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TERRORISM 3

Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 8, 2015
Trump's call to close door to all Muslims draws wide spectrum of scorn
Donald Trump is calling for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States," his campaign said on Monday, until "our country's representatives can figure out what is going on."
WORLD
Dec 8, 2015
IED tossed at bystanders at downtown Moscow bus stop; three wounded
Three people were injured in central Moscow late Monday after an improvised explosive device was thrown at a group of bystanders at a bus stop, police said, according to Russian news services.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 7, 2015
U.S. arms-makers strain to meet demand as Mideast conflicts rage
Top U.S. arms makers are straining to meet surging demand for precision missiles and other weapons being used in the U.S.-led fight against the Islamic State group and other conflicts in the Middle East, according to senior U.S. officials and industry executives.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 7, 2015
In wake of Paris attack, India risks missing lessons from Mumbai massacre
Last month, during an exercise to test India's readiness for a militant attack, teams of coast guards approached Mumbai and surrounding areas by sea, just as assailants did before deadly strikes in 2008. Several teams slipped through undetected.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 5, 2015
Malaysia arrests five over suspected Islamic State, al-Qaida ties
Malaysia's police said Saturday that it had arrested five people, including a European employed as a teacher, on suspicion of links with militant groups like the Islamic State group and al-Qaida.
WORLD
Dec 5, 2015
Turkish soldiers 'training Iraqi troops' near Mosul
Several hundred Turkish soldiers have been deployed to provide training for Iraqi troops in an area near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, which is under Islamic State control, a Turkish security source said Friday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 5, 2015
U.S. delays request for bigger Turkish air role against Islamic State until tensions with Russia ease
Since Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet on Nov. 24, the United States has quietly put on hold a long-standing request for its NATO ally to play a more active role in the U.S.-led air war against the Islamic State group.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 3, 2015
The climate-terror connection
Where climate change threatens to lay waste to the environment, fanatics have banded together to lay waste to civilization.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 3, 2015
Cameroon forces capture regional Boko Haram chief, free 900 captives
Cameroon's army captured a regional Boko Haram chief and freed 900 hostages during a three-day operation near the country's border with Nigeria, the government said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 3, 2015
Al-Qaida-linked forces take two south Yemen towns; MSF hospital hit in airstrike
Al-Qaida fighters retook on Wednesday two southern Yemeni towns they briefly occupied four years ago, residents and local fighters said, exploiting the collapse of central authority in Yemen in its eight-month war.
WORLD
Dec 1, 2015
Elusive Iranian general denies rumors of his demise in Syria
The commander of foreign operations by Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard has shrugged off reports of his death or injury in fighting in Syria, an Iranian news agency said Monday.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 29, 2015
Rethink the war on terror
Doing the same things over and over in the war on terror will only produce the same result: failure.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 29, 2015
When no one knows the killer in their midst
Families and friends of the perpetrators of the Paris terrorist attacks professed no inkling that anything unusual was afoot — a phenomenon that repeats itself time and time again in extremist attacks.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 29, 2015
'Voice' may have had a bigger role in Paris terrorist attacks
The voice that claimed Islamic State was responsible for the deadly Nov. 13 Paris terrorist attacks is known to many in the small French provincial town of Alencon.
WORLD
Nov 28, 2015
China police bust online gun ring, seize 1,180 guns
Police in China, where gun possession by ordinary people is illegal, have busted an online gun selling operation, seizing 1,180 guns and more than 6 million bullets, the state news agency Xinhua reported on Saturday.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 28, 2015
Ideology of shared prosperity under fire
Significant blocs of humanity are ignoring or repudiating the West's faith in the power of shared prosperity, turning instead to nationalism or radical Islam.
In rare retrial, Shizuoka court rules ex-boxer not guilty of 1966 murders
Hideko Hakamata (center) and lawyers representing her younger brother, Iwao Hakamata, pose with a banner that reads "Iwao Hakamata verdict not guilty" as they leave the Shizuoka District Court on Thursday after the ruling was delivered.
Giant African snails mark 90 years of history in Okinawa
Giant African snails are unpopular among local residents and are referred to as an alien species that shouldn’t be touched, as they damage crops and sometimes hosts rat lungworms.
Takaichi and Ishiba head to runoff in LDP leadership election
A poster showing portraits of candidates for the Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election at the party headquarters in Tokyo on Wednesday
Putin issues nuclear warning to the West over Ukraine striking Russia
Russia's President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting of the Security Council on the subject of nuclear deterrence in Moscow on Wednesday.
Tokyo Game Show 2024 stacked with big returns and hyped announcements
Tokyo Game Show opens to the public on Sept. 28 full of cosplayers promoting a full slate of new and upcoming titles.
Tokyo Game Show 2024 stacked with big returns and hyped announcements
Tokyo Game Show opens to the public on Sept. 28 full of cosplayers promoting a full slate of new and upcoming titles.
Deadline approaches for free HPV vaccine 'catch-up' campaign
A 13-year-old junior high school student receives a vaccine for the human papillomavirus at a hospital in Tokyo in 2022.
A first look inside the new Nintendo Museum
The Nintendo Museum opens to the public on Oct. 2, but unlike the company's all-ages games, the new attraction may be geared more toward older rather than younger gamers.
Japan MSDF warship sails through Taiwan Strait for first time
The Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Sazanami arrives in Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean during a scheduled port visit in July. The Sazanami became the first Japanese warship to sail through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday.
People of all ages and sizes scale new heights amid climbing boom in Japan
A climbing wall at a kindergarten in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture. The sport has been on the rise in Japan, mainly due to the popularity it gained from the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, and new climbing walls are popping all over the place.

Podcast

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

Longform

A woman passes an "akichi" (vacant lot) in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo. The capital is littered with such small lots in part because of Japan's aging and shrinking population.
Dealing with rising land vacancies as Japan shrinks
By Alex K.T. Martin

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