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BUSINESS / U.S. THINK TANK SYMPOSIUM
Feb 26, 2011

Japan, U.S. must manage bold China

China's increasingly assertive diplomatic and security postures present a much tougher challenge than its economic rise, requiring closer cooperation between the United States and its allies such as Japan to manage the situation, scholars from American think tanks said at a recent symposium in Tokyo....
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 1, 2010

The G20's expensive party

HONG KONG — Leaders of the world's most powerful nations and a few less powerful hangers-on, like Canada and Italy, have just spent a few more billions of their taxpayers' money as they failed to devise a rescue plan for a world economy that is still perilously close to the cliff edge of disaster....
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 5, 2009

Geithner's 'G-2' invitation

HONG KONG — Some Chinese see U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who was in Beijing this week, as a repentant debtor humbly visiting his bank manager. Influential Americans, however, see the visit as the start of a beautiful friendship, perhaps even a tipping point in global finance — the overture...
BUSINESS
Feb 26, 2009

January trade deficit worst on record

Exports plunged 45.7 percent in January from a year earlier, resulting in a record trade deficit as the recession in the United States and Europe smothered demand for cars and electronics.
COMMENTARY
Apr 11, 2005

The danger of keeping Japan in its place

LOS ANGELES -- Reform of the United Nations -- that terribly tarnished crown jewel of post-World War II global order -- is, as everyone agrees, urgently needed. For all its imperfections, it is the best world political organization we have.
CULTURE / Books
Apr 7, 1999

Fading hopes for faltering Japan

JAPAN TODAY, by Roger Buckley. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999, (3rd edition), 233 pp. This is a succinct and reliable introductory survey of post-World War II Japanese history. This third edition is substantially rewritten and updated by the inclusion of recent material and analysis....
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BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2023

With BOJ pick, Kishida strikes political balance and draws line under Abenomics

Having an academic helm the BOJ is unprecedented in Japan, where the job traditionally rotates between a central banker and an official from the Finance Ministry.
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COMMENTARY / World
Jan 3, 2023

Actually, it has been a wonderful year for tech’s future

Things looked bleak for the technology sector in 2022. Yet progress across the board gives reason to be optimistic about the coming few years.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 21, 2021

We’re being watched. So are our watchers.

In modern society, the legal concept of a reasonable expectation of privacy is increasingly meaningless.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Dec 26, 2020

20 Questions: The best answers of 2020

The 20 Questions format aims to get people in Japan to tell us about their thoughts and beliefs in their words. Here are some of the most interesting answers from 2020.
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COMMENTARY / World
Nov 1, 2020

Trump’s election gift to China

At the ideological level, a U.S. election meltdown featuring bitter political clashes and endless litigation would be a propaganda bonanza for the Chinese Communist Party.
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Sep 12, 2020

For Japan-U.K. trade deal, speed was of the essence

Although both countries have touted a handful of differences, a fast-approaching year-end deadline meant the agreement mostly reproduces an earlier Japan-EU pact.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League / B. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Dec 12, 2019

Mathias Calfani helps Brave Thunders with solid play

Mathias Calfani's passion for basketball is evident on every possession.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 1, 2019

Making sense of the Brexit confusion

Brexit, which was meant to regain sovereignty from the EU, might result in an eventual disintegration of the U.K.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / CHANNEL SURF,MEDIA MIX
Oct 5, 2019

Debating contraception and a woman's reproductive rights

In May, the Sendai District Court dismissed a suit against the government filed by two women who underwent forced sterilization under the now-defunct Eugenic Protections Law because the statute of limitations had expired. However, the judges said that the law, which allowed the government to prevent...
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LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Jan 14, 2019

Let's discuss Yusaku Maezawa's great Twitter giveaway

In the latest headline-grabbing move by Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, the founder and CEO of major online fashion mall operator Zozo Inc. has announced a plan to dole out ¥1 million to 100 individuals to mark a successful New Year's sale.
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WORLD
Oct 15, 2018

Saudi king orders probe in Jamal Khashoggi case as Turkey plans consulate search

Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Monday ordered an internal probe into the unexplained disappearance of prominent journalist Jamal Khashoggi as a joint Turkish-Saudi team was set to search the Saudi consulate in Istanbul where he was last seen on Oct. 2.
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COMMENTARY
Jul 31, 2018

Time to empower Japan's chief medical officer

Japan needs a Cabinet-level official who can inform national efforts to create best practices for addressing key health concerns.
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COMMENTARY / World
Mar 1, 2018

Journalist murders are a major EU problem

Clearly not all European Union members are enforcing the bloc's stated values.
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WORLD
Feb 6, 2018

Syria regime airstrikes pound last rebel strongholds and hospitals, allegedly choke civilians with gas

Warplanes launched heavy attacks on the two last major rebel-held areas in Syria, killing at least 29 people in the Ghouta suburb near the capital and choking people with gas in Idlib in the northwest, rescue workers and a war monitor said on Monday.
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COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Sep 23, 2017

In Japan under Shinzo Abe, more power to the PM, but to what end?

In his final Counterpoint column, Jeff Kingston considers where Japan is heading under scandal-hit Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
COMMENTARY / World
May 16, 2017

Trump voters' message: we exist

Donald Trump hasn't lifted a finger to help Rust Belters as president, but he did far more than the Democratic Party's elites during the election when he acknowledged their existence.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Nov 19, 2016

Will Trump join forces with Abe or push him toward Putin?

What do intellectuals know?
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 6, 2016

Don't fear democracy, Taiwan tells China on Tiananmen anniversary

On the anniversary of China's bloody crackdown on student-led protests in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square, Taiwan's new president told China on Saturday that democracy is nothing to fear.
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JAPAN
May 29, 2016

Trump blasts Obama for not mentioning Pearl Harbor during Hiroshima visit

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump targets the United States' relationship with Japan again when he slams President Barack Obama for not raising the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 16, 2015

Twisted spending priorities of a graying nation

All Americans ought to want effective and efficient government, but government is being strangled as the rising costs of baby-boomer retirees reduce the capacity of other programs to fulfill their missions.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 15, 2014

What should the U.S. do about Islamic State?

The U.S. lost the Iraq War years ago. The sooner it accepts that there is nothing to be saved there and moves on, the better off it'll be. That includes refraining from attacking the Islamic State.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 4, 2014

A new cold war in the making?

Even if there is no war, the Crimea crisis is likely to alter fundamentally relations between Russia and the West, and lead to changes in the global power balance.

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