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BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 15, 2015

Google seeks to influence AI research by giving software away

Google wants to set the standard on artificial intelligence.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Nov 14, 2015

Chinese media crucial in public diplomacy effort

Chinese President Xi Jinping recently had a cameo in the animated adult cartoon "South Park." In the episode, Xi (not the real Xi) revealed that Japan decides "who is gay or not" in Asia. The character also said the Japanese "are dogs who refuse not apologize to the Chinese Republic" and then kissed...
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 13, 2015

Japan's place in the world

Once renowned for its economic success, recent business scandals have diminished Japan's influence and prestige on the world stage.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Nov 9, 2015

China faces raft of obstacles as it tries to calculate correct greenhouse gas emissions figures

To get a sense of how hard it is to measure greenhouse gas emissions in China, it pays to visit the Deqingyuan poultry farm on the outskirts of Beijing, where streams of chicken manure are piped from wooden sheds to an industrial gas digester that rises above the ground like a tethered balloon.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Nov 7, 2015

South Korea's new state textbook 'corrects' history

South Korea recently announced plans for a revisionist textbook that will whitewash that country's history and has the academic community outraged over political meddling. At least the move gives South Korean President Park Geun-hye something in common with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 6, 2015

Beijing needs to start talking about sex now

With China ending its one-child policy, the government needs to prepare for broad public health consequences.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 5, 2015

Japan Post's epochal IPO

Japan Post's $12 billion listing is a symbol of the bold change that needs to be embraced to rejuvenate Asia's second largest economy.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 2, 2015

U.S. better keep an eye on Indonesia

The U.S. generally fails to give due importance to the largest nation in Southeast Asia, but taking Indonesia seriously is at least as logical and consequential as taking Japan seriously.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 26, 2015

Japan, South Korea grow more 'cyber mature' as they build online defenses: study

A series of online attacks over the past year have spurred Japan and South Korea to bolster their cyberdefenses, improving their ranking on an annual list of countries' "cyber maturity," in which Australia notably dropped.
EDITORIALS
Oct 9, 2015

Nobels in medicine and physics

Japan can take great pride in its two Nobel Prizes this week, but the honor should also remind the government of the needs for robust support for basic research.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 6, 2015

Is a Sino-U.S. war inevitable?

Out of the past 16 cases when one major power was gaining in power and its rival feared relegation to the second rank, 12 ended in war. Will China and the U.S. suffer the same fate?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues
Oct 4, 2015

Japan rightists' patient wait is over as conveyor belt of death shudders back to life

He's done it.
EDITORIALS
Sep 30, 2015

Bar exam system needs reform

The system for choosing who writes questions for the bar exam is in need of a major revamp in light of the recent scandal involving a Meiji University professor.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 28, 2015

India should create its own Silicon Valley

Indian tech companies have focused on low value-added IT services rather than developing high value-added products. It's time for a change.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Sep 25, 2015

Smog from Indonesia fires spurs Singapore to shut schools, urge curb in outdoor activities

Singapore will close its elementary and secondary schools on Friday as the haze from Indonesian forest fires pushed air quality into the "hazardous" range for the first time this year, covering the city-state with a layer of smog.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 17, 2015

Law schools aren't immune from Campbell's Law

The use of bar passage rates as the basis for determining the amount of subsidies to be given to law schools can fuel unethical behavior.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Sep 12, 2015

Student protesters want a revitalized democracy

The large and loud crowds that regularly gather outside the Diet on Friday evenings are the result of student activists trying to do something constructive to block Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's security legislation.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 11, 2015

Welsh leader uses first visit to Japan to flag increased exports, stronger bilateral ties

Wales First Minister Carwyn Jones says he wants to export more products, especially food and beverages, to Japan and build stronger economic, business and cultural ties between the two nations.
BUSINESS / 'SUMMER DAVOS' SPECIAL 2015
Sep 9, 2015

Will AI become a threat to future white-collar workers?

Can a robot get into the University of Tokyo, Japan's most prestigious university, by 2021?
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 8, 2015

Professor admits leaking bar exam questions to student

In a sign of systemic flaws in the nation's law schools, the Justice Ministry files a criminal complaint against a law professor for leaking bar exam questions to one of his students.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 7, 2015

China releases Korean-American missionary, lawyer says

China has released a Korean-American missionary arrested last year over a nonprofit school he ran near the border with North Korea, his lawyer said, resolving a case that sparked outcries from international Christian groups.
EDITORIALS
Sep 5, 2015

The need for a high-level bio-lab

It's a positive move that Japan is authorizing its first facility to handle the deadliest pathogens, but the needs and concerns of the surrounding community must always be kept uppermost in mind.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 30, 2015

U.N. opens office dedicated to women's empowerment in Tokyo

A United Nations entity dedicated to the empowerment of women opened its liaison office in Tokyo on Sunday, making Japan the first Asian nation to host such an office.

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