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JAPAN

Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 21, 2016
Abe to 'take responsibility' if ruling bloc fails to win 61 seats in Upper House election
By Tomohiro Osaki
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he will take the blame if the Liberal Democratic Party-Komeito ruling bloc fails to win more than a majority in the Upper House election.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 21, 2016
SEALDs leader's invite to Fuji Rock sparks online debate
By Reiji Yoshida
A controversy has broken out on social media after the name of a high-profile youth activist appeared last week on the list of artists attending this year's Fuji Rock Festival.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / LEADERS SPEAK
Jun 21, 2016
Constitutional revision, security laws shouldn't be election issues: Komeito chief
By Tomohiro Osaki
Neither the Constitution nor the contentious security laws enacted last year should become key issues in the Upper House election, said Natsuo Yamaguchi, president of Komeito, the junior partner in the ruling coalition.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2016
SDF on alert for possible North Korean ballistic missile launch
The Self-Defense Forces go on alert for a potential ballistic missile launch by North Korean, revving up their Patriot interceptor batteries just in case.
JAPAN / Society
Jun 21, 2016
Hokkaido eatery encourages diners to treat the needy
By Daisuke Kikuchi
A small restaurant in the city of Obihiro, Hokkaido, boasts an eye-catching sign out front that says "Eat here for free."

ASIA PACIFIC

Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 21, 2016
Hong Kong leader presses Beijing on case of missing booksellers
Hong Kong's leader said on Tuesday he had asked China whether its handling of the booksellers case violated the "one country, two systems" formula under which the city returned to Chinese rule, the strongest response yet from the former British colony.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 21, 2016
South Korea warns of Islamic State threat to U.S. bases
By Jesse Johnson
The Islamic State group has gathered information on 77 U.S. and NATO air force facilities around the globe and is urging its supporters to attack them, according to South Korea's intelligence agency.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 21, 2016
U.S. Navy chief hopes carriers deter East Asia destabilization
By David Brunnstrom and Matt Spetalnick
The U.S. Navy chief said on Monday he hoped the deployment of two aircraft carriers on a training mission in East Asia would deter any attempts to destabilize the region, where military tensions have risen amid China's growing assertiveness.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 21, 2016
Myanmar's Suu Kyi reiterates stance on not using 'Rohingya' term: official
By Antoni Slodkowski
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi told the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights on Monday that the government will avoid using the term "Rohingya" to describe a persecuted Muslim minority in the country's northwest, an official said on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 21, 2016
Chinese economic cyberespionage plummets in U.S.: experts
The Chinese government appears to be abiding by its September pledge to stop supporting the hacking of American trade secrets to help companies there compete, private U.S. security executives and government advisers said on Monday.

WORLD

WORLD
Jun 21, 2016
No explosives found after man detained in Brussels bomb scare
Belgian police detained a man who was believed to be carrying explosives near a central Brussels shopping center early on Tuesday, prompting a meeting of the prime minister and the national crisis response center.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 21, 2016
What a shock! Five possible scenarios if Britons vote to leave European Union
If Britons vote Thursday to leave the European Union, it will be a shock for the EU and the global economy and an earthquake for Britain.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Jun 21, 2016
European history hovers close to reverse gear as Britain weighs EU exit
European history may be about to go into reverse.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 21, 2016
Hitler's trousers, Goering's cyanide container sold at auction
Trousers with leather pockets worn by Adolf Hitler and a brass container that held the cyanide used by a top deputy to commit suicide were among a trove of Nazi memorabilia sold for hundreds of thousands of euros at an auction in Germany.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jun 21, 2016
Muslims in U.S. fear Trump rhetoric has pulled prejudices, violent urges into open
About three months ago, Sarah Ibrahim's son came home from his fourth-grade class at a Maryland school with a disturbing question.

BUSINESS

Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 21, 2016
City mayors forging alliance over Airbnb and Uber
Uber Technologies Inc. and Airbnb Inc. have set their sights on global expansion. They are about to face a global response.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 21, 2016
Hot spring bathing tradition stymies Japan's clean energy ambitions
By Chisaki Watanabe and Stephen Stapczynski
With centuries of tradition on their side, Japan's hordes of naked bathers remain unmoved by the island nation's bid to tap a rich reserve of power equivalent to about 20 nuclear reactors.
BUSINESS
Jun 21, 2016
Nissan readies legal action against Brexit campaign over logo use
Nissan said it would take legal action against the official campaign for Britain to leave the European Union after the group used the Japanese carmaker's logo in leaflets calling for voters to back Brexit on June 23.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / TRAVEL INSIDER
Jun 21, 2016
SAS celebrates milestone; Cathay teams with Hyatt; bus bookings via Jetstar
SAS celebrates milestone

Opinion

EDITORIALS
Jun 21, 2016
Getting tough on Russian cheating
The decision to ban the Russian track and field team from the Olympics was correct. Now it's up to Russia to prove beyond all doubt that it understands the stakes and will adjust its behavior accordingly.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 21, 2016
Scandal, other outrages fuel Upper House race
By Hitoki Den
A widespread growing sense of anger and concern among Japanese voters will be a key factor determining the outcome of the upcoming Upper House election.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 21, 2016
Central banks on the brink
By William Pesek
The BOJ's Haruhiko Kuroda can offer the Fed's Janet Yellen a lesson: When cutting rates to zero, you need a clear exit plan.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 21, 2016
Reflecting on a potential cure for warming
By Gernot Wagner and David Keith
A technology called albedo modification, which boosts the reflectivity of the Earth's atmosphere, holds tremendous potential to cure climate change.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 21, 2016
Trump gives Clinton her much-needed cause
By Francis Wilkinson
The political context around Hillary Clinton has changed. Donald Trump has transformed her from a transactional candidate to a conviction candidate.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 21, 2016
Hate crimes often have way of making it harder to hate
By Leonid Bershidsky
The desire for social order is a powerful reflex that hate crimes only reinforce.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 21, 2016
The West is getting Russia wrong
By Andreas Umland
Western governments and publics need to see better through the self-serving rationale of the Kremlin's actions. To do otherwise plays into Putin's hands.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 21, 2016
Israeli prophet of freedom gives in to reality
By Eli Lake
Noted Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky says Israel's cooperation with Egyptian leader Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in the Sinai is a matter of physical survival.

Sports

Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jun 21, 2016
No need for Warriors to panic despite Game 7 loss
By Sam Smith
Well, as Ron Harper famously told the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls, "Don't mean a thing without the ring."

LIFE

Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Jun 21, 2016
In space-tight Japan, how to live like a minimalist
By Megumi Lim
Fumio Sasaki's one-room Tokyo apartment is so stark friends liken it to an interrogation room. He owns three shirts, four pairs of trousers, four pairs of socks and a meager scattering of various other items.

CULTURE

CULTURE / Music
Jun 21, 2016
Kaela Kimura's 'Butterfly' voted the most popular wedding song in 2016
By Chinatsu Yajima
Pop singer Kaela Kimura's "Butterfly" has topped Oricon's top 10 list of the most popular wedding songs of 2016.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jun 21, 2016
Lepage's '887' addresses memories in magical ways
By Nobuko Tanaka
Almost a year after "887" premiered in Toronto in July 2015, and following five-star reviews at every stop on a multinational tour that took in the world's biggest annual theater event, the Edinburgh International Festival, the latest play by Robert Lepage — the Canadian famously dubbed "an alchemist...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jun 21, 2016
'Joseph' cuts a cool dash
By Kris Kosaka
Embrace the summer heat with a rousing musical journey across the arid deserts of the Book of Genesis, as Theatre Orb in Tokyo presents a revival of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," the first publicly performed musical by those masters of the genre, Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jun 21, 2016
Dramatist speaks up for the downtrodden and new thinking in Japan
By Nobuko Tanaka
Fifty-three year-old Oriza Hirata unexpectedly arrived early for our 9 a.m. interview in a Tokyo family restaurant one recent Sunday morning. Not only that, but the famed playwright and director turned up alone without the squad of minders such people's managers generally send along to stop them making...
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.
Nissan clinches $4.5 billion bond deal after orders soar
Nissan Motor has raised $4.5 billion through a junk bond sale in U.S. dollars and euros, part of which carries a record-high coupon rate.
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.
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.
An emoji used to say it all. Now it might say too much.
Apple’s Craig Federighi shows off a set of emoji at a conference on June 13, 2016. While the small pictures have proved helpful in conveying nuance in our texts, younger people are using them less often.
‘Our ultimate goal is to save every single Japanese video game’
After nearly shuttering earlier this year, the Tokyo-based Game Preservation Society continues its work to save the early history of Japanese gaming.
Rare vintage shots and first-time shows at TOP’s 30th anniversary
The museum's curators selected a wide array of works from the archives for the milestone exhibitions. Among other photos, Nobuyoshi Araki's work from the series "Winter Journey" (1990) was included in the "Continuity and Change" exhibition that concluded in June.
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.

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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