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WORLD
Jul 27, 2017

Hezbollah says it's almost done clearing Lebanon-Syria border of al-Qaida-linked fighters

The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah said on Wednesday that the group was close to defeating Nusra Front militants in the battle along the Syrian-Lebanese border.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 25, 2017

Abe is stumbling but no challenger exists

Voters are ready for a viable alternative to the LDP, but the leading opposition party is failing to deliver.
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COMMENTARY / World
Jul 25, 2017

The Democrats are a lost cause

As long as the Democratic Party's leadership is owned by big-monied special interests, it will never give the people what they want and need.
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COMMENTARY / World
Jul 25, 2017

How a 1929 dispute frames the Temple Mount conflict

The holy site has been the symbolic flashpoint of the broader Israeli-Arab struggle since at least 1929.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 24, 2017

British pragmatism now on trial

Britain faces a bumpy ride in the wake of Prime Minister Theresa May's failed election gambit.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Jul 22, 2017

Paul Christie: Exploring the heart of Japan on foot

The British CEO of Walk Japan discusses hiking in Japan.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 22, 2017

U.S. to ban Americans from traveling to North Korea after Warmbier death

The United States will ban Americans from traveling to North Korea in the coming weeks due to the "serious risk of arrest and long-term detention," the U.S. State Department said Friday, a month after U.S. college student Otto Warmbier died following his imprisonment by the isolated nation.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 19, 2017

Moon seeks deal by 2020 for peace with nuclear-free North Korea

South Korean President Moon Jae-in is seeking a deal with North Korea in 2020 to bring about the "complete denuclearization" of the isolated nation in return for a peace treaty that would guarantee the survival of Kim Jong Un's regime.
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COMMENTARY / World
Jul 18, 2017

Time for constructive engagement with Kim

Pyongyang's successful test of an ICBM could be a game changer for U.S. President Donald Trump in dealing with North Korea.
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CULTURE / Art
Jul 18, 2017

A bite of the virtual reality sandwich

What happens when you take the Nazi zombies, coin collecting, cuddly creatures, xenomorphs, etc., out of video games and you just wander around virtual reality?
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BUSINESS
Jul 18, 2017

Trump takes aim at trade imbalances with Mexico, Canada, readies NAFTA renegotiations

President Donald Trump said the U.S. wants to reduce trade imbalances with Mexico and Canada and boost exports of everything from farm goods to financial services as it prepares to kick off talks to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 14, 2017

New U.S. sanctions eyed on Chinese firms with North Korea ties: officials

Frustrated that China has not done more to rein in North Korea, the Trump administration could impose new sanctions on small Chinese banks and other firms doing business with Pyongyang within weeks, two senior U.S. officials said.
JAPAN
Jul 12, 2017

Okinawa moves to block U.S. base construction at Henoko

Three months after the Okinawa Defense Bureau started seawall construction off the coast of Nago in Okinawa's Henoko district, work to build a replacement facility for a U.S. military base in Ginowan is moving forward — and along with it, renewed legal and political resistance to the controversial...
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 12, 2017

Abe seeks to avoid repeating history of first tenure demise a decade ago

Unpopular policies and a slew of scandals triggered a slide in public support for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that led to a heavy election defeat.
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LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Jul 10, 2017

In Japan everything counts in its own way

When emails first hit Japan in the mid-1990s, these were counted in u901a (tsu016b), the common classifier for letters. However ...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jul 8, 2017

Shogi: A measure of artificial intelligence

Though last Sunday's Tokyo assembly elections garnered the most media attention, another contest came in a close second, even if only two people were involved. Fourteen-year-old Sota Fujii's record-setting winning streak of 29 games of shogi was finally broken on July 2 when he lost a match to 22-year-old...
EDITORIALS
Jul 8, 2017

A dangerous peek behind the technology curtain

Governments too often have other motives — the identification of holes for future exploitation or even the 'mundane' desire to steal intellectual property — for demanding source code from technology companies.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 5, 2017

Can Abe show global vision?

Japan's way forward is to be the prophet of a new global order, not the hegemony of Washington or Beijing.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 3, 2017

The rebirth of the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Japan, New Zealand and other countries are working to revive the Trans-Pacific Partnership without the United States.
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JAPAN / Politics
Jul 3, 2017

Abe, Trump agree to step up pressure on North Korea as it heads down 'dangerous path'

The leaders of Japan and the United States agreed in telephone talks Monday on the need to heap more pressure on nuclear-armed North Korea as it heads down what the White House termed a "dangerous path."
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JAPAN / Society
Jul 2, 2017

'No foreign tenants' — and not much you can do about it

Landlords in Japan are within their rights to refuse to rent to foreign residents, but some services are stepping in to bridge the gap.
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COMMUNITY / How-tos / HOME TRUTHS
Jul 2, 2017

New law to guarantee the guarantor pays

Until the postwar growth period, the majority of Japanese rented rather than owned the places where they lived, but renters in Japan have never had much in the way of rights. Still, it is difficult to evict someone from a home they rent, even when they've been delinquent with payments. The Leased Land...

Longform

Japan's growing ranks of centenarians are redefining what it means to live in a super-aging society.
What comes after 100?