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JAPAN / Politics
Sep 19, 2013

Abe mum on plan for contaminated water crisis

On his second tour of Fukushima No. 1, Prime Minister Abe recycles his 'under control' claims from Buenos Aires, requests a deadline for filtering the radioactive water and urges the decommissioning of units 5 and 6.
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CULTURE / Film
Sep 19, 2013

'Soshite Chichi ni Naru (Like Father, Like Son)'

The English and Japanese titles of Hirokazu Koreeda's dual-family drama "Soshite Chichi ni Naru (Like Father, Like Son)" are quite different in meaning, but both express something important about this extraordinary film, winner of the Jury Prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
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Events / Events In Tokyo
Sep 19, 2013

Candles to remember Tohoku

News media continue to report on the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, but it's important to remember that people across the Tohoku region are still recovering from the Great East Japan Earthquake that happened there two years ago.
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JAPAN
Sep 18, 2013

Tokyo Olympic athletes risk blistering temperatures

Olympic athletes will face the hottest weather in over a century at the 2020 Tokyo Games, highlighting fears about putting athletes in extreme conditions.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 17, 2013

Why the West misread Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin's end goal in his Syrian diplomatic initiative is to put the U.S. back into the U.N. Security Council box.
LIFE / Digital / JAPAN WEB WATCH
Sep 17, 2013

Accidental leak IDs over 30,000 'anonymous' 2channel users

Japan's most popular online bulletin-board service, 2channel (pronounced ni-chaneru), recently experienced what is probably the biggest problem in its 14-year history when its promise to keep users' anonymity was severely broken by an information breach.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Sep 17, 2013

Aging boomers may prove to be just as tight with savings

Don't expect a spending windfall once boomers turn into seniors.
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ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Sep 16, 2013

Activist Chinese billionaire detained

Last month, Chinese police invited Wang Gongquan in for a "cup of tea," often a prelude to detention. He had launched a public petition calling for the release of arrested dissident Xu Zhiyong, and the authorities were not amused. But Wang effectively told the police to forget it — he had no time...
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JAPAN
Sep 16, 2013

Successful Olympic bid thrusts Tokyo into spotlight, fencing star says

For Olympic fencer Yuki Ota, Tokyo's successful bid for the 2020 Summer Games and Paralympics was like winning the gold medal he's always wanted.
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BUSINESS
Sep 16, 2013

Summers pulls out of race to be Fed chief

White House adviser Lawrence Summers quits the race for Federal Reserve chairman after a highly unusual political assault against the brusque but brilliant economist.
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BASKETBALL
Sep 15, 2013

NBL gets ready to begin inaugural season

With the National Basketball League getting under way in a couple of weeks' time, league officials, coaches and players expressed their excitement at a news conference in Tokyo on Sunday evening.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 15, 2013

Shooting down five myths about cruise missiles

U.S. cruise missiles are no magical solution to the horror taking place in Syria.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Sep 14, 2013

Najib outlines new affirmative action program for Malaysians

Malaysia will set up a trust to expand education, home ownership and other affirmative action measures for ethnic Malays and indigenous people as part of the state's policies to further boost their share of the economic pie, Prime Minister Najib Razak said during a televised address Saturday.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 14, 2013

The desperate search for online privacy is over

Privacy in the traditional sense is most certainly dead. But the killer isn't the NSA. It's the Internet itself — or, more to the point, our entire reliance on it
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WORLD
Sep 13, 2013

How television seduced the world — and me

Like most people my age — 51 — my childhood was in black and white. That's because my memory of childhood is in black and white, and that's because television in the 1960s (and most photography) was black and white. All the TV programs I watched were black and white, and their images form the monochrome...
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Sep 13, 2013

England sweating on World Cup slot

England is top of its group with two home matches to play as qualification for Brazil 2014 approaches what Sir Alex Ferguson would call "squeaky bum time."
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CULTURE / Film
Sep 12, 2013

Bill Murray relishes FDR's 'human' side

Biographical movies can be a daunting task. Their subjects often have larger-than-life stories that are focal points for controversy. Actor Bill Murray says that what attracted him to the role of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) in "Hyde Park on Hudson," was less of the former element and a...
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LIFE / Food & Drink
Sep 12, 2013

East-West sweets are a favorite fusion feast

In Japan, single-flavored foods are sometimes just too monotonous to attract new customers, and so snack companies are constantly going back to the planning board to come up with a hot new flavor of potato chips and chocolate. Often their inspiration comes not only from the Western origins of those snacks...
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 12, 2013

Death-row inmate, 73, sixth executed under Abe Cabinet

A convicted murderer is hanged for robbing and gunning down the owner of a restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown in May 2004.

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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