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JAPAN / Science & Health

Mar 1, 2016

Company aiming to clear space junk wins funding

By Andrew MCKIRDY

A company that aims to clean junk from space has secured up to $30 million (¥3.39 billion) in public-private funding and plans to launch the world's first debris-mapping satellite later this year.

JAPAN / Politics

Mar 1, 2016

Lower House approves record ¥96.7 trillion budget

By Tomohiro Osaki

The Lower House passes a record budget, marking a turning point in Diet deliberations in which the ruling and opposition camps will switch attention to the Upper House election.

JAPAN / Crime & Legal

Mar 1, 2016

Japan's Supreme Court dismisses liability of family in death of man with dementia

By Shusuke Murai

The Supreme Court says a family doesn't have to pay a railroad for its lost revenue when their relative with dementia wandered onto the tracks and was killed.

JAPAN

Mar 1, 2016

Australia increasingly likely to pick Japan for huge submarine order, experts say

By Jesse Johnson

With Australia's release of its defense white paper last week, the race to build the country's next generation of submarines enters the home stretch — and some experts say the Japanese bid appears to hold an insurmountable lead.

JAPAN / AT A GLANCE

Mar 1, 2016

Tokyo Tower, an enduring tourist landmark

By Satoko Kawasaki

Tokyo Tower may no longer be the tallest structure in Japan, nor a full-fledged broadcasting tower, as Tokyo Skytree now holds that joint title. But it is still one of the most popular places for tourists to visit and an icon of the capital, attracting about 2 million visitors annually.

JAPAN / Science & Health

Mar 1, 2016

Japan pushes ahead with Hokkaido carbon capture test despite quake concerns

By Chisaki Watanabe

Japan is preparing to test its biggest project yet for capturing and storing greenhouse gas pollution under the seabed despite concerns about cost and the safety of pursuing the technology in a region prone to earthquakes.

ASIA PACIFIC

Mar 1, 2016

Myanmar brings forward date for presidential nominations

Myanmar will announce presidential nominations on March 10, the speaker of its upper house of parliament said on Tuesday, advancing the original date by a week, as a lengthy political transition enters its last stages.

ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal

Mar 1, 2016

Cambodians admit to raping French tourists in Thailand

Five Cambodian fisherman have confessed to raping and assaulting French tourists on an isolated Thai beach, Cambodia's foreign ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

ASIA PACIFIC

Mar 1, 2016

New Taiwan president's dilemma: whether to host the Dalai Lama

Taiwan President-elect Tsai Ing-wen's diplomatic honeymoon with China could be short-lived if she allows the Dalai Lama to visit the self-ruled democratic island that Beijing claims as its own, two senior political sources said.

ASIA PACIFIC

Mar 1, 2016

Missing Hong Kong bookseller to give up British passport, denies being kidnapped

A Hong Kong bookseller and British passport holder who disappeared last year has said he will renounce his British citizenship, adding that he had not been kidnapped by Chinese authorities as suspected, but had snuck into China illegally.

ASIA PACIFIC

Mar 1, 2016

China launches floating dock for warship repair

China's navy has launched its first self-propelled floating dock, giving it the ability to repair warships far from the coast, the official People's Liberation Army Daily said on Tuesday, Beijing's latest move to modernize its navy.

ASIA PACIFIC

Mar 1, 2016

Philippines asks China to respect sea dispute arbitration

The Philippines on Monday urged China to respect a forthcoming ruling by an arbitration court in The Hague on a territorial dispute in the South China Sea after Beijing accused Manila of "political provocation."

WORLD / Politics

Mar 1, 2016

Trump asks Black Lives Matter protesters if they are 'from Mexico' before booting them from rally

A Donald Trump rally in Virginia was repeatedly disrupted on Monday by protesters, including some from the Black Lives Matter movement, in a stark display of the divisions the Republican front-runner's presidential campaign has long been accused of sowing.

WORLD / Politics

Mar 1, 2016

Trump lays failure to disavow KKK-linked endorsement to faulty earpiece

Donald Trump blamed a faulty television earpiece on Monday for his failure to disavow support from a white supremacist, swatting aside the latest controversy to shadow his unorthodox march toward the Republican presidential nomination.

BUSINESS

Mar 1, 2016

Abe setting up panel to debate extra budget before G-7 summit

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will convene an advisory panel to consider an extra budget for the coming fiscal year, sources said days after the Group of 20 nations urged more fiscal spending to support the ailing global economy.

BUSINESS

Mar 1, 2016

Toshiba reportedly mulling battery plant in Australia as Japan seeks sub deal

By Nobuhiro Kubo and Tim Kelly

The government has enlisted Toshiba Corp. to help it try to win Asia's biggest defense contract, a $36 billion deal to build a dozen submarines for Australia, three sources said.

EDITORIALS

Mar 1, 2016

It's never just one bite of the Apple

While the court battle between Apple and the FBI is being fought in the U.S., the resolution of the case will have international implications.

COMMENTARY / World

Mar 1, 2016

With leaders distracted, EU's tower of Babel falls

By Paul Taylor

While Europe's weak and divided leaders remain distracted by internal debates, the union that provided the framework for post-World War II prosperity will start to unravel.

COMMENTARY / World

Mar 1, 2016

U.S. is hardly ripe for a fake Mussolini

By Leonid Bershidsky

Donald Trump's utterances are weaponized sound, not speech.

COMMENTARY / World

Mar 1, 2016

Syrian truce offers an opportunity to end war

By Gwynne Dyer

If the U.S. can swallow the bitter reality that this truce leaves the Assad regime in charge of the territory it now controls, then the Syrian civil war could eventually be shrunk to a war of everybody else against the Islamists.

COMMENTARY / Japan

Mar 1, 2016

Sharp's alive, and that's too bad

By William Pesek

Letting the electronics maker and other troubled companies die is a necessary part of reanimating Japan.

COMMENTARY / World

Mar 1, 2016

In Yemen, a humanitarian pause urgently needed

By Cesar Chelala

A humanitarian pause is badly needed in war-torn Yemen, where a majority of the population in urgent need of medical care.

COMMENTARY / World

Mar 1, 2016

What the FBI versus Apple flap is really about

By TED RALL

The Apple-FBI encryption flap is really all about Edward Snowden and the NSA.

COMMENTARY / World

Mar 1, 2016

The Pentagon's big lie about the South China Sea

By Greg Austin

The notion that China's actions in the South China Sea threaten commercial shipping is a load of analytical rubbish.

BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT

Mar 1, 2016

Nomadic Whiteside playing well, but remains enigma

By Sam Smith

Hassan Whiteside has become one of the most remarkable NBA stories of recent years, a virtual outcast who was a second-round draft pick, a regular in the minor league D-League and then expatriate playing in China and Lebanon, and even in an attempt to return to the NBA released by the Memphis Grizzlies....

TENNIS

Mar 1, 2016

Canadian duo out of Davis Cup tie against France

Canada's Davis Cup hopes received a double blow on Monday when world No. 13 Milos Raonic and top doubles player Daniel Nestor pulled out of this weekend's first-round tie against France in Guadeloupe.

CULTURE / Art

Mar 1, 2016

The dyeing art of Japan's traditional everyday kimono

By Matthew Larking

Weaver and dyer Fukumi Shimura's (b.1924) inherited an interest in craft from her mother, Toyo Ono, who made inroads through the early 20th-century mingei (folk crafts) movement led by philosopher Muneyoshi Yanagi. Introduced to the lacquer artistan Tatsuaki Kuroda in 1956, Shimura began to hone her...

CULTURE / Art

Mar 1, 2016

Annie Leibovitz: Looking at the smaller picture

By John L. Tran

By way of introducing herself at the press preview of her new touring exhibition, "Women: New Portraits," Annie Leibovitz says, "I love photography so much."

CULTURE / Art

Mar 1, 2016

'Game Boy Tetris: Rutherford Chang'

By Daisuke Kikuchi

Feb. 22-April 3

CULTURE / Art

Mar 1, 2016

'Kutani Choemon & Kamide Keigo: Kutani Connexion'

By Kaori Kubo

March 2-13

CULTURE / Art

Mar 1, 2016

'Fashion for Children: Changing Views on Childhood'

By Kaori Kubo

Feb. 27-April 11

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

The byzantine process for converting a foreign driver’s license into a Japanese one entails mountains of paperwork and significant stamina — unless you're a lucky license holder from a country or region where these requirements are waived.

Driving in Japan isn’t hard. Getting the license is.

By Thu-Huong Ha and Mike Fu

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