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COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 6, 2015

Tokyo, Beijing will get torched by the Olympics

There's a good chance hosting the Olympic Games will actually do more harm than good to the trajectories of Asia's two biggest economies.
COMMENTARY / Japan / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Jul 30, 2015

Colonial management was never a 'charity'

While Japan's rule over Taiwan and the Korean Peninsula may have brought some benefits, colonization is never altruistic.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 15, 2015

IMF believes Greece needs debt relief far beyond EU plans

Greece will need far bigger debt relief than euro zone partners have been prepared to envisage so far due to the devastation of its economy and banks in the last two weeks, says a confidential study by the International Monetary Fund seen by reporters.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 10, 2015

U.S. spy agency tapped German chancellery for decades: WikiLeaks

The U.S. National Security Agency tapped phone calls involving German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her closest advisers for years and spied on the staff of her predecessors, according to WikiLeaks.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 1, 2015

What's next for the AIIB?

Is the AIIB a Chinese wolf in a multilateral sheep's clothing, or simply an institution whose time has come given China's economic rise?
EDITORIALS
Jun 29, 2015

Declining research capabilities

Japan's ability to create new industries will suffer if steps are not taken to bolster the nation's scientific research capabilities.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 22, 2015

China claims protest group paid 'regular' people to demonstrate

Police in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong have busted a group it said organized mass protests in an attempt to sway court cases and influence sentences, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 19, 2015

DNA analysis of tusks, dung pinpoints Africa poaching hot spots

A DNA analysis of elephant tusks seized from poachers has revealed two main hotspots for the crime in Africa, a finding that could point law enforcement in the direction of the top criminal networks, a study showed.
Reader Mail
Jun 13, 2015

'Comfort woman' resolution must have legal basis

While international pressure is mounting on the Abe administration to resolve the "comfort women" atrocity, researchers and scholars have been offering suggestions to bring it to a closure. Some of them appear to be attempts to reduce the scope of the issue. Ralph Cossa's article "Abe and history: What's...
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 9, 2015

Malaysia to lodge protest with Beijing after Chinese Coast Guard vessel 'intrudes'

Malaysia will protest against what it called the intrusion of a Chinese Coast Guard ship into its waters north of Borneo Island, the Wall Street Journal reported, in another departure from the country's previously soft approach to South China Sea disputes.
EDITORIALS
Jun 6, 2015

Worrying lack of stable jobs

Only 25 percent of the world's workers have stable jobs, and the rate is growing increasingly worse.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 5, 2015

Investors must take climate change into account: study

Most investors need to make a significant behavioral shift and start factoring climate change into their portfolio risk management, a study on its impact on financial market returns found on Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 28, 2015

High-tech toilets targeted to reel in tourists ahead of Olympics

Japan's high-tech toilets are nothing new but their growing popularity has prompted the government to use them as a tool to promote tourism and sell the technology abroad.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
May 11, 2015

Tokyo ramps up 'English village' plan as 2020 approaches

As Tokyo gears up to host the 2020 Olympic Games, demands for action are growing to overcome Japan's notorious English-speaking phobia.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 9, 2015

Weapons inspectors find traces of undeclared sarin and VX in Syria

International inspectors have found traces of sarin and VX nerve agent at a military research site in Syria that had not been declared to the global chemical weapons watchdog, diplomatic sources said on Friday.
JAPAN
May 3, 2015

Mori Trust heir shows how women can shine

The daughter of real estate magnate Akira Mori fits the mold for the government's female empowerment campaign and is preparing to take over.
WORLD / Science & Health
May 3, 2015

Limiting global warming to 2 degrees C 'inadequate,' scientists say

Holding global warming to a temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius — the cornerstone of an expected new global climate agreement in December — will fail to prevent many of climate change's worst impacts, a group of scientists and other experts have warned.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
May 2, 2015

Progress is slow when it comes to societal views on adoption

The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction went into effect here on April 1, 2014, but there is another Hague treaty that Japan has yet to sign.
BUSINESS
Apr 21, 2015

Pacific trade deal would yield thousands of U.S. jobs, business group says

The 12-nation Pacific trade pact would create nearly a quarter of a million U.S. jobs due to increased foreign investment in the United States, a business group estimated on Monday, in the first look at the deal's employment impact.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 19, 2015

IMF fudges BOJ inflation target timeline

The International Monetary Fund said it has become harder to estimate when the Bank of Japan will achieve its inflation target, suggesting the global fund is backtracking from its prediction of around 2017 or 2018.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 16, 2015

Making the vision of sustainable energy a reality

Thanks to lower oil prices, innovation, and economies of scale in the renewable-energy sector, the vision of sustainable energy can now be turned into reality.
LIFE / Language / COMMUNICATION CUES
Apr 13, 2015

Japanese 'maternity harassment' activist wins U.S. award

A Japanese activist who advocates female empowerment was among 10 women awarded this year's International Women of Courage Award.
BUSINESS
Apr 13, 2015

China rejects Taiwan's bid to become AIIB founding member

Taiwan is not able to become a founding member of the Beijing-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank but is still welcome to become an ordinary member in the future, the Chinese government said on Monday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 10, 2015

Sandwiched between Yokota, Narita airspace, ever-busy Haneda looks to route some flights over metropolis

Faced with an urgent need to expand the capacity of Haneda airport ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the government is planning to break a longtime taboo: routing flights low over densely populated residential areas of the capital and its suburbs.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Apr 7, 2015

Weak job data ease rate hike jitters, lift Wall Street

U.S. stocks rose on Monday as expectations the Federal Reserve will push any interest rate increases further into the year offset concerns over Friday's surprisingly weak jobs report.

Longform

Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years