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BUSINESS
Feb 4, 2016

Japan's power producers scour forests in search of wood to burn

With almost 70 percent of its land covered by forests, Japan is leading a drive to return to wood as a source of cleaner energy.
BUSINESS
Feb 4, 2016

Kansai business leaders hail nuclear power plant restarts, urge TPP ratification

The annual meeting of Kansai area corporate leaders opened Thursday in Kyoto with declarations of support for a recently restarted nuclear power plant and calls for the swift ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
BUSINESS
Feb 4, 2016

Carmakers say India's sudden rule changes raise investment uncertainty

Behind the glitzy song-and-dance sequences at the biennial Delhi Auto Expo, executives from automakers including Maruti Suzuki India Ltd., Honda Motor Co., and Ford Motor Co. are expressing concern about sudden changes in regulation.
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 3, 2016

China says U.S. looking for excuses to raise defense budget

China said on Wednesday the United States was just looking for excuses to pump taxpayers' money into its military, after U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter named China as a reason for seeking a $582.7 billion defense budget next year.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 3, 2016

Sanctions alone didn't curb Iran's nuclear ambitions

The case of Iran demonstrates that sanctions can be a useful policy tool, but only as part of a coherent strategy that includes diplomacy and the credible threat of force.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 3, 2016

China's migrants go home — and stay there

Decades of reform is finally starting to pay off for some of China's most economically backward regions.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 3, 2016

U.S. says open to patrols with Philippines in waters disputed with China

The United States is open to the possibility of joint naval patrols with the Philippines in the South China Sea, a U.S. diplomat said Wednesday, stressing it would continue to exercise "freedom of navigation" in the disputed waters.
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CULTURE / Film
Feb 3, 2016

Japan's epic samurai dramas are in a tight spot

Japanese can roughly be split into two camps: those equipped with an encyclopedic knowledge of history and those who have only a vague idea of who the samurai were or that a Shogun once lived in what is now the Imperial Palace. The history geeks on one side and those who couldn't care less on the other....
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Feb 3, 2016

Easton making foray into Japan

U.S.-based baseball equipment manufacturer Easton, one of the largest baseball brands in America, is making a foray into the Japanese market, the company announced earlier this week. Along with its products, Easton is bringing along some technology it hopes can help shape the future of youth baseball...
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CULTURE / Film
Feb 3, 2016

An unforgiving look at 'Unbroken' in Japan

Flashback to 1983: Director Nagisa Oshima's "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence," set during World War II in a Japanese-run POW camp in Java, is opening in theaters across Japan. It starred David Bowie with two huge local stars: comedian Beat Takeshi and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto. The film confronted the reality...
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WORLD / Politics
Feb 3, 2016

New Hampshire primary requires candidates to recalibrate campaigns

Just hours after the last voters walked away from Iowa's caucuses, the center of the reshaped 2016 presidential race shifted to New Hampshire, where candidates were already addressing voters before dawn Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 3, 2016

China reduces 11 Xinjiang jail sentences, calls de-radicalization a success

Authorities in China's unruly far-western region of Xinjiang have reduced the sentences of 11 people jailed for threatening state security after declaring the success of a re-radicalization programme, state Xinhua News Agency reported.
SOCCER
Feb 3, 2016

Guangzhou snaps up Atletico striker Martinez

Guangzhou Evergrande has signed striker Jackson Martinez from Atletico Madrid for a bumper transfer fee of €42 million ($46 million), the south China club confirmed on Wednesday.
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WORLD
Feb 3, 2016

Islamic State's Iraq, Syria stakes shrinking but oil-rich Libya another story: Kerry

An international coalition is pushing back Islamic State militants in their Syrian and Iraqi strongholds, but the group is threatening Libya and could seize the nation's oil wealth, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 2, 2016

The chorus against the posh boys grows louder

The global elites' competence and moral legitimacy are being questioned like never before.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 2, 2016

Taiwan's balancer-in-chief

Tsai's election demonstrates that, while many Taiwanese want good relations with China, they are opposed to Beijing's 'One China' policy.
EDITORIALS
Feb 1, 2016

NLD takes control in Myanmar

At long last, Myanmar has a democratic government.
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 1, 2016

China says U.S. seeks 'hegemony' after South China Sea sailing

China accused the United States on Monday of seeking maritime hegemony in the name of freedom of navigation after a U.S. Navy destroyer sailed within 12 nautical miles of a disputed island in the South China Sea.
LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
Feb 1, 2016

Taking a stand and speaking from it with 'to shite'

Introducing various usages of the phrase Xu3068u3057u3066 (as/being X).
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JAPAN / Science & Health
Feb 1, 2016

Japanese team invents movable tongue prosthesis to enable speech for cancer victims

Dentistry researchers at Okayama University have come up with what could be the world's first movable tongue prosthesis to help oral cancer patients who have partially lost the ability to speak.
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JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Feb 1, 2016

U.S. presidential contenders vow status quo in Japan ties

With the Iowa caucus Monday, the primary voting process that will select Democratic and Republican candidates to run in the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election has begun. Over the next four months, American, and international, attention will be focused on the primary races, and who emerges as their party's...

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