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BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 14, 2019

Facebook considers paying back advertisers as system outages persist around globe

Facebook is undergoing one of its most widespread and persistent system outages, with users across the globe unable to access its social network and services from Instagram to Messenger for much of Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 14, 2019

In race for fluency in time for Olympics, Tokyo great-grandmother proves it's never too late to learn

Setsuko Takamizawa is determined to prove that it is never too late to learn as she bids to conquer the English language before the Tokyo Olympics, having been prevented from learning what was considered the "enemy language" in her youth.
JAPAN / Society
Mar 14, 2019

U.S. report cites persistent sexual harassment at workplace in Japan

The U.S. State Department has raised the issue of persistent sexual harassment in the workplace in Japan in its annual human rights report, released Wednesday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 14, 2019

U.S. sends bombers over disputed South China Sea for second time in 10 days

The U.S. has sent B-52 bombers near disputed islands in the South China Sea, the U.S. Pacific Air Forces said Thursday, the second such mission over the contested waterway in 10 days.
Japan Times
PRESS / Corporate Trends
Mar 14, 2019

ジャパンタイムズ、Amazon Fashion Week TOKYO にオフィシャルメディアパートナーとして参加

株式会社ジャパンタイムズ(本社:東京都千代田区、代表取締役社長:堤丈晴)は、2019年3月から開催されるAmazon Fashion Week TOKYO 2019 A/W(主催:一般社団法人日本ファッション・ウィーク推進機構)に、オフィシャルメディアパートナーとして参加いたします。...
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 14, 2019

U.S. lawmakers emerge from meeting with Trump ally Matt Whitaker with conflicting accounts

U.S. lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee emerged from a closed-door meeting with former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker on Wednesday with conflicting accounts of their conversation with the controversial Trump ally.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 14, 2019

Climate protesters ejected from Houston energy conference

Protesters tried to interrupt the biggest U.S. energy conference, holding signs and using a microphone to shout "Climate Change is Genocide."
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 14, 2019

Ford fears double-whammy from May's no-deal Brexit tariffs

Ford Motor Co. said it will be hit twice by U.K. tariffs to be imposed in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 14, 2019

U.K. Parliament votes against no-deal Brexit, paving way for delay in hopes of a better agreement

Britain's Parliament voted to avoid an economically disastrous no-deal split from the European Union, opening the door to delaying Brexit and radically re-writing the terms of the divorce.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 14, 2019

Trump says Paul Manafort pardon not 'on my mind' after sentencing

President Donald Trump said a possible pardon for Paul Manafort "is not something on my mind" after his former campaign chair's prison sentence was raised to 7½ years on Wednesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 14, 2019

Volkswagen pulls truck unit IPO in setback to CEO's revamp

Volkswagen AG canceled plans to sell a share of its Traton SE division due to weak market conditions, dealing a setback to the automaker's plan to generate fresh funds for the heavy-truck unit's expansion outside Europe.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 14, 2019

Assad and Russian forces intensify attacks on last Syria rebel bastion, despite truce

The Syrian army aided by Russian warplanes shelled rebel-held towns in northwestern Syria in the most extensive bombardment in weeks against the last remaining rebel bastion in the country, rebels, rescuers and residents said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Mar 14, 2019

[VIDEO] Red Bull Showrun Tokyo at Meiji Jingu Gaien

Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Mar 13, 2019

Tech takes flight

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 13, 2019

Chiba Lotte's Mike Bolsinger sets lofty goals for 2019 season

Mike Bolsinger ended his first year in Japan with a 13-2 record and 3.06 ERA in 117⅔ innings for the Chiba Lotte Marines.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 13, 2019

Aaamyyy whips up a synth-heavy soundscape for the year 2615

"Body," the much-anticipated debut album from music maker Amy Furuhara, aka Aaamyyy (stylized as AAAMYYY), opens with an instrumental of tumbling beats, skittering hi-hats, wonky nighttime synth and pitch-shifted samples of a Spanish monologue — the portal of sound aims to transport the listener to...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 13, 2019

'Ramen Shop': Finding your family through food

Food is sustenance, food is pleasure and, as Eric Khoo's nostalgia-drenched "Ramen Shop" reminds us, food is memory.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 13, 2019

Haruomi Hosono reworks a modern classic with 'Hochono House'

As he enters his 50th year in the music business, Haruomi Hosono hasn't lost his talent for making you wonder what the devil he's up to. After using modern studio technology to recreate the sounds of mid-20th century pop on "Vu Ja De" in 2017, his latest effort looks to his early career for inspiration....
SOCCER / J. League / J. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Mar 13, 2019

Keisuke Honda calls for Japanese clubs to focus on defending

Tuesday's Asian Champions League game at Edion Stadium in Hiroshima marked exactly 4,112 days since Keisuke Honda had last stood on a Japanese pitch representing his club rather than his country.
SUMO
Mar 13, 2019

Sumo 101: Sword bearers and dew sweepers

Every time a yokozuna performs the traditional ring-entering ceremony, he is flanked by two attendants.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 13, 2019

Journalists get tour of Japan's Izumo amid debate over equipping ship with aircraft carrier capabilities

Journalists on Wednesday were given a guided tour of the Izumo — Japan's largest flat-topped helicopter carrier — for the first time since the Defense Ministry revealed a controversial plan late last year to convert it so that it could handle fixed-wing aircraft — which critics and some opposition...
EDITORIALS
Mar 13, 2019

Japan's post-3/11 energy policy

The government needs to flesh out its goal of turning renewables into a primary source of power supply with concrete steps to make that happen.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 13, 2019

Bad assumptions behind 'Cost Plus 50' plan

Trump's posture toward allies hosting U.S. forces could damage crucial relationships.

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