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BUSINESS / Companies
May 8, 2015

Toyota posts record profit but sells fewer vehicles

Toyota Motor Corp. posted record sales and net profit for fiscal 2014 on Friday, thanks to the weakened yen and cost-cutting efforts at the world's largest automaker.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / KYOTO RESTAURANTS
May 8, 2015

Traditional coffee joint Inoda also makes a good breakfast

Inoda is one of Kyoto's long-established coffee chains, and has several outposts dotted around the city, but the cafe and shop on Sanjo Street is a treat, with its space to seat ratio in the region of 10 to 1.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
May 8, 2015

Omar Khadr, once a Guantanamo inmate, freed on bail in Canada

Omar Khadr, a Canadian who was once the youngest prisoner held on terrorism charges at Guantanamo Bay, was released on bail from an Alberta prison Thursday while he appeals a murder conviction by a U.S. military tribunal.
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WORLD / Politics
May 8, 2015

U.S. Senate passes bill to allow review of Iran nuclear deal; House up next

The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to pass a bill giving Congress the right to review, and potentially reject, an international nuclear agreement with Iran.
MORE SPORTS
May 7, 2015

Pacquiao surgery goes smoothly

Manny Pacquiao underwent successful arthroscopic surgery on his right shoulder on Wednesday, just days after his loss to Floyd Mayweather in the so-called "Fight of the Century."
JAPAN / Politics
May 7, 2015

LDP seeks all-party talks on revising pacifist Constitution

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party called Thursday for all-party talks on revising the Constitution in areas they can agree upon, in an apparent bid to lower the bar for a first-ever revision of the U.S.-drafted charter.
COMMENTARY / World
May 7, 2015

Ditch the anger translator, President Obama

President Barack Obama should use his last months in office to take on what he has described as 'the same cycles of periodic conflicts between the police and communities.'
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WORLD
May 7, 2015

Airport evacuated as twisters hit near Oklahoma City, severe storms roll across Great Plains

A series of tornadoes, including a major twister, touched down southwest of Oklahoma City on Wednesday as a storm system brought severe weather to several Great Plains states, officials said.
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WORLD / Society
May 6, 2015

Led by president's daughter, Cubans plan mass symbolic gay, transgender wedding

Cuban gay rights activists led by the daughter of President Raul Castro plan a mass symbolic wedding on Saturday to promote acceptance of gay and transgender Cubans in a country once notoriously hostile toward them.
ASIA PACIFIC
May 5, 2015

China's military says army has yet to fully embrace the rule of law

China's armed forces, the largest in the world, have yet to become a military that follows the law in full, its official newspaper said on Tuesday, underscoring the problem of rooting out deeply-rooted corruption.
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ASIA PACIFIC
May 5, 2015

South Korea's casinos court China's 'low rollers'

The dealing rooms of Seoul's foreigners-only casinos are echoing to the sound of Mandarin as operators target a new breed of 'low-roller' gamblers — Chinese shoppers.
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ASIA PACIFIC
May 5, 2015

North Korea parades detainees for TV cameras; South pleads for their freedom

South Korea on Monday urged Pyongyang to release four of its citizens being held by the North, including two men who told CNN they spied for the South, and a 21-year-old New York University student.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
May 5, 2015

Republican ex-Hewlett-Packard CEO Fiorina enters 2016 race, takes shot at Clinton

Former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Carly Fiorina on Monday announced she is running for president, and took a shot at Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton, who she said represents a political class that Americans are "disgusted" with.
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WORLD / Science & Health
May 5, 2015

'Lunge feeding' fin whale's oral cavity, nerves elastic, scientists find

When the fin whale gets ready to eat, Earth's second-largest animal opens its mouth so wide that it can gulp an amount of water larger than the volume of its own body as it filters out meals of tiny fish and shrimp-like krill.
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JAPAN / EXPLAINER
May 4, 2015

18 looms as new age of majority

Japan's youth will finally get a chance to have their voices heard in politics.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
May 4, 2015

Dating in Japan never used to be this difficult — or creepy

It's spring and love should be in the air. But it's a bad, bad time to be out there in the dating scene.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 4, 2015

Canada's climate change conundrum

A recent announcement that Canada won't match U.S. emission-reduction targets offers a fresh look at Canadians' enduring bipolarity on climate change.
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COMMENTARY / World
May 4, 2015

Did America's drone strikes lose Yemen?

The U.S. drone program, which is responsible for the deaths of many innocent civilians, is fundamentally flawed and should not be perpetuated.
JAPAN / Politics
May 4, 2015

Abe missed chance in U.S. to mend ties, South Korea's Park says

South Korean President Park Geun-hye says Prime Minister Shinzo Abe missed an opportunity to improve ties between their countries by not apologizing for Japan's wartime use of sex slaves during his U.S. trip.
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JAPAN
May 4, 2015

Japan Times contributor Mitchell among winners of FCCJ's first Freedom of the Press awards

Japan Times contributor Jon Mitchell, who for years has covered the alleged existence of the toxic defoliant Agent Orange on Okinawa and issues surrounding U.S. military bases there, was among the winners of the first annual Freedom of the Press awards at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan.
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 3, 2015

Blame Abe's bad history on diplomat George Kennan

U.S. diplomat George Kennan was instrumental in reversing U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's efforts to liberalize Japan's economy and society.
COMMENTARY / World
May 3, 2015

Putin needs neither war nor peace in Ukraine

It makes sense for Russian President Vladimir Putin to freeze the conflict in Ukraine, allowing his country's investment rebound to gain momentum while keeping Ukraine on the hook.
EDITORIALS
May 3, 2015

The same old energy mix

The government's draft for Japan's energy mix in 2030 makes it clear that the Abe administration is pursuing a return to the nation's energy landscape that existed before the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Longform

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