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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 6, 2017
U.S. sees 'qualitative' improvement in North Korea's nuclear, missile capabilities
The United States said on Thursday North Korea had demonstrated a "qualitative" improvement in its nuclear and missile capabilities after an unprecedented level of tests last year, showing the needed to sustain pressure on Pyongyang to bring it back to disarmament negotiations.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 5, 2017
South Korean court has little precedent and wide latitude in Park impeachment trial
The South Korean court that will rule on the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye has only one precedent and little in the law books to go by, and several legal experts said it will have wide discretion in deciding if she is fit to remain in office.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 4, 2017
North Korea's claim of ICBM test plausible, experts say
North Korea has been working through 2016 on developing components for an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), making the isolated nation's claim that it was close to a test-launch plausible, international weapons experts said on Monday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Jan 4, 2017
Trump's North Korea red line could come back to haunt him
In three words of a tweet this week, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump vowed North Korea would never test an intercontinental ballistic missile.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 3, 2017
China's dangerous 2017 dominates the region
Fears of a Chinese financial crash loom large, but Japan and South Korea also face thorny challenges.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 3, 2017
How ties to an 'equestrian princess' landed Samsung at the center of the Park scandal in South Korea
Samsung Electronics' sponsorship of the equestrian daughter of a longtime friend of President Park Geun-hye has helped to land South Korea's top company in the center of the country's influence-peddling scandal.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 29, 2016
The top overseas news stories of 2016
The Japan Times newsroom selected these world news stories as the most important of 2016.
EDITORIALS
Dec 28, 2016
Beyond Abe's Pearl Harbor visit
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to Pearl Harbor serves as a reminder of the need for full reconciliation with Japan's Asian neighbors that suffered from its past aggression and colonial rule.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Dec 27, 2016
Following unruly passenger incident, Korean Air to get tough and ease stun gun rules
Korean Air Lines said it will allow crew members to "readily use stun guns" to manage violent passengers and will hire more male flight attendants after coming in for criticism from U.S. singer Richard Marx over its handling of a recent incident of in-flight violence.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 21, 2016
U.N.'s Ban offers strongest hint yet of run at South Korean presidency
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon gave his strongest signal yet on Tuesday that he will seek the South Korean presidency next year as a corruption scandal that reached the highest level of government continues to roil the country.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 21, 2016
U.S. tightens sanctions against North Korea's U.N. diplomats
The U.S. Treasury Department tightened sanctions against North Korean diplomats to the United Nations, requiring banks to get special permission before granting them accounts, the agency said in a notice posted online Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 21, 2016
South Korea special prosecutors raid National Pension Service office over Park Geun-hye corruption scandal
South Korean investigators raided the office of the National Pension Service, the world's third-largest pension fund, on Wednesday in their probe over a corruption scandal that led to parliament's recent vote to impeach the president.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Tokyo police care for lost umbrellas, keys and flying squirrels
An employee at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Lost and Found Center in the Iidabashi area of central Tokyo bags, tags and organizes thousands of items.
Japan to aid introduction of multilingual ride-hailing apps
A Nihon Kotsu Co. taxi departs one of the company's service offices in Tokyo.
Seven & I founding family sounded out KKR and others about buyout: report
A 7-Eleven convenience store in Tokyo
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
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.”

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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