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Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 4, 2018

Utah man arrested over suspected ricin-containing envelopes mailed to Trump, Pentagon officials: source

A Utah man was taken into custody on Wednesday as a suspect in the investigation of letters sent to Pentagon officials and President Donald Trump that were initially feared to contain the poison ricin, a law enforcement source said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 4, 2018

Jeff Bezos' space company designing large, reusable lunar lander

Jeff Bezos' space company is in the conceptual design phase of a large lunar lander that it says will provide reusable access to the moon's surface and its resources, Blue Origin said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / Wide Angle
Oct 3, 2018

'Dare to Stop Us': Japanese cinema's bad boy as seen by one of the women who worked with him

In the 1960s Koji Wakamatsu was Japanese cinema's enfant terrible: A real-life outlaw — he once joined a yakuza gang and served time in prison — he made pioneering "pink" (softcore porn) films such as "The Embryo Hunts in Secret" (1966) and "Go, Go, Second Time Virgin" (1969), whose extreme sex and...
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 3, 2018

Airports act against rising seas and stronger storms as climate changes

Global airport operators, faced with rising sea levels and more powerful storms as the climate changes, are starting to invest in measures including higher runways, seawalls and better drainage systems to future-proof immovable assets.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 3, 2018

Poaching brings added problems to fishermen in disaster-hit Tohoku region

In coastal areas in the northeastern prefectures of Iwate and Miyagi, hit hard by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, local fishermen are struggling to find countermeasures against poaching.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 3, 2018

U.K.'s May to call Brexit an 'opportunity,' to challenge critics during speech at party conference

British Prime Minister Theresa May will tell her Conservative Party on Wednesday that the impending divorce from the European Union is an opportunity that opens up a future full of promise, assuring the faithful: "We have everything we need to succeed."
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / COMMUNITY CHEST
Oct 3, 2018

What does the future hold for Naomi Osaka and Japanese dual nationals?: Readers' views

Some readers' letters in response to the recent Community articles about Japan's first tennis singles Grand Slam champion.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 3, 2018

U.S. would destroy banned Russian warheads if necessary: NATO envoy

Russia must halt its covert development of a banned cruise missile system or the United States will seek to destroy it before it becomes operational, Washington's envoy to NATO said on Tuesday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 2, 2018

Nobel chief calls Aung San Suu Kyi's actions 'regrettable' but says she will keep peace prize

Some of the actions Aung San Suu Kyi has taken as Myanmar's civilian leader are "regrettable" but her Nobel Peace Prize will not be withdrawn, the head of the Nobel Foundation said in an interview in Stockholm on Friday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 2, 2018

Abe's art of the deal: What the prime minister won in New York

Japan is at the heart of virtually every effort to write new rules for the global trading system.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 2, 2018

Trump has transformed American politics — can the Democrats catch up?

Only a strong, strident, unapologetically articulated left vision can counter the energized GOP base and its far-right agenda.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 2, 2018

Globalists will love Trump's new NAFTA deal

A playbook is emerging for the Trump administration's trade agreements that bodes well for the Japan-U.S. bilateral talks.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 2, 2018

A master of Zen wisdom and dad jokes

If you are an older chubby man with a receding hairline and facing nothing but a decline into old age and death, there's always the work of Zen monk Sengai Gibon (1750-1837) to fall back on.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Oct 2, 2018

With just a year to go, Japan's businesses worry about complexities of forthcoming consumption tax rates

With the Abe government planning to raise the consumption tax rate to 10 percent from 8 percent on Oct. 1 next year, businesses are worried about the extra burden of a consumer-friendly relief measure.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 2, 2018

Brett Kavanaugh college visit to bar erupted in fight in 1985, classmate says

Future Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and two fellow Yale University students were in an off-campus bar back in 1985.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 2, 2018

Tesla shares surge on Model 3 numbers, Elon Musk settling row with regulators

Shares of Tesla Inc. jumped 18 percent on Monday as signs it had met targets for quarterly car production added to relief at Chief Executive Elon Musk's settling of a lawsuit with regulators that had threatened to force him out.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 2, 2018

Pyongyang says declaring end to Korean War can't be bargaining chip for denuclearization: KCNA

North Korea said on Tuesday that declaring the end of the 1950-53 Korean War "can never be a bargaining chip" for getting North Korea denuclearized, and said the country "will not particularly hope for it" if the United States does not want the end of war, according to state media Korean Central News...
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 2, 2018

'Terrorism' ad by indicted Republican against Democrat foe roils California election

When a Democrat with Palestinian-Mexican ancestry who had never before run for office was elected to challenge a Republican incumbent in a staunchly conservative southern California congressional district, few gave him much of a chance.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 2, 2018

Kayakers from across Europe join protests to save Balkan rivers from 'dam tsunami'

Kayakers from across Europe took to Bosnia's Vrbas river on Monday to protest against a boom in dam construction across the western Balkans that campaigners say threaten to cause irreparable environmental damage.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 1, 2018

Five reasons to take Putin's treaty suggestion seriously

Japan and Russia should aim for a compromise on the territorial dispute so they can reap the benefits of better bilateral ties.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Oct 1, 2018

Nishioka savors first career ATP title

At 40-30, Yoshihito Nishioka fired a second serve up the middle and watched as his opponent dumped a return into the net.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Oct 1, 2018

Nothing is left undone with the plethora of negative prefixes in Japanese

Everything in life has a negative side to it. This nasty fact has also left its mark on Japanese, in the form of negative prefixes that will turn just everything into its opposite.
LIFE / Language
Oct 1, 2018

Monthly mag Shincho 45 suspended over discriminatory speech targeting LGBT

Shinchosha Publishing Co. has decided to suspend publication of monthly magazine Shincho 45 in response to criticism it has received for using discriminatory language toward the LGBTQ community.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 1, 2018

U.S. sends warship near man-made islets in South China Sea's Spratly chain

The United States has sailed a warship near two of China’s man-made islands in the disputed South China Sea, the latest in a series of recent moves by the U.S. military in the strategic waterway and in the diplomatic arena amid rising tensions between Washington and Beijing.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2018

A creative force in a concrete jungle: Architect's Tokyo project draws on love and improvisation

Sandwiched between old residential apartments in the capital's central Minato Ward is the Arimaston Building, an eccentric collage of individually patterned concrete slabs piled upon each other as if by happenstance.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 1, 2018

Xi tells new Maldives president he wants to deepen cooperation

China wants to deepen mutually beneficial cooperation with the Maldives, President Xi Jinping said in a congratulatory message to the newly elected Maldivian president, the leader of an opposition that has vowed to review Chinese projects.
Japan Times
Australia report 2018
Oct 1, 2018

Supplying sustainable energy solutions to Australia

Waste management is a critical environmental issue. As the global population rises, so do landfill levels and improved waste management solutions are vital to the sustainability of our environment.

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