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COMMENTARY / World
Jun 14, 2016

Given the Zika threat, should the world go to Rio?

An independent fact-finding investigation should be made to determine the scale of the threat the Zika virus would pose to visitors attending the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
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BUSINESS
Jun 9, 2016

Japanese banks enter ranks of world's biggest energy lenders

Japanese banks, known for the risk-aversion that spared them the worst of the credit crisis, have quietly grown into some of the world's largest energy lenders.
COMMENTARY / World
May 18, 2016

The world could use more nonintervention

The principle of nonintervention may be extremely difficult to enforce in today's complex world, but its principles should be revived again.
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BUSINESS
May 17, 2016

Asia airline mergers may be in the cards after world's largest budget carrier tie-up

The creation of the world's biggest alliance of low-cost airlines may signal that some of Asia's struggling budget carriers are headed for the altar.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 27, 2016

World to watch as Trump outlines his foreign policy

Donald Trump will set aside his bad-boy antics, and with the help of a teleprompter to keep him on message, outline on Wednesday his vision for foreign policy if elected U.S. president in November, campaign aides say.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 24, 2016

How the World Health Organization's cancer agency confuses consumers

Thanks to scientists working under the auspices of the World Health Organization, you can be fairly sure your toothbrush won't give you cancer. Over four decades, a WHO research agency has assessed 989 substances and activities, ranging from arsenic to hair dressing. It found only one that was "probably...
COMMENTARY / Japan / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Mar 31, 2016

'I became temporarily blind, deaf and paralyzed'

Michi Kobi's acting career reflected the way the U.S.-Japanese relations changed over the years.
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CULTURE / Film
Mar 23, 2016

'Banksy Does New York' and throws shade on the art world in the process

Who is Banksy? The U.K.'s best-known-yet-unknown street artist/conceptual prankster was in the news again this month after researchers at Queen Mary University of London analyzed maps of Banksy's wall works in London and Bristol to pinpoint a possible suspect. Excited headlines shouted as though Batman's...
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 19, 2016

Time to move beyond monetary policy

Ideological and political prejudices deeply rooted in history will have to be overcome to end the current stagnation.
SOCCER / World cup
Mar 5, 2016

FIFA boss wants 2026 bid process to be clean

FIFA must make the 2026 World Cup bidding process "absolutely bulletproof" because the entire organization's credibility is at stake, new president Gianni Infantino said on Friday.
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COMMENTARY / World
Feb 24, 2016

Morocco's economic model for the Arab world

Morocco's drive to become a regional renewable-energy powerhouse offers a real option for economic development in other Arab countries.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 12, 2016

Russia warns of interminable or world war if Syria talks fail, U.S., Arab armies go in

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev raised the spectre of an interminable or a world war if powers failed to negotiate an end to the conflict in Syria and warned against any ground operations by U.S. and Arab forces.
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CULTURE / Books
Jan 30, 2016

Black illumination: the unhuman world of Junji Ito

We've all had sleepless nights. You toss and turn, get up and go back to bed, trying to ward off the claustrophobia of wakefulness. But what about the reverse? What if the problem is not that you can't go to sleep, but that you can't wake up? Gradually, the time you spend dreaming outstrips the time...
EDITORIALS
Jan 22, 2016

World nervously watches China

China's investment-driven growth model is fast crumbling and a new one has yet to take hold.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 21, 2016

Davos forum kicks off with dour mood amid tough global conditions

The mood was glum as the World Economic Forum's annual meeting of academics and leaders from business and politics kicked off Wednesday in Davos, Switzerland, with worries ranging from energy to geopolitics and China's slowdown causing widespread unease.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 21, 2015

Former Line CEO's new venture aims to track the pulse of world fashion with smartphone videos

Having already spent time in the limelight as the CEO of Line Corp., Akira Morikawa has now started a new venture that targets would-be fashionistas and connoisseurs of popular culture.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 12, 2015

Calling on Batman to explain our dark world

From World War II to today's war on terror, the comic book hero Batman evolves with the times to reflect America's fears.

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A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami