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WORLD
Sep 30, 2015

Shades of U.S. in fractious Iraq: Aden's citizens give V-signs to Saudi forces

As Saudi soldiers drive armored vehicles around Aden, the port in southern Yemen they helped recapture from rebels, young men clap and children flash the V-for-victory sign.
WORLD
Sep 29, 2015

U.S., Russia agree Syria must be united and secular

The United States and Russia agree on "some fundamental principles" for Syria, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday, adding that he planned to meet again with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 29, 2015

Rebuilding the asylum system imperative for EU

Europe needs a comprehensive plan to respond to the growing influx of refugees, rather than each nation responding selfishly focused on its own interests.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 29, 2015

Saakashvili for Ukraine prime minister?

Reform-minded Mikheil Saakashvili will need a miracle to effect much-needed changes in Ukraine.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 29, 2015

No guarantee of data literacy by statisticians

Just having a statistics department isn't enough for a university — it has to be effective.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 28, 2015

Abe's military push proves to be losing trade as defense stocks sink

Equity investors looking to profit from Japan's move away from pacifism might find that easier said than done.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 28, 2015

Xi Jinping's high-stakes visit to Washington

The visit to Washington by President Xi Jinping illustrated the old saying that politicians need to be able to 'walk and chew gum at the same time.'
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 28, 2015

Emissions bombshell stretches far beyond VW

The revelation that Volkswagen cheated for years on emissions tests raises a mammoth question: Who else did the same?
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 27, 2015

VW scandal exposes cozy ties between Germany's auto industry, government

Angela Merkel learned early in her political career that taking on the German car industry carries risks.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 27, 2015

Containing the inevitable Chinese slowdown

China's economy is heading for a slowdown, but it doesn't have to be dire.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Sep 26, 2015

Ashes to diamonds and the cost of death

'Where do we go when we die?"
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
Sep 26, 2015

'The Art of Setting Stones' reflects on the beauty and meaning in Japanese gardens

Appropriating the Japanese garden as a vehicle to explore nature, beauty, relationships and death, the author begins with the premise that people "form the world around them into the shape of their philosophies," taking "mass and space, material and void" as content for their social structures, spiritual...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Sep 26, 2015

'Sea of Opportunity' charts the history of immigrant Japanese fishermen in Hawaii

The common image of Japanese immigrants toiling in the sugarcane fields of Hawaii and — through years of sheer gumption — rising in the social ranks of the island is well established. Like the account I came across some years ago of Japanese pirates looting Mekong River villages in Cambodia, the...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / YEN FOR LIVING
Sep 26, 2015

Inevitable looming consumption tax hike keeps the LDP awake at night

The LDP is in a tough spot between an public wary of consumption tax hikes and a Finance Ministry unwilling to budge on the promised move to a 10-percent levy.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 26, 2015

China's climate actions turn the tables on American deniers

Donald Trump was succinct when asked how the United States should respond to climate change. "It's not a big problem at all," the leader in opinion polls for the Republican presidential nomination told a radio talk show host on Monday. "If you look at China, they're doing nothing about it."

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Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers