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Feb 21, 2020

Pompeo presages U.S. downfall

Regarding the story "'West is Winning,' U.S. tells China, Russia" in the Feb. 17 edition, when Richard Nixon declared "I am not a crook!" it just confirmed the fact that he was. When Mike Pompeo declared "The West is winning," it was virtual proof of losing.
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GLOBAL MEDIA POST / Northern California report 2020
Feb 21, 2020

Kintone: The future of the digital workspace

In 2010, amid increasing digitalization and cloud computing, Japan-based Cybozu saw a need to create a platform that fostered more collaboration and more transparent communication among teams in the workplace while empowering individual workers.
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GLOBAL MEDIA POST / Northern California report 2020
Feb 21, 2020

The US-Waseda Friends Network

With more than 610,000 alumni around the world, including 12 alumni chapters in North America alone, Waseda University, the No. 1 private university in Japan, understands the importance and power of networking.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 20, 2020

Mercari plans Tokyo store to tempt more into its online marketplace

Online flea market operator Mercari Inc. said Thursday that it would try its hand at brick and mortar operations in hope of reaching tens of millions of untapped users in the Japanese market, allowing them to sell their used goods on the spot and handling everything from photography to shipment.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 20, 2020

'Speed science' on new coronavirus carries risks

One scientific post suggests links between the new coronavirus and AIDS. A second says it may have passed to people via snakes. A third claims it is a pathogen from outer space.
JAPAN
Feb 20, 2020

Panel to seek UNESCO listing for 37 Japanese folk performance arts

The Council for Cultural Affairs decided Wednesday to recommend that 37 folk performance arts be added to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 20, 2020

As COVID-19 spreads, Takeda CEO urges more industry investment in vaccines

The spread of novel coronavirus infections is starting to make one thing clear: More vaccine investment is needed, the CEO of Asia's biggest drugmaker said.
BUSINESS
Feb 20, 2020

Spread of COVID-19 casts shadow over Japan's shuntō wage talks

The widening outbreak of the new coronavirus originating in China has started to affect annual shuntō wage negotiations.
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CULTURE / Film
Feb 20, 2020

'Fictitious Girl's Diary: The Movie': An honest portrait of office minutiae

Comedian Bakarhythm brings his nameless female bank clerk character to the big screen and lovingly documents the trivial goings-on in the life of a Japanese office worker.
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BUSINESS
Feb 20, 2020

Boeing heads to court to oppose release of 737 Max documents

Boeing Co. heads to court on Wednesday to dispute a request from lawyers representing victims of a 737 Max crash for documents related to the aircraft's design, development and two fatal disasters involving the now-grounded plane.
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 19, 2020

Malaysia never ruled out 'murder-suicide plot' by MH370 pilot, says former PM Najib

Malaysia has never ruled out the possibility that missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 could have been downed by a suicidal pilot, the country's former prime minister Najib Razak said on Wednesday.
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OLYMPICS
Feb 19, 2020

U.S. track great DeeDee Trotter motivates junior high school students

Olympic gold medalist DeeDee Trotter has enough energy to warm up a room. Even a chilly gymnasium in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 19, 2020

Changing attitudes, not regulations, is the key to Japan's future

There is little indication that the Japanese public will change and allow the reforms required to put Japan's economy on a more stable footing and facilitate growth.
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COMMENTARY / World
Feb 19, 2020

Bernie should own the socialist label

Even if he loses, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders can rehabilitate socialism as an acceptable economic alternative. I
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JAPAN
Feb 19, 2020

Expert stirs controversy with video on 'inadequate' virus controls on Diamond Princess

Controversy was stirred among the public and at the Diet Wednesday, after an infectious disease expert posted a now-deleted video online in which he claimed to have seen inadequate anti-virus contamination measures on the Diamond Princess cruise ship.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 19, 2020

WHO says no indication of COVID-19 cases in North Korea

There are no indications that there are cases of the new coronavirus in North Korea, a World Health Organization official said, despite South Korean media reports suggesting the outbreak had spread to the isolated country.
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BUSINESS / Tech / FOCUS
Feb 19, 2020

Edison, Morse and Watson? AI poses question of who's an inventor

Computers using artificial intelligence are discovering medicines, designing better golf clubs and creating video games.
BUSINESS
Feb 19, 2020

COVID-19 takes toll on students' job-hunting in Japan

While job-seekers are enjoying a seller's market due to severe labor shortages, many firms are busy coming up with measures to deal with the virus situation, including switching to online briefings.
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WORLD / Society
Feb 19, 2020

Macron unveils curbs on foreign imams and teachers amid wariness over 'separatism' risk

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he would curb the practice of foreign countries sending imams and teachers to France to crack down on what he called the risk of "separatism.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 18, 2020

If only Iwo Jima had been captured sooner

Had the capture of Iwo Jima taken place in the summer of 1944 as the Tojo Cabinet was collapsing, the war probably would have taken a different course and many lives could have been spared.
JAPAN
Feb 18, 2020

Health ministry struggles to provide COVID-19 updates in foreign languages

The health ministry is struggling to keep non-Japanese updated on the rapidly escalating situation in a timely manner, hampered by a dearth of staff proficient in foreign languages.
OLYMPICS
Feb 18, 2020

'United by Emotion' selected as Tokyo 2020 motto

"United by Emotion" was revealed as the motto for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics on Monday as organizers look to hammer home the message of diversity and inclusion.
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LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
Feb 18, 2020

People won't throw you under the bus if you're able to use 'kuse ni' correctly

Using the grammatical structure 'X kuse ni Y' has the same effect as 'despite X, Y' and can be used to convey a feeling of ill will.
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LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Feb 18, 2020

Let's discuss plastic bag fees in Japan

Would you be willing to pay an extra fee for plastic bags if it meant we were able to use the money to help with larger environmentally friendly efforts?
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ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 18, 2020

Lung biopsy of deceased China patient shows SARS-like damage

Doctors studying a 50-year-old man who died in China last month from the new coronavirus found that the disease caused lung damage reminiscent of two prior coronavirus-related outbreaks, SARS and MERS.
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COMMENTARY / World
Feb 17, 2020

Yes, Ukraine matters to the U.S.

Now that impeachment is over, we can get back to why keeping Russia at bay is a key element of foreign policy.

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