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COMMENTARY / World
Apr 28, 2014

Tradable gains in Spain rain hope for recovery

Though domestic investment is constrained by credit availability, major European and Latin American multinationals have begun investing in the Spanish economy, attracted by its enhanced competitive posture, structural flexibility and recovery in domestic demand.
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WORLD / Politics
Apr 28, 2014

Ukraine rebels free Swedish hostage; Obama seeks unity against Russia

Pro-Russian rebels paraded European monitors they are holding in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, freeing one but saying they had no plans to release another seven as the United States and Europe prepared new sanctions against Moscow.
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BUSINESS
Apr 27, 2014

Sealing TPP deal by May iffy despite Japan-U.S. 'milestone'

Tokyo and Washington are close to forging a two-way trade deal, but that doesn't mean a breakthrough on the broader TPP will be imminent in May.
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JAPAN / Politics
Apr 27, 2014

China releases trove of Japanese sex slave records

China has released previously confidential Japanese wartime documents, including some about "comfort women" forced to serve in military brothels during World War II, state media reported.
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WORLD / Society
Apr 27, 2014

Family's firstborn most likely to excel: study

What do Angela Merkel, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Christine Lagarde, Oprah Winfrey, Sheryl Sandberg, JK Rowling and Beyonce have in common? Other than riding high in Forbes list of the world's most powerful women, they are also all firstborn children in their families.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 27, 2014

The exodus from Everest

The Everest circus is leaving town. With the decision to cancel climbing this year, Sherpas from the 39 expeditions camped at the foot of the mountain are dropping tents and packing gear. Helicopters fly over the Icefall that leads into the Western Cwm, recovering equipment stashed there before the tragic...
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 27, 2014

Politicians running in place

Today, there's not so much political competition in Japan between the ruling and opposition camps as there is among opposition parties seeking to ally themselves with the ruling camp. Have individual lawmakers become less willing to take risks by speaking up?
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BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Apr 27, 2014

The price is right, but sometimes difficult to read

Since the tax hike went into effect, price tags aren't what they used to be.
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LIFE / Travel / BACKSTREET STORIES
Apr 26, 2014

Spring greening in Koganei

It’s time to bask in sunshine, birdsong, and blossom-filled breezes. Koganei Park, situated at the center of the Tokyo metropolis, looks like the ideal spot for such a “spring-gasm.” The JR Chuo express train whisks me from Yotsuya to Musashi-Koganei in less than 30 minutes, and I alight with glee....
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JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Apr 26, 2014

Mini-revolutions may add up to a change

1949. The war was over. Slowly, a numbed populace rose from the dead. That year, 2.7 million babies were born — a record high, never surpassed.
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ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Apr 26, 2014

A journalist who gets climate change right

Dr. Heather Goldstone is a rare breed. She's a journalist who insists on getting the science right, and she loves sharing it with the public.
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CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
Apr 26, 2014

The Box Man

'The Box Man' is an existential work, revealing questions about identity and the place of man in society. The story begins in a diary format that reads like a how-to manual, as the narrator details the tools necessary to build a boxlike outfit complete with an observation slit for vision.
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CULTURE / Books
Apr 26, 2014

The Sacred Science of Ancient Japan: Lost Chronicles of the Age of the Gods

Every religion or collection of national myths requires a great deal of editing. Some texts are selected as 'official,' others are discarded. A by-product of this is the world of apocrypha, mysterious manuscripts that, it is claimed, contain esoteric insights or divine revelations.
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BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Apr 26, 2014

Palmer helping NBL players push for progress

Returning to the city where his pro basketball career was launched in 1990, Walter Palmer maintains deep convictions that a players union is a vital element for any league craving for legitimacy.
WORLD
Apr 26, 2014

Emissions in rich nations fell in 2012

Industrialized nations' greenhouse gas emissions fell 1.3 percent in 2012 as the U.S. posted its lowest level in almost two decades amid a shift to natural gas from dirtier coal, official statistics show.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Apr 26, 2014

Jun Ikeido's "Roosevelt Game" gets drama; dancer Ebina profiled; CM of the Week: Lawson

In baseball parlance, a "Roosevelt game" is one where a team wins by one run. The new TBS drama series, "Roosevelt Game" (Sunday, 9 p.m.), is based on a novel by Jun Ikeido, who wrote last year's smash series "Hanzawa Naoki." This one is also set in the corporate world, but in manufacturing rather than...
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WORLD / ANALYSIS
Apr 25, 2014

Interconnectivity exposes global shipping fleet to hacking threat

The next hacker playground: the open seas — and the oil tankers and container vessels that ship 90 percent of the goods moved around the planet.
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JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Apr 25, 2014

'Dream' rice expected to yield excellent sake

Aichi Prefecture has officially launched sales of Yume-ginga, a type of brewer's rice used to make high-quality sake.
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BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 25, 2014

BOJ said worried by bond traders' ignoring of inflation

Bank of Japan officials are increasingly concerned the nation's bond market is failing to reflect emerging inflation, raising the risk of a sudden surge in yields, sources said.
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JAPAN
Apr 25, 2014

Costs keep mounting for idled reactors

Since March 2011, the government has focused on the cost of cleaning up after Fukushima, the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. Now, the bill is coming due for another unbudgeted consequence of that calamity — shutting down the nation's 48 remaining nuclear reactors for costly safety reviews that...
LIFE / Digital
Apr 25, 2014

Understanding Facebook and Google's pursuit of drone technology

Back in the bad old days of the Cold War, one of the most revered branches of the inexact sciences was Kremlinology. In the West, newspapers, think tanks and governments retained specialists whose job was to scrutinize every scrap of evidence, gossip and rumor emanating from Moscow in the hope that it...
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WORLD
Apr 25, 2014

Serendipity aids Egypt's toil to recover stolen heritage

When French Egyptologist Olivier Perdu saw a fragment of a pharaonic statue on display in a Brussels gallery last year, he assumed it was a twin of an ancient masterpiece he had examined in Egypt a quarter of a century earlier.
JAPAN
Apr 24, 2014

¥4 billion paid for ship's release

Mitsui O.S.K. coughs up about ¥4 billion to secure the release of an ore carrier seized in China over a contract dispute predating World War II.
JAPAN
Apr 24, 2014

Obama assures Abe on Senkakus

President Barack Obama says Thursday that he wants to see a dispute between China and Japan over islands in the East China Sea resolved peacefully, while affirming that the mutual security treaty with Japan applies to the islands.

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An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo