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WORLD
Dec 14, 2014

Pope Francis' reported comments on pets going to heaven weren't his words

It was a heartwarming story for legions of pet owners and animal lovers around the world.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Dec 13, 2014

Photographer strives to preserve the memory of capital's hub for eternity

There is only one person in the country who has "Tokyo Station photographer" printed on a business card — Naoki Sasaki.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 13, 2014

Night Boat

"Night Boat" is Alan Spence's second novel set in Japan, but his first to deal entirely with Japanese characters and situations.
SOCCER / J. League
Dec 13, 2014

Gamba claim treble

Gamba Osaka completed a remarkable trophy treble by beating Montedio Yamagata 3-1 to lift the Emperor's Cup on Saturday.
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JAPAN
Dec 13, 2014

Set aside hate, Xi tells Nanjing on first massacre memorial

China and Japan should set aside hatred but remember history, Chinese President Xi Jinping says on the first national memorial day for massacre victims at Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 13, 2014

China likely to covertly muzzle Hong Kong to prevent new protests

As the dust settles on Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests, China is likely to embark on a sweeping but covert campaign across the territory's judiciary, media and universities to ensure there is no recurrence, activists and politicians say.
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JAPAN / Politics
Dec 13, 2014

Ahead of near-certain election win, Abe pivots away from painful reforms

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is signaling that retooling Japan's economy with painful structural reforms must take a back seat to reviving growth, even though he is poised to win a big "referendum" on his economic policies in an election Sunday that might set a new record for low turnout.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Dec 12, 2014

Manchester United improving, but van Gaal still faced with many issues

A football club is like a family.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Dec 12, 2014

Fashion goes festive for the holiday season

Erimaki Sox collars the market
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Dec 12, 2014

Shonan complex offers a curated lifestyle

A discreet black sign, concrete floors, industrial-style ceilings, wooden shelves filled with design toys and gourmet treats. This may sound like the minimal interior of an urban lifestyle store in some hip corner of Tokyo, but the reality is more surprising. It is, in fact, a new branch of one of Japan's...
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JAPAN / Politics / DECISION 2014
Dec 12, 2014

Ishikawa aims to become first openly gay member of Lower House

Openly gay politician Taiga Ishikawa says that winning a Diet seat in Sunday's election would empower him to change politics and help Japanese society recognize its diversity.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Dec 12, 2014

Hunting for pictures, and crocodiles, in remote Aboriginal country

We are deep in a forest crowded by Australian paperback trees, the air thick with humidity but eerily silent save for the screeching of tropical birds, when Marcus shouts: "Look, crocodiles!"
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 12, 2014

Sierra Leone locks down new Ebola hotspot in the east

Authorities in Sierra Leone have imposed a two-week lockdown in the eastern district of Kono after health workers uncovered a surge of Ebola infections in the area where the epidemic was thought to be largely under control.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 11, 2014

'We'll be back,' Hong Kong protesters chant as main camp site dismantled

Hong Kong police arrested prodemocracy activists and cleared most of the main protest site on Thursday, marking an end to more than two months of street demonstrations in the Chinese-controlled city, but many chanted: "We will be back."
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 11, 2014

Sony PlayStation to make China debut next month as ban ends

Sony Corp. will release its PlayStation 4 console in China next month, following Microsoft Corp. into the world's biggest game market after the government eased restrictions.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 11, 2014

Taking flight with Arata Isozaki

I once almost got to interview the architect Arata Isozaki, but it was canceled due to his ill health at the time. No doubt a consideration in the cancelation was the fact that interviews with him can go to extreme lengths, as Isozaki has much to tell, having collaborated with almost every big name in...
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CULTURE / Art
Dec 11, 2014

'Architecture for Dogs'

Despite dogs being "man's best friend," we rarely design our world around the happiness of our pets.
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CULTURE / Film
Dec 10, 2014

A vision of love through money and migration

At first glance, Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen's "Ilo Ilo" is a familiar tale. A family in Singapore hire a Filipina maid to care for their irate 10-year-old son, an Asian brat extraordinaire. Eventually the boy bonds with the maid, and the two become closer to each other than their real families,...
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CULTURE / Film
Dec 10, 2014

And the Mud Ship Sails Away: Knee-deep in it without a care in the world

After premiering at the 2013 Tokyo International Film Festival, Hirobumi Watanabe's slacker comedy "Soshite Dorobune wa Yuku (And the Mud Ship Sails Away)" became an international festival favorite, and it's easy to see why.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 10, 2014

Hong Kong protesters steadfast in final hours before police clearance

Bands of determined protesters and hundreds of wet tents pitched near Hong Kong government headquarters were all that remained on Wednesday of months of prodemocracy protests in the final hours before police clear the main protest site.
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COMMUNITY / Issues / LAW OF THE LAND
Dec 10, 2014

Electoral dysfunction leaves Japan's voters feeling impotent

This Sunday's poll could well prove a high-water mark of pointlessness even for Japan: an election campaign waged against the unelected.
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COMMUNITY / Voices / HOTLINE TO NAGATACHO
Dec 10, 2014

Question of negligence hangs over nuclear firms in U.S. case over Fukushima fallout

Why hasn't the Japanese government, like the USS Ronald Reagan sailors, filed its own lawsuits against these nuclear companies to determine their legal liability for the Fukushima disaster?

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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