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Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 4, 2017

In phone call with Trump, Abe extends condolences for victims of Las Vegas massacre

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had a 12-minute phone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday night, in which Abe offered his condolences for the victims of Sunday's mass shooting in Las Vegas that left 59 people dead, a senior Japanese official said.
EDITORIALS
Oct 4, 2017

Troubling referendums in Iraq and Spain

The flames of nationalism still burn brightly in this supposed global age.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 4, 2017

Europe's war of the nationalists picks up steam

Europe remains a battleground between nationalist forces, conventional governments and parties that cleave to broadly liberal positions.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 4, 2017

Junji Sakamoto's 'Ernesto' tells the story of a Japanese man's role in Che's revolution

The Latin American revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara remains an enduring leftist icon throughout the world, including in Japan. Here, however, his visage pops up in somewhat apolitical moments — like at soccer games in support of the Urawa Reds.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 4, 2017

Britain's top diplomat Boris Johnson makes off-colored joke about dead bodies in Libya

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson quipped on Tuesday that Libya can become a new Dubai if it can clear the dead bodies away, the latest gaffe by Britain's top diplomat.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 4, 2017

Cracks appearing in BOJ's glass ceiling as more women take lead roles at Japan's central bank

Some long-closed doors are opening at the Bank of Japan as it seeks to hire and promote more women in career-track positions.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2017

Japan accepts three refugees in first half of 2017, despite record number of asylum seekers

Japan accepted just three refugees in the first half of 2017 despite receiving a record 8,561 fresh asylum applications, the government said Tuesday, highlighting the nation's reluctance to accept immigrants.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 4, 2017

U.K. says pedophiles, organized crime using WhatsApp with impunity, demands access to messages

Britain said WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption communication services allowed pedophiles and organized crime groups to operate beyond the reach of the law and called on the messaging service to move faster to help governments catch offenders.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 4, 2017

American offers to back Ryanair pilots' bid to unionize

Ryanair Holdings PLC pilots campaigning for unionization amid a staffing crisis that's led to the cancellation of 20,000 flights have been offered financial backing from American Airlines Group Inc.'s cockpit-crew association.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 3, 2017

Entrepreneurs a dying breed?

Maybe America is no longer a 'Shark Tank' nation' after all.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 3, 2017

Europe's populist revolt: A close-up

Can the rise of populism in Europe be contained?
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 3, 2017

Founder of TSMC, Apple's top chip supplier, to hand over reins in June

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. founder and Chairman Morris Chang will retire next June, handing the helm of the world's largest producer of made-to-order microchips to the company's two co-chief executives.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 3, 2017

White House again rules out talks as North Korea threatens Japan with 'nuclear clouds'

The White House on Monday poured more cold water on potential talks with North Korea over its nuclear weapons program just days after U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Washington was in direct contact with leader Kim Jong Un's regime.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 3, 2017

Power, water, food, phone services elude on eve of Trump visit to hurricane-thrashed Puerto Rico

President Donald Trump is set to make his first visit to Puerto Rico on Tuesday, two weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated the U.S. territory, and is likely to face more criticism of his handling of the disaster as the vast majority of the island's inhabitants lack power and phone service and are scrambling...
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 3, 2017

Family 'bewildered' as Vegas massacre gunman was believed settling into quiet rural retirement

At first glance, it seemed Stephen Paddock, 64, was set for a quiet life in a desert retirement community where he bought a new home in 2015. From there it was only an hour's drive to Las Vegas — where he would embark on the worst mass shooting in recent U.S. history.
WORLD
Oct 3, 2017

In info void before smoke cleared in Vegas bloodbath, fake news quick to flood social media

As law enforcement and news organizations raced to piece together what happened during the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history Sunday night in Las Vegas, web denizens less wedded to the truth rushed in to provide details of their own — which quickly went viral.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 2, 2017

Myanmar's decades-old jihadi curse

It is vital to address the long history of Islamist extremism that has contributed to the Rohingya's' current plight.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 2, 2017

The dangers of demographic denial

The benefits of having a rapidly growing youthful population is fast fading as advances in automation reduce labor-intensive employment opportunities.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 2, 2017

Former DP heavyweight Yukio Edano seeks to fill void with new liberal-minded party

Edano says his new liberal-minded party will maximize the chances of dethroning Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language
Oct 2, 2017

In some Japanese sentences, it's all relative

An example of relative clauses: 'The article that I'm about to read doesn't look very interesting.'
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Oct 2, 2017

Trump dismissal of U.S.-North Korea talks has some fearful of what comes next

After his curt dismissal over Twitter of talks with North Korea, U.S. President Donald Trump has left many wondering — and some fearing — what his next move against the nuclear-armed nation will be.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 2, 2017

Britain caught in crossfire, says it will fight to protect jobs amid Boeing-Bombardier row

Britain, caught in the crossfire of a damaging trade dispute between plane makers Boeing and Bombardier, said on Sunday it would fight its corner to protect thousands of jobs put at risk in Northern Ireland.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Oct 2, 2017

NFL trio kneel despite Trump's fresh call for protests to end, but stand for U.K. anthem

Some National Football League players knelt again on Sunday when the U.S. national anthem was played before a game in London, defying U.S. President Donald Trump's renewed call to end their protest over racial injustice.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 2, 2017

Moscow reveals cables sent to USSR by famed British double agent Kim Philby

A new exhibition in Moscow has made public for the first time secret documents that British double agent Kim Philby sent to his Soviet handlers.
Takaichi and Xi reaffirm pledge in first meet to pursue ‘mutually beneficial’ ties
A screenshot from Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's X account shows Takaichi exchanging greetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Friday.　
Anime isn’t competing with Hollywood — it’s beating it
After its July release, “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — Infinity Castle,” an animated feature adapted directly from a TV arc, became the highest-grossing Japanese film ever.
Japan to introduce joint child custody system in April 2026
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara (center) and other ministers prior to a Cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office on Friday
Woman, 69, arrested over 1999 Nagoya housewife's murder
A police sketch released in 2020 of a woman spotted near the scene of the 1999 murder of a housewife in Nagoya's Nishi Ward
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Anime isn’t competing with Hollywood — it’s beating it
After its July release, “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — Infinity Castle,” an animated feature adapted directly from a TV arc, became the highest-grossing Japanese film ever.
Oasis returns to Japan after 16 years — and fans can still sing every word
Liam Gallagher commanded the stage with effortless charisma during Oasis' Tokyo Dome set on Saturday.
At Japan Mobility Show, BYD gears up to conquer Japan's EV market
BYD Auto Japan President Atsuki Tofukuji unveils the Racco at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Oasis returns to Tokyo: Rain, rapture and rock
Fans wait to get into the Oasis show at Tokyo Dome on Saturday. While lining up in the rain, some broke into impromptu versions of the British rock group's hits.
Kyushu banzuke sets the stage to cement 2025’s sumo narratives
Onosato ahead of his bout against Aonishiki at The Grand Sumo Tournament at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Oct. 18

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Mamoru Iwai, stationmaster of Keisei Ueno Station, says that, other than earthquake-proofing, the former Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station has remained untouched.
Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell
By Alex K.T. Martin

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