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Japan Times
Company / Others
Feb 25, 2019

Naomi Arimura

Date of publication: Feb 25, 2019Naomi ArimuraEnglish TeacherShoei Joshi Gakuinwww.shoei.ed.jp
Japan Times
Company / Others
Feb 25, 2019

Paul Chapman

Date of publication: Feb 25, 2019Paul ChapmanChief Executive & FounderMoneytreehttps://moneytree.jp
Japan Times
Company / Consumer Staples
Feb 25, 2019

Benjamin Cordier

Date of publication: Feb 25, 2019Benjamin CordierDirector, IT & Contract DivisionRGF Professional Recruitmentwww.rgf-professional.jp/en
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 25, 2019

Iranian hackers got worryingly close to Israel's missile alarm in 2017

Iranian hackers came worryingly close to Israel's missile warning system, sending the military scrambling to protect alerts from being compromised, its top cyberdefense chief said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 25, 2019

All three aboard killed as cargo jet plunges into shallow Texas bay during landing approach

A widebody cargo plane hauling packages for Amazon abruptly plunged out of the sky and slammed into a bay on Saturday as it was preparing to land in Houston. All three people on board were killed.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 25, 2019

Microsoft boosts HoloLens performance and cuts price in hunt for corporate clients

Microsoft Corp. is introducing an improved version of its HoloLens augmented-reality goggles and lowering the price, as it tries to develop a bigger business selling the devices to corporate customers.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 25, 2019

Five reported killed as India toughens Kashmir crackdown against militants and detains over 160 separatists

Five people were killed in a gun battle between members of a Pakistani militant group and Indian security forces in disputed Kashmir on Sunday as India intensified a security crackdown, including detaining more than 160 separatists this weekend.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 25, 2019

Observers report dozens killed in Nigeria election violence

As many as 39 people were killed in election violence so far in Nigeria, civil society groups said on Sunday, as the country awaits the results of voting in what is forecast to be its tightest election since the end of military rule in 1999.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 25, 2019

Thousands of Romanians protest judicial changes after decree pares independence of prosecutors

Thousands of Romanians protested across the country on Sunday after the government passed an emergency decree that critics said chipped away at prosecutors' independence in one of the European Union's most corrupt states.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 24, 2019

More than 70% in Okinawa vote no to relocation of U.S. Futenma base to Henoko

More than 70 percent of voters in Okinawa on Sunday voted against a plan to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from Ginowan to Henoko — a coastal area in the northeastern part of the main island — in a closely watched prefecture-wide referendum that was the first of its kind on the issue....
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 24, 2019

Yemen's Houthis to quit two ports Monday under peace deal: sources

Iranian-aligned Houthi forces have agreed to draw back from two Yemeni ports on Monday while withdrawal from the main Hodeidah port will occur later alongside a retreat by coalition-backed forces massed outside the city, U.N. and Yemeni sources said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 24, 2019

Israel arrests senior Muslim cleric after Jerusalem holy site unrest

Israeli police in Jerusalem arrested on Sunday a senior Muslim cleric attached to the sacred compound in the Old City, two days after he re-opened a mosque sealed by Israel during a Palestinian uprising in 2003.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Feb 24, 2019

February 25, 2019

Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 24, 2019

Emperor reflects on Japan's past, future and his 'endlessly long' quest to pin down role after 30 years on throne

Emperor Akihito said he has dedicated the past 30 years of his reign to an “endlessly long” quest to fathom out his role as the symbol of the state.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Feb 24, 2019

There's so much that bonobos and chimps can teach humans

About 6 million years ago in Africa there was an ape species that would change the world. We don't know much about that animal, but we do know that one population separated from the rest and would eventually evolve into our species, Homo sapiens.
Reference / EXPLAINER,Q&A
Feb 24, 2019

Okinawa's referendum on relocating the U.S. Futenma base to Henoko: Why now and what's the point?

On Sunday, Okinawa Prefecture's 41 cities, towns and villages held a referendum on whether to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from Ginowan, in the central part of the main island, to a replacement facility being built beside Camp Schwab off the coast of Henoko. It was the first prefecture-wide...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 24, 2019

India proposes new e-commerce regulations with focus on data rules

India outlined a new draft policy for its burgeoning e-commerce sector on Saturday, focusing on data localization, improved privacy safeguards and measures to combat the sale of counterfeit products.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 24, 2019

Trump's North Korea envoy Stephen Biegun: A capable man in an impossible job?

Days before a second U.S.-North Korea summit, much rests on the shoulders of a former auto executive trying to find common ground between an American president seeking a big foreign policy win and a North Korean leader who seems unlikely to hand him one.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 24, 2019

Venezuela's Juan Guaido says 'all options open' after Maduro's troops block aid, leaving two dead

Troops loyal to President Nicolas Maduro violently drove back foreign aid convoys from Venezuela's border on Saturday, killing two protesters and prompting opposition leader Juan Guaido to propose that Washington consider "all options" to oust him.
JAPAN
Feb 24, 2019

Donald Keene, lauded scholar of Japanese literature, dies at 96

Prominent U.S.-born Japanese literature scholar Donald Keene, who introduced a roster of talented writers from Japan to the world, died of cardiac arrest in Tokyo on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 24, 2019

China aims to 'optimize' spread of controversial Confucius Institutes

China plans to "optimize" the spread of its controversial Confucius Institutes, the government said, institutions to promote Chinese language and culture that have been criticized by some for spreading Communist Party influence.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Feb 24, 2019

Japanese fashion taps the potential of digital media platforms

Fashion has had to adapt to social media — its early exposure of new collections, its influencers starting and accelerating trends and its new forms of retailing. But it has caught up, and in exciting ways.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Feb 24, 2019

Japan's hotels design new experiences

Among a crop of new hotels in Japan are several unique establishments aiming to support local artisans, while offering guests experiences that go way beyond a comfy bed and fine dining.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Feb 24, 2019

Thirty years after U.S. curbs on exports to China were eased, two giants' politics and tech collide

"U.S. eases curbs on exports to China" read a Reuters headline on March 1, 1989, when Washington lifted long-standing restrictions on technology shipments to China.

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