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MEXICO

Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 6, 2013
Meet the journalist who calls Mexico's drug war 'a big lie'
During January 2011, Anabel Hernandez's extended family held a party at a favorite cafe in the north of Mexico City. The gathering was to celebrate the birthday of Anabel's niece. As one of the country's leading journalists who rarely allows herself time off, she was especially happy because "the entire...
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 1, 2013
Mexican drug cartel activity in U.S. 'exaggerated'
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BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 13, 2013
Mexico opens oil sector to investment
President Enrique Pena Nieto proposes historic changes to Mexico's state-run energy sector, cracking open the door for global oil giants such as Exxon Mobil and Shell to invest in Mexico's lethargic 75-year-old state oil monopoly.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 8, 2013
Honda to double Brazilian output in emerging market sales push
Honda Motor Co. announced Thursday that it plans to double its production capacity in Brazil as part of efforts to double sales in emerging markets.
JAPAN
Jul 30, 2013
Sea turtle tagged on Mexico coast in 2005 lands on Yakushima Island
A loggerhead turtle captured off Mexico in 2005 and released with a tag was confirmed to have come ashore on Yakushima Island earlier this month, officials at the nonprofit organization Yakushima Umigame-Kan said Monday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 11, 2013
Mexican leader guarded about tariff retention bid
Visiting Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto reacted guardedly Wednesday to Japan's attempt to retain tariffs on rice and some other farm products under the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade agreement.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 9, 2013
Mexican President Pena Nieto backs Japan's TPP bid
Visiting Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto expressed his support for Japan's participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade talks Monday in Tokyo, signing a joint statement with Prime Minster Shinzo Abe to further expand the bilateral relationship between the two countries.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 8, 2013
TPP exemption bid worries Mexico leader
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto expresses concern about Japan attempting to win tariff exemptions for farm products before joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks.
JAPAN
Mar 31, 2013
Japan-Mexico summit eyed in April
Japan and Mexico are arranging to hold a summit for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Enrique Pena Nieto in Tokyo on April 8, when Japan will kick off its diplomatic campaign to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, government sources said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 22, 2013
Mexican police, soldiers tied to disappearances
Describing what it called "the most severe crisis of enforced disappearances in Latin America in decades," the U.S. organization Human Rights Watch issued a new report Wednesday with grim implications for the thousands of Mexican civilians who have gone missing in the country's shadowy drug fight.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Feb 7, 2013
Hotel Mexico's pop aims at the heart
It's tough to figure out where to take your band when you get some buzz in the media right out the gate. After getting noticed for its fuzzed-out pop jams from highly regarded online music outlets such as Pitchfork, Noisey and Gorilla vs. Bear, Kyoto's Hotel Mexico knew early on that it would need to...
Events / Events In Tokyo
Jan 17, 2013
'Driftwood' duet to be the first of its kind
The first duets on two "driftwood" violins are being performed in Japan by leading Mexican violinist Adrian Justus and his teacher, Yuriko Kuronuma, a Mexico-based Japanese violinist.

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