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ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Jul 30, 2017

Don't be fooled, pests are a problem — no matter how cute they appear

I recently went out to my friend John Harris' country home in the Isumi district of Chiba Prefecture, about 100 kilometers southeast of Tokyo. His house is midway down the Pacific coast of the Boso Peninsula, close to the small town of Onjuku, which is known for its surfing and its (formerly) bare-breasted...
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CULTURE / Art
Jul 30, 2017

Southeast Asian art gets its biggest showing in Japan

A few years ago, at the press conference for Taiwanese artist Lee Mingwei's solo show at the Mori Art Museum (MAM), Fumio Nanjo, the museum director, talked about the direction the museum would be taking from then on; they were no longer so interested in "the West" and were aiming to focus more on Asia....
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 30, 2017

China bets U.S. won't carry out strike against North Korea

China is betting that U.S. President Donald Trump won't make good on his threats of a military strike against North Korea, with Beijing continuing to provide a lifeline to Kim Jong Un's regime.
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COMMENTARY / World
Jul 30, 2017

Government promises won't kill the combustion engine

The campaign to convince consumers that the combustion era is ending and electric is taking over is working about as well as anti-smoking campaigns did before cigarettes were banned in most public spaces and became prohibitively expensive for many smokers.
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JAPAN
Jul 30, 2017

Image analysis reveals North Korea may have planned to send first ICBM test much closer to Japan

A new imagery analysis obtained exclusively by The Japan Times sheds light on how North Korea views Japan and Tokyo's American protector as it seeks to master the technology for a long-range missile.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 30, 2017

U.S. bombers link up with ASDF, South Korean fighters in 'direct response' to North Korean ICBM test

U.S. strategic bombers flying from Guam linked up with Japanese and South Korean fighter jets Sunday in a display of the allies' ability to project "overwhelming force" after North Korea's second successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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MORE SPORTS
Jul 29, 2017

Former super featherweight champion Uchiyama retires with pride in career accomplishments

Just like people in general, there is no immortality in sports. One day, every athlete starts declining, and one day he or she must quit.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jul 29, 2017

Spare a thought for the secretaries

Few recent scandals have been as entertaining as Lower House lawmaker Mayuko Toyota's verbal and physical attack on her secretary as revealed in a recording leaked to the weekly magazine Shukan Shincho. With the recording coming to light in the week before the Tokyo assembly elections, Toyota decided...
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LIFE / Food & Drink / NATURE'S PANTRY
Jul 29, 2017

Putting dairy cows to pasture makes for healthy soil, delicious milk

Milk production, which was essentially nil during the Edo Period (1603-1868), did not begin in Japan until the Meiji Era (1868-1912).
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JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jul 29, 2017

Death: We all have to go sometime

"In Japan today, talking about death is taboo," Kobe University medical professor Yoshiyuki Kizawa told the Asahi Shimbun earlier this month.
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WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 29, 2017

Known knife-wielding Islamist kills one, injures six in Germany

The migrant who killed one person and injured six others in a knife attack in a Hamburg supermarket on Friday was an Islamist known to German security forces, who say they believed he posed no immediate threat, the city-state's interior minister said on Saturday.
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COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jul 29, 2017

Labor reforms come up short for Japan's 'precariat'

The costs of not improving the lot of nonregular workers are enormous in terms of thwarted careers, social status, poverty — and even isolation, as they have a much lower marriage rate.
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CULTURE / Books
Jul 29, 2017

'Japanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation': War through the eyes of everyday Oita citizens

The deafening report of war is such that the cries of its victims are often hard to hear, even decades later.
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CULTURE / Books
Jul 29, 2017

'The Boy in the Earth': A short, sharp shock of a novella

"The Boy in the Earth" was Fuminori Nakamura's fifth book and it won him the Akutagawa Prize in 2005. It's a short sharp shock of a novella and Allison Markin Powell's powerful recent translation finally brings its creeping dread alive for English readers.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Jul 29, 2017

Dabiz Molinero: 'Imagination pushes art and makes it limitless'

Spanish artist on the insight behind chocolate.
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BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Jul 29, 2017

Documentary on former hoop star Neumann's life provides a cautionary tale

Hoop aficionados from Harlem to Hokkaido can appreciate the details of a good global basketball odyssey.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 29, 2017

Germany's top automakers sued in U.S. over two-decade tech-suppression 'cartel'

German's major automakers were accused in a U.S. lawsuit of acting as a cartel, colluding for nearly two decades to limit the pace of technological advances in their vehicles and stifle competition — allegations that widen the scope of the latest scandal to hit the nation's auto industry.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 29, 2017

German court rules in favor of diesel ban in Mercedes' hometown as fallout over VW scandal continues

German carmakers, fighting for a future for diesel technology in Europe, faced a setback after a Stuttgart court ruled in favor of a complaint seeking to ban all diesel cars from entering the home city of Mercedes-Benz and Porsche.
JAPAN
Jul 29, 2017

Beppu makes splash with bathtub theme park

The mayor of Beppu lives up to his promise by creating a temporary theme park in Oita Prefecture based on the resort city's famed hot springs.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 29, 2017

Asteroid mining finds an unlikely champion

Luxembourg of all nations is a leading player in the drive to gain economic benefits from space.
JAPAN
Jul 29, 2017

Ability to strike more of U.S. feared as North Korean ICBM test splashes down off Hokkaido

North Korea's latest missile test confirms the hermit state now has the capability to strike most of the United States with a nuclear missile of some sort.
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WORLD / Politics
Jul 29, 2017

Space alien Donald Trump appears on Mexican billboard

A massive image of U.S. President Donald Trump as an alien intruder now towers above one of the busiest roads in Mexico City, urging motorists to "Make America Great Again."
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WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jul 29, 2017

Struggling to govern, Trump faces growing Republican unease

As fellow Republicans labored to repeal "Obamacare" this past week, U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly swerved off topic, escalating concerns in his party about his ability to govern the country six months after taking office.

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