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BUSINESS
Jul 25, 2019

737 Max jetliner grounding crisis pushes Boeing to biggest-ever loss near $3 billion

Boeing Co. posted its largest-ever quarterly loss on Wednesday, diving nearly $3 billion into the red as it wrestles with a longer-than-expected grounding of its best-selling 737 Max.
BUSINESS
Jul 24, 2019

Trade controls on South Korea to hit exports of Japan's chip-making gear, lawmaker says

Japan's plan to drop South Korea from its "white list" of nations with minimum trade controls will probably hit ¥630 billion ($5.8 billion) in annual exports of microchip-making equipment to its neighbor, a Japanese lawmaker said on Wednesday.
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COMMENTARY / World
Jul 24, 2019

A new government but no new solutions

Continued turmoil can be avoided only if new British Prime Minister Boris Johnson comes out with a 'no deal deal' on Brexit.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 24, 2019

Boris Johnson gets his wish at last

The Conservative Party has said yes, but will the United Kingdom give him a chance?
Japan Times
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Jul 24, 2019

Kakuryu adds to solid resume with latest win

Yokozuna Kakuryu lifted the Emperor's Cup last Sunday after a final day defeat of fellow yokozuna Hakuho.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 24, 2019

Alleged Sagamihara killer won't claim lack of criminal responsibility in forthcoming trial

Satoshi Uematsu, accused of the 2016 massacre at a care home for people with mental disabilities in Kanagawa Prefecture, has said he will not claim that he is too mentally incompetent to take responsibility for the attack in his upcoming trial.
OLYMPICS
Jul 24, 2019

Organizers celebrate one year ahead of Olympic and Paralympic Games opening ceremony

The yearlong countdown to the opening ceremony for the 2020 Games was marked with IOC President Thomas Bach commending the progress Tokyo has made in preparing for the event.
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COMMUNITY / Issues / JUST BE CAUSE
Jul 24, 2019

'Love it or leave it' is not a real choice

When U.S. President Donald Trump told four congresswomen of color they could 'go back' where they came from if they weren't happy, some of us in Japan recognized the line as being one used here for far too long.
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CULTURE / Music
Jul 24, 2019

Tempalay pledges to put on a show at Fuji Rock

The recording of Tempalay's third full-length album, "With Love from the 21 Century," should have been a high point for lead vocalist and guitarist Ryoto Ohara. The group he fronts had climbed up the ranks of Japan's music community since forming in 2014, and even got a shout out from BTS, arguably the...
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CULTURE / Film
Jul 24, 2019

'A Girl Missing': You can run, but you can't hide

Mariko Tsutsui already had many stage, TV and film credits when she appeared in Koji Fukada's 2016 drama "Harmonium." But her performance as a woman whose life is destroyed by Tadanobu Asano's seductive ex-con was a revelation. She made the leap from the naive and sexually starved wife of the film's...
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 24, 2019

A bot on your office computer could be sizing you up

Imagine a bot on your work computer that tracks your every click and keystroke, helping determine which of your tasks could be handled by one of its robot brethren.
Jul 24, 2019

MARU Inc.: Japan's First* Beauty Counseling Cafe That Provides Japanese Latest Beauty Information for Foreigners Who Are Visiting Japan!

OSAKA, Japan – July 24, 2019 –Beauty Counseling Cafe providing the latest beauty information in Japan, such as beauty salons, clinics and hospitals, has been established.
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COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Jul 24, 2019

Going in blind to Japan's Fuji Rock Festival

Our writer recalls heading to one of the country's biggest outdoor music festivals both as a first-timer and a blind Scotsman.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 24, 2019

Britain wins early European support for Hormuz naval mission after weak response to U.S. push

France, Italy and Denmark gave initial support for a British plan for a European-led naval mission to ensure safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, proposed after Iran's seizure of a British-flagged tanker, three senior EU diplomats said Tuesday.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 24, 2019

Flooding across third of Bangladesh leaves over 60 dead, displaces hundreds of thousands

Severe flooding has killed at least 61 people, displaced nearly 800,000 and inundated thousands of homes across a third of Bangladesh, government officials said on Tuesday, after two weeks of heavy monsoon rains.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Jul 23, 2019

Chelsea outplays Barcelona in Rakuten Cup opener

A confident Chelsea overcame a depleted Barcelona side to win 2-1 on Tuesday in the opening game of the inaugural Rakuten Cup.
OLYMPICS
Jul 23, 2019

Tokyo 2020 organizers, IOC say preparation for games on right track

With exactly one year to go until the opening ceremony, delivery of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games remains "firmly on track," John Coates, chairman of the International Olympic Committee Coordination Commission, said on Tuesday.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 23, 2019

Voter disillusion tempered by realism

Despite Abe's electoral victory, the result is not an overwhelming mandate for transformative change.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 23, 2019

U.S. intervention can't break the Tokyo-Seoul impasse

Washington's mediation may provide a temporary fix, but not a long-term resolution to the core problems plaguing Japan-South Korea ties.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 23, 2019

Trump has been (partly) good for U.S. foreign policy

By shattering outdated norms, the U.S. president has set up his successor to be a transformational figure.
EDITORIALS
Jul 23, 2019

Tehran ups the ante again

With tensions mounting and ample opportunities for miscalculation, every diplomatic channel must be operating and explored.
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BUSINESS
Jul 23, 2019

South Korea to report Japan's tightening of export controls to WTO

The escalation comes almost three weeks after Japan slapped export controls on three chemical ingredients used by South Korea's globally dominant chip and screen industries.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 23, 2019

Welcome ... to contested island: Philippines eyes tourism for islet in bid to bolster South China Sea claims

The Philippines is considering inviting tourists to its biggest and most strategically important outpost in the South China Sea as part of efforts to assert its claim to sovereignty over some of the world's most contested islands.

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