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WEAPONS

Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Sep 3, 2013
Nukes, terrorists, intel gaps: U.S. 'black budget' shows extent of distrust toward Pakistan
The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaida, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one purported ally: Pakistan, which appears at the top of charts listing critical U.S. intelligence gaps.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 1, 2013
Don't break law to swipe at Assad
How can a U.S. attack send the message that Syria must obey international law if the bombing itself violates the U.N. Charter
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Sep 1, 2013
Poison gas viewed as uniquely horrible
After the guns of World War I fell silent, the world's nations convened in Geneva to outlaw for the first time an entire class of weapons. Barely 1 percent of the war's battlefield deaths had come from toxic chemicals, yet these had evoked greater horror than the blast wounds, shrapnel and bullets that...
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 29, 2013
Once again, U.S. rushing to attack without facts
Assertions that Syrian President Bashar Assad is guilty of chemical weapons use without hard evidence presented to the international community will not do, not after the dodgy dossiers fiasco on Iraq in 2003.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Aug 29, 2013
West missed chances to cut arsenal
The United States and its allies may be headed for a war that they could have tried harder to prevent.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 28, 2013
Syria will require more than missiles
The question before U.S. President Barack Obama is whether he will make matters worse by convincing himself that he has found a minimal solution to the Syrian problem. He will convince no one else.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 27, 2013
Chemical attack weakens drive to destroy world stockpiles
The shelling of suburban Damascus with a suspected nerve agent last week was potentially the third large-scale use of a chemical weapon in the Middle East and may have broken the longest period in history without such an attack.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 26, 2013
Single family lost 21 in likely chemical attack
Their mobile phones began to ring with a desperate insistence a day after the attack, as the first calls came from Syria to Jordan to Israel, where a branch of the scattered Waked family resides.
WORLD
Aug 22, 2013
Disrupting muscle function, nerve agents can kill fast even in tiny doses
The descriptions of victims arriving at clinics near Damascus on Wednesday point to possible signs of poisoning by a nerve agent, the most deadly of the seven types of chemical weapons recognized by experts.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 18, 2013
A drone of your own in the near future?
Kevin Good thought there was an 80 percent chance he could successfully deliver his brother's wedding rings with a drone.
WORLD
Aug 18, 2013
For fledging UAV industry, droning on is a no-no
When is a drone not a drone? When the people who manufacture them say so. That's their hope, at any rate.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 18, 2013
Surveillance prompts creation of covert clothing
At the Pentagon and CIA, they are known as "countermeasures," the jargony adaptation of Newton's Third Law: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 7, 2013
'No more hibakusha' takes on new meaning after 3/11
A Japanese scholar writes of his outrage in 2011 over the realization that the Fukushima nuclear plant accidents would produce a new generation of hibakusha.
WORLD
Aug 7, 2013
Iran ready for 'serious negotiations' on nuclear program, says new president Rouhani
In his first news conference since taking office, Iranian President Hasan Rouhani, the man known as the 'diplomat sheik,' reiterated his willingness to participate in nuclear negotiations with the international community but stopped short of saying he would welcome direct talks with the United States.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Aug 5, 2013
Ailing vets point to Vietnam-era transport planes
Nearly three dozen rugged C-123 transport planes formed the backbone of the U.S. military's campaign to spray Agent Orange over jungles hiding enemy soldiers during the Vietnam War. And many of the troops who served in the conflict have been compensated for diseases associated with their exposure to...
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 5, 2013
Iran's Rouhani sworn in as president, vows shift in relations with West
U.S. diplomatic posts in 19 cities in the Muslim world will be closed through the end of the week as a precaution, the State Department announces.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Aug 3, 2013
Iran's Rouhani faces pressure over economy
Iran's economy is showing signs of foundering just as the country prepares to inaugurate its first new president in eight years, with Western sanctions cutting ever deeper into the Islamic republic's financial lifelines and increasing pressure for a nuclear deal with the West.
Naked man’s rampage in Saitama linked to one fatality and 10 injured
Police believe Daisuke Nishimura may have been involved in roughly 20 incidents in the 90 minutes leading up to his arrest, including a fatal hit-and-run and multiple assaults.
Japan set to fine cyclists on the spot for rule violations from 2026
Under new rules, those who use smartphones while riding a bicycle would be subject to the maximum fine of ¥12,000.
Japan brings forward deadline for electronic travel authorization system
Japan is planning to implement by March 2029 a new online screening system in which foreign visitors who don’t need a visa apply for a certification before entering the country.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Tokyo prices rise most in two years, backing central bank's hike path
Consumer prices excluding fresh food in Tokyo gained 3.4% in April from a year earlier, as a mixture of impacts from last year’s school fee cuts and higher food and energy costs accelerated inflation, according to the internal affairs ministry.
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
Crow meat, goat tartare: Mauvaise Herbe raises its game
Crow meat, shaped into a ball and attached to a foot of the bird, is one of the peculiar offerings of game at Mauvaise Herbe.

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