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Aug 23, 2018

One Championship makes big plans for Japan

No one will ever accuse Chatri Sityodtong, the chairman of martial arts organization ONE Championship, of shying away from a fight.
EDITORIALS
Aug 23, 2018

Look out for a Trump on the warpath

The world must prepare for a U.S. president angry, distracted and eager to pick fights to divert attention from his own troubles.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 23, 2018

Turkey-U.S. tiff reveals deep NATO woes

Countries on the eastern flank still see Russia as an existential threat, but countries in NATO's south are more fearful of terrorism and migration flows.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 23, 2018

Bidding Sir Hugh Cortazzi farewell

Sir Hugh Cortazzi was instrumental in building a foundation of goodwill between Japan and the United Kingdom.
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BUSINESS
Aug 23, 2018

What would a 40% cut to phone bills mean for Japan's mobile carriers?

Japan's mobile carriers have come under government scrutiny for high phone bills that have helped bring years of enviable profit margins and given them a combined market value of more than $250 billion.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 23, 2018

Former 'Apprentice' contestant who accuses Trump of groping, Summer Zervos, demands he identify other victims

A onetime contestant on Donald Trump's "The Apprentice" television show who accused him of groping her is demanding in her lawsuit that he come clean about accusations by other women of "illicit" sexual misconduct.
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WORLD / Politics
Aug 23, 2018

Stormy Daniels' suit against Trump gets boost from Cohen's guilty plea

An explosive plea agreement by Donald Trump's former lawyer may give porn star Stephanie Clifford a second act in the courtroom and renew her effort to question the president under oath.
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WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 23, 2018

White House denies Trump wrongdoing after Michael Cohen plea deal

The White House pushed back forcefully on Wednesday against suggestions that a plea deal struck by President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen implicated Trump in a crime.
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WORLD / Politics
Aug 23, 2018

U.S. election security steps hobbled by Congress-White House funds feud

A battle between U.S. President Donald Trump and Democrats over federal funding to help secure November's U.S. elections stymied legislation in Congress on Wednesday, at least for now, that is aimed at thwarting Russian meddling by strengthening states' voting procedures.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 23, 2018

U.N. warns of 'lost generation' of Rohingya children as half a million languish in refugee camps

The United Nations warned on Thursday of what it described as a lost generation of Muslim Rohingya children, with half a million in refugee camps in Bangladesh facing dangers including disease and floods and those still in Myanmar lacking access to proper education.
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WORLD / Society
Aug 23, 2018

Italy hard-liner Matteo Salvini resists pressure to let migrants disembark

Italian far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Wednesday resisted increasing pressure to allow 177 migrants who have been held on a coast guard ship in a Sicilian port for two days to disembark.
WORLD
Aug 23, 2018

Magnitude 6.2 offshore earthquake hits west of Oregon but no tsunami threat: USGS

An offshore earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 hit 165 miles (265 km) west-northwest of Bandon, Oregon, on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey said.
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Rugby
Aug 22, 2018

New stadium gives recovering Kamaishi hope for future

Takeshi Nagata looks out over the pitch from the back stand of Kamaishi Unosumai Memorial Stadium and tugs at the collar of his shirt. He retired from playing rugby six years ago, but his body is still in good shape and his formal clothes look uncomfortable stretched over his compact but formidable physique....
EDITORIALS
Aug 22, 2018

Daylight saving time for the 2020 Olympic Games?

The benefits and costs should be thoroughly examined before moving headlong toward adopting the system.
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COMMENTARY / World
Aug 22, 2018

The U.S. economy and the midterms

Even if the economy doesn't affect the election, the election will affect the economy.
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COMMENTARY / World
Aug 22, 2018

China could use a little U.S.-style suburban sprawl

The country needs more babies, but the dense cities that sprung up during industrialization make that difficult.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / TELLING LIVES
Aug 22, 2018

Osaka student fights for Syrians' right to study in safety in Japan

When Yahya Almasri heard Japan had closed the door on other students fleeing war, he decided he had to do something.
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COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Aug 22, 2018

Amnesty International Japan program aims to help schools fill the gender information gap

Amnesty International Japan introduced the Gender Human Rights Education Project, with an aim to provide a forum and tools for students to learn about and discuss gender, discrimination and human rights protection
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BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 22, 2018

Japan's shogi champ makes all the right moves as AI startup hits stratosphere

Takahiro Hayashi won his first nationwide title in shogi while still in high school and by the age of 22 he was the world amateur champion. His coaches were urging him to turn pro.

Longform

Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight