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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Oct 28, 2013

Getting published is easy; getting noticed is trickier

How can writers make themselves heard in the age of blog and self-publishing saturation? Japan-based authors offer a diverse range of views
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Oct 25, 2013

Nothing shouts 'Japan!' like a housewife, her Pomeranian and a fish

Halloween is almost here,' he tells me — 'he' being a friend with a passion for holidays — 'and I need a costume! Something that shouts 'Japan!' Any ideas
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BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 23, 2013

U.S. sees huge JPMorgan deal as template for future bank settlements

The U.S. Justice Department plans to use its tentative $13 billion settlement with JPMorgan Chase as a blueprint for reaching similar deals with other banks in probes related to bad mortgages and the 2008 financial crisis.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 22, 2013

No regrets for Grambling players

Naquan Smith and his Grambling football teammates have no regrets about a nearly weeklong boycott that forced the university to forfeit its game against Jackson State on Saturday.
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ENVIRONMENT
Oct 21, 2013

With ban on lead in hunters' bullets, California hopes to protect condors

By 1982, the number of California condors in the wild had dwindled to 22, an entire species nearly wiped out by, among other threats, lead poisoning from hunters' ammunition.
EDITORIALS
Oct 21, 2013

U.S. deal is made

It is reflective of the mindset in Washington that the budget sequester — a solution that was intended to be punishment for lawmakers' failure to compromise — is the new normal.
JAPAN / NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT
Oct 20, 2013

Experts play down fish radiation fear

Given the flood of radioactive water gushing into the Pacific from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 complex, how safe, or dangerous, are fish caught off northeast Japan?
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WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 20, 2013

House GOP has little to show while forcing one crisis after another

There was so much more they wanted to do.
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JAPAN
Oct 19, 2013

Nuclear refugees struggle to share Olympic joy

While Tokyo Municipal Government officials were rubbing their hands with glee after winning the right to host the 2020 Olympics following their failed attempt to win the 2016 Games, it's perhaps fair to say that not everyone in other parts of the country shared their sentiment.
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JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Oct 19, 2013

Imagining civil servants who actually serve

As a comedy, Nippon TV's 'Dandarin' not only pokes fun at bureaucratic privilege, but also wags its finger at Japan's storied management style, which succeeds on the backs of put-upon employees.
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WORLD / ANALYSIS
Oct 19, 2013

Guantanamo's fate tied to Afghan exit

The approaching end of the U.S. war in Afghanistan could help President Barack Obama move toward what he has said he wanted to do since his first day in office: close the American prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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WORLD
Oct 19, 2013

Well-funded extremists bleed Syria's moderate rebel groups of fighters

In a medical clinic packed with injured Syrian rebels, 23-year-old Mohammed Hadhoud lies waiting for an operation to remove a machine-gun bullet lodged in his spine. His family cannot afford the bill, and the moderate Islamist brigade he fights with has refused to fully cover the cost.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 19, 2013

U.S. helped asylum-seeker Wang tell Beijing about Bo in 2012: Clinton

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has disclosed new information about the United States' role in a major 2012 diplomatic incident in which a Chinese official sought asylum at a U.S. consulate but was turned away. The incident — which helped trigger the downfall of prominent Communist...
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 17, 2013

U.S. debt deal sets up new risks to growth

The deal reached by Congress on Wednesday to end the government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling would avert a financial catastrophe but leave the weakened U.S. economy facing new threats.
Reader Mail
Oct 16, 2013

Universities' problems unrelated

I still cannot agree with Dipak Basu's recent letters opining against continuance of the kanji system. Basu has argued about curriculums and programs at universities, and the problems that Japan's universities have been suffering from for a long time.
LIFE / Digital
Oct 15, 2013

As viewing habits change, Facebook, Twitter eye up a big slice of TV's future

Talk to your neighbors about their television viewing habits and you will probably find that, although the range of programmes watched is pretty narrow, the methods for receiving them vary wildly from house to house. Some people get their favorite shows via gaming consoles, some by downloading them on...
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WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 15, 2013

Debt-ceiling breach to push U.S. economy into free fall, without safety net

The Obama administration will have to decide whether to delay — or possibly suspend — tens of billions of dollars in Social Security checks, food stamps and unemployment benefits if negotiations to raise the federal debt ceiling are not resolved this week.
Oct 15, 2013

What is The Japan Times / The International New York Times?

The Japan Times /International New York Times is a two-section newspaper that allows you to enjoy our Japan-focused content alongside the global perspective of the International New York Times. This is exciting new chapter for our newspaper, and we hope you will agree.
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WORLD
Oct 13, 2013

Cleanup at nation's war cemetery stirs anger, grief

Elizabeth Belle walked toward the grave of her son carrying a canvas bag full of miniature pumpkins, silk leaves and other decorations for his headstone. Then she noticed the changes. Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, where more than 800 Iraq and Afghanistan war dead are buried, had been stripped...
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 13, 2013

On the offensive in the cyberspace arms race

Anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can launch a cyber "attack," even though the skills and tools needed to do real damage are still in short supply.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 12, 2013

Angus Deaton's 'The Great Escape' fetes growth

Angus Deaton's 'The Great Escape' celebrates growth and looks more favorably on aid directed at improving health, because that can address specific failures of market provision.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 11, 2013

The U.S. Civil War continues

A big hoax of American history is that the Civil War ended in 1865. Unfortunately it continues — as a battle over redistributing shares of economic power in the clothing of cultural values.
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BUSINESS
Oct 10, 2013

Yellen aims to take over Herculean effort at Fed

President Barack Obama formally nominated Janet Yellen as the 15th chair of the Federal Reserve on Wednesday, ensuring that the powerful U.S. central bank will be led for the next four years by someone who shares the basic philosophy of the current chairman, Ben Bernanke.
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WORLD / Politics
Oct 10, 2013

Republican options tapering to 'surrender'

As the government shutdown and the threat of a federal debt default begin to merge into a singular Washington crisis, the only way out for House Speaker John Boehner may be something he disparaged earlier this week as "unconditional surrender."
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BUSINESS
Oct 8, 2013

Obama, Democrats push bill to end deadlock

President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats tried Monday to break a political logjam that could threaten the U.S. economy, advancing legislation that would raise the federal debt ceiling as soon as possible.

Longform

A sinkhole in Yashio, which emerged in January, was triggered by a ruptured, aging sewer pipe. Authorities worry that similar sections of infrastructure across the country are also at risk of corrosion.
That sinking feeling: Japan’s aging sewers are an infrastructure time bomb