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JAPAN
Apr 5, 2018
Akita banks on namesake dog to fetch overseas tourists
After winning gold in women's ice skating at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in February, 15-year old Alina Zagitova has her eyes set on another prize — a Japanese puppy named after Akita, the prefecture from which it originates.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 5, 2018
Russia short of foreign policy options if bet on Trump fails
Russia long saw Donald Trump as the wild card in its strategy to improve relations with the United States.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 5, 2018
Judge skewers Paul Manafort's civil case challenging Robert Mueller's powers
A federal judge tore into all of the legal arguments that a lawyer for President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, made on Wednesday in his long-shot civil case to convince her that special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation has run amok and should be reined in.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 5, 2018
Riga alarmed as Russian missile tests force partial closing of Baltic Sea and airspace
Russia began testing missiles with live munitions in the Baltic Sea on Wednesday, alarming Latvia, a member of NATO, which says the drills have forced it partly to shut down Baltic commercial airspace.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 4, 2018
Trump not a criminal target in Russia probe 'at this point,' special counsel reportedly said in March
U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller told President Donald Trump's attorneys in early March that he did not consider Trump a criminal target in the Russia probe "at this point," The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 4, 2018
CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook deleting posts linked to Russian 'troll factory'
Facebook is expanding its response to what it sees as malicious actors using the platform improperly and on Tuesday said it had deleted hundreds of Russian accounts and pages associated with a "troll factory" indicted by U.S. prosecutors for fake activist and political posts in the 2016 U.S. election...
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 1, 2018
Moscow cuts more U.K. diplomats in dispute over poisoning of ex-spy Skripal
Moscow has told Britain it must cut just over 50 more of its diplomatic and technical staff in Russia as a standoff deepened over the poisoning of a Russian former spy and his daughter in England, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 1, 2018
Russian billionaire Magomedov arrested on embezzlement charges
Russian authorities on Saturday arrested billionaire Ziyavudin Magomedov on charges of embezzling more than $35 million, in one of the highest-profile prosecutions of a Russian tycoon in years.
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 31, 2018
Russian accused of massive hacking extradited to U.S., pleads guilty
A Russian on Friday pleaded not guilty to charges he hacked three U.S. technology companies, potentially compromising personal details of more than 100 million users, after being extradited from the Czech Republic.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 31, 2018
Russia expels 59 diplomats from 23 countries in dispute over poisoning of ex-spy in Britain
Russia expelled 59 diplomats from 23 countries on Friday and said it reserved the right to take action against four other nations in a worsening standoff with the West over the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in Britain.
EDITORIALS
Mar 29, 2018
Japan must take a unified stance on terrorism in U.K.
Japan must stand strong against the lawlessness of the Skripal attack together with its partners in London and elsewhere.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 29, 2018
Trump attorney discussed pardons for Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort with lawyers: report
An attorney for President Donald Trump raised the idea of the U.S. leader pardoning two of his former top advisers last year as the special counsel in the Russia probe was building a case against them, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 29, 2018
Tens of thousands of civilians trapped as Syrian army readies 'huge' assault on holdout rebels' last bastion
The Syrian army is preparing to launch a "huge" operation against the last rebel-held town in eastern Ghouta unless the Jaish al-Islam insurgent group agrees to hand over the area, a pro-Syrian government newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 29, 2018
Trump campaign aide Rick Gates had contact with ex-Russian spy month before election: court filing
A month before the 2016 presidential election, a campaign aide to Donald Trump directly communicated with a man he knew was a onetime Russian spy, according to a court filing by special counsel Robert Mueller.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 27, 2018
Japan and the Skripal poisoning: The U.K.'s fair-weather friend
Prime Minister Abe should demonstrate that Japan is a reliable security partner.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 27, 2018
Poisoning demonstrates Brexit's threat to the security of Britain
Brexiteers must realize a 'Britain alone' is a 'Britain vulnerable.'
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 27, 2018
Japan keeps reaction low-key as nations join forces in expelling Russian diplomats after U.K. poisoning
Experts say Tokyo finds itself caught in a dilemma as it tries to be on good terms with both its Western allies and Moscow.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Mar 27, 2018
Before expulsions, a brick-by-brick hardening of U.S. stance toward Russia
America's most sweeping expulsion of Russian diplomats since the Cold War may have seemed like a dramatic escalation in Washington's response to Moscow, but the groundwork for a more confrontational U.S. posture had been taking shape for months — in plain sight.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 27, 2018
Australia to expel two Russian diplomats over U.K. nerve agent attack, hints at World Cup boycott
Australia will expel two Russian diplomats in response to a nerve-agent attack on a former Russian spy in Britain that the U.K. government has blamed on Moscow, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Tuesday.
Yen on the march as Plaza Accord 2.0 debate grows
The yen strengthened dramatically this month — hitting ¥139.9 to the dollar on Tuesday — and could become a topic of conversation in trade talks between the United States and Japan.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Japan must correct Trump’s false data for trade talks, says Kono
Former Foreign Minister Taro Kono
Jetstar Japan fined for failing to provide adequate cabin crew breaks
The logo of Jetstar Airways on an aircraft parked outside a maintenance hangar in Melbourne, Australia, on Feb. 27.
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
Crow meat, goat tartare: Mauvaise Herbe raises its game
Crow meat, shaped into a ball and attached to a foot of the bird, is one of the peculiar offerings of game at Mauvaise Herbe.
Cases of epidural use in labor rise in Japan alongside concerns
Of the 721,000 childbirths reported in 2024 in Japan, 13.8% involved the use of an epidural, according to the Japan Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Nothing sells like Shohei Ohtani, MLB’s marketing megastar
People walk past an advertisement featuring Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani outside Tokyo Dome on March 18.

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