes office as president.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 7, 2021
China compares storming of U.S. Capitol to Hong Kong protests
China drew a comparison on Thursday between the storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump and last year's often-violent pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, but noted that no one had died when demonstrators took over the legislature of the China-ruled city.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 7, 2021
North Korea's Kim vows to boost nuclear-armed country's 'defense capabilities'
On the second day of a rare party congress, the strongman vowed to put 'state defense capabilities on a much higher level, and put forth goals for realizing it.”
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 7, 2021
Japan joins world in voicing concern over U.S. Capitol in chaos
In language usually reserved for more restive parts of the world, Japan's top government spokesman said Tokyo is 'hoping for a peaceful transfer of power' in the U.S.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 7, 2021
Biden taps ex-Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland for attorney general
U.S. president-elect to pick federal judge who never got a confirmation hearing as Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee five years ago.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 7, 2021
Trump supporter rage simmered on social media before D.C. violence
In some of the more obscure corners of the internet, the calls for violence and revolution have been consistent in the months since Trump lost re-election.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 7, 2021
Day of violence and chaos at U.S. Capitol leaves America reeling
On an extraordinary day, the ceremonial counting of electoral votes that unfolds every four years turned into an explosive spectacle, with Donald Trump stoking the unrest.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Pope Francis, radical leader who broke the papal mold, dies at 88
Pope Francis blesses the faithful during the weekly general audience at the Vatican in August 2023.
Japan mulls reviewing car safety rules to strike deal with Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's Economic Revitalization Minister and top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to the press upon his arrival at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Friday.
Japan tariff negotiator rules out quick U.S. deal despite push by Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to reporters upon his arrival at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Friday, a day after talks in Washington.
Shohei Ohtani announces birth of daughter
Shohei Ohtani and his wife Mamiko Tanaka attend a Lakers game in Los Angeles on Dec. 8, 2024.
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
The floor is art: Takuro Tamayama transforms mundanity
Takuro Tamayama’s sculpture “Models (Pair, 6 sets, 12 rings)” comes with a mathematical formation that scales it for different spaces.
Nothing sells like Shohei Ohtani, MLB’s marketing megastar
People walk past an advertisement featuring Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani outside Tokyo Dome on March 18.
Calling all Potterheads: ‘The Goblet of Fire’ comes to Tokyo
The Tokyo version of the globe-trotting exhibition features a Ministry of Magic set, which includes an imposing replica of the Magic Is Might monument representing magical fascism.
Tokyo stock picker advises Trump-proofing portfolios with Godzilla creator Toho
The head of Godzilla, a Japanese monster movie character, is seen on a building of Toho Cinema in Tokyo. Toho is one tariff-defensive stock being recommended by brokers.

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