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Japan Times
CARTOONS / DAHL'S JAPAN
Sep 24, 2014
Yen Wishbone
EDITORIALS
Sep 24, 2014
New Komeito's raison d'etre
Natsuo Yamaguchi, the just re-elected chief of New Komeito, and other party leaders should realize that if the party fails to ensure that Japan stays on the pacifist road with respect to the passage of new legislation, it will lose its raison d'etre.
EDITORIALS
Sep 24, 2014
Checkered land-price spread
Reports of continued declines in land prices suggest that the benefits of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's fight against deflation have yet to reach many of Japan's rural economies.
JAPAN
Sep 24, 2014
At U.N., Abe to vow more active role for Japan in Africa peacekeeping
Japan will take a more active role in U.N.-led peacekeeping operations in Africa, according to a draft version of a speech that Prime Minister Abe plans to deliver at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 24, 2014
Chinese minister asks Japan to keep investing despite frosty political relations
Chinese Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng is expressing concern over the recent sharp fall in direct investment from Japan.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 24, 2014
Japan, U.S. begin ministerial talks on TPP in bid to resolve pesky differences
Japan and the United States began ministerial talks Tuesday in Washington on a much-awaited bilateral agreement seen as crucial to cementing the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 23, 2014
No plan for talks with Japan or South Korea on U.N. sidelines: Pyongyang
A North Korean envoy to the United Nations said Monday there is no plan to hold bilateral foreign ministerial meetings with Japan, South Korea or the United States on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly this week.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 23, 2014
Abe drops plan for Japan visit by Putin, eyes summit during APEC meet
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has given up on hosting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Japan this fall, but he hopes to hold talks with him during the next Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Beijing in November, government sources said.
Japan Times
SOCCER / ASIAN GAMES
Sep 22, 2014
Nadeshiko down Taiwan to reach quarters
Women's world champion Japan secured its place in the quarterfinals of the Asian Games on Monday with a 3-0 win over Taiwan in their final Group B match.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 22, 2014
August supermarket sales down for fifth month after tax hike
Supermarket sales fell 0.1 percent in August from a year earlier on a same-store basis, declining for the fifth consecutive month following the April consumption tax hike, an industry body said Monday.
BUSINESS
Sep 22, 2014
Business delegation sets foot in Beijing
A delegation of around 200 executives from major Japanese firms arrived Monday in Beijing with the hope of opening a path for improved bilateral relations.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 22, 2014
Weak yen puts Japan at risk of recession, says ex-BOJ deputy
Japan is in danger of falling into a recession as the yen's decline reduces the purchasing power of households and squeezes corporate profits, according to a former deputy governor of the Bank of Japan.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Sep 21, 2014
Rather than boon for Japan, U.S. shale oil is still rip-off
Japan's national wealth is draining away as its trading companies keeping paying premium prices for the oil on offer from the U.S. and the Middle East.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 21, 2014
Is China going down the same road as Japan?
What are the geopolitical implications of China entering a long-term period of Japan-like stagnation but without Japan-like wealth?
JAPAN
Sep 21, 2014
Business delegation hopes to pave way for Abe-Xi summit in latest China visit
A large group of Japanese business leaders will start a six-day visit to China on Monday in an effort to build closer economic ties and repair icy bilateral relations.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 20, 2014
UFC Fight Night Japan delivers entertaining, action-packed program
Mark Hunt didn't take a special game plan into his fight against 182-cm, 118 kg Roy Nelson. He just took his fists, and a whole lot of power.
Japan Times
CARTOONS / DAHL'S JAPAN
Sep 20, 2014
He NOko Protests
EDITORIALS
Sep 20, 2014
Half century on the shinkansen
Oct. 1 will be the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of the Shinkansen super-express trains. Their effects on Japan's GDP and the environment have been enormous.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 20, 2014
Park receives letter from Abe asking for summit
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe asked South Korean President Park Geun-hye for a summit meeting in a letter handed over on Friday, seeking a breakthrough in bilateral ties frozen by disagreements over Japan's wartime past, including the "comfort women" issue.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 19, 2014
North Korea says abduction probe will take another year
Pyongyang tells Tokyo it is still at 'an early stage' of its re-investigation into possible Japanese abductees and plans to finish the probe in about a year.

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