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Rugby / Coach's Eye
Aug 16, 2019

Visit to Japan a good chance to experience new culture

The England team and I will leave for Japan to start our Rugby World Cup campaign on Sept. 8. We'll arrive just short of two weeks before our first game, against Tonga.
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CULTURE / TV & Streaming / 'Terrace House Tokyo 2019-2020' Recaps
Aug 16, 2019

Ep. 12 'Always Chillin"

For this week's episode of "Terrace House," we are back to familiar territory. No more explosive fights and unexpected nude scenes. Instead, we have what the die-hard fans expect: slow-burning love and close ups of tasty food.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Aug 16, 2019

Japan pulls plug on K, once the world's fastest supercomputer, after seven-year run

Engineers were set to pull the plug on Japan's K supercomputer on Friday after seven years of service, during which time it made contributions to research in many fields, including typhoon and torrential rain forecasts and drug development.
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BUSINESS
Aug 16, 2019

Japan regains status as top foreign holder of U.S. Treasurys

Japan surpassed China in June as the top holder of U.S. Treasurys after raising its holdings to a nearly three-year high, as the trade war between the world's two largest economies intensified.
Reader Mail
Aug 16, 2019

Missing the point of spoken English

Regarding "Test results show students' poor English skills" in the Aug. 2 edition, while it may seem a good thing that Japan's accountable authorities recognize the need to do something about Japanese students' English-speaking inability, perhaps they are the wrong people to succeed.
Reader Mail
Aug 16, 2019

May chindonya keep on playing

The cover story "Chindonya: The beat goes on" in the Aug. 4 edition filled me with Showa Era nostalgia. It's great that this profession has survived even in Reiwa Era 2019, though the number of professional chindonya (street musician advertisers) is small. To my surprise, even overseas this concept is...
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JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Aug 16, 2019

As rains lead to thousands of school meals being binned, Hiroshima weighs how to cut waste

A 30-year-old female reader in Hiroshima contacted the Chugoku Shimbun one day to convey her frustration that school lunches are thrown away when schools shut down due to heavy rain.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 16, 2019

Genetic study implicates humans in demise of prehistoric cave bear 20,000 years ago

Genetic research that reconstructed the past population dynamics of the cave bear, a prominent prehistoric denizen of Europe, implicates Homo sapiens rather than climate cooling in the Ice Age extinction of these brawny plant-loving beasts.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 16, 2019

Planet 10 times Earth's mass may have smacked Jupiter long ago

Jupiter may have been smacked head-on by an embryonic planet 10 times Earth's mass not long after being formed — a monumental crash with apparent lasting effects on the Jovian core, scientists said on Thursday.
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BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 16, 2019

BOJ's September meeting to be watched closely for new easing

The next policy-setting meeting of the Bank of Japan, set to be held from Sept. 18 to 19, is the subject of heightened attention as observers anticipate fresh monetary-easing after the yen's recent spike against other major currencies.
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BUSINESS
Aug 16, 2019

Air Seoul to suspend Incheon-Toyama flights amid tense South Korea-Japan ties

South Korean low-cost carrier Air Seoul will suspend its regular flights connecting Incheon International Airport in South Korea with Toyama airport in central Japan from Sept. 16, the Toyama Prefectural Government said Thursday.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 16, 2019

Young Maori women on frontline of New Zealand's fight for indigenous rights

Five years ago, law graduate Pania Newton and her cousins got together around a kitchen table and agreed to do everything in their power to prevent a housing development on a south Auckland site that is considered sacred by local Maori.
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BUSINESS
Aug 16, 2019

As population ages, Japan's convenience stores find future in funerals

It might escape the notice of a passerby that Davius Living Yamato, a one-story building standing unassumingly on a street in Kanagawa Prefecture, is a funeral parlor.
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WORLD / Politics
Aug 16, 2019

Trump has privately — but possibly not seriously — talked about America buying Greenland

U.S. President Donald Trump has privately discussed with aides and advisers the idea of the United States purchasing the island of Greenland as a way to expand U.S. territory, two sources familiar with the situation said on Thursday.
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WORLD
Aug 16, 2019

U.S. threatens sanctions in Iranian tanker case after Gibraltar court orders ship released

The U.S. is gravely disappointed with the U.K. after a Gibraltar court allowed the release of an Iranian tanker suspected of transporting oil to Syria, and threatened sanctions against ports, banks and anyone else who does business with the ship or its crew, two administration officials said.
WORLD
Aug 16, 2019

Radioactive iodine from Russian missile accident detected in Norway

Norway's nuclear safety authority is analyzing tiny amounts of radioactive iodine detected in the air in northern Norway in the days after a deadly explosion during a rocket engine test over the border in Russia.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 16, 2019

North Korea fires more 'projectiles' into Sea of Japan and vows not to meet with South

North Korea added insult to injury Friday when, hours after blasting South Korea's leader as "impudent" and vowing not to meet with Seoul officials, it launched two more "projectiles" into the Sea of Japan.
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BUSINESS
Aug 16, 2019

Japanese firms in Hong Kong concerned protests may escalate as ministry issues warning

The Foreign Ministry's Level 1 travel warning is its weakest, but Japanese financial institutions operating in the international financial hub are growing wary of conducting business there.
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WORLD / Politics
Aug 16, 2019

Trump blames mass shootings on the mentally ill and calls for more institutions

President Donald Trump said on Thursday he supports meaningful background checks for gun buyers, but he told reporters that those responsible for recent mass shootings were mentally ill and the United States should build more mental institutions.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 16, 2019

China warns it can quell Hong Kong protesters as Trump urges Xi to meet them

Hong Kong braced for more mass protests over the weekend, even as China warned it could use its power to quell demonstrations and U.S. President Donald Trump urged Chinese President Xi Jinping to meet personally with the protesters to defuse weeks of tensions.
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WORLD / Politics
Aug 16, 2019

Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O'Rourke back on campaign trail as rival John Hickenlooper drops out

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke said on Thursday he was resuming his campaign with a new sense of focus after a mass shooting in his Texas hometown, while rival John Hickenlooper ended his bid to take on President Donald Trump.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 16, 2019

Myanmar and Bangladesh agree to restart Rohingya repatriation effort next week, but activist says refugees weren't consulted

Myanmar and Bangladesh will start a fresh attempt next week to repatriate thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state, officials said on Thursday, nearly a year after a major attempt failed.
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WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 16, 2019

U.S. House panel subpoenas ex-Trump campaign chief Corey Lewandowski

The Democratic-led U.S. House Judiciary Committee said on Thursday it subpoenaed President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, for public testimony as part of an investigation of the Trump presidency.
EDITORIALS
Aug 15, 2019

War memories must live on in Reiwa Era

The lessons of World War II must not be forgotten.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 15, 2019

Decluttering the Japan-South Korea debate

Accusations that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stands to gain politically by getting tough with South Korea miss the mark.
Philippine bid to acquire used Japanese warships gains steam
Tokyo is looking to transfer Abukuma-class vessels to the Philippines as part of broader efforts to boost the defense capabilities of like-minded neighbors amid growing Chinese military assertiveness in the region.
Koshien’s dark summer forces reckoning for high school baseball
Koryo High School players greet their cheering section after beating Hokkaido’s Asahikawa Shiho in the first round of Summer Koshien on Aug. 7. The school withdrew three days later as a bullying scandal enveloped the team.
Akazawa's trip to Washington for tariff talks abruptly canceled
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's chief tariff negotiator, had been set to fly to Washington on Thursday.
Can anime carry the memories of World War II?
Many schools in Japan show "Grave of the Fireflies" as educational material to tell the emotionally grueling story of a boy who has no means to prevent his sister from starving to death.
Confusion over Japan’s ‘hometown’ plan overshadows African development event
First Lady Yoshiko Ishiba (center, in white and blue dress) hosts an event on Japanese culture with the first ladies of African leaders on the sidelines of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Yokohama on Aug. 21.
Mitsubishi’s wind-power retreat a blow to Japan's alternative-energy goals
Wind turbines in the town of Happo in Akita prefecture. Wind power is a key part of Japan's alternative energy drive.
Virtual singer Kaf's music becomes magic in 'Kamitsubaki City Under Construction'
Virtual singer Kaf got her start in 2018 by posting songs and covers to YouTube. Now, after having performed live shows at major venues including Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan, she is turning to voice acting and starring in the new anime series “Kamitsubaki City Under Construction.”
Can anime carry the memories of World War II?
Many schools in Japan show "Grave of the Fireflies" as educational material to tell the emotionally grueling story of a boy who has no means to prevent his sister from starving to death.
In pictures: Koenji Awa Odori 2025
Japan Times
Koshien’s dark summer forces reckoning for high school baseball
Koryo High School players greet their cheering section after beating Hokkaido’s Asahikawa Shiho in the first round of Summer Koshien on Aug. 7. The school withdrew three days later as a bullying scandal enveloped the team.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past
By Alex K.T. Martin

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