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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Dec 6, 2018

Yuletide feasts rich with joyous hospitality

There's no Christmas celebration quite like Italy's Natale (Italian Christmas), when family and friends gather to enjoy cherished traditional recipes and fine wines.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / ANALYSIS
Dec 6, 2018

Takeda downgrade looms after shareholders approve Shire deal

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. shareholders' approval of the $62 billion (about ¥7 trillion) acquisition of Shire PLC is good news for its bosses' ambitions to build a global drug giant — but bad news for its credit ratings.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / Sound Off
Dec 6, 2018

Bridges built by the power of K-pop and J-pop

This year hasn't been a particularly warm one for the relationship between Japan and South Korea. Ongoing tension stemming from Japan's colonization of its neighbor up to the end of World War II — and efforts to complicate what happened during this period — have bubbled up once again, affecting everything...
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Dec 6, 2018

Message from the Executive Editor

In the Friday Nov. 30 issue of The Japan Times, we published an Editor’s Note on our language regarding “comfort women” and “forced labor.”
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 6, 2018

Toyota fears Trump's proposed tariffs could dent U.S. car sales

Toyota Motor Corp. executives are still concerned that President Donald Trump's proposed auto tariffs could come to pass and cut U.S. auto sales by about 2 million cars a year.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 6, 2018

Clues in Marriott hotel hack implicate China: sources

Hackers behind a massive breach at the Marriott International hotel group left clues suggesting they were working for a Chinese government intelligence gathering operation, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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JAPAN
Dec 6, 2018

Two rescued, five missing after 'mishap' involving U.S. Marine tanker and fighter jet off Kochi

Tokyo said the crash had occurred around 100 km off Cape Muroto in Kochi Prefecture.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 6, 2018

France drops fuel tax hike completely after suspension fails to quell 'yellow vest' anger

President Emmanuel Macron's government is dropping further fuel-tax hikes in next year's budget in the face of protests across France over living costs, his prime minister said on Wednesday, a day after announcing their suspension for six months.
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JAPAN
Dec 6, 2018

U.S. warship conducts Sea of Japan operation in challenge to Russia's 'excessive maritime claims'

The U.S. Navy has conducted a so-called freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) near disputed waters in the Sea of Japan, it said Thursday, to challenge "excessive maritime claims" made by Russia in the area.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 6, 2018

U.S. House Democrat seeks emergency hearing on alleged North Carolina election fraud

A Democratic U.S. congressman on Wednesday called for an emergency hearing into claims of fraud in a North Carolina election where the state is probing alleged improper handling of ballots by political operatives.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Dec 6, 2018

[VIDEO] Sumida River Disco with Mirror Ball Car in Tokyo

Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Dec 5, 2018

A film buff's dream

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JAPAN
Dec 5, 2018

2020 Tokyo Games: Costs related to Japan's scorching summers being factored into the budget

Organizers and the head of the International Olympic Committee's inspection team for the Tokyo 2020 Games on Wednesday said the rising costs associated with preventing heat-related illnesses and injuries to athletes and spectators due to the country's increasingly hotter summers are being factored into...
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MULTIMEDIA
Dec 5, 2018

December 5, 2018

EDITORIALS
Dec 5, 2018

The Brexit debate takes shape

Failure to reach a deal with the EU, for whatever reason, would be a disaster for the U.K.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 5, 2018

The U.S. and China are the closest of enemies

Both countries are becoming more alike — particularly in their belief that there can be only one winner.

Longform

Rock group The Yellow Monkey played K-Arena Yokohama in June as part of a nationwide tour. Concerts are increasingly popular in the age of social media as users value in-person experiences.
Inside Japan’s arena boom: Sports, sound and city-building