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WORLD / Politics
Feb 8, 2018

Top Democrat cites 'pattern' of U.S. administration refusals to testify in Russia probe

The top Democrat on the U.S. House Intelligence Committee described on Wednesday "a developing pattern" in which witnesses have declined to discuss events occurring after President Donald Trump's election in the panel's probe of Russia and the 2016 vote.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Feb 7, 2018

Bringing the great outdoors to Japan's underserved children

Almost 39,000 children are under government supervision in Japan, and 85 percent are institutionalized in various homes around the nation, according to Human Rights Watch. Last August, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare made good on its 2016 revisions to the Child Welfare Act by announcing a new...
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 7, 2018

Metro government says Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic venue construction on schedule

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is building seven new permanent venues for the games, including the Musashino Forest Sport Plaza badminton and modern pentathlon fencing arena.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 6, 2018

Democrats could lose again this fall

Americans vote their pocketbooks, and their wallets are feeling better than they have in a long time.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 6, 2018

Will China 'weaponize' social media?

Now that Russia has shown how cybertactics and informational subterfuge can upend established democracies, China will surely be taking some pages from the Kremlin's playbook.
BUSINESS / Markets
Feb 6, 2018

Nikkei plunges over 1,600 points as Wall Street rout spreads

Tokyo stocks on Tuesday saw their largest decline since 2016 as Wall Street's sell-off delivered heavy blows to investor risk appetite.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2018

Seattle finds Facebook in violation of city campaign finance law in net political ad regulatory first

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LIFE / Language
Feb 5, 2018

Looking at what the world likes about Japan

Google Trends has released its search data on Japan for 2017 and topping several lists was the name Mao Kobayashi (u5c0fu6797u9ebbu592e).
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BUSINESS / Companies / Taking the Lead
Feb 5, 2018

Fast Retailing Co. President Tadashi Yanai says Asia key to making firm global industry leader

Tadashi Yanai — head of the clothing giant Fast Retailing Co., which runs the popular Uniqlo casual wear brand — may be in the later stages of his career as a business manager, but he has no plans to take it easy.
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 4, 2018

It's when, not if: Singapore worries, and prepares, for militant attack

Armed officers patrol a train station where television screens and giant posters warn of the threat from militants. Nearby, fake gunmen storm a shopping mall in one of many recent terror attack simulations.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 4, 2018

Pentagon mistakenly labels Taiwan as part of China in key nuclear policy document

The U.S. Department of Defense temporarily removed and reposted its new Nuclear Posture Review report from its website after mistakenly labeling Taiwan as part of mainland China — the latest lapse by the Trump administration involving the sensitive issue.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 1, 2018

Son of Alberto Fujimori breaks with the opposition and says he will back Peruvian president

The youngest son of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori said on Wednesday that he would form a new political group to support the executive branch as President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and his center-right government grow increasingly isolated.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jan 31, 2018

U.S. 'cautiously optimistic' over reduction in Philippine extrajudicial killings

The U.S. government is "cautiously optimistic" on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs following a decline in extrajudicial killings, a U.S. senior narcotics official said Tuesday.
JAPAN / Society
Jan 31, 2018

Lingering effects of 2011 disaster take toll in fallout-hit Fukushima, experts warn

There are fewer and fewer headlines these days about the catastrophe resulting from the triple core meltdown in March 2011 at Tepco's Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. But participants at a recent symposium stressed that the disaster's lingering effects continue to weigh heavily on people and municipalities...
BUSINESS
Jan 31, 2018

Coal firms plead to courts and Trump for West Coast export terminals amid snub by states

The ailing U.S. coal industry is ramping up its political and legal offensive to win approval for West Coast export terminals that could provide a lifeline to lucrative Asia markets.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Jan 29, 2018

Nagoya group home helps troubled youths build a better path to self-reliance

A nonprofit organization in Nagoya is running a self-reliance assistance home for young delinquents with no place to return to after they leave juvenile correctional facilities.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Jan 27, 2018

Game on! Japan's live-action games offer players a fleeting escape from reality

A group of surly guards inspect a line of inmates on death row standing in front of a prison.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 27, 2018

In step to national stage, a young Kennedy to rebut Trump address

U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy III, a politician with a very well-known name but relatively little prominence outside of his home state of Massachusetts, will deliver next week's Democratic rebuttal to President Donald Trump's State of the Union address.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 26, 2018

The junkies and dealers of today's social media

Monopolistic Internet platforms, especially Facebook, enable the powerful to inflict harm on the powerless in politics, foreign policy and commerce.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 25, 2018

Suspect in Sagamihara massacre planned second attack on same day

Satoshi Uematsu, awaiting trial for the 2016 massacre on a facility for the mentally disabled in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, has told Jiji Press that he planned to attack another such facility in the same prefecture on the same day.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 25, 2018

In spite of Tesla's full embrace of robots, Honda still relies on human touch

More than three decades after Honda Motor Co. first built an Accord sedan at its Marysville, Ohio, factory in 1982, humans are still an integral part of the assembly process — and that's unlikely to change anytime soon.

Longform

Mount Fuji is considered one of Japan's most iconic symbols and is a major draw for tourists. It's still a mountain, though, and potential hikers need to properly prepare for any climb.
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