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COMMUNITY / Issues / LEARNING CURVE
Nov 15, 2017
Tokyo campus tie-up between Temple Japan and Showa Women's University could offer model for the future
Showa Women's University and Temple University, Japan Campus have announced a unique site-sharing agreement that could offer a model to other Japanese schools.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 15, 2017
It takes more than words to raise gender equality
Japan's gender gaps in income and leadership remain stubbornly entrenched.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 15, 2017
Samurai Japan ready for Asian test as Atsunori Inaba makes managerial debut
One day before the inaugural Asia Professional Baseball Championship begins, all three participating nations made their final tuneups with high expectations at the tournament venue, Tokyo Dome, on Wednesday.
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JAPAN / Politics
Nov 15, 2017
Abe suggests Japan and China can resume leaders' visits next year
Relations between Japan and China have improved to the point that they may resume leaders' visits to each other's countries next year, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe suggested in Manila on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 15, 2017
U.N. panel backs Japan-led resolution denouncing North Korea's human rights abuses
A United Nations committee on Tuesday endorsed a Japan- and European Union-led resolution that takes aim at North Korea's human rights violations against its citizens.
EDITORIALS
Nov 14, 2017
Momentum for improving Japan-China relations
Now that Abe and Xi have consolidated their power at home, they're in a better position to advance bilateral ties.
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COMMENTARY / World
Nov 14, 2017
How Trump is driving Asian powers together
U.S. President Donald Trump's 'America first' policy is amounting to 'Asia first' in the global economic packing order.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 14, 2017
North Korea's winter training means fewer missile launches
North Korea hasn't fired a missile for 60 days, but that may have more to do with its own winter training cycle than with Pyongyang easing off on provocations.
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BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2017
U.S. commerce chief urges Japan's carmakers to cut exports and build more autos in America
While noting that Japan is a major trading partner of the U.S., Wilbur Ross said the partnership has resulted in a 'very large” deficit.'
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 14, 2017
North Korea, caught in a 'time warp,' must send signs of change, Seoul top diplomat says
North Korea, an impoverished country in a "time warp" that feeds paranoia at home with propaganda about a hostile world, should secure its future by laying the groundwork for talks on its nuclear weapons program, according to South Korea's foreign minister.
EDITORIALS
Nov 13, 2017
What policies the TPP 11 should pursue
The 11 countries remaining in the Trans-Pacific Partnership should not be content with launching the free trade pact among themselves.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 13, 2017
Big lessons for Japan and America from three small countries
Asia and the Pacific will be better off if all nations adopt some small-state ideas offered up by Bhutan, Timor-Leste and Singapore — namely the embrace of a greener, more representative and more transparent future for all their citizens.
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JAPAN / Politics
Nov 12, 2017
Abe seeks Malaysia's support to fast-track TPP
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday sought Malaysia's cooperation to get the 11-member Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact up and running, excluding the United States.
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JAPAN / Politics
Nov 12, 2017
Putin links Japan-U.S. security alliance to WWII peace treaty with Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin said over the weekend that Japan's security obligations to its allies must be assessed when discussing a pending post-World War II peace treaty between Moscow and Tokyo.
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BUSINESS
Nov 12, 2017
Despite TPP agreement, Japan under pressure to make free trade deal with U.S.
By remaining a champion of the TPP free trade deal after the U.S. pulled out, Japan hopes Washington will soften its demands in future trade negotiations.
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JAPAN / Politics
Nov 12, 2017
Abe meets with Taiwan envoy at APEC summit despite warning from Xi
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met Sunday in Vietnam with a Taiwanese politician, hours after Chinese President Xi Jinping warned him not to break with the past consensus on what Beijing regards as a renegade province.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 12, 2017
'Old' Trump takes shot at 'short and fat' Kim Jong Un — but also floats prospect of friendship
U.S. President Donald Trump, in his latest jab at North Korea's Kim Jong Un, taunted the isolated country's leader Sunday over his height and weight before pondering if the two could eventually be friends.
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JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Nov 11, 2017
Lawsuit over student's dyed hair confronts outdated thinking in Japan
A Japanese public high school has come under fire for its strict policy regarding the color of its students' hair.
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JAPAN / Politics
Nov 11, 2017
Abe and Xi, acknowledging political successes at home, agree to push for better bilateral ties
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping, each benefiting from political victories at home, agree to pursue further efforts to improve bilateral ties.
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JAPAN / Media
Nov 11, 2017
When teenage girls text like middle-aged men
On Nov. 8, the #おじさんLINE hashtag topped Japan Trending rankings on Twitter. The hashtag refers to the manner in which ojisan (middle-aged men) text other people.

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Traditional folk rituals like Mizudome-no-mai (dance to stop the rain) provide a sense of agency to a population that feels largely powerless in the face of the climate crisis.
As climate extremes intensify, Japan embraces ancient weather rituals