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Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 14, 2014

Can all U.S. hospitals safely treat Ebola?

A breach of infection control resulting in a Dallas health worker getting Ebola raises fresh questions about whether hospitals truly can safely take care of people with the deadly virus, as health officials insist is possible.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 13, 2014

Spanish nurse's Ebola virus levels easing, officials say

Spanish health authorities said on Sunday there were signs of hope for a nurse infected with Ebola in Madrid as the levels of the virus in her body were diminishing, though they also said she remained in serious condition.
EDITORIALS
Oct 12, 2014

Accounting for political allowance

The hysterical, weeping visage on YouTube of a Hyogo prefectural assemblyman whose hand was caught in the cookie jar in July continues to focus public attention on how local legislators should use a monthly allowance dispensed for the purpose of helping them 'deepen their knowledge in policy matters.'
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Oct 11, 2014

In-debt idols send wrong message to girls

Two weeks ago a female pop group called The Margarines debuted via a Tokyo news conference. Since Japanese show business has no shortage of young women who want to sing and dance in order to "fulfill their dreams," the new ensemble needed a gimmick.
COMMENTARY / World / COUNTERPOINT
Oct 11, 2014

China's new strongman Xi has a dream

President Xi Jinping is China's most authoritarian leader since Deng Xiaoping, a strongman who has moved aggressively to assert and consolidate power while promoting a cult of personality.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 11, 2014

China offers incentives for criminals overseas to return, give themselves up

Corrupt Chinese officials who have fled abroad are being offered reduced sentences and other incentives to give themselves up and return home, state media said on Friday, as the government continues its sweeping campaign against graft.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 11, 2014

Thousands will be massacred if jihadis take key Syrian-Turkish border town: U.N. envoy

Thousands of people most likely will be massacred if Kobani falls to Islamic State group fighters, a U.N. envoy said Friday, as militants fought deeper into the besieged Syrian-Kurdish town in full view of Turkish tanks that have done nothing to intervene.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 11, 2014

Kim is still in charge of North Korea, injured leg in military drill: source

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is in firm control of his government but hurt his leg taking part in a military drill, a source with access to the secretive nation's leadership said, playing down speculation over the 31-year-old's health and grip on power in the nuclear-capable nation.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 11, 2014

Anonymous threatens China, Hong Kong authorities with website blackouts

Anonymous, the nebulous online activist group that uses hacking to further causes it supports, has threatened a major blackout of Chinese and Hong Kong government websites, and to leak tens of thousands of government email address details.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2014

Okinawa braces as massive Typhoon Vongfong powers north

Japan was bracing on Friday for its strongest storm this year, a supertyphoon powering north toward the Okinawa island chain that threatens to rake a wide swath of the nation with strong winds and torrential rain.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2014

Article 9 campaigners disappointed by Nobel decision

The Nobel Committee disappoints those who backed war-renouncing Article 9 of the Constitution for the 2014 peace prize, but the campaigners promise to return stronger next year.
OLYMPICS / ROBERT WHITING'S 1964 OLYMPICS RETROSPECTIVE
Oct 10, 2014

Olympic construction transformed Tokyo

The 1964 Tokyo Olympics had a profound impact on the capital city and the nation. In the opening installment of a five-part series that will run during the next two weeks, best-selling author Robert Whiting, who lived in Japan at the time, takes a look back at the preparations for the event.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 10, 2014

Motives behind North Korea's Incheon landing

The unexpected visit of three top North Korean leaders to the closing ceremony of the Asian Games in Incheon last week stole the show from the athletes. Pyongyang relishes such moments.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Oct 10, 2014

Mercedez-Benz Fashion Week, Tokyo Kimono Week and more

WORLD
Oct 10, 2014

Airstrikes don't stop Islamic State from taking wide area of Syrian town

Islamic State fighters seized more than a third of the Syrian border town of Kobani, a monitoring group said Thursday, as U.S.-led airstrikes failed to halt their advance and Turkish forces looked on without intervening.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 10, 2014

Macedonia checking for Ebola after Briton dies; hotel sealed off

Macedonia said it was checking for the Ebola virus in a British man who died within hours of being admitted to a hospital in the capital Skopje on Thursday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 10, 2014

Spanish nurse worsens; Madrid blames Ebola infection on human error

The health of a Spanish nurse with Ebola worsened on Thursday and four other people were put into isolation in Madrid, while the country's government rejected claims its methods for dealing with the disease weren't working and blamed human error.
BASEBALL
Oct 9, 2014

Samurai Japan unveils remaining players for MLB series

The organizers of the 2014 Nichibei Yakyu all-star series announced the remaining players for the Japan national team and 10 more players for the major league squad on Thursday.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Oct 9, 2014

Fukushima's Karimata capitalizes on opportunity

Fukushima Firebonds management achieved its first victory by establishing a pro basketball team for the residents of the Tohoku prefecture.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 9, 2014

Asbestos victims win landmark legal battle as state faulted for poor ventilation

In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court rules that the Japanese government acted illegally in failing to require ventilation for asbestos mills, holding it liable for ¥330 million in redress.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Oct 8, 2014

Japan Basketball Association-led merger talks still face major obstacles

Toshimitsu Kawachi, the bj-league commissioner, said that the organizing committee for a unified professional basketball league in Japan has discussed things "constructively."
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 8, 2014

Fukushima No. 1 plant workers kept in the dark over hazard pay

Almost a year after Japan pledged to double hazard pay, workers still don't know how much extra — if anything — they'll get for cleaning up the nuclear disaster.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / JUST BE CAUSE
Oct 8, 2014

Biased pamphlet bodes ill for left-behind foreign parents outside Japan

A pamphlet about the Hague Convention provides valuable insights into the Foreign Ministry's slanted mind-set towards the child abduction issue.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Oct 8, 2014

Captain of doomed South Korean ferry apologizes for failure to rescue

The captain of a South Korean ferry that capsized in April killing about 300 people, most of them school children, apologized in court on Wednesday for his failure to rescue passengers in the country's worst maritime disaster for decades.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 8, 2014

Dallas Ebola patient on ventilator and receiving kidney dialysis

The Ebola patient fighting for his life in a Dallas hospital is on a ventilator and a kidney dialysis machine to help stabilize his health, the hospital said on Tuesday.
China warns citizens not to visit Japan as row over Taiwan heats up
Chinese tourists wear kimonos as they visit Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Saturday.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
China warns of military response if Japan intervenes in Taiwan contingency
Representatives from the Japan Innovation Party hand over a proposal to designate Xue Jian, the Chinese consul-general in Osaka, as persona no grata, to a staff of the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Wednesday.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
Japan may triple departure tax to tackle overtourism
A plane takes off from Haneda Airport.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
Stablecoins: Boring goes big, and now in Japan
Noritaka Okabe, CEO of JPYC, acknowledges a number of potential risks related to stablecoins.
Shohei Ohtani collects fourth MVP Award with 2025 NL honor
The Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani was named National League MVP for the second straight season on Thursday.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.

Podcast

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

Longform

An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
By Kathryn Wortley

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