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BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 21, 2017

BOJ faces new challenges when stimulus measures end

While Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda has underscored how much work still lies ahead, when the central bank does finally hit its inflation target and exits stimulus, it is likely to face huge balance sheet losses.
JAPAN / AFTEREFFECTS OF MARCH 2011
Mar 9, 2017

Tepco's biggest hurdle: How to remove melted fuel from crippled Fukushima reactors

Six years after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, recent investigations underneath the damaged reactor 2 using cameras and robots came close to identifying melted fuel rods for the first time.
EDITORIALS
Mar 8, 2017

What Abe's LDP dominance portends

A lack of any signficant rivalry to Abe seems to reflect the dearth of viable next-generation leaders — a problem that could haunt the party in coming years
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 7, 2017

SpaceX's moon mission is NASA's wake-up call

The lunar vacation offered by Elon Musk's SpaceX may also serve as the starting gun for a new and very different space race.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 28, 2017

SoftBank reportedly in talks to merge OneWeb satellite startup with Intelsat

SoftBank Group Corp., the technology giant controlled by billionaire Masayoshi Son, is in talks to merge the satellite startup it's backing, OneWeb Ltd., with satellite provider Intelsat SA, according to sources familiar with the matter.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 26, 2017

Japan has no room to criticize U.S. refugee ban

Donald Trump's America isn't the only country turning its back on refugees. Japan is just as guilty.
EDITORIALS
Feb 25, 2017

Ambitious curriculum guidelines

The education ministry's proposed curriculum guidelines for elementary and junior high schools may be overly ambitious.
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Feb 23, 2017

What awaits 'post-Abe' LDP

Unless somebody emerges as a powerful new leader during the remainder of Abe's tenure, the LDP's future decline seems inevitable.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 23, 2017

Wooden 'plyscrapers' challenge concrete and steel

High-rise wooden buildings, led by The Tree, a 52.8-meter (173-foot) apartment block in Norway, are claiming a place on city skylines as the timber industry challenges the supremacy of concrete and steel.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Feb 10, 2017

Liverpool out of title chase after recent run of poor form

Given Liverpool's dreadful league form this year — three draws and two defeats — it is remarkable that victory over second-place Tottenham at Anfield on Saturday will see Jürgen Klopp's team only one point behind the visitors.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 10, 2017

When Putin asked about Obama-era nuke treaty, Trump was stumped, then denounced it: sources

In his first call as president with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump denounced a treaty that caps U.S. and Russian deployment of nuclear warheads as a bad deal for the United States, according to two U.S. officials and one former U.S. official with knowledge of the call.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Feb 6, 2017

State-backed scholarship program to open doors to university

The government will soon launch the first state-backed scholarships in an effort to make universities more accessible as more students face financial difficulties to pursue higher education.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 2, 2017

Lead by Tesla, battery storage facilities look to boot fossil fuels from the grid

Tesla Motors Inc. is making a huge bet that millions of small batteries can be strung together to help kick fossil fuels off the grid. The idea is a powerful one — and has been used to help justify the company's $5 billion factory near Reno, Nev. — but batteries have so far only appeared in a handful...
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jan 31, 2017

Cavaliers paying price for LeBron's imperious actions

When you declare yourself the king, as LeBron James did and Henry VIII in England, and it looks like Donald Trump in the United States these days, then you'll probably act like the world is your kingdom — heck, LeBron calls it the (his?) Land — and your actions will be erratic and often damaging...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 24, 2017

Japan should push back if Trump acts on 'wrong' economic policies: Abe adviser

Japan should push back if U.S. President Donald Trump bases trade and other economic policy on "wrong economics," an adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told Reuters in an unusually direct expression of concern about potential protectionism.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 24, 2017

Hedge fund Renaissance picks winner with hot firm V Technology

V Technology Co., a small Japanese supplier to display makers, added a surprising new shareholder last June: Renaissance Technologies.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 19, 2017

Nissan, Toyota back U.K. plants despite May's Brexit plan

Toyota Motor Corp. and Nissan Motor Co. say they'll keep making cars in the U.K. despite Prime Minister Theresa May's plan to leave the European Union's single market, which could make exporting from British factories less lucrative.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / DAVOS SPECIAL 2017
Jan 17, 2017

Sport provides path to economic prosperity, world peace

Recently, "Team Japan" scored quite a few points in leading the world in the promotion of sports and culture to achieve economic prosperity and world peace.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 3, 2017

Startups using birds of prey, anti-drone guns to take out straying unmanned aerial vehicles

A boom in consumer drone sales has spawned a counter-industry of startups aiming to stop drones flying where they shouldn't, by disabling them or knocking them out of the sky.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 1, 2017

Abe has no reason to rock the boat by calling early-2017 snap election

After weeks of speculation that 2017 may start with a snap election in late January, the prime minister said on NHK that it will not happen.
EDITORIALS
Dec 31, 2016

The political landscape in 2017

With the opposition in disarray, the ruling bloc can bide its time and call the next election when Abe is good and ready.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 31, 2016

China announces complete ban on domestic ivory trade by end of 2017

China will slap a total ban on the domestic ivory trade within a year, the government announced Friday, shutting the door to the world's biggest end market for poached ivory.
EDITORIALS
Dec 17, 2016

Recidivism among the elderly

The government needs to work harder at keeping elderly ex-convicts from becoming repeat offenders.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 13, 2016

Ruling bloc rams casino bill through committee

The ruling bloc rams a divisive casino legalization bill through an Upper House committee, opening the door to its likely passage on Wednesday.

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