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Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 5, 2019
Mexican president says he owns no cars or real estate — but his wife does
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday he owns no real estate, vehicles or personal property, echoing what experts say is a pattern among the country's politicians of shifting assets to relatives.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Dec 20, 2018
Caravans: The new face of U.S.-bound migration, with no end in sight
A 5-year-old boy rests by the roadside with his mother as thousands of fellow migrants trudge past. A woman grips her two young daughters as they flee a cloud of tear gas. A child slithers under a fence to reach U.S. soil. A man sobs in a U.S. border patrol vehicle as his dreams of a new life are dashed....
WORLD / Politics
Dec 18, 2018
U.S. odd man out at U.N. over its opposition to abortions, refugee policy
The United States found itself isolated in the 193-member United Nations General Assembly on Monday over Washington's concerns about the promotion of abortion and a voluntary plan to address the global refugee crisis.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Dec 17, 2018
U.S.-bound Hondurans who fled political violence fear for lives if sent home from Tijuana
The Pineda family trudged northward for more than a month with a caravan of Central American migrants who are now stuck at the U.S. border. But they were on the run in Honduras much longer than that due to fears of political persecution.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 2, 2018
Mexican presidents' home opened to public for first time
Dazzled Mexicans filed into the opulent residence of their presidents on Saturday, when the new government threw open its doors in a highly symbolic moment one visitor likened to entering the Palace of Versailles in the French Revolution.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 2, 2018
In first speech, Mexican President Lopez Obrador vows to stop 'rapacious' elite
Veteran leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office as Mexican president on Saturday, vowing to see off a "rapacious" elite in a country struggling with corruption, chronic poverty and gang violence on the doorstep of the United States.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 28, 2018
U.S. government shutdown looms as Trump digs in on border wall demand
President Donald Trump's renewed demand for U.S. taxpayer funding of his proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall was threatening again on Tuesday to bring on a budget standoff and a partial government shutdown, leaving Congress just 11 days to act.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Nov 27, 2018
Trump urges Mexico to send Central American migrants home after border melee
President Donald Trump said on Monday that Mexico should send Central American migrants seeking asylum in the United States back to their home countries, a day after U.S. authorities shut the country's busiest border crossing and fired tear gas into a crowd there.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 26, 2018
Mexico's incoming government denies sealing migrant 'Remain' deal with Trump camp
Mexico's incoming government said no deal has been reached with the U.S. on the treatment of migrants attempting to cross into the U.S. from Mexico, pushing back on reports that such an agreement has been made — even as a busy port of entry was closed Sunday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 20, 2018
Trump likely to give U.S. troops authority to protect immigration agents
U.S. President Donald Trump is likely to give troops authority to protect immigration agents stationed along the border with Mexico if they come under threat from migrants seeking to cross into the United States, an official said Monday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 20, 2018
Drug lord 'El Chapo' ordered murder of man who wouldn't shake his hand, witness testifies
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was a ruthless killer who ordered the murder of a man who had refused to shake his hand at a meeting, a prosecution witness told jurors at Guzman's U.S. trial on Monday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Nov 19, 2018
New Salvadoran migrant caravan forms, swells as hundreds wait at U.S.-Mexico border
At least 150 Salvadorans set off on Sunday from their impoverished Central American country in a U.S.-bound caravan, ignoring their likely rejection at the U.S.-Mexico border where a larger caravan of mostly Hondurans has been stalled for days.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 15, 2018
Jim Mattis defends Mexico border deployment in first troop visit amid outcry over alleged political stunt
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis defended the deployment of thousands of troops to the border with Mexico as he traveled there on Wednesday, saying the mission was "absolutely legal" and justified, and that it was improving military readiness.
Japan Times
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Nov 2, 2018
George Foreman went from juvenile delinquent to world champ
George Foreman's boxing career defied logic. To be heavyweight champion of the world in his 20s and to repeat the feat in his 40s, was unexpected — and historic, too.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 2, 2018
U.S. will hold migrants in 'massive' tent cities, military will fire on violent ones: Trump
President Donald Trump said U.S. soldiers on the border with Mexico may fire on migrants who commit violence and that people who cross into the country illegally would be detained in "massive" tent cities, as he sought to rev up his base ahead of elections next week.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Oct 29, 2018
New U.S.-bound group of migrants sets off from El Salvador
A new group of migrants bound for the United States set off from El Salvador on Sunday, following thousands of other Central Americans fleeing poverty and violence who have taken similar journeys in recent weeks.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Oct 24, 2018
Second U.S.-bound migrant caravan moves through Guatemala toward Mexico
A group of more than a thousand Central Americans in Guatemala headed toward the Mexican border on Tuesday as the first caravan of migrants paused in southern Mexico on its planned journey towards the U.S. border.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 20, 2018
Migrant caravan halted on Mexico-Guatemala border as pressure to turn back mounts
Hundreds of people in a caravan of migrants that crossed from Honduras into Guatemala tried unsuccessfully to breach the Mexican border on Friday as local governments began making preparations to disperse the convoy.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Oct 19, 2018
Trump threatens to send military, shut border as swelling U.S.-bound migrant caravan heads for Mexico
President Donald Trump threatened to deploy the military and close the southern U.S. border on Thursday as Hondurans and Salvadorans joined thousands of migrants in Guatemala hoping to travel north.
Ishiba delays meeting with Trump, citing legal restrictions
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba waves upon arrival for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, in Callao, Peru, on Friday.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Rising sex tourism exposes loopholes in Japan's anti-prostitution law
While financial misfortunes during the COVID-19 pandemic may have driven some women to work the streets, others simply want more money to spend — or want to pay off their debts — at host clubs.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
Ruling coalition and DPP strike last-minute deal over economic policy
DPP policy chief Makoto Mahaguchi speaks at the party's policy gathering in Tokyo on Wednesday.
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.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.
For Dr. Nakamats, aging is just experience in action
Though he didn't win the recent gubernatorial election in Tokyo, the 96-year-old Dr. Nakamats' run was seen as inspirational in Japan's aging society.

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