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JAPAN / Politics
Mar 9, 2015
Abe, Merkel agree to play strong international role, including on Ukraine
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged Monday to play a more active role in maintaining stability and prosperity in the international community, including finding a peaceful solution for the Ukrainian crisis.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 6, 2015
Little Estonia did its post-Soviet homework
There aren't many European leaders who take a harder line on Russian President Vladimir Putin's aggression in Ukraine than Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves. But Ilves' sympathy for Ukraine is tempered by his belief that it didn't do enough in advance to protect itself.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 6, 2015
Under Putin, Russia poses a growing threat to peace
Not content with denying involvement in the assassination of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, President Vladimir Putin has propagated the usual conspiracy theory that the murder was a Western plot.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 3, 2015
Hybrid war: the real reason fighting stopped in Ukraine
Moscow is using the war in Ukraine as a giant training exercise for conducting a new kind of asymmetric warfare known as 'hybrid war.'
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 3, 2015
The mystery of Nemtsov's murder
Russian President Vladimir Putin disliked and despised Boris Nemtsov, but he had nothing to gain from the opposition leader's death.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 3, 2015
Nemtsov's shaken girlfriend says she didn't see killer
Boris Nemtsov's girlfriend has broken her public silence on the murder of the Russian opposition activist, saying she did not see the killer who gunned him down as they strolled across a bridge near the Kremlin.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 1, 2015
West's call to rebuild Ukraine faces reality check
Western powers are preparing what they say may be their most potent weapon against Moscow's interference in Ukraine — a multibillion dollar aid package to rebuild a near-bankrupt state and realize the European dream cherished by many Ukrainians.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 27, 2015
Hard lessons for the Ukrainian school of war
Russian President Vladimir Putin remains involved in Ukraine largely for pedagogical reasons. His message to the sanctimonious West is that Russia will not tolerate meddling in its backyard.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 27, 2015
Merkel hopes Moldova isn't in Russia's sights after Ukraine
Germany's Angela Merkel said on Thursday she hoped Russia's Vladimir Putin would not try the same strategy in Moldova as he had in Ukraine, and expressed support for the country's efforts to forge stronger ties with Europe, to Moscow's chagrin.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 25, 2015
Worried about Russia, Lithuania plans military conscription
Lithuania plans to restart military conscription, which it ended in 2008, to address growing concerns about Russian assertiveness in the Baltic region, President Dalia Grybauskaite said on Tuesday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 23, 2015
Kiev says it can't withdraw heavy weapons as attacks persist
Ukraine's military said Monday it could not start withdrawing heavy weapons from the front line in the east as required under a tenuous cease-fire because pro-Russian separatists who advanced last week were still attacking its positions.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 23, 2015
Europe needs a stronger security architecture
The Euro-Atlantic region's existing security architecture is not up to the task of resolving the current crisis in Ukraine and increasing cooperation and stability in the region.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 23, 2015
Kiev points finger at Russia after blast kills two at rally; four suspects arrested
Kiev said it had arrested suspects who had been armed and instructed in Russia in connection with a blast that killed at least two people Sunday in a crowd at a pro-Ukrainian rally far from eastern Ukraine's war zone.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 22, 2015
Defeat narrows options for Ukraine's Poroshenko
The loss of the key town of Debaltseve to Russian-backed separatists, the latest in a string of big battlefield defeats for Ukraine, narrows the options for President Petro Poroshenko in his dealings both with Moscow and with the West.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 21, 2015
Kiev accuses Russia of sending more tanks to eastern Ukraine
Kiev accused Russia on Friday of sending more tanks and troops into eastern Ukraine and said they were heading toward the rebel-held town of Novoazovsk on the southern coast, expanding their presence on what it fears could be the next battlefront.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 20, 2015
Fighting rages in east Ukraine despite bid to revive stillborn truce
Fighting raged in eastern Ukraine on Thursday despite European efforts to resurrect a stillborn cease-fire, a day after pro-Russian separatists spurned the truce by forcing thousands of government troops out of a strategic town.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 20, 2015
Russia starts gas supplies to rebel-held east Ukraine
Russia started supplying gas to rebel-held eastern Ukraine on Thursday after Kiev had temporarily suspended deliveries because of damage to the networks from heavy fighting, which is continuing despite a cease-fire.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 17, 2015
Battle rages for town where Ukraine rebels reject cease-fire
Pro-Russian rebels pounded encircled Ukrainian government forces on Monday and Kiev said it would not pull back heavy guns while a truce was being violated, leaving a European-brokered peace deal on the verge of collapse.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 16, 2015
New Ukrainian peace deal is wrapped in a time bomb
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko will find it hard to spin the second Minsk cease-fire deal as his victory. At least Western leaders will still treat him as an ally.
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.
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.
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.”
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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