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ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 17, 2017
Could North Korea copy Nazi Germany in event of a total oil ban?
As the U.S. and its allies look to impose even stricter measures against North Korea, leader Kim Jong Un could find inspiration from oppressive regimes of yesteryear in Nazi Germany and Apartheid-era South Africa.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Sep 17, 2017
Japanese professor studies U.S. 'birth of a nation' and finds common humanity
Understanding racial issues is key to knowing America's history and, through that, modern Japan's, says Keiko Shirakawa.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 17, 2017
The time for 'nuclear sharing' with Japan is drawing near
Japan is facing an existential threat and needs to respond accordingly.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 17, 2017
15 years after landmark Koizumi visit to Pyongyang, little progress on abduction issue
Little progress has been made on efforts to repatriate Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea since Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi made a historic visit in 2002.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Sep 16, 2017
Grading Abe's flailing leadership and policy drift
In his penultimate Counterpoint column, Jeff Kingston gives Shinzo Abe a report card for the prime minister's nearly five years in office.
Japan Times
CARTOONS / DAHL'S JAPAN
Sep 16, 2017
Kim's Baby
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 16, 2017
North Korea's Kim vows to seek 'equilibrium of force' with U.S. after missile launch over Japan
Kim Jong Un also wants to force Washington to “dare not talk about” military action over its nuclear and missile programs.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Sep 15, 2017
Japan's bullet train tech to give 164-year-old Indian railway a jolt
Japan's government and its rail companies lobbied the U.S. for years to sell their bullet-train technology and found little success. Finally, there's an international buyer: India.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 15, 2017
North Korea responds to latest U.N. sanctions with second missile over Japan
Hit by fresh U.N. sanctions, North Korea responds by shooting a second ballistic missile over Hokkaido and into the Pacific Ocean.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 14, 2017
Coast guard leaders from 34 nations gather in Tokyo for inaugural summit
Tokyo hosts the first Coast Guard Global Summit, where leaders from 34 countries and Hong Kong gather to discuss maritime security and marine environmental protection.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 14, 2017
Japanese firms said behind schedule in joining F-35A production
Japanese production of the F-35A stealth fighter remains stuck on the tarmac, a recent survey by Japan's Board of Audit shows.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 14, 2017
Moon no obstacle to better ties between Tokyo and Seoul
By writing off South Korean President Moon Jae-in as an anti-Japan radical, Tokyo risks finding an enemy where none exists.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 14, 2017
Japan's push to curb drug costs seen risking trade row with U.S.
Japan's effort to rein in soaring health-care costs threatens to become a source of tension in economic relations with the U.S. after running into opposition from the American pharmaceutical industry.
Japan researchers develop a simple way to spot signs of Alzheimer's disease
In 2022, the number of elderly people with dementia in Japan reached 4.43 million, according to data from the health ministry.
Japan to overhaul tax exemption system for foreign visitors
The Ginza shopping district in Tokyo in August
Two dead after fire at Upper House lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi’s apartment
A fire broke out on the sixth floor of an apartment building where Upper House lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi resides on Wednesday in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward.
Real-life ‘Tokyo Swindlers’ ordered to pay ¥1 billion in damages
High-rise buildings in Tokyo. Through faking documents and passports a criminal group conspired to pose as the owner of a real-estate plot and buildings in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward in 2017, defrauding Sekisui House of ¥5.5 billion.
Real estate worth ¥25 trillion puts Japan companies in spotlight
Elliott Investment Management's stake in Tokyo Gas is centered around getting the utility to sell off its real estate holdings, including Shinjuku Park Tower, which houses the Park Hyatt Hotel Tokyo.
Hiroshi Kurosaki looks beyond Japan for heart-wrenching drama
Hiroshi Kurosaki’s Netflix series “Beyond Goodbye” centers on a woman (Kasumi Arimura, left) who discovers her dead lover’s heart saved the life of a quiet pianist (Kentaro Sakaguchi).
Japan researchers develop a simple way to spot signs of Alzheimer's disease
In 2022, the number of elderly people with dementia in Japan reached 4.43 million, according to data from the health ministry.
‘What Divides Us’ producer honors grandfather’s Hiroshima reportage
“What Divides Us" producer Cannon Hersey says his grandfather, who wrote about the aftermath of nuclear destruction in Hiroshima, never spoke about what he had seen while working with Japanese minister Kiyoshi Tanimoto to preserve the stories of survivors.
DPP’s Tamaki leverages new position with energy proposal
DPP leader Yuichiro Tamaki in Tokyo on Tuesday
Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics
According to Similarweb, average monthly user numbers for Bluesky on Android in Japan quintupled in the 12 months to October.

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