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PROTESTS

Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 4, 2014
Hong Kong's luxury retailers lose sales as protests mar 'Golden Week' holiday
Pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong have disrupted business and hit share prices of luxury goods companies, ruining what is normally one of the busiest shopping weeks of the year.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 3, 2014
Hong Kong's Tiananmen moment challenging leadership in Beijing
Hong Kong's leaders have failed to let Beijing understand that, almost without exception, the leading Hong Kong politicians are good Chinese patriots.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 3, 2014
Problem with President Xi
Chinese President Xi JInping has insisted he won't tolerate any concessions to the calls for electoral and governmental reform now being made in mass demonstrations in Hong Kong. The analogy with the Tiananmen tragedy is now widely made.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 2, 2014
In Hong Kong protests, China confronts limits of its power
In the heart of Mong Kok, one of the most densely populated districts on earth, an abandoned Hong Kong police van is enveloped in the student-led demonstrations paralyzing swaths of the city. Along with yellow ribbons and flowers, symbols of the city's pro-democracy movement, protesters have taped a...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 1, 2014
Activist Hong Kong academics allege death threats, intimidation
Some academics at the forefront of Hong Kong's fight for more democracy say they have become targets of death threats or other intimidation as the former British colony remains nearly paralyzed by the biggest protests since it returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 1, 2014
Divided Chinese eye Hong Kong protests with admiration, anger
For some mainland Chinese in Hong Kong, the sight of thousands of people on the streets protesting for greater democracy is an alien one that has prompted comparisons with the relative lack of political freedom back home.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 30, 2014
Chinese receive limited coverage of 'illegal' Hong Kong protests
On a day when front pages of newspapers in Hong Kong and around the world carried stories on prodemocracy protesters confronting riot police in the city, the lead article in China's official People's Daily focused on a new book of President's Xi Jinping's speeches.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 30, 2014
U.S. takes cautious line in response to Hong Kong protests
The United States is carefully calibrating its response to pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong, showing support for peaceful protests while signaling it has little interest in seeing the situation escalate and risk a harsher crackdown by Chinese authorities.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 30, 2014
Student generation fuels Hong Kong's 'umbrella movement'
They are dubbed the "umbrella generation" — teenaged students who have stormed the streets of Hong Kong in their tens of thousands and electrified a long-running protest campaign against Beijing's attempts to control the financial hub.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 30, 2014
China censors target Hong Kong protests, but don't always succeed
Chinese censors and opponents of the protests sweeping Hong Kong are engaging in a cat-and-mouse game with demonstrators and commentators in a bid to stop news of the unrest spreading online and, in particular, reaching the mainland.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Sep 29, 2014
Ukraine leader clings to goal of joining EU despite Putin
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has secured a temporary peace in the troubled east which he says gives him a chance to move Ukraine toward its dream of a place in Europe, but Russia's Vladimir Putin still holds cards that could thwart him.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 27, 2014
Hong Kong pro-democracy student protesters arrested after clashes with riot police
Hong Kong riot police used pepper spray Saturday to disperse dozens of students who had stormed government headquarters, but an equal number held their ground in protests against Beijing's tightening grip on the city.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 26, 2014
Hong Kong students take democracy fight to home of city's leader
Thousands of students and protesters marched to the official residence of Hong Kong's leader on Thursday to demand a meeting, defying police warnings as tensions simmer over the financial hub's democratic future.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 22, 2014
Thousands of Hong Kong students seek to 'grasp destiny' in demand for democracy
Thousands of students braved sweltering heat Monday to demand greater democracy in Hong Kong as they launched a weeklong boycott of classes, underscoring a restive younger generation's determination to challenge the Chinese Communist Party.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 22, 2014
Ukraine clashes test truce as Russian opposition stages protests
Ukraine's truce was tested by battles between government forces and separatists as Russia's opposition held a peace march to protest President Vladimir Putin's policy in the neighboring country.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 20, 2014
Bahrain says parties find common ground but Shiites say demands not met
Bahrain's crown prince said Friday political parties had identified five areas of "common ground," including potential parliamentary and judicial reforms, in a bid to end years of instability in the U.S.-allied gulf Arab island state.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 12, 2014
Faster trials of Xinjiang terrorism cases urged by China prosecutor
A call by China's top prosecutor for swifter trials of "terrorists, religious extremists and makers of firearms and explosives" in the troubled region of Xinjiang threatens to fuel abuse of suspects' rights, a human rights group said Friday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Sep 11, 2014
China asserts paternal rights over Hong Kong in clash over democracy
Just days before China was set to deliver its edict on electoral reform in Hong Kong, Beijing's most senior official in the city held a rare meeting with several local lawmakers whose determined push for full democracy had incensed Beijing's communist leaders.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Sep 10, 2014
China offers hefty rewards for 'terrorism' tips in Xinjiang
China is offering up to 1 million yuan ($160,000) in rewards to "terrorism" informants in its western Xinjiang region, state media said on Tuesday, in the latest policy aimed at getting a handle on unrest there.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 6, 2014
Ukraine, pro-Russian rebels reach cease-fire deal
Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels reached a cease-fire agreement on Friday, the first step toward ending fighting in eastern Ukraine that has caused the worst standoff between Moscow and the West since the Cold War ended.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
'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.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
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