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EDITORIALS
Feb 9, 2018

Ensuring the safety of military aircraft flights

The government should make utmost efforts to identify the cause of the accident and establish measures to prevent a recurrence.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 9, 2018

SpaceX launch opens new frontier in space commerce

For the first time ever, the world's most powerful rocket was designed and built by a private corporation.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Okinawa
Feb 9, 2018

Okinawa tourist numbers top those of Hawaii for first time

While Hawaii has long been one of the most popular go-to destinations for tourists from Japan, Okinawa has finally caught up to outshine the rival resort island chain.
BUSINESS
Feb 9, 2018

Japan still beating China in Southeast Asia infrastructure race

China may steal all the headlines when it comes to its infrastructure push across Southeast Asia, but data from BMI Research shows Japan is still well ahead in funding projects in the region.
Reader Mail
Feb 9, 2018

Time to challenge a dictator

When Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, head of the militant group Islamic State, ranted and raved, the world vowed to stop the mad man's rhetoric in its tracks. When the Islamic State leveled the monuments of Palmyra and Nimrod, the world wailed and bemoaned the loss of such priceless treasures. When jihadis ruthlessly...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 9, 2018

Gravediggers say Myanmar forces and Buddhist villagers executed Rohingya after torching their homes

Bound together, the 10 Rohingya captives watched their Buddhist neighbors dig a grave. Soon afterward, on the morning of Sept. 2, all 10 lay dead. At least two were hacked to death by Buddhist villagers. The rest were shot by soldiers, two of the gravediggers said.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Feb 8, 2018

Japan to survey mercury use in batteries and other products, in line with Minamata Convention and domestic law

Environment Ministry will start investigating possible uses of mercury in commercial products, such as button cells and fluorescent lights, from April, sources with knowledge of the matter have said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 8, 2018

Better employee training needed to prepare for 'fourth industrial revolution,' Suntory chief says

Takeshi Niinami, chief executive officer of Suntory Holdings Ltd., believes that companies and governments need to offer proper training and education to their employees with a long-term view toward new technologies as people still lack the skills needed for "the fourth industrial revolution."
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 8, 2018

In apparent first, Chinese air force deploys advanced fighter jets to South China Sea

The Chinese air force has made public for the first time a deployment of advanced fighter jets for a "joint combat patrol" over the disputed South China Sea.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 8, 2018

Olympic diplomacy: VIP seating plan a headache for Pyeongchang's opening party

The neighbors don't get along but you are still obliged to invite them all to the party. So where do they all sit?
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2018

California vows to ban crude from Trump offshore drilling plan

California will block the transport of petroleum from new offshore oil rigs through its state, officials told Reuters, a move meant to hobble the Trump administration's effort to vastly expand drilling in U.S. federal waters.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 7, 2018

'The Scythian Lamb': A plan to repopulate the countryside starts out funny and descends into tense drama

Seeing Daihachi Yoshida's "The Scythian Lamb" for the second time at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, I was reminded of "Black Mirror," the British series with provocative "what if" scenarios set in an alternative present or near future. Yes, I am a binge-watcher.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 7, 2018

Abe and Pence say no divide on North Korea during Tokyo meeting, warn against Pyongyang’s ‘smile diplomacy’

Amid signs of a gradual thaw in inter-Korean relations, Prime Minister Abe and visiting U.S. Vice President Pence reaffirm the policy of maintaining “maximum pressure” on North Korea.
Japan Times
Feb 7, 2018

Sakura Hotel Co. opens new hotel in Nippori to welcome international travelers with multicultural offerings

Sakura Hotel Co. opened the Sakura Hotel Nippori, in Tokyo’s Bunkyo Ward, to accommodate mainly international guests.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 6, 2018

Hong Kong court frees three democracy leaders, but warns against future acts of dissent

Hong Kong's highest court freed three young leaders of the city's pro-democracy movement on Tuesday, including the public face of the protests, Joshua Wong, in a stark reversal of an earlier ruling, but it warned against future acts of dissent.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Feb 6, 2018

Chinese government-run paper says diplomatic ties with Vatican inevitable

China and the Vatican will establish formal diplomatic relations sooner or later because Pope Francis has the "wisdom" to resolve problems between the two sides, a state-run Chinese newspaper said Tuesday, amid increasing controversy over the issue.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets / FOCUS
Feb 6, 2018

Machines had their 'fingerprints' all over a Dow rout for the ages

Risk parity funds. Volatility-targeting programs. Statistical arbitrage. Sometimes the U.S. stock market seems like a giant science project, one that can quickly turn hazardous for its human inhabitants.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 6, 2018

Trump's lawyers want him to refuse Mueller interview request: New York Times

Several of U.S. President Donald Trump's lawyers have advised him not to sit down for an interview with a special counsel investigating possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign to influence the 2016 presidential election, the New York Times reported on Monday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 6, 2018

Nations issue travel advisories as Maldives declares state of emergency amid deepening political crisis

Maldives President Abdulla Yameen on Monday declared a state of emergency for 15 days and security forces stormed the Supreme Court in signs that a crisis over a jailed former president is coming to a head.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 6, 2018

Padlocked track switch lined into siding blamed in fatal South Carolina Amtrak crash

A locked track switch is being blamed for the crash of an Amtrak passenger train into a freight train that killed two people and injured more than 100 in South Carolina on Sunday and is again raising questions about the roll-out of a new system to make U.S. railways safer.

Longform

Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes