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JAPAN

Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 4, 2018
‘Deep’ tourism explores the darker side of Tokyo
By Alex K.T. Martin
Hidden behind the capital's glassy high-rises and bustling shopping streets are dusty remnants of red-light districts and smoky bar alleys preserving traces of an older Tokyo — pockets of history Hisaki Kurosawa explores to catch glimpses of the other, more textured face of the slickly modern metropolis....
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 4, 2018
Japanese helicopter carrier Kaga to embark on two-month tour of South China Sea and Indian Ocean
By Nobuhiro Kubo
Japan will send a large helicopter carrier to the South China Sea and Indian Ocean for a second straight year as it looks to bolster its presence in the strategic maritime region with annual tours, two Japanese officials said.

ASIA PACIFIC

Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 4, 2018
U.N. experts seek urgent release of widow of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo
U.N. human rights experts urged China on Wednesday to release Liu Xia, the widow of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, and allow her to seek treatment for deteriorating health, including traveling abroad.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 4, 2018
Hong Kong court grants British lesbian right to spousal visa in landmark ruling
By Venus Wu
Hong Kong's top court ruled on Wednesday that a British lesbian should be granted a spousal visa, upholding a lower court's decision, in a landmark judgment that could open the door for expatriates' same-sex partners to move to the financial hub.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jul 4, 2018
Former Malaysian leader Najib Razak pleads not guilty to corruption charges in 1MDB case
By Yudith Ho and Anisah Shukry
Malaysia's former leader Najib Razak has pleaded not guilty to charges of corruption and criminal breach of trust in connection with a multibillion-dollar scandal surrounding state fund 1MDB.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 4, 2018
China issues U.S. travel warning amid trade tensions
China's Embassy in Washington has issued a security advisory to Chinese nationals traveling to the United States, the latest such warning as trade tensions escalate between the two countries.

WORLD

Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 4, 2018
'All of Asia is thrilled': Trump takes credit for averting war with North Korea
By Jesse Johnson
U.S. President Donald Trump personally took credit Tuesday for averting war with nuclear-armed North Korea, writing in a tweet that talks with the regime of leader Kim Jong Un were proceeding smoothly while also claiming that Asian nations were "thrilled" with the developments.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 4, 2018
Senate Intelligence Committee agrees with intel agencies that Putin meddled in election to help Trump win
The Senate Intelligence Committee strongly backed the finding by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a campaign to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, ultimately intending to help Donald Trump win.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 4, 2018
U.S. gives immigrants faced with removal choice of leaving with or without their children: report
The Trump administration is giving some parents who were separated from their children after entering the United States illegally the option of either being deported with their youngsters or without them, NBC News reported on Tuesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 4, 2018
Trump speaks with three more possible U.S. Supreme Court candidates
President Donald Trump spoke on Tuesday with three possible candidates to fill a coming vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, the White House said, a day after he interviewed Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah about the job.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 4, 2018
Teens taken at U.S. border tell of crammed 'icebox' and 'kennel' cages
A 15-year-old girl who was forcibly separated from her mother after fleeing to the U.S. from El Salvador described to a Washington state investigator how she was crammed into a windowless room with 60 other girls and deprived of proper sleep or food for three days.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jul 4, 2018
Mediterranean 'disembarkation platforms' no quick fix to ease EU migration crisis: U.N. agency
Planned new centers around the Mediterranean to handle migrants will be no silver bullet solution to the European Union's immigration challenge, says a U.N. agency of the idea it will be asked to implement.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 4, 2018
Mass rape, cannibalism, dismemberment: U.N. team finds atrocities in Congo war
Rebels and government troops in Congo have committed atrocities including mass rape, cannibalism and the dismemberment of civilians, according to testimony published on Tuesday by a team of U.N. human rights experts who said the world must pay heed.

BUSINESS

Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 4, 2018
Co-chairman of China's HNA — one of nation's most indebted companies — dies in fall while on trip in France
HNA Group Co., the once-acquisitive Chinese conglomerate that's been selling billions of dollars in assets this year amid soaring borrowing costs, said that Co-Chairman Wang Jian died after an accident in Provence, France. He was 57.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 4, 2018
Kangaroo-like transforming robot, created by Chiba university, keen to carry your groceries
By Kazuaki Nagata
Chiba Institute of Technology unveiled Wednesday a transformable machine that can play dual roles — as both a robot, fused with artificial intelligence technologies, and a vehicle to enhance personal mobility.
BUSINESS / Markets / TSE DATA & REPORT
Jul 4, 2018
Dollar dips to around ¥110.50 in late Tokyo trading
The dollar was weaker around ¥110.50 in Tokyo trading late Wednesday, although it cut losses following the benchmark Nikkei stock average's resilience.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 4, 2018
To spite Harley-Davidson, Trump claims he's turned to foreign bike rivals to up U.S. output
U.S. President Donald Trump added fuel to his feud with Harley-Davidson Inc. by claiming he's working with other motorcycle-makers to offset the production it's shifting overseas.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Jul 4, 2018
With stunts and viral videos, more brands turn to social media 'influencer' marketing
By Kate Holton and Martinne Geller
This spring, Pernod Ricard SA's Malibu Rum paid American singer Nick Jonas to host a competition in Vietnam that began with 33 Instagram stars battling to catch fake pineapples while flying off a giant waterslide into the sea.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 4, 2018
Retired electric vehicle batteries find a second life chilling beer and grilling sausages
By David Stringer and Jie Ma
The first batches of batteries from electric and hybrid vehicles are hitting retirement age, yet they aren't bound for landfills. Instead, they'll spend their golden years chilling beer at convenience stores in Japan, powering car-charging stations in California and storing energy for homes and grids...
BUSINESS
Jul 4, 2018
China tries to rally Europe in anti-U.S. alliance on trade but finds resistance
China is putting pressure on the European Union to issue a strong joint statement against U.S. President Donald Trump's trade policies at a summit later this month but is facing resistance, European officials said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 4, 2018
Washington grants temporary reprieve to ZTE, allowing Chinese company to maintain U.S. networks
The U.S. Commerce Department on Tuesday granted a temporary reprieve to ZTE Corp. that allows China's No. 2 telecommunications equipment-maker to conduct business needed to maintain existing networks and equipment in the United States as it works toward the lifting of a U.S. sales ban.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 4, 2018
Over 40 countries object at WTO to U.S. car tariff plan, fearing collapse of rules-based trading system
Major U.S. trading partners including the European Union, China and Japan voiced deep concern at the World Trade Organization on Tuesday about possible U.S. measures imposing additional duties on imported autos and parts.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 4, 2018
Ryanair's Irish pilot union ranks vote to strike for the first time
Pilots directly employed by Ryanair and who are members of its Irish trade union will go on strike for the first time on July 12 after the union said on Tuesday the airline had failed to meet demands over new working practices.

Opinion

EDITORIALS
Jul 4, 2018
Keep pushing for multilateral free trade pacts
It's significant that progress is being made for multinational free trade arrangements at a time when the global trade order is under threat.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 4, 2018
Is Trump's protectionist drive unstoppable?
By Takashi Imamura
Japan will have to anticipate a high risk of trade policies being taken by Trump that would be inconceivable from a common sense perspective.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 4, 2018
Defusing the trade conflict between the U.S. and China
By Wing Thye Woo
The emerging U.S.-China trade war was caused by structural flaws on both sides that long predate the Trump presidency

Sports

SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Jul 4, 2018
Hot reception awaits sumo competitors in Nagoya
By John Gunning
Sumo makes its yearly stop in steamy Nagoya starting Sunday, with Kakuryu aiming for a third straight title at the only venue where he has yet to raise the Emperor's Cup.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League
Jul 4, 2018
Brave Thunders to retain name under new ownership
By Kaz Nagatsuka
Now under new ownership, the Kawasaki Brave Thunders will be called ... the Kawasaki Brave Thunders.

CULTURE

Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 4, 2018
John Williams presents a made-in-Japan take on one of Kafka's classics
By Mark Schilling
Written at the start of World War I and published in 1925 after its author's untimely death, Franz Kafka's "The Trial" is one of those novels everyone knows by reputation (or, in my case, from a fevered reading in high school).
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 4, 2018
'You, Your, Yours': Goofball gags that'll go over well with goofball guys
By Mark Schilling
Love can drive you nuts. One recent illustration of how can be seen in the American TV show "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend," about a successful New York lawyer who runs into her teen crush one day, and soon after quits her job and moves to California to be near him. That is, she becomes his stalker, but would...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jul 4, 2018
Hikaru Utada learns to accept heartbreak on 'Hatsukoi'
By James Hadfield
It's the title that grabs you first. Hikaru Utada's seventh album makes a conspicuous nod to her 1999 debut, but the preternaturally mature teen of "First Love" is now a twice-divorced mother with ample life experience to draw on.

COMMUNITY

Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LEARNING CURVE
Jul 4, 2018
Fukuoka's 'guest teachers' of English outstay their welcome
By James McCrostie
Job insecurity, excessive secrecy and legal curbs on dispatch teachers come under the spotlight as 120 teachers lose their classes.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Jul 4, 2018
Until real change is achieved, LGBTQ people in Japan have no reason to be grateful
By Trevor Campbell
When the first same-sex partnership was recognized in Shibuya in 2015, the mayor called it 'a first step.' So why, nearly three years later, are we still taking first steps?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Jul 4, 2018
Views from Japan: How much further can your team go in the FIFA World Cup?
Before the start of the World Cup, The Japan Times got the lowdown from Japan-based supporters of some of the 32 teams fighting it out for the ultimate prize in Russia.
Students in Japan struggle with Japanese language and math sections on national exam
The correct answer rate for the Japanese language section on a national test dropped to 67.0% from 67.8% the previous year among elementary school sixth-graders.
Japan team finds ancient ocean full of squids
The ancient ocean was full of squids, whose population exceeded that of fish or ammonites, a Japanese research team mainly from Hokkaido University has found through a new method using technology.
Japan researchers identify gut bacteria strain that boosts anticancer drugs
Researchers at the National Cancer Center Japan say a new type of gut bacteria named YB328 could help unlock the potential of cancer immunotherapy.
Tourists in Japan have telemedicine options before calling 119
Foreign tourists at Tsukiji Outer Market in Tokyo. More than 1 million international visitors have a medical issue in Japan every year.
How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan
After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
Japanese scientists discover clue to why women burn more fat than men
Scientists say a recently-published study could help explain why women are typically less prone to weight-related conditions and may lead to new therapies that target calorie-burning mechanisms.
Music idol and anime fandom merch is big business
Businesses who cater to fandoms gathered at Tokyo Lifestyle Week for the second annual Oshikatsu — Merch Collection Expo, a trade show devoted to fandom goods.
U.S. urges clarity on Japan’s role in potential war over Taiwan, report says
A Ground Self-Defense Force member conducts a military drill with an anti-ship missiles unit, at the GSDF's base on Miyako Island in Okinawa Prefecture in April 2022.
Tourists in Japan have telemedicine options before calling 119
Foreign tourists at Tsukiji Outer Market in Tokyo. More than 1 million international visitors have a medical issue in Japan every year.
Is Japanese skin really ‘too smooth’ for Hideo Kojima’s games?
Hideo Kojima, the leading auteur in Japanese video games, has skirted controversy in the wake of the release of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

Podcast

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

Longform

After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan
By Megha Wadhwa

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