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Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Jan 26, 2018

Clock ticking on Conte's time with Chelsea

"Antonio Conte has left his post as head coach of Chelsea. The club would like to thank him for his contribution and wish him well for the future."
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BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 26, 2018

Citizen considers luxury acquisitions to attract high net worth customers

Citizen Watch Co., the country's largest watchmaker, is eyeing acquisitions that could add premium timepieces to its offerings, as the company looks to gain more high net-worth customers.
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LIFE / Travel
Jan 26, 2018

Snow and spirituality in Tottori: Winter on a sacred peak

Mount Daisen in Tottori Prefecture is the largest mountain in the Chugoku region of western Honshu. An isolated peak with views over the Sea of Japan, the mountain stands at 1,729 meters and gets plenty of snow in the winter, making it one of the preferred destination for skiers and boarders living in nearby Hiroshima, Osaka and Kyoto.
JAPAN
Jan 26, 2018

Lottery tickets in Japan will be sold online from October in bid to boost sales

Aiming to boost slumping sales, the internal affairs ministry said Friday that starting in October, people will be able to purchase tickets online for most public-run lotteries.
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JAPAN
Jan 26, 2018

'Dog nurseries' tap demand from Japan's busy, hands-off owners

"Dog nursery schools" are attracting growing demand particularly from double-income families and single-person households in Japan interested in facilities that can not only feed and walk the animals but potty-train and discipline them at the same time.
Reader Mail
Jan 26, 2018

Blackface and a worrying lack of awareness

Regarding the Baye McNeil article "Time for Japan to scrub off the blackface" in the Jan. 11 edition, it was shocking, embarrassing and not at all funny as I watched a Japanese comedian on TV with their face colored black.
Reader Mail
Jan 26, 2018

Education key to LGBT awareness

It's time to make a change! Regarding the Jan. 18 story "Kojien dictionary criticized for 'inaccurate' entry on LGBT, a vast majority of Japanese citizens are still uneducated about these existing communities.
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BUSINESS
Jan 26, 2018

North Korea exporting coal to South Korea and Japan via Russia despite U.N. sanctions: Europe intel sources

North Korea shipped coal to Russia last year that was then delivered to South Korea and Japan in a likely violation of U.N. sanctions, three Western European intelligence sources said.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 26, 2018

More birth defects found in U.S. areas with Zika according to American health officials

The mosquito-borne Zika virus may be responsible for an increase in birth defects in U.S. states and territories, even in women who had no lab evidence of Zika exposure during pregnancy, U.S. health officials said Thursday.
WORLD
Jan 26, 2018

Turkey tells U.S. to stop backing Syrian Kurds or risk confrontation on the ground in Afrin

Turkey urged the United States on Thursday to halt its support for Kurdish YPG fighters or risk confronting Turkish forces on the ground in Syria, some of Ankara's strongest comments yet about a potential clash with its NATO ally.
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CULTURE / Entertainment news
Jan 26, 2018

Ex-teen model accuses magician David Copperfield of 1988 sexual assault after Japan competition

A former teen model has accused illusionist David Copperfield of drugging and sexually assaulting her in 1988 after he judged a modeling competition in Japan that she took part in.
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CULTURE / Entertainment news
Jan 26, 2018

Oscar-winner Casey Affleck withdraws as Academy presenter amid sexual harassment claims

Oscar-winning Casey Affleck, who has been accused of sexual harassment by female crew members on earlier films, has withdrawn as a presenter at the 2018 Academy Awards, a spokeswoman for the organization said on Thursday.
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BUSINESS
Jan 26, 2018

Harvey's 5 feet of rain made it second-costliest U.S. hurricane, at $125 billion

Record-breaking Hurricane Harvey became the second-costliest storm to hit the U.S. and dropped more rain than any other system ever.
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WORLD / Politics
Jan 26, 2018

Trump sought Van Gogh but Guggenheim offered him potty of gold: report

New York's Guggenheim Museum offered to lend an 18-karat gold toilet to President Donald Trump after the White House asked to borrow a painting by Vincent Van Gogh, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 26, 2018

Israeli cave yields oldest Homo sapiens remains outside Africa, possibly dating back 194,000 years

A partial jawbone bearing seven teeth unearthed in a cave in Israel represents what scientists are calling the oldest-known Homo sapiens remains outside Africa, showing that our species trekked out of that continent far earlier than previously known.
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WORLD
Jan 26, 2018

U.S. Pacific Northwest dangerously underprepared for tsunami, experts say

The U.S. region most vulnerable to tsunami — the massive waves unleashed by undersea earthquakes — is dangerously underprepared, experts and officials in Oregon and Washington state said after a magnitude 7.9 earthquake this week.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jan 26, 2018

Plastic waste making coral reefs sick, study finds

Billions of bits of plastic waste are entangled in corals and sickening reefs from Thailand to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, scientists said on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 26, 2018

Justice Department's inspector general turns up anti-Trump FBI agents' missing text messages

The Justice Department's inspector general has recovered missing text messages from two FBI officials who sharply criticized Donald Trump, making them a flash point in the debate over the federal criminal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 25, 2018

Suspect in Sagamihara massacre planned second attack on same day

Satoshi Uematsu, awaiting trial for the 2016 massacre on a facility for the mentally disabled in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, has told Jiji Press that he planned to attack another such facility in the same prefecture on the same day.
JAPAN
Jan 25, 2018

Tokyo records lowest temperature in 48 years, prompting rare warning from weather agency

Cold air blanketed much of the nation Thursday morning, just days after Tokyo's heaviest snowfall in four years, prompting the Meteorological Agency to issue an advisory for the capital.
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CULTURE / Film / Wide Angle
Jan 25, 2018

2018's anime lineup offers plenty of potential

Over the past few years, the success of several films — including, most notably, Makoto Shinkai's record-setting "Your Name." — have proven that anime directed by someone other than director Hayao Miyazaki can still attract a wider audience.
BUSINESS / Tech / ANALYSIS
Jan 25, 2018

Chinese tech firms narrowing pay gap with Silicon Valley as state pours money into IT, surveillance

China's war for technology talent is intensifying.
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CULTURE / Film
Jan 25, 2018

Reflecting on 20 years of female roles in 'The Ring'

In Japan, the "lord of the rings" is female, dressed in white with long black hair. The girl's name is Sadako, an evil ghost child who first appeared in Koji Suzuki's 1991 horror novel "The Ring" and went on to lead one of the biggest horror franchises of all time.
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COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Jan 25, 2018

Abe's farm reforms open rich-poor food gap

The agricultural reform being pushed by the Abe administration runs counter to the principle of supplying a stable supply of quality food for citizens.
EDITORIALS
Jan 25, 2018

Annual labor-management wage talks begin

It's time for Japanese businesses to ask whether the collective form of annual wage negotiations serve their interests as they face increasingly tough global competition.

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