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ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 25, 2018

A month after quake, cash-strapped Papua New Guinea struggles to help the hardest hit

Almost a month after a deadly earthquake, Papua New Guinea is struggling to get aid to desperate survivors, having allocated just a fraction of its relief funds, while a rent dispute left disaster officials briefly locked out of their offices.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 24, 2018

Apple's Tim Cook calls for more regulations on data privacy

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook has called for stronger privacy regulations that prevent the misuse of data in the light of the controversial leak of Facebook user information.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Mar 24, 2018

Good libations: Examining the evolution of Japan's rich cocktail culture

The art of the cocktail is indisputably non-Japanese. The word itself is old American slang for a pick-me-up, referring in modern parlance to any mixed drink containing liquor and at least one other ingredient. Even if you aren't a drinker, chances are you can name quite a few: the martini, the Manhattan,...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Mar 24, 2018

Once falsely convicted in Japan, rarely exonerated

A lot of eating goes on in the new documentary "Gokutomo" ("Friends in Prison"), which is about five men, all convicted of murder, who spent many years in prison. Watching one of them casually buy a sweet bean bun at a convenience store, you realize that, as an indulgence, food can be the most obvious...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Mar 24, 2018

World debates what action to take over North Korea

Nine years after then-U.S President Barack Obama committed America to the pursuit of "a world without nuclear weapons," nine months after the U.N. adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and five months after the Nobel Peace Prize Committee conferred one of the world's highest honors...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Mar 24, 2018

Blog post sparks a constructive debate on office culture in Japan

One person’s cultural observations can be another’s daily gripes but, with any luck, they can lead to an enlightening debate. That was the case last week when a blog post about one non-Japanese individual’s experience working in the country’s information technology sector proved popular with...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Mar 24, 2018

Lessons from the forefront of the global fight for food security

Where does our food come from? Who grows it? What is its impact on the environment? How can we feed the world's growing population? What effect will global warming have on food security?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Mar 24, 2018

Eiichi Sato: Fate written in the star rubies

Eiichi Sato peers through a gemologist's loupe and shines a lamp down onto the small pink-red stone that glistens against the black felt cloth below. "Take a look," he urges. "It's pretty cool."
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Mar 24, 2018

Ben Tarquin wants everyone dancing in the streets

Making street dance and multimedia the voices of today's youth
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / OSAKA RESTAURANTS
Mar 24, 2018

Taiwan Tanpao: A quick visit for a dumpling or six

You could easily pass a whole day as a flaneur in Osaka's Tenjibashi-suji Shotengai, the longest shopping arcade in Japan. Unlike its southern counterpart, Shinsaibashi-suji, there is still room to breathe in Tenjinbashi-suji and it's not (yet) full of tourist-traps masquerading as historical shops....
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Mar 24, 2018

Tradition finds a home on Tokyo's bagel scene

At a glance, Wise Sons Tokyo is a strange addition to the subterranean fringes of Tokyo Station. But zoom in on this Jewish delicatessen and you'll find something warm and inviting: crooked family photographs hanging on the wall, deli-style padded benches, bright timber features and, most importantly,...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Mar 24, 2018

Haruki Murakami: Literary lightweight or global superstar?

You know you've made it as an author when there are week-long conferences dedicated to your work that attract scholars, critics and translators from all over the world and which you, the author, do not feel the need to attend.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 24, 2018

Mega-banks to slash new hires in spring 2019 as ultralow interest rates take toll

Japan's three mega-banking groups plan to hire fewer new graduates in April 2019, it was learned Saturday.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 24, 2018

Losing control with Uber and Facebook

We're learning that this technological age, which seemed to start with the pretty innocuous act of emailing, has evolved to play into our more primal fears about feeling out of control.
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 24, 2018

Delete Facebook? Protecting privacy is harder than that

Anyone tempted to #DeleteFacebook after the personal data of millions of users fell into the hands of a political consultancy is still likely to be monitored by the social network, which tracks nearly 30 percent of global website traffic.
JAPAN
Mar 24, 2018

No indictments over 2012 fatal tunnel collapse in Japan

Public prosecutors on Friday decided not to indict any of the 10 people accused of professional negligence over the collapse of an expressway tunnel that killed nine people and injured three others in Yamanashi Prefecture in December 2012.
BUSINESS
Mar 24, 2018

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said to side with carmakers' calls to ease fuel rules

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has concluded that a landmark Obama-era effort to cut vehicle greenhouse gas emissions is too aggressive and agrees with automakers that the standards should be revised, according to people familiar with the matter.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 24, 2018

Islamist gunman kills three at French supermarket

A gunman killed three people in southwestern France on Friday as he held up a car, fired on police and seized hostages in a supermarket, screaming "Allahu akbar" before security forces stormed the building and he was killed, authorities said.
WORLD
Mar 24, 2018

Ransomware attack throws Atlanta services into disarray

An Atlanta cyberattack has caused widespread city-run program outages and raised fears about the security of financial and personal data belonging to government workers, residents and others who have used online services provided by Georgia's capital city, officials said on Friday.
WORLD / Society
Mar 24, 2018

Death during childbirth of Paraguay teen rape victim fuels South American country's abortion debate

The death of a 14-year-old rape victim in Paraguay during childbirth has put the spotlight on the country's high levels of sexual violence against girls and its strict abortion law, campaigners said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 24, 2018

River-sharing deals mean water wars are a 'myth,' says World Water Council

Agreements between countries that share the same river have helped to avoid about 1,800 conflicts in the past 50 years, the World Water Council (WWC) said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Mar 24, 2018

Extent of U.S.-China trade fight depends on Trump's goals, experts say

How bad will the U.S.-China trade fight get? That depends on whether President Donald Trump will settle for a reduction in China's U.S. trade surplus or hold out for sweeping changes to China's industrial policies.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Mar 24, 2018

U.S. metal-tariffs showdown at WTO to shake world trade order

Move over Russia, Ukraine and Saudi Arabia. The U.S. looks set to join the group of countries embroiled in disputes at the World Trade Organization involving curbs imposed on national security grounds.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 24, 2018

China accuses U.S. of 'serious provocation' after American warship sails near man-made island in South China Sea

China's Defense Ministry has accused the U.S. of "serious political and military provocation" after the U.S. Navy conducted its first so-called freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) in the disputed South China Sea since January.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 23, 2018

Warned by FSA, cryptocurrency giant Binance heads to Malta

Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by traded value, is seeking a fresh start in the Mediterranean.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 23, 2018

New York University to launch new program bringing entrepreneurial skills and agility to Japan's changing workforce

A new program from New York University, set to kick off in April, aims to offer practical classes targeting business professionals in a changing Japanese labor market that is seeing increasing numbers of young workers changing jobs — a phenomenon still uncommon in a system still defined by lifetime...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Mar 23, 2018

No right way to complete Shikoku's 88-temple pilgrimage

"Get in the car." An old woman in thick glasses and a knitted hat gestures from her seat behind the wheel.

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