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JAPAN

JAPAN
Jun 29, 2016
Japan census report shows surge in elderly population, many living alone
By Reiji Yoshida
The number of elderly people is on the uptick, even as the size of the average family shrinks, government numbers indicate.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 29, 2016
Former LDP defense chief Koike goes rogue, announces bid to be Tokyo's first female governor
By Tomohiro Osaki and Reiji Yoshida
The LDP veteran bucks her party, throwing her hat into the ring for the gubernatorial election slated for next month.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 29, 2016
Bach score owned by Tokyo music college may fetch $3 million at auction
By Mizuho Aoki
A music score handwritten by Johann Sebastian Bach and owned by a Japanese music college will be put up for sale next month at Christie's auction house in London. It is expected to fetch as much as $3 million.
JAPAN
Jun 29, 2016
Top official denies claim that Chinese fighter was close to firing on ASDF jet
By Reiji Yoshida
A senior government official on Wednesday flatly denied allegations written on a news website claiming that a Chinese fighter was close to firing on an Air Self-Defense Force jet that had been scrambled over the East China Sea.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Jun 29, 2016
Child welfare law revised but tens of thousands remain institutionalized in Japan
By Chang-Ran Kim
A baby lies in a metal-bar cot drinking from a bottle perched on his pillow in a Tokyo orphanage. There's no one to hold and feed him or offer words of comfort.

ASIA PACIFIC

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ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 29, 2016
China joins U.S.-led naval exercises as ties fray over maritime disputes
By Jesse Johnson
In a rare move that analysts say could ease soaring tensions between Washington and Beijing, five warships from China's navy have taken part in training exercises with U.S. vessels while en route from the western Pacific to Hawaii for the biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise scheduled to kick...
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jun 29, 2016
Southeast Asian fires emitted the most carbon last year since 1997, topped entire EU output
Forest fires that blanketed Southeast Asia in thick haze last year released the greatest amount of climate-changing carbon since the record blazes in 1997, producing emissions higher than in the whole of the European Union, scientists said on Tuesday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 29, 2016
Spike in police-linked killings feared as Duterte takes power in Manila
Two things catch the eye in the office of Joselito Esquivel, a police colonel enforcing a national crackdown on drugs in the Philippines' most crime-ridden district: a pair of boxing gloves in a display cabinet and an M4 assault rifle lying beside him.

WORLD

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WORLD
Jun 29, 2016
In annual human trafficking report, U.S. to set to upgrade Thailand's status with removal from lowest tier
The United States has decided to remove Thailand from its list of worst human trafficking offenders, officials said, a move that could help smooth relations with Bangkok's military-run government.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 29, 2016
'Brexiteer' Farage booed in rowdy EU Parliament debate
Leading Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage was booed and heckled in a raucous special session of the European Parliament on Tuesday as he accused the EU of imposing a superstate on its citizens and predicted other countries would follow Britain in leaving the bloc.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 29, 2016
France sends data files from crashed EgyptAir jet's repaired black box back to Egypt
Data files from crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 were sent to Egypt on Tuesday after one of the plane's black box flight recorders was repaired in France, bringing investigators closer to explaining the doomed jet's fate.

BUSINESS

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BUSINESS / Economy / DECISION 2016
Jun 29, 2016
Abenomics on the line for Abe in July poll: experts
By Reiji Yoshida
Economists criticize Abenomics even as its eponymous champion uses it to draw focus away from his push for constitutional revision.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 29, 2016
Expo offers glimpses of a future assisted by artificial intelligence
By Shusuke Murai
From robotics to deep learning and image recognition, a glimpse of science fiction-like technologies developed by the nation's artificial intelligence industry is on display at Tokyo Big Sight in Koto Ward.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 29, 2016
Abe urges BOJ to ensure market liquidity after Brexit vote
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday urged the central bank to provide ample funds to the market to ensure liquidity and keep the wheels of the economy turning in the wake of Britain's shock vote to exit the European Union.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 29, 2016
Sony raises sales, margin targets for games ahead of virtual reality launch
Sony Corp. expects the profitability of its games division to rise this fiscal year as the company prepares to launch a virtual reality headset to complement the PlayStation and streaming services.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 29, 2016
IKEA recalling 36 million dressers, chests blamed for six tip-over deaths
Swedish furniture retailer IKEA Group is recalling almost 36 million chests and dressers in the United States and Canada that have been linked to the deaths of six children, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Tuesday.

Opinion

EDITORIALS
Jun 29, 2016
Time to close money loopholes
Lawmakers need to get to work on closing the gaping loopholes in the system controlling political funds.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 29, 2016
Much at stake in this election
By Jiro Yamaguchi
If voters do not wish to give the Abe administration a carte blanche to revise the Constitution, they must express their intention in this election.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 29, 2016
Taiwan-China ties may be on a rocky course
By Gregory Clark
With the election of Tsai Ing-wen, a return to an earlier era of confrontation between Taiwan and China is possible.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 29, 2016
Britain, not the European Union, will survive
By Slawomir Sierakowski
After Brexit, Europe could finally emerge as a strong international actor, but sadly the political will to achieve such an outcome is unlikely to emerge.

Sports

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BASKETBALL
Jun 29, 2016
Matsui happy to be Japan's sixth man
By Kaz Nagatsuka
Keijuro Matsui isn't quite like the rest of the 12 players on the Japan men's national team for the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Belgrade.

CULTURE

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CULTURE / Film
Jun 29, 2016
Pacquet-Brenner takes us through 'Dark Places'
By Kaori Shoji
Two years after the opening of the pervertedly female-empowering "Gone Girl" (based on Gillian Flynn's best-selling novel), I'm one of the people who still get chills when remembering Rosamund Pike's monologue. "Gone Girl" officially put Flynn's name on the map in more ways than one. Her online reputation...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 29, 2016
'Desperate Sunflowers': Women on the verge of friendship
By Mark Schilling
Movies about female friendship are no longer rare: In the 25 years since the seminal "Thelma and Louise," even the Japanese film industry has figured out that two or more women bonding on screen can be good for the box office. But what about feuding female cousins?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 29, 2016
'Alice Through the Looking Glass': Growing up is a complicated thing
By Kaori Shoji
Nothing is sacred anymore, but there really should be limits — even for Disney. "Alice Through the Looking Glass" is the sequel to Tim Burton's somewhat disastrous "Alice in Wonderland" (2010), which is where they really should have drawn the line. I regret to report that things in Wonderland have...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 29, 2016
'The Program': Stephen Frears cycles round the edges
By James Hadfield
From the NFL's deflated footballs to the bribery allegations besmirching Tokyo's Olympic bid, it can feel like the entire apparatus of professional sport has become hopelessly corrupt. But are the fans also complicit?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / Wide Angle
Jun 29, 2016
Werner Penzel's art therapy for the soul
By Kaori Shoji
The documentary "While We Kiss the Sky" (Japanese title "Kofuku wa Hibi no Naka Ni") opens nationwide this weekend, and it proffers a lot of hope and optimism for the future of Japanese society.

COMMUNITY

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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Jun 29, 2016
How to address the foreign elephant in the room — in Japanese?
By Louise George Kittaka
For some long-term residents, how they are referred to in Japanese is a bone of contention.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / COMMUNITY CHEST
Jun 29, 2016
Letters: Snowden and the sheeple; 'U.S. Marines culture' was once like Japan's
A couple of readers' responses to recent Community Page articles.
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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