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JR EAST

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 6, 2016
U.S. can afford to side with Iran over Saudis
The U.S. and Iran are once again plausible strategic allies after a decades-long estrangement — to the dismay of Saudi Arabia.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 4, 2016
The Republican Party's policies are killing Middle East Christians
Republican support for promiscuous U.S. military intervention and Islamic dictators did much to bring down disaster upon Middle Eastern Christians.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 29, 2015
A decent year for most people
For most people, in most places, 2015 has been a pretty good year.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 29, 2015
An education antidote to Islamic radicalization
The way to counter Islamic extremism is to increase educational and employment opportunities for young Muslims.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 24, 2015
Time has come for a new century in the Middle East
2016 should mark the start of a new century of homegrown Middle Eastern politics focused urgently on the challenges of sustainable development.
EDITORIALS
Dec 23, 2015
Burundi begins to boil
Rising unrest in Burundi could turn into ethnic violence, with profound consequences for the East African country and the region.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 18, 2015
Japanese island defense plan takes shape in bid to turn tables on China
Japan is fortifying its far-flung island chain in the East China Sea under an evolving strategy that aims to turn the tables on China's navy and keep it from ever dominating the Western Pacific Ocean, Japanese military and government sources said.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 8, 2015
U.S. back to war in Iraq again?
It seems the U.S. has already forgotten the lessons of the Iraq War, or perhaps it never learned them in the first place.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Dec 8, 2015
Japan Times reader cherishes WWII news dispatch from Dutch East Indies
Rumiko Endo's childhood odyssey is captured in a 1942 newspaper photograph showing her mother as a young woman and her as a baby.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 7, 2015
Why Putin makes a bad ally in the war with IS
Russia's interests in Syria drastically differ from those of the West.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Dec 6, 2015
Soichi Terada arrives fashionably late to the global house-music scene
Good things come to those who wait. For 50-year-old producer Soichi Terada it's a wait that has lasted more than 20 years, but now he's one of the most in-demand artists in the house music scene, and has just returned from a tour of Europe that saw him perform in front of capacity crowds in some of the...
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 4, 2015
Japan's defense budget likely to top ¥5 trillion for first time
Japan's defense budget for the next fiscal year is likely to top ¥5 trillion ($40 billion) for the first time, government sources said, as the military prepares for an expanded role under new security legislation.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 3, 2015
The climate-terror connection
Where climate change threatens to lay waste to the environment, fanatics have banded together to lay waste to civilization.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 30, 2015
Putin plays Syrian roulette
No solution for Islamic State and Syria can be achieved without a green light from Russia.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 30, 2015
Memo to Moscow: Syria is Turkey's Ukraine
Ankara is determined to make it clear that no solution for Syria can be reached unless Turkish interests are fully taken into account.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

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