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Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Sep 24, 2015
Francis at White House lauds Obama, embraces GOP taboos: environment, poverty, immigration
Pope Francis on Wednesday urged the United States to help tackle climate change and touched on other divisive U.S. political issues such as immigration and economic inequality on his first visit to the world's richest nation.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 23, 2015
Pope Francis remains flamboyantly fact-free
The pope's ideas would devastate the poor on whose behalf he purports to speak — if his policy prescriptions were not as implausible as his social diagnoses are shrill.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 23, 2015
Security precautions unprecedented for pope's U.S. whistle-stop Itinerary
Pope Francis opened his six-day U.S. tour on Tuesday, bringing a call for Americans to do more to fight poverty, curb climate change and help immigrants.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 23, 2015
Rule by Fiat: Modesty, conciliation, lean machine signal start of Catholic leader's U.S. visit
Pope Francis launched his first visit to the United States with a characteristic gesture of humility on Tuesday, and sent a conciliatory message to the world's wealthiest nation about his frequent criticism of capitalism.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Sep 7, 2015
Every European parish should host a refugee family, pope says
Pope Francis called on Sunday on every European church parish and religious community to take in one refugee family in a gesture of solidarity, which he said would start in the tiny Vatican state where he lives.
WORLD / Society
Sep 2, 2015
All priests should forgive abortions during Holy Year, pope proclaims
Pope Francis will give all priests discretion during the Roman Catholic Church's Holy Year to formally forgive women who have had abortions — the Argentine pontiff's latest move toward a more open and inclusive church.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 20, 2015
Reconsidering man's dominion over animals
If Pope Francis can change people's views of animal welfare, he will have done more good than any other pope in recent history.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 13, 2015
Pope heads home to Rome after urging youth in Paraguay to help their peers, seek dignity
Pope Francis, drawing to a close his three-country tour of South America, on Sunday urged tens of thousands of youths in Paraguay to look after their less fortunate peers and fight for a dignified life filled with hope and strength.
WORLD
Jul 9, 2015
Pope drinks coca tea on way to highlands of Bolivia
Pope Francis drank a tea of coca leaves, chamomile flower and anise seeds on the plane to Bolivia from Ecuador Wednesday to ward off altitude sickness upon arrival at the highest international airport in the world.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jul 9, 2015
Pope pays brief high-altitude Bolivia visit, praises reforms, pays tribute to slain priest
Pope Francis arrived in Bolivia on Wednesday, praising the government of leftist President Evo Morales, the country's first indigenous leader whose frosty relationship with the Catholic Church has begun to thaw under the Argentine pontiff's papacy.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jul 4, 2015
Catholic Church should not have 'leaders for life,' pope says
The Roman Catholic Church should not have "leaders for life" in its ranks, otherwise it would risk being like a country under dictatorship, Pope Francis said on Friday.
EDITORIALS
Jun 26, 2015
Pope Francis as environmentalist
Pope Francis has issued a powerful call on mankind to protect the environment, achieving an important alignment of science and religion.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 23, 2015
Why the pope cares about the Earth
By invoking St. Francis in his encyclical on the environment, the pope calls us to remember the fundamental interdependence of all life.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jun 22, 2015
Pope venerates Shroud of Turin, in city of his migrant forbears
Pope Francis on Sunday stopped to pray before an item some Christians believe is Jesus' burial cloth, during a visit to the Italian city of Turin.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jun 22, 2015
Pope venerates Shroud of Turin, tells how refugees' plight 'makes one cry'
Pope Francis said on Sunday the mistreatment of migrants escaping war and injustice "makes one cry" as he visited the northern Italian city of Turin, stopping to pray before an icon some Christians believe is Jesus' burial cloth.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Jun 17, 2015
In leaked draft encyclical, pope urges urgent action to thwart climate change
The world could see the destruction of entire ecosystems this century without urgent action on climate change, Pope Francis says in a draft of his keenly awaited encyclical on the environment.
COMMENTARY / World
May 14, 2015
Pope Francis is right to call for climate action
U.S. conservatives are dead wrong for criticizing Pope Francis' message on protecting the environment.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 4, 2015
I'm old, ailing, too, pope tells elderly and sick
Pope Francis on Sunday asked a group of elderly and sick members of Rome's seaside parish to pray for him because he, too, had grown old and was ailing.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 16, 2015
1915 Armenian killings amounted to genocide, European Parliament votes
The European Parliament backed a motion on Wednesday calling the massacre a century ago of up to 1.5 million Armenians a genocide, days after Pope Francis used the same term.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
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.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
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.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
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.

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