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JAPAN
Jun 18, 2016
Japan's first lady, Akie Abe, speaks her own mind
By Sayuri Daimon
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has outlasted those that scoffed at his return to power as leader of the conservative Liberal Democratic Party in 2012. And yet while the prime minister appears to have established himself as an increasingly dominant force in domestic politics over the past decade, the most...
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JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jun 18, 2016
Japan sleeps while cybercriminals get smarter
By Philip Brasor
During a recent trip to the United States, I was in a car with a friend when she received a phone call from her bank, which asked if she had used her debit card that day to make purchases at a certain store. She said she hadn't, indicating someone had hacked into her account. By the time we reached our...
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JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jun 18, 2016
How Trump fares in Japan's tabloids
By Mark Schreiber
If Japan's weekly magazines appear to be devoting an inordinate amount of space to coverage of U.S. politics this election year, it's thanks largely to the flamboyant antics of Donald Trump, who can be counted on for verbal outbursts and surprises.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Jun 18, 2016
Autism may not be confined to the brain
By Rowan Hooper
Thirteen-year-old Naoki Higashida describes his own personal feelings about having autism as follows:
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / THE LIVING PAST
Jun 18, 2016
Absolutism: an acceptable price to pay for order
By Michael Hoffman
His contemporaries hardly knew what to make of him. Their bewilderment is reflected in the name by which he is best known to us: the "dog shogun."
JAPAN / View from Osaka
Jun 18, 2016
Hashimoto backs away from confronting Tokyo's fierce media pack
By Eric Johnston
With Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe having resigned, who will replace him is a matter of interest not only in Tokyo, but a question likely to impact the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito's fortunes in next month's Upper House election.
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JAPAN
Jun 18, 2016
Top U.S. diplomat to visit Tokyo for talks with Japan, India; China likely to be focus of discussions
By Jesse Johnson
A top U.S. diplomat will make a three-day trip to Tokyo starting Sunday for trilateral talks with India and Japan — a meeting likely to touch on maritime security and cooperation amid Beijing's growing assertiveness in the South China Sea.

ASIA PACIFIC

ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 18, 2016
Head of model democratic village is arrested for graft in China; riot police are deployed
Authorities in southern China have detained the chief of a village that was once hailed as a model for grass-roots democracy, accusing him of accepting bribes, while deploying hundreds of riot police to stave off potential trouble.

WORLD

WORLD / Politics
Jun 18, 2016
Big in Japan? Faux Trump ad video goes viral
By Jesse Johnson
Donald Trump is tangling with Japan again.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 18, 2016
George W. Bush ends exile, hits campaign trial to help Republicans raise money
Former President George W. Bush had every intention of sticking to his self-imposed exile from politics, but found that the phone kept ringing with appeals from Republican U.S. Senate candidates for help, friends say.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 18, 2016
New poll shows Clinton's lead over Trump has fallen following Florida massacre
Donald Trump chipped away at Hillary Clinton's lead in the presidential race this week, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Friday, as the candidates clashed over how to respond to the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
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WORLD
Jun 18, 2016
Despite State Department dissent on Syria, Obama not shifting toward strikes against Assad's forces
The U.S. administration sought on Friday to contain fallout from a leaked internal memo critical of its Syria policy, but showed no sign it was willing to consider the military strikes that the letter, signed by dozens of American diplomats, called for.

BUSINESS

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BUSINESS
Jun 18, 2016
Orlando tourism unshaken by rare week of horrific news
Experts say it's too soon to gauge whether a week of horrific news out of Orlando will hurt tourism there. But travel agents are not seeing widespread cancellations, and many travelers say they're committed to visiting.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 18, 2016
California surpasses France as world's sixth-largest economy
California is now the sixth-largest economy in the world, surpassing France, thanks to a robust state economy and a strong U.S. dollar.

Opinion

EDITORIALS
Jun 18, 2016
The need for more scholarships
The ruling and opposition parties must follow through on their promises to increase university scholarships and prevent more students from having to take out crippling loans.
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COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jun 18, 2016
Culture of fear lingers in war-traumatized Sri Lanka
By Jeff Kingston
Civil war engulfed Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009, with a death toll estimated by the U.N. at up to 100,000. The war was fought between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, aka Tamil Tigers, and the Sri Lankan state.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 18, 2016
Maradona and Pele are wrong about Messi
By Cesar Chelala
Argentina's Lionel Messi proves once again he deserves his reputation as one of the three greatest soccer players of all time.

Sports

MORE SPORTS
Jun 18, 2016
Hamilton slams 'moaning' rivals in Baku
Triple Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton has accused some rivals of 'moaning' about safety at the Baku street circuit that hosts Azerbaijan's inaugural grand prix on Sunday.
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OLYMPICS
Jun 18, 2016
Murofushi relaxed heading to nationals
By Kaz Nagatsuka
Japan's track and field icon is back.

LIFE

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LIFE / Travel
Jun 18, 2016
A spiritual high in the temples of Takayama
By Carla Francis
Isolated from the pulsating sounds of pachinko parlors and the neon lights of Tokyo, the small, laid-back city of Takayama in the mountains of Gifu Prefecture offers something that visitors to Japan's urban hubs don't typically find: quiet.
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LIFE / Digital / ON: TECH
Jun 18, 2016
Bright ideas for bookmarks, toys and apps
By Chiho Komoriya
Kyouei Design's flashy bookmark

CULTURE

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CULTURE / CULTURE SMASH
Jun 18, 2016
Drawing on the past of Osamu Tezuka
By Roland Kelts
In 1977, American author and translator Frederik L. Schodt and three friends formed a manga-translation group in Tokyo, with the then-quixotic dream of introducing Japanese comics to a global readership. Schodt had arrived in Japan in 1965, courtesy of a father in the United States Foreign Service. He...
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CULTURE / Books
Jun 18, 2016
Why are Japanese women still bewitched by the Brontes?
By Damian Flanagan
Some years ago a sassy Osaka lady asked me to introduce her to the pleasures of Western literature. I duly handed her a variety of classic books, including "The Turn of the Screw," "Heart of Darkness," "Lolita" and "A Study in Scarlet." They were all methodically if unenthusiastically read, but when...
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CULTURE / Books
Jun 18, 2016
'As We Saw Them': Masao Miyoshi and the dawn of U.S.-Japan relations
By Don O'Keefe
In "As We Saw Them," literary critic and academic Masao Miyoshi looks at the 1860 Japanese embassy to the United States, the first sent to a Western power after centuries of seclusion.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jun 18, 2016
Lian Hearn's newest fantasy brings "Game of Thrones"-style intrigue to ancient Japan
By Iain Maloney
The second book in "The Tale of Shikanoko," Lian Hearn's four-part fantasy series, necessarily suffers from having neither a real beginning nor an end. "Autumn Princess, Dragon Child" spends most of its time picking up the pieces left over from the previous denouement and getting everybody in position...

COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Jun 18, 2016
Not dry behind the ears
Is it OK to blow dry your hair in the standard direction?
Tokyo hit by torrential rainfall at rush hour
People line up at Shibuya Station in Tokyo as they try to avoid the heavy rain on Thursday.
Foreign drivers in Japan to face tougher license conversion rules from October
According to the National Police Agency, there were 75,905 people who converted their foreign driver’s license to a Japanese one in 2024, up from 48,885 in 2019.
Chinese fighters came within 30 meters of Japanese spy aircraft, Tokyo says
A Chinese JH-7 fighter jet makes an near an Air Self-Defense Force YS-11EB surveillance aircraft over the East China Sea this week in this image released Thursday.
Air India crash report to offer peek into last seconds
Members of the Indian Army's engineering arm prepare to remove the wreckage of an Air India aircraft in Ahmedabad on June 14.
What Japanese politics could look like after Upper House election
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who heads the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (center) waves to attendees as he departs after delivering a campaign speech in Yokohama on Sunday.
New IG Arena set to dial down temperature at Nagoya Basho, in a good way
With IG Arena getting glowing early reviews as the Nagoya Basho’s replacement venue, it may be a while before fans wax nostalgic about the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium.
Once a niche, anime is now mainstream content for Netflix and other streaming services
Though Netflix remains the dominant choice globally for anime viewers, Amazon Prime Video has also invested heavily in anime, steadily adding titles to their catalogue.
NGOs condemn rise in anti-immigrant rhetoric ahead of Upper House vote
Sanseito head Sohei Kamiya holds a board that reads "Japanese First" in Tokyo on July 2. In a joint statement on Tuesday, eight human rights nongovernmental organizations described the far-right party's stance as "hate speech."
Japanese dancers find a home abroad at Houston Ballet
“Giselle” lead Yuriko Kajiya (center), performing with Connor Walsh as Albrecht, is one of six Japanese dancers at Houston Ballet.
From the Abes to the Ohtanis: How siblings shape athletic development
Olympic judoka Uta Abe (second from left) and Hifumi Abe (second from right) with their brother Yuichiro (center) and their parents. “I’m always consciously trying to be a good older brother,” Yuichiro said.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Mount Fuji is considered one of Japan's most iconic symbols and is a major draw for tourists. It's still a mountain, though, and potential hikers need to properly prepare for any climb.
What it takes to save lives on Mount Fuji
By Alex K.T. Martin

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