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Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 21, 2019
After Westgate debacle, quick end to latest Kenyan attack shows progress in counterterror planning
The relatively swift end to an attack on a Nairobi hotel and office complex highlights improvements in Kenya's counterterrorism capabilities since Somali militants overran a shopping mall in the same neighborhood five years ago.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 19, 2018
Aeon Mall to open sprawling new facility at former Space World site in Kitakyushu as early as 2021
Shopping mall developer Aeon Mall Co. will open a commercial complex, by 2021 at the earliest, at a lot in Kitakyushu where amusement park Space World once stood, according to local government officials.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 21, 2016
Knife-wielding man kills one, injures three in rampage at Hokkaido shopping mall
A knife-wielding man stabbed four women at a shopping mall in Kushiro, Hokkaido, on Tuesday, leaving one of them dead and the other three injured, police said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
May 11, 2016
Massachusetts mall stabbing spree leads to lockdown, evacuation
Several people were stabbed at a shopping mall outside Boston on Tuesday evening, authorities said, in what police described as an "active scene."
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 23, 2015
Homeland security chief worried about al Shabaab threat to U.S. malls
The U.S. homeland security chief said on Sunday he takes seriously a threat made by Somali-based Islamist militants against shopping malls, including the Mall of America in Minnesota, and urged people going there to be careful.
WORLD
Sep 23, 2014
Shots fired at Nairobi mall rattle Kenyans a year after Westgate massacre
Guards fired shots in the air after a driver lost control of his vehicle at a Nairobi mall on Monday when he suffered a seizure, the mall reported, rattling Kenyans still nervous a year after Islamist gunmen attacked another shopping center.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 29, 2014
Aeon Mall pulls Cambodia into retail modernity
Cambodians are flocking to a giant Japanese shopping mall in Phnom Penh, the first of its kind in the country, even before it has been completed or officially inaugurated.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
May 8, 2014
Entertainment takes to the streets of Ibaraki
Street performances, known as daidōgei in Japan, are usually performed at random, so to see many shows all at once is a rare opportunity. The Hitachi Kokusai Daidogei in Ibaraki has invited 30 artists from Japan, France, China and England for a wide variety of performances, all taking place this weekend.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 3, 2013
Unsung heroes emerge in stories of Kenyan mall attack
A little after half-past midday on a sunny Saturday a disturbing call came through to Mark and John at the Nairobi offices of the oil company for which they work.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 6, 2013
Navy SEALs target top Somali terrorist leader
U.S. Navy SEALs raid the Somali home of a leader in the terrorist group al-Shabab but fail to catch him.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 26, 2013
Warlord behind Kenya attack has global ambitions
The alleged Somali mastermind of the assault on a posh mall that killed scores and jolted Kenya is a man of contradictions.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Sep 24, 2013
Al-Shabab nimbler under new leader
The attack that killed 69 people in a Kenyan shopping mall over the weekend was the first regional operation undertaken by the new leadership of Somalia's al-Shabab militants following a bloody power struggle.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 24, 2013
Americans, Briton 'among Nairobi mall attackers'
Kenya's foreign minister says 'two or three Americans' and 'one Brit' were among the al-Qaida-linked militants who took part in the deadly terrorist attack on an upscale Nairobi shopping mall.

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Historically, kabuki was considered the entertainment of the merchant and peasant classes, a far cry from how it is regarded today.
For Japan's oldest kabuki theater, the show must go on