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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 23, 2019

How can we trust the state when its enemies keep dying before trial?

Jeffrey Epstein died because the U.S. government let him.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 23, 2019

Toyota has plenty for robots to do during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

When athletes and organizers descend on Tokyo for the 2020 Olympic Games they'll be ferried around in autonomous cars, while torch relay runners will be accompanied by vehicles equipped with artificial intelligence. Robots will ferry javelins and hammers.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 23, 2019

International giraffe trade to be regulated for the first time

Countries voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to regulate international trade in giraffes, an endangered species, and in their skins and other parts, overcoming objections by southern African states and drawing praise from conservationists.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 23, 2019

Nissan shows off self-driving tech with golf putts that never miss the cup

Nissan Motor Co. said Thursday it has developed a system in which any golf putt will lead the ball into the cup, by capitalizing on its self-driving technologies.
Reader Mail
Aug 23, 2019

Please help the bunnies on Rabbit Island

I am 9 years old and I love bunnies. I have a Holland Lop named Watson. I love him a lot. I learned about Rabbit Island (Okunoshima in Hiroshima Prefecture) in a magazine called Animal Tales. I have seen videos on YouTube about Rabbit Island.
Reader Mail
Aug 23, 2019

U.S. should live up to its responsibility

There is much valuable information about the U.S. immigration crisis in Cesar Chelala's opinion piece "Why the U.S. owes Central America" in the Aug. 10 edition.
Reader Mail
Aug 23, 2019

Use a comma to distinguish names

Japan should do what it wants with respect to the order of people's names, but to help others, if the family name is to be shown first, perhaps it could be followed by a comma? We have a similar issue in the U.S. when sometimes listings show the family name first and sometimes they show the given name...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 22, 2019

Japan and G7 peers brace for fractious summit in France

Japanese media outlets had reported that this year's G7 was unlikely to issue a joint statement for the first time in its history.
EDITORIALS
Aug 22, 2019

The Greenland episode's lessons

While it has become clear that Trump cannot be constrained in his utterances, it is nevertheless extraordinary that this is how the world's greatest power conducts its diplomacy.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 22, 2019

Former Kintetsu Buffaloes slugger Ralph Bryant holds kids clinic

Ralph Bryant is 58 years old and hasn't played top-level baseball since his final season with the Kintetsu Buffaloes in 1995.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Aug 22, 2019

Trump's snub of Denmark over Greenland shows disregard for a model U.S. ally

President Donald Trump is coming to Europe. And not for the first time, he has embarrassed a U.S. ally and reached out to Russia's Vladimir Putin before even boarding a plane.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 22, 2019

Trump says other nations will need to fight resurgent Islamic State, and threatens to set prisoners free in their home countries

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that other countries will need to take up the fight against Islamic State militants, citing Russia, Pakistan and Iran as examples.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 21, 2019

Winter is coming; Japan should turn up the 'air-con'

Frosty dispute with South Korea requires an unlikely alternative to home kerosene heaters.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 21, 2019

Chinese parliament spokesman rules out allowing same-sex marriage

Limiting marriage to between a man and a woman will remain China's legal position, a parliament spokesman said on Wednesday, ruling out following neighboring Taiwan in allowing same-sex marriage, despite pressure from activists.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Aug 21, 2019

Ex-Vatican treasurer George Pell loses appeal against sex abuse convictions in Australia

Former Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell lost an appeal against his conviction for sexually abusing two 13-year-old choir boys and will remain in prison for at least another three years, an Australian court ruled Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 21, 2019

Water pollution an 'invisible threat' to global development goals, economists warn

Water pollution threatens nearly all the globally agreed upon development goals to end environmental destruction, poverty and suffering by 2030, economists warned in a report on Tuesday, citing the largest-ever database on the world's water quality.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 21, 2019

Climate change will cripple economies regardless of wealth: report

Climate change will damage the economies of countries whether they are rich or poor, hot or cold, by the year 2100, economists wrote in a new report, dispelling the notion that impoverished, warm countries will suffer the most on a warming planet.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 21, 2019

Amazon burning: Brazil reports record forest fires, at nearly double the rate recorded last year

Wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest have hit a record number this year, with 72,843 fires detected so far by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, or INPE, as concerns grow over right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro's environmental policy.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 21, 2019

Russian-backed Syrian army poised to take key Idlib town hit by sarin in 2017 after rebels withdraw

Syrian government forces look set to recover a strategic town that has been in rebel hands since 2014 in a major Russian-backed offensive into the opposition's last major stronghold.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 21, 2019

FAA issues safety warning on sensor linked to 737 Max crashes

U.S. aviation regulators are urging workers at airports to take extra care around the sensors on the sides of aircraft that failed in two crashes of Boeing Co. 737 Max jets since October.
BUSINESS
Aug 20, 2019

Line and Nomura launch zero-commission online brokerage for Japanese stocks

Line Corp. and Nomura Holdings Inc. said they have launched an online brokerage venture that will charge zero commissions for trading in Japanese shares.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 20, 2019

Minimalism: Not as straightforward as it seems

It's 100 years since the Bauhaus art and design school first opened in Weimar, Germany, and the new Muji flagship store in Ginza is as good a venue as any to hold an anniversary exhibition celebrating the values of simple, affordable modernist design.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 20, 2019

CDP and DPP to 'join hands' in Japan's Diet in bid to thwart Abe's plans

In a move to counter the ruling bloc, Yukio Edano and Yuichiro Tamaki agreed Tuesday to merge their kaiha parliamentary groups in both houses of the Diet.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Aug 20, 2019

U.S. test of previously banned missile raises fears of new nuclear arms race

The U.S. military has conducted a flight test of a type of missile banned for more than 30 years, under a treaty from which it bolted earlier this month, the Pentagon said Monday, in a move experts said was likely to have been closely watched by China, Russia and even North Korea.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 20, 2019

How an obscure rubber company in Japan became a linchpin of the tech industry

When Japan decided to pick a fight with South Korea last month, it dug deep into the supply chain to impose sanctions on three obscure materials made by a handful of Japanese companies few have ever heard of.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 20, 2019

Hong Kong leader says dialogue offers 'way out' of chaos

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday she hoped a peaceful weekend anti-government protest was the start of an effort to restore calm and that talks with nonviolent protesters would provide "a way out" for the China-ruled city.

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