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JAPAN / Politics
Dec 11, 2013

Higashikokubaru opts out of Nippon Ishin, Diet

Lower House member and ex-Miyazaki Gov. Hiu00addeo Hiu00adgau00adshiu00adkou00adkuu00adbau00adru exits Nippon Ishin no Kai and will quit as a Diet member, raising speculation that he might try to run for governor of Tokyo or seek his old job in Miyazaki.
EDITORIALS
Dec 11, 2013

A political purge in North Korea

North Korea has announced that the uncle of leader Kim Jong Un has fallen from grace and been deprived of all titles for 'anti-revolutionary factional activities.' Expect North Korean officials to jockey with each other for Kim's favor.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 11, 2013

Japanese makers play catch-up in smartphone market

In 2013, Japan's smartphone industry faced the shocking news that NEC Corp. and Panasonic Corp. were withdrawing from making those handsets for consumers.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 11, 2013

Putin hand-picks loyalist to head new press agency

President Vladimir Putin tightened his grip on Russia's news media by abolishing the RIA Novosti wire service and handing control of its successor to a controversial television anchor.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 10, 2013

Recalling nature's fury abstractly in oils

As someone who was born and brought up in Bosnia, educated in Germany and is now based in New York, why should artist Amer Kobaslija have reacted as passionately as he did on hearing about the earthquake and the tsunami that struck Japan's Tohoku region on March 11, 2011?
JAPAN
Dec 9, 2013

Tokyo has no gripe with Seoul's expanded ADIZ

Tokyo has accepted Seoul's expanded air defense identification zone in the East China Sea, Japanese officials said Monday, noting that unlike China's abruptly declared ADIZ, South Korea's won't infringe on the freedom of flight in airspace over the high seas under international law.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 9, 2013

Major U.S. tech companies call for strict limits on surveillance

Eight of America's largest technology companies have called on President Barack Obama and Congress to impose strict new curbs on surveillance that, if enacted, would dramatically reshape intelligence operations that U.S. officials have portrayed as integral to the war on terrorism.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 9, 2013

Moral high ground as a tool

Admirable as Nelson Mandela's saintly virtues were, he also had to be cunning, iron-willed, bullheaded and contemptuous at times to engineer the political miracle in South Africa.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 9, 2013

Mandela's walk from prison to reconciliation

Nelson Mandela's greatest legacy to South Africa, indeed the entire world, was to preach and practice reconciliation between former sworn enemies after putting 27 years in prison behind him.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Dec 9, 2013

Ticked off by a red-meat allergy?

Almost every time he eats a steak, Mack Halsey develops hives on his arms and legs. Burgers are no better. About two to four hours after a meal, his skin starts to itch and break out in hives.
BASKETBALL
Dec 7, 2013

Ryukyu outlasts ex-coach Toyama, Nara in OT

Former Ryukyu Golden Kings coach Koto Toyama faced his old team on Saturday for the first time since he was fired in May after leading the Okinawan powerhouse to a league-record 42-win season that didn't include a trip to the Final Four.
CULTURE / Film
Dec 7, 2013

Re-examining Yasujiro Ozu on film

Yasujiro Ozu once had a reputation for making films only other Japanese could understand.
EDITORIALS
Dec 7, 2013

More women working for less

Although a record high 63 percent of Japanese women held jobs in September, acccording to a government survey, the details show that Japan's women are still relegated to part-time, nonregular positions.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Dec 7, 2013

Tales from on the trail of Okinawa's rail

Thirty-one years ago I set off on a quest to look for a species so rare that it seemed as mythical as a Phoenix. Not only was it almost unknown, but also the Okinawa Rail had only recently been discovered. It was, as reporters like to say, a species new to science. Nothing was known about its numbers,...
JAPAN
Dec 6, 2013

Japan offers tributes to human rights giant

Japan and its leaders mourn the death of Nelson Mandela, calling South Africa's first black president a 'great leader' who fought apartheid with strong determination.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Dec 6, 2013

United faces improbable climb to defend title

WARNING: The opening paragraph does not make happy reading for Manchester United fans. The champions have won only two points from their last three games, they are in ninth position, their lowest ever at this stage of a Premier League season. They have scored fewer goals at Old Trafford than basement...
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 5, 2013

Amari admits he has early-stage tongue cancer, vows to stay on

Economic and fiscal policy minister Akira Amari, a key policymaker and trade negotiator of the Cabinet, confessed Thursday that he has early-stage tongue cancer but vowed to stay at his post.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 5, 2013

Economics that aids people

Confronted with a worldwide, systemic economic crisis, isn't it time we rethink the foundation of mainstream economic theory and move to change the way we measure the quality of life for mankind?
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 5, 2013

Congressional committee ponders aliens — the space kind

Lawmakers held a free-ranging and sometimes bewildering hearing Wednesday on the search for extraterrestrial life, gradually working around to the question of whether humans are alone in the universe. At the end of the 90-minute session, that issue remained unresolved.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Dec 5, 2013

Postal employees carry extra burden during the holiday season

Sales quotas make postal employees' lives miserable at the end of the year.
Reader Mail
Dec 4, 2013

Risk of losing public's 'tolerance'

Regarding the Dec. 2 article "Secrecy law protests 'act of terrorism': LDP secretary general": Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Shigeru Ishiba's comments that street protesters voicing opposition to the new state secrets bill by shouting it in public demonstrations are doing something "not...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 4, 2013

IAEA says Tepco should consider water release

International Atomic Energy Agency experts suggest that Tepco consider discharging toxic water from the Fukushima No. 1 plant into the ocean after lowering the level of radioactive materials to less than the legal limit.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 4, 2013

Kim's uncle said unharmed in Pyongyang purge amid leadership crisis

Jang Song Thaek, the uncle and de facto deputy of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, is safe even as it appears he has been removed from his post, a South Korean minister said.

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Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers