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COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 18, 2018

Kuroda must channel his inner Greenspan

The BOJ governor must shift from being a man of bold action to one of courageous words.
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OLYMPICS
Feb 17, 2018

Who to watch on Sunday, Day 10 of the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics

8:56 p.m., Speedskating, women's 500 meters: After winning a silver medal in Wednesday's 1,000 meters, Nao Kodaira, Japan's ace speedskater, will attempt to become the first Japanese female to win an individual speedskating gold medal at the Winter Olympics when she skates in her strongest event.
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BUSINESS / Markets
Feb 16, 2018

Gun sales are down, so why did gun stocks just go up?

Shares of firearms companies rose on Thursday morning after a gun-fueled massacre at a Florida high school left 17 dead and 14 injured.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 16, 2018

Abe keeps the right person to run the Bank of Japan

Abenomics required an end to timid monetary policy. Haruhiko Kuroda is providing it.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 16, 2018

Toyota's only female executive says her mission has always been to 'speak her mind'

Chika Kako is a rarity in Toyota Motor Corp.'s upper echelons.
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WORLD / Crime & Legal
Feb 16, 2018

Telltale internet message may have foreshadowed Florida school massacre

The 19-year-old man accused of shooting 17 people to death at a Florida high school legally purchased the assault rifle used in the killings and may have foreshadowed the attack in a social media comment investigated by the FBI last year, authorities said Thursday.
EDITORIALS
Feb 15, 2018

What last quarter's GDP says about the economy

Japan's GDP continues on a growth path, put that doesn't mean all is rosy with the economy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 14, 2018

How Asia won the rights to host three Olympics in a row

Think back to 2009: The West was in no condition to take on expensive projects.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Feb 14, 2018

U.K. judge refuses to stop legal action against WikiLeaks' Assange

A British judge refused on Tuesday to halt legal proceedings against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for jumping bail and fleeing to the Ecuadorean embassy in London in June 2012.
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BUSINESS
Feb 14, 2018

U.S. pursues motion to put Pakistan on global terrorist-financing watchlist

The United States has put forward a motion to place Pakistan on a global terrorist-financing watchlist with an anti-money laundering monitoring group, according to a senior Pakistani official.
EDITORIALS
Feb 13, 2018

Maldives: trouble in paradise

The Maldives' location has elevated a domestic crisis into a geopolitical problem.
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JAPAN
Feb 13, 2018

For young Japanese seeking romance, beauty is in the eye of the dating app

Japan's millennials are apathetic about romance, and everyone knows it.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 13, 2018

Disgraced senior Chinese politician Sun Zhengcai charged with bribery

Chinese prosecutors have charged disgraced senior politician Sun Zhengcai with bribery, state media said Tuesday, the latest development in a corruption probe into a man once considered a contender for top leadership.
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BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 13, 2018

5G is here: Super speed makes worldwide debut at Winter Olympics

The first to experience the future of wireless technology, well before most humans, will be South Korea's wild boars. That's because 5G, the fifth-generation wireless network, is making its worldwide debut at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.
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JAPAN / Regional voices: Chubu
Feb 12, 2018

Mie and Gifu take delivery of Mobile Pharmacy vehicles to improve medical provision in the wake of natural disasters

Demonstrations were held last week allowing residents in the city of Tsu, Mie Prefecture, to explore new mobile pharmacy vans delivered to the prefecture at the end of 2017.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 12, 2018

Toyota's self-muted presence at Winter Olympics a nod to political reality in South Korea

For a major new Olympics sponsor, Toyota Motor Corp. is oddly invisible at the Pyeongchang winter Games.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / The Big Questions
Feb 11, 2018

Various work styles must be embraced for success

For many industries, it has become increasingly apparent that the way up is through Asia. This is especially true for Amway Corp., the global direct sales giant based in Ada, Michigan.
EDITORIALS
Feb 11, 2018

Elon Musk 'boldly goes ...'

Falcon Heavy's success is a milestone in a new space race, one that is fundamentally different from that of the Cold War.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives
Feb 10, 2018

'Insta-gran' Kimiko Nishimoto discovers that it's never too late to experiment with inventive photography

There's a lot more to the 89-year-old Instagrammer than her wacky selfies.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Feb 10, 2018

Did press reports of a lawsuit spur an amendment to the welfare ministry's policy on benefits?

On Jan. 16, the Fukushima District Court ruled in favor of a woman and her daughter who had sued the city of Fukushima for cutting their welfare benefits. When the woman’s daughter was in high school, the woman received a grant scholarship to help her child prepare for university by covering expenses...
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Feb 10, 2018

'Taka' Hirose: Looking and playing the part

A veteran of the U.K. music scene, Takashi "Taka" Hirose has been playing bass guitar in popular British indie-rock band Feeder for more than two decades. As chilled off stage as he is energetic on it, the 50-year-old Gifu Prefecture-native reminisces about his time in the group, which began back in...
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BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 10, 2018

Top wagyu exporter Itoham projects 16% surge to new sales record this year

Itoham Foods Inc., the nation's biggest exporter of premium wagyu, expects shipments to hit a record with Taiwanese demand for the beef set to triple and exports to Brazil on the verge of beginning.
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LIFE / Travel
Feb 9, 2018

Twenty years on from the Olympics, Nagano is still the home of Japan's winter sports

Nagano Prefecture's bountiful snow continues to be the stuff of ski and snowboarding legend, with classic Olympic resorts such as Hakuba Happo-one, Nozawa Onsen and Shiga Kogen.
OLYMPICS
Feb 9, 2018

U.S. bobsledders pay emotional tribute to late teammate Steven Holcomb

United States bobsledder Steven Holcomb's untimely death last year shocked the fraternity and brought them closer, members of the team said on Friday.
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JAPAN
Feb 8, 2018

Nara announces record number of deer bites as tourists flood in

Famed wild deer in the city of Nara appear to be growing increasingly frustrated with tourists who make them wait to munch on crackers while trying to frame the perfect photo.

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