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Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 14, 2015
New York, other U.S. cities beef up security after Paris attacks
New York, Boston and other cities in the United States bolstered security on Friday night after deadly gun and bomb attacks on civilians in Paris, but law enforcement officials said the beefed-up police presence was precautionary rather than a response to any specific threats.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 14, 2015
California rock band was slated to play at attacked Paris venue
The California-based rock band Eagles of Death Metal was in the midst of a European tour following its fourth album release when the musicians found themselves caught up in a terrorist attack at the Paris concert hall where they were due to perform Friday.
ENVIRONMENT
Nov 12, 2015
Paris climate talks not just hot air, France tells U.S.
Any global climate change deal reached in Paris next month will be legally binding and have a concrete impact, France's foreign minister said on Thursday, reacting to U.S. comments that questioned the status of the accord.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 15, 2015
After six-year revamp, Paris Museum of Mankind re-opens its doors
The Museum of Mankind in Paris re-opens its doors this week after six years of renovations that have breathed new life into France's leading anthropological museum.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 1, 2015
Obama urges reaching climate deal in Paris 'while we still can'
President Barack Obama said on Monday that world leaders must agree to cut carbon emissions at a U.N. summit in December because the climate is changing faster than efforts to curb global warming.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 16, 2015
Boeing bests Airbus, bags $18 billion in jet orders, commitments at start of Paris Air Show
Boeing Co. grabbed an early lead in orders and commitments at the Paris Air Show over Airbus Group SE, piling up a haul valued at almost $18 billion with help from a surprise surge in wide-body demand.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 11, 2015
Romantic street art replaces love locks on Paris bridge
Panels of street art have been installed on Paris's Pont des Arts to replace the hundreds of thousands of "love locks" that weighed down the bridge's balustrade until the city began removing them last week.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Jun 6, 2015
Japan goods popular in India; Nazis roll into Paris; mine death toll passes 160; Japan passes U.S. as top donor
100 YEARS AGO
JAPAN
Mar 19, 2015
French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo publishes cartoon on Fukushima nuclear disaster
French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo took aim at Tepco's crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station in its March 18 issue.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Feb 20, 2015
Fallout from incident with Chelsea fans may be extreme
The condemnation of the racist thugs who refused to allow a black man to enter the train in the Paris Metro was immediate and widespread.
WORLD
Jan 26, 2015
Obama backs India's solar goals, seeks support for climate talks
U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday offered to help finance India's ambitious solar energy target and sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi's support at global climate talks in Paris later this year.
COMMENTARY
Jan 22, 2015
Punch from the pope when the cause is right
At least U.S. President Barack Obama — and Pope Francis — had the good sense to dodge world leaders' little pantomime of defiance in the streets of Paris after the Charlie Hebdo killings.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 16, 2015
Two dead as Belgium foils 'major' terror plot
Belgian police killed two suspected terrorists and arrested a third in a shootout in the eastern town of Verviers, preventing a possible "major" attack, authorities said.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 15, 2015
'Jules Pascin Exhibition'
Traveling was a major source of inspiration for Jules Pascin (1885-1930), a painter who was of Italian-Serbian and Spanish heritage and born in Bulgaria. Educated in Vienna and then in Munich, he later moved to France, where in the 1920s he became a significant figure of the Modern School of Paris. This...
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 13, 2015
Paris attacks suspect entered Syria on Jan 8, Turkey says
The suspected female accomplice of Islamist militants behind last week's attacks in Paris was in Turkey five days before the killings and crossed into Syria on Jan. 8, Turkish officials said on Monday.
WORLD
Jan 12, 2015
Gun from Paris deli siege linked with jogger shooting two days earlier
Bullet casings found at the site where a jogger was shot and wounded on the evening of Jan. 7 match the gun found at the scene of a fatal shooting in a supermarket in east Paris two days later, the Paris prosecutor said citing ballistics tests.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 11, 2015
Netanyahu tells French Jews a welcome awaits them in Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu coupled a show of solidarity with France on Sunday with a reminder to shaken French Jews that Israel is keen to welcome them as immigrants.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 10, 2015
French police kill Charlie Hebdo massacre suspects; four hostages die in separate siege
Two brothers wanted for a bloody attack on the offices of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo were killed on Friday when anti-terrorist police stormed their hideout, while a second siege ended with the deaths of four hostages.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 9, 2015
French police swoop on wooded villages in Paris attack manhunt
Heavily armed anti-terrorism police swooped on woodland villages northeast of Paris on Thursday in a manhunt for two brothers suspected of being the Islamist gunmen who killed 12 people at a French satirical weekly.
JAPAN
Jan 8, 2015
Abe 'shocked' by Paris carnage, condemns terrorism; travel advosory issued
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed "profound shock and indignation" at Wednesday's deadly gun attack at a French satirical magazine in a message delivered to French President Francois Hollande, the Foreign Ministry said early Thursday morning.

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