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VIOLENCE

WORLD
Sep 10, 2014
Cost of domestic violence far outstrips war at $8 trillion a year: study
Domestic violence, mainly against women and children, kills far more people than wars and is an often overlooked scourge that costs the world economy more than $8 trillion a year, experts said on Tuesday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 7, 2014
Strategy against Islamic State in hand, Obama now must make it work
It took President Barack Obama and his top aides a week to explain that he does in fact have a strategy for confronting the Islamic State militancy. Now he has to prove that he can make it work.
WORLD
Sep 7, 2014
For Iraqi families, survivors, answers remain elusive months after Islamic State bloodbath
No one disputes the horrific outcome: Iraqi military recruits were led off their base unarmed and murdered in the hundreds, machine-gunned in mass graves by the Islamic State, whose fighters boasted proudly of the killings on the Internet.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 7, 2014
Soldier who survived Islamic State's systematic slaughter speaks
Eight hundred Iraqi soldiers were divided into lines of ten men, given rushed interrogations by Islamic State fighters and shot dead, the survivor said. By dawn, he was one of only 20 left alive.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 6, 2014
Islamic State guides Egyptian militants, expanding its influence
The Islamic State, fighting to redraw the map of the Middle East, has been coaching Egypt's most dangerous militant group, complicating efforts to stabilize the biggest Arab nation.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 31, 2014
Islamic State militants behead captive Lebanese soldier
Islamic State militants beheaded a Lebanese soldier who was one of 19 captured by hard-line Syrian Islamists when they seized a Lebanese border town for a few days in August, a video posted on social media showed on Saturday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 25, 2014
Britain says it's close to identifying beheading suspect
Britain is close to identifying a suspected British national shown beheading American journalist James Foley in a video released by Islamic State militants last week, the British ambassador to the United States said on Sunday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 24, 2014
Britain plans new laws to tackle home-grown jihadists
Britain said on Saturday it planned tougher laws to deal with British Islamist militants after Islamic State (IS) fighters in the Middle East released a video showing a suspected Briton beheading U.S. journalist James Foley.
WORLD / Society
Aug 24, 2014
U.K. Muslims lash out at 'jihadi cool' after beheading
A British Muslim leader has called for action to tackle a jihadi subculture after an Islamic State video showed a suspected Briton beheading U.S. journalist James Foley in Syria.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 23, 2014
Shiite militiamen kill dozens of Iraqi Sunnis in mosque shooting
Iraqi Shiite militiamen machine-gunned minority Sunni Muslims in a village mosque on Friday, killing dozens just as Baghdad is trying to build a cross-community government to fight Sunni militants whose rise has alarmed Western powers.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 21, 2014
Malaysian militants inspired by the Islamic State plotted bomb attack on Carlsberg brewery
Suspected Malaysian militants loyal to the extremist Islamic State movement bought bomb-making material ahead of a proposed attack on a Carlsberg brewery near the capital, Kuala Lumpur, a top anti-terrorism official said.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Aug 21, 2014
Are Islamic State's anti-U.S. threats mere bluster?
Islamic State's beheading of a U.S. journalist and its threat to "destroy the American cross" suggests it has gained enough confidence seizing large areas of Iraq and Syria to take aim at American targets despite the risks.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 21, 2014
In case of slain journalist Foley, negotiations, silence — then a chilling warning
After months of silence from the captors of American journalist James Foley, his family received a chilling message on the night of Aug. 13: Foley would be executed in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes on the militant group Islamic State.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Aug 20, 2014
In riot-hit Ferguson, traffic fines boost tension and budget
When calm and order is finally restored to Ferguson, Missouri, the city's leaders may find little room to maneuver to resolve an issue that has long inflamed racial tensions: traffic tickets.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Aug 20, 2014
As Missouri violence flares, fingers point to outsiders
As darkness fell on Ferguson, Missouri, the crowd of several hundred people protesting the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teen quickly and radically changed.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 20, 2014
Missouri racial violence recalls apartheid, U.N. rights chief says
Clashes between police and protesters in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson are reminiscent of the racial violence spawned by apartheid in her native South Africa, the top U.N. human rights official said in an interview Tuesday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 20, 2014
U.S. views on Missouri shooting vary starkly by race: poll
U.S. blacks are twice as likely as whites to view the fatal Missouri shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer through the lens of race, according to a nationwide poll released on Monday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 19, 2014
Family sues school over son's suicide
The parents of a high school student who leaped to his death after an allegedly violent dressing down in class are suing the school.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 19, 2014
Two California youths accused of plotting high school shooting spree
Police in the Los Angeles suburb of South Pasadena said Monday they had thwarted a mass shooting plot with the arrest of two teenagers who were conspiring to kill several staffers and as many fellow students as possible at their high school.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 17, 2014
Ukraine rebels gearing up for eastern counterstrike
Pro-Russian separatist fighters in eastern Ukraine are receiving new armored vehicles and fighters trained in Russia, and plan to launch a major counteroffensive against government forces, a rebel leader said in a video released on Saturday.
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
One dead, three missing as heavy rain batters Tohoku
Camera footage shows the Mogami River bursting its banks in Tozawa, Yamagata Prefecture, on Friday morning.
Brazil issues apology for persecuting Japan immigrants during WWII
Enea Almeida (right), chair of the Brazilian amnesty commission, shakes hands with the representative for Japanese immigrants on Thursday in Brasilia.
When did summer in Japan stop being fun?
Summer in Japan is now consistently brutal enough to drive you indoors and keep you there until autumn.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
Japan midfielder Yu Hirakawa controls the ball during a match against the United States in Kansas City, Kansas, on June 11.

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