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NUCLEAR

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
Dec 18, 2016
U.N. Security Council lifts sanctions on five North Korean ships
The United Nations Security Council said on Saturday it had lifted sanctions on five ships that were blacklisted in March for ties to North Korea's arms trade.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Dec 18, 2016
South Korea's year of reckoning, from H-bomb test to Park impeachment
It began with a nuclear explosion and ended with a street party where some 800,000 people sang and smiled in the freezing Seoul sunshine to celebrate the impeachment of their president. Even for a country with a modern history as tumultuous as South Korea, 2016 has been an eventful year.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 12, 2016
North Korea's Kim guides special operations drill targeting Blue House
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un guided a special operations drill targeting the South, the North's media reported on Sunday, as rival South Korea remained on alert for any attempt by the North to take advantage of political turmoil in the South.
EDITORIALS
Dec 3, 2016
Fukushima's voluntary evacuees
Fukushima Prefecture should rethink its decision to end housing assistance for people who fled the nuclear crisis by choice.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 3, 2016
U.S. warns China it will target firms for illicit business with North Korea if Beijing fails to enforce U.N. sanctions
The United States has warned China it will blacklist Chinese companies and banks that do illicit business with North Korea if Beijing fails to enforce U.N. sanctions against Pyongyang, according to senior State Department officials.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Nov 30, 2016
Park crisis, Trump transition coalesce in perfect storm of uncertainty for Korean Peninsula
Embattled South Korean President Park Geun-hye's surprise move to offer a strings-attached resignation could induce a prolonged leadership crisis just as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump looks to form a national security team capable of reining in an increasingly assertive North Korea.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 30, 2016
Draft U.N. resolution, backed by China, targets North Korea coal and metals exports
North Korea faces a sharp cut in coal exports under a United Nations Security Council resolution that's aimed at punishing Kim Jong Un's regime for a September nuclear test by cutting off his government's few sources of hard currency.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
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.
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.
Japan approves ¥21.9 trillion stimulus plan
The policy chiefs of the Democratic Party for the People, Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito — Makoto Hamaguchi (left), Itsunori Onodera (center) and Mitsunari Okamoto — shake hands after reaching an agreement on an economic stimulus package on Wednesday.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
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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