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COMMENTARY / World
Aug 19, 2016

Stakes in the South China Sea are high for India

India and states in the region should focus on making sure that China does not upend the balance of power in the South China Sea.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Aug 13, 2016

Expensive new drugs put strain on Japan's health system

Expensive drugs like Opdivo, a lung cancer treatment that costs a whopping ¥1.33 million a dose, are asking difficult questions of Japan's health insurance system.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 8, 2016

Israel's government hawks and military doves

Those who lead Israel's defense establishment often come to consider peace with the Palestinians necessary, yet the government shows no interest in pursuing a permanent settlement.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 29, 2016

Tepco's profit plummets amid power saving, defections to new competitors

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., operator of the wrecked Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, said first-quarter operating profit plummeted 37 percent as sales declined amid faltering demand and new competition in Japan's power market.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 17, 2016

With Erdogan still in power after coup attempt, Europe has both hopes and fears

European leaders greeted the defeat of Turkey's coup Saturday with relief, as it averts chaos and keeps alive a deal that has helped to stem the migration crisis threatening the continent.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 15, 2016

Lessons of the Chilcot report

The Chilcot report demolishes Tony Blair's sham justifications for embroiling the U.K. in possibly the most disastrous war of the modern era.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 3, 2016

Recent Brexit vote makes prospect of a united Ireland suddenly thinkable

Protestant unionists are queuing for Irish passports in Belfast and once quiet Catholic nationalists are openly campaigning for a united Ireland, signs of deep shifts in the United Kingdom's most troubled province since Britons on June 23 voted to leave the EU.
EDITORIALS
Jun 25, 2016

The importance of nihonium

Recognition for the Japanese team that created element 113, which they have named nihonium, should remind the government and private sector of the importance of basic scientific research.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 20, 2016

Interview with the vanishing Hong Kong bookseller who stood up to China

Chain smoking outside a train station in Hong Kong last Thursday, a thin, bespectacled man called Lam Wing-kee was in a bind.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 13, 2016

Aim for growth and fairness

Like all countries, Australia needs both economic growth overall and the benefits of that to be shared equitably by all.
WORLD
Jun 7, 2016

U.N. urged to allow EU to search boats for illicit arms off Libya

Britain on Monday proposed expanding a United Nations Security Council mandate for a European naval operation to allow it to crack down on arms smuggling in the high seas off war-torn Libya, though Russia voiced concerns about the idea.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 3, 2016

Two dead, thousands evacuated in France flood emergency

Torrential rain forced thousands of people from their homes south of Paris while the River Seine surged to its highest level for over 30 years in the French capital, shutting down the famed Louvre and Orsay museums and a metro line.
COMMENTARY / World
May 30, 2016

Bullying Taiwan's new leader won't help China

The Chinese Communist Party should realize that it's important to maintain the credibility of its interlocutor in Taiwan. Forcing President Tsai Ing-wen to kowtow isn't good for anyone.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
May 28, 2016

More than 1,000 protest Trump in San Diego; Trump rules out debate with Sanders

Donald Trump brought his message of walls and deportations to San Diego, the doorstep of America's busiest border crossing, on Friday amid one of the largest protests against the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
JAPAN / G7 ISE-SHIMA SUMMIT SPECIAL
May 25, 2016

G7 ministerial meetings

The G7 foreign ministers issued the “Hiroshima Declaration on Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation” to reaffirm their commitment to creating a world without nuclear weapons, also naming Syria, Ukraine and North Korea as countries that may endanger that goal
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 21, 2016

G-7 finance leaders reject coordinated action to revitalize global economy

Japan was looking to hammer out a new fiscal package in the coming months, but its push for joint global fiscal action was rejected by its more cautious peers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
May 18, 2016

Analysts watch G-7 ministers for clues on yen intervention

As the U.S. keeps up pressure on Japan not to intervene over the yen, experts will be watching what Group of Seven finance chiefs have to say about Tokyo's readiness to sell the currency in the event that it continues rising.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
May 14, 2016

A landscape of life and death in Kyushu

Despite my short stature, I have to bend nearly in half to enter the underground chamber of reconstructed fifth-century tomb in the Kumamoto Prefecture Decorative Tumulus Museum. The entire tomb is modeled after an actual mound in the nearby city of Yamaga, and inside the chamber, a replica stone altar...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
May 11, 2016

'Cartel Land' uncovers little hope and no glory

The debate over border policy in the United States has reached levels of nonsense worthy of Lewis Carroll. On the right, you have presidential candidate Donald Trump tarring all immigrants from south of the Rio Grande as "rapists and murderers," and pledging to build a "huge" wall to keep them out. On...
COMMENTARY / World
May 10, 2016

Trumpism suffers a loss in London

Trumpism, or the politics of hate and fear, suffered a major defeat last week with the election of a Muslim as mayor of London.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 26, 2016

Chinese Navy's professional conduct in South China Sea attracts U.S. admiral's praise

Standing on a nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carrier the length of more than three football fields as it plows through one of the world's most contested seas, Rear Adm. Marcus Hitchcock has only high praise for the navy of his biggest military rival: China.
JAPAN
Apr 22, 2016

Japan becomes fourth nation to test-fly homegrown stealth jet

The Defense Ministry says the unarmed prototype, called X2, took off from Nagoya airport in Aichi Prefecture early on Friday.
EDITORIALS
Mar 19, 2016

A caution on nuclear restarts

The government should heed the Otsu District Court's call to develop standards for plans to evacuate residents in the event of nuclear accidents.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Mar 19, 2016

Shaky EU-Turkey agreement over migrants could fall through

A deal between the European Union and Turkey meant to curb the flow of migrants into Europe in return for financial and political rewards could unravel within months because neither side looks able to deliver on its commitments.
Demystifying the manufacturing success of China
China’s massive scale, strong education system and competitive local governance have enabled it to reach the technological frontier and dominate high-tech manufacturing despite its low per capita gross domestic product.
Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years
The Agency for Cultural Affairs is recommending replacing the government’s long-standing Kunrei system with more widely used Hepburn-style spellings.
Japanese manufacturers moving headquarters out of central Tokyo
A building in Kawasaki housing Toshiba's new headquarters
Is sumo becoming a victim of its own popularity?
A training session at Shikoroyama stable in June 2016. Sumo training sessions are increasingly simulated or the preserve of group tours.
Japanese man suspected of ordering double murder in Manila
Two suspects arrested over the killing of two Japanese last week are held in restraints in Manila on Tuesday.
Tokyo crowned No.1 'workation' spot
Workations were a burgeoning trend in the corporate world for years before the COVID-19 pandemic turbocharged it.
Atsushi Kitagawara’s exhibition finds poetry in architecture
The inverted cone, one of Atsushi Kitagawara’s six signature elements in architecture, is a key feature of the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection museum building.
Candidates preparing to make final pitches for Sawamura Award
Hawks pitcher Livan Moinelo has a 1.13 ERA in 19 starts this season.
Winning warship bid gives Japan confidence boost as Tokyo eyes more exports
Australia’s decision to select Japan's upgraded Mogami-class warship, seen in this computer-generated image, has been “well received across Japanese industry," a Defense Ministry official said.
In Paris, chefs Chizuko Kimura and Kei Kobayashi make their mark
Chef Kei Kobayashi is France's only Japanese chef with three Michelin stars.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
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