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VIOLENCE

WORLD
Jul 19, 2015
Czech Foreign Ministry says five nationals are missing in Lebanon
Five Czechs and their Lebanese driver are missing in Lebanon, a spokeswoman for the Czech Foreign Ministry said Saturday.
WORLD
Jul 18, 2015
Islamic State suicide car bomb kills over 100 in Iraq
More than 100 people were killed in a suicide car bombing at a busy market in an Iraqi town on Friday, one of the deadliest attacks carried out by Islamic State militants since they overran large parts of the country.
WORLD
Jul 18, 2015
Islamic State forces accused of using poison gas on Kurds in northeast Syria
The Islamic State group used poison gas in attacks against Kurdish-controlled areas of northeastern Syria in late June, a Syrian Kurdish militia and a group monitoring the Syrian conflict said Saturday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 8, 2015
Ex-dictator found mentally unfit for new Guatemala genocide trial
Guatemala's forensic authority declared on Tuesday that former dictator Efrain Rios Montt is mentally unfit to be tried again on genocide charges, two years after a historic conviction of the former strongman was thrown out on a technicality.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 30, 2015
China says some South China Sea land reclamation projects completed
China has completed some of its land reclamation on the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday, raising the stakes in Beijing's territorial dispute with its Asian neighbors.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 30, 2015
America can learn from Israel's gun culture
Despite the hundreds of thousands of guns legally and illegally owned in Israel, Israelis kill each other with firearms at a small fraction of the rate of Americans.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jun 27, 2015
Obama calls for racial harmony, gun control at funeral of slain pastor in Charleston
An impassioned President Barack Obama led thousands of mourners in singing "Amazing Grace" on Friday at the funeral of a slain pastor in Charleston and urged Americans to eliminate symbols of oppression and racism, including the Confederate battle flag.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 21, 2015
Residents of South Carolina town once home to Charleston shooting suspect say they are not like him
At Dooley's Bait shop in Lexington, South Carolina, the talk around the worm bins and minnow tanks was dominated by one subject: Dylann Roof, a previously unremarkable local young man now accused of one of most shocking murders in state history.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 21, 2015
Charleston shooting echoes 1963 Birmingham church murders that helped galvanize civil rights movement
Half a century ago in the deeply Southern city of Birmingham, a racially motivated attack on a black church left four young girls dead and helped galvanize a civil rights movement that changed voting laws across the United States.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 20, 2015
Slain Charleston pastor to blame for gun deaths, says National Rifle Association executive
A National Rifle Association executive in Texas has come under fire for suggesting that a South Carolina lawmaker and pastor who was slain with eight members of his congregation bears some of the blame for his opposition to permitting concealed handguns in church.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 20, 2015
South Carolina shootings reignite debate over Confederate flag at statehouse
The shooting of nine black churchgoers in Charleston has revived demands that South Carolina stop flying the Confederate flag on the grounds of the statehouse, an issue that still divides residents of a state haunted by its legacy of slavery.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 20, 2015
Obama says church shooting exposes 'blight' of racism, need for gun laws
President Barack Obama on Friday said a mass shooting at a black church in South Carolina exposed the "blight" of racism still present in America, and railed against critics who have accused him of politicizing a tragedy to talk about tougher gun laws.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 19, 2015
Hate crimes are not uncommon in the United States
U.S. law enforcement authorities are investigating the slayings of nine people by a white gunman Wednesday night at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, as a hate crime.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 19, 2015
Charleston massacre suspect Roof had past brushes with police
His uncle worried he was cooped up in his room too much. The few images of him found easily online suggest he had a fascination with white supremacy. And for his birthday this year, his father bought the young man a pistol, the uncle said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 19, 2015
Obama calls shooting in Charleston church a violation of a 'sacred place'
President Barack Obama said the killer who opened fire at a black church in South Carolina violated a "sacred place" in America's history and the mass shooting once again raised troubling questions about racial tension and easy access to firearms.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jun 16, 2015
In Myanmar's election year, radical Buddhism heightens tension
When religious violence erupted in Meiktila in central Myanmar two years ago, local politician Win Htein spoke up for the minority Muslims who bore its deadly brunt. Many of his fellow Buddhists have never forgiven him.
WORLD
Jun 3, 2015
U.S. says 10,000 Islamic State militants killed in nine-month campaign
More than 10,000 Islamic State fighters have been killed since the international coalition started its campaign against the militant group nine months ago in Iraq and Syria, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday.
WORLD / Society
Jun 2, 2015
Muslims find peace in New York hamlet
Just beyond the gated entrance to the tiny Catskills community of Holy Islamberg, population 200, cows graze and ducks glide on a tranquil pond. Modest houses of wood and cinder block sit along the hamlet's single thoroughfare, a rutted dirt road without traffic signs.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 31, 2015
South China Sea disputes test China's peaceful rise
The South China Sea has become a critical testing ground for the changing economic, political and military relationship between China and the United States.
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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