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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 1, 2019

Japan's MUFG agrees to buy German lender DZ Bank's aviation finance arm for ¥710 billion

The unit acquired from Germany's second-largest bank will be one of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group's biggest acquisitions since it was created in 2005.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Mar 1, 2019

Suguru Osako aiming for form, not time, in Tokyo Marathon

Suguru Osako isn't a big talker. So he doesn't try to entertain with his words.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 1, 2019

Pakistan set to release downed Indian pilot and reopen airspace amid Kashmir tensions

Pakistan prepared to release a captured Indian pilot on Friday as the nuclear powers scaled back their confrontation, and said it would reopen its airspace to commercial flights.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 1, 2019

Al-Shabab and Somali soldiers battle in Mogadishu

A gunbattle raged in Mogadishu on Friday between Somali soldiers and al-Shabab fighters, holed up in a building next to a hotel they had hit with a suicide car bomb the previous evening.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Mar 1, 2019

Where are bodies of militants India claims it bombed, Pakistani village asks

The only confirmed victim of India's airstrike against Pakistan is still unsure why he was shaken awake in the early hours of Tuesday by an explosion that rocked his mud-brick house and left him with a cut above his right eye.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 1, 2019

Subaru announces global recall of 2.3 million vehicles, its biggest yet, over faulty brake lights

Subaru Corp. is recalling around 2.3 million vehicles worldwide over a brake light problem, the automaker's biggest-ever recall, as it grapples with a series of quality-related issues following rapid expansion.
Mar 1, 2019

Yamaha Motor to Collaborate with Hubrecht Organoid Technology

Accelerating technology development in biomedical engineering
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 1, 2019

India welcomes Pakistan's return of pilot captured in Kashmir, as major powers urge de-escalation

Indian military officials have welcomed Pakistan's planned return of a captured pilot, but refused to confirm they would de-escalate a conflict between the two nuclear powers.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Mar 1, 2019

As Trump returns empty-handed from summit with Kim, some in Washington breathe sigh of relief

Among some U.S. officials, congressional aides, analysts and others who track North Korea, there was a sigh of relief Thursday as President Donald Trump headed home from Vietnam empty-handed from his talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 1, 2019

77% of Japanese town and village assembly members are elderly, and only 10% are female

Of the 10,956 town and village assembly members in Japan, 8,442, or 77.1 percent, were aged 60 or over as of July 1 last year, a survey showed Thursday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Mar 1, 2019

Burden falls back on diplomats after Trump and Kim fail to reach deal on North Korea nuclear arms

The failure of U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to secure even a limited deal at their second nuclear summit means any breakthrough now depends on working-level talks that have made little progress since last year.
Reader Mail
Mar 1, 2019

Do all we can to protect the children

The editorial "Response to child abuse long overdue" in the Feb. 11 edition led me to ponder the safety of children.
Japan Times
Mar 1, 2019

Suntory unveils its first-ever world blended whisky, Suntory World Whisky 'Ao'

A new premium whisky featuring five renowned whisky regions
Reader Mail
Mar 1, 2019

Officials should not overreact

Media coverage of the sad story of the 10-year-old Chiba Prefecture girl who appears to have tragically died due to parental abuse is probably necessary for bringing about social and political change, but over-hyping such a case can have damaging side effects. For example, someone I know well has a daughter...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 1, 2019

After summit collapse, North Korea's Kim vows to meet Trump again

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to meet again with President Donald Trump to continue nuclear negotiations after a two-day summit between the leaders collapsed Thursday amid discord over sanctions and conflicting accounts of Pyongyang's demands.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 1, 2019

India bans Kashmiri Islamist party for five years amid conflict with Pakistan

India banned a Kashmir-based Islamist political party called Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) for five years on Thursday, accusing it of supporting militancy in the disputed region that is at the heart of an escalating conflict with rival Pakistan.
Reader Mail
Mar 1, 2019

Morioka has plenty going for it

Katherine Whatley's recent piece, "Morioka: Crafts, poetry and Tohoku's bleak nature" in the Feb. 23 edition, in which she filters her experience of Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, through the grim poetry of Kenji Miyazawa, seems a classic example of a tourist with preconceived notions seeing only what she...
Reader Mail
Mar 1, 2019

The battle with plastic goes on

As a long-time volunteer garbage collector in our community, I was very much interested in "As world drowns in plastic, a city in Kyoto fights back" in the Feb. 25 edition. And I also am afraid that our community, with its riverbank and greenery, may drown in plastic in the future.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 1, 2019

India accuses Pakistan of deploying F-16 jets during Kashmir raid, defying U.S. terms of sale

India accused Pakistan of using U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets in its raid in Kashmir, opening up a potential diplomatic row over the aircraft's deployment by one American ally against another.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 1, 2019

Trump ordered chief of staff to give Jared Kushner top-secret security clearance: NYT

U.S. President Donald Trump ordered his chief of staff in May to grant his son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner a top-secret security clearance, the New York Times reported on Thursday.

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