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PALESTINIANS

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 31, 2020
The world's hypocrisy about Israel's occupation of the West Bank
Jewish settlements are not the primary obstacle to peace with the Palestinians.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 31, 2020
Jared Kushner says he hopes Israel waits on sovereignty steps in West Bank till after polls
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said Washington wants Israel to wait until after its March 2 election before making any moves toward settlement annexation in the West Bank, following the announcement of a U.S. peace plan.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Dec 23, 2019
Israel reverses ban, letting Gaza Christians visit Christmas sites
Christians in the Gaza Strip will be allowed to visit holy cities such as Bethlehem and Jerusalem at Christmas, Israel authorities said on Sunday, reversing a decision not to issue them permits.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Dec 13, 2019
Israel bars Gaza's Christians from visiting Bethlehem and Jerusalem at Christmas
Christians in the Gaza Strip will not be allowed to visit holy cities such as Bethlehem and Jerusalem to celebrate Christmas this year, Israeli authorities said on Thursday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 23, 2019
Galvanized Arab voters display their newfound influence in Israeli politics
Israel's long-marginalized Arab minority is throwing around its newfound weight.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 1, 2019
Facebook defeats appeal in U.S. claiming it aided Hamas attacks in Israel
Facebook Inc. on Wednesday defeated an appeal by American victims of Hamas attacks in Israel, who sought to hold the company liable for providing the group a social media platform to further its terrorist goals.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 22, 2019
White House adviser Jared Kushner to finalize Palestinian economic plan on Mideast tour, official says
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner will lead a U.S. delegation on a tour of the Middle East to finalize details of his proposed $50 billion economic development plan for the Palestinians, Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon, an administration official said on Sunday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 27, 2019
Palestinians reject economic solutions from 'punitive' U.S.
Palestinian leaders accused the Trump administration of punishing them with one hand and offering to reward them with the other, as protesters turned out in the West Bank and Gaza on Wednesday to demonstrate against a U.S. economic peace plan.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 23, 2019
Jared Kushner's $50 billion 'peace to prosperity' plan faces broad Arab rejection
U.S. President Donald Trump's economic vision as part of the wider plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been met with contempt, repudiation and exasperation in the Arab world, even as some in the Persian Gulf called for it to be given a chance.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 3, 2019
Jared Kushner says Palestinians deserve self-determination but he's not sure they can govern themselves
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said in an interview broadcast Sunday that the Palestinians deserve "self-determination," but stopped short of backing Palestinian statehood and expressed uncertainty over their ability to govern themselves.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
May 21, 2019
Palestinians to snub U.S.-led economic confab seen as prelude to Trump peace plan
Palestinians will stay away from a U.S.-led conference in Bahrain next month that the Trump administration has cast as an overture to its own plan for peace between them and Israel, a Palestinian cabinet minister said on Monday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 8, 2019
No country for Palestinians
Israelis are being given choice between war and more war, between occupation and more occupation, even if the candidates avoid using those terms.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 8, 2019
Netanyahu plays pre-election Trump card, vowing to annex settlements
Palestinians voiced alarm while Israelis weighed the gravity on Sunday of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's sudden election promise to annex Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 15, 2019
Rockets fired from Gaza at Tel Aviv for first time since 2014, Israeli military says
Two rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip at the Tel Aviv area on Thursday, setting off sirens, the Israeli military said, and several explosions were heard.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 24, 2018
Israeli minister vows to oppose Trump's 'Deal of the Century' plan, saying it will include a Palestinian state
President Donald Trump's "Deal of the Century" peace plan will include a Palestinian state, Israel's education minister said Sunday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 20, 2018
Airbnb to remove listings in West Bank settlements
Short-term rental company Airbnb Inc. said it will remove listings in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, enclaves that most world powers consider illegal for taking up land where Palestinians seek statehood.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 29, 2018
Three Gaza boys killed in Israeli airstrike on tinderbox border: medics
Three Palestinian boys were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip frontier on Sunday, medical officials in the Hamas-run enclave said, while Israel said it had hit suspected militants trying to blow up part of a border fence.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 22, 2018
Jordan says it won't renew peace treaty land deal with Israel
Jordan said on Sunday it would not extend the 25-year deal that allows Israel to use two tracts of territory along its border just as Israel said it was still planning to negotiate an extension.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 2, 2018
'Terrorism' ad by indicted Republican against Democrat foe roils California election
When a Democrat with Palestinian-Mexican ancestry who had never before run for office was elected to challenge a Republican incumbent in a staunchly conservative southern California congressional district, few gave him much of a chance.
EDITORIALS
Sep 18, 2018
U.S. puts squeeze on Palestinians
The U.S. believes that it can force the Palestinians to make a deal. History suggests that it will be proven spectacularly wrong.
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.”

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
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