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JAPAN / Science & Health
Nov 22, 2017

Japanese scientists find new drug combo that may be key to treating Alzheimer's

A team of Japanese researchers has found a new drug combination that reduces amyloid beta protein, believed to play a key role in causing Alzheimer's disease, by using stem cells derived from patients, Kyoto University announced Tuesday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 22, 2017

Russia finds 1,000-times normal level of radioactive isotope after nuclear incident claims

Russia's meteorological service said Tuesday it had measured pollution of a radioactive isotope at nearly 1,000 times normal levels in the Ural mountains, the first official Russian data supporting reports that a nuclear incident had taken place.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 22, 2017

U.S. wants PLO's Washington office to stay open, State Department says

The United States wants the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to keep its Washington office open and is in talks with Palestinian officials about the issue despite a U.S. decision that could trigger its closure, the State Department said Tuesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 21, 2017

Japan ranks dead last in Asia for top foreign talent

In a survey measuring appeal to highly skilled foreign employees, the nation fell behind countries including Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 21, 2017

China pledges to be more open to providing information: China Daily

Central and local governments will be more open to providing information to help the international community understand China, the official China Daily reported on Tuesday, citing a senior government official.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 13, 2017

Big lessons for Japan and America from three small countries

Asia and the Pacific will be better off if all nations adopt some small-state ideas offered up by Bhutan, Timor-Leste and Singapore — namely the embrace of a greener, more representative and more transparent future for all their citizens.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 13, 2017

Theft of North Korean diplomat's alcohol stash in Pakistan raises suspicions of bootlegging

Neighbors say when three men kicked down the doors and burgled the home of a North Korean diplomat in Islamabad last month, it took them more than three hours to lug out their booty: thousands of bottles of Scotch whisky, beer and French wine.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 6, 2017

Trump touts solidarity with Japan but refuses to shy away from trade

In his high-stakes summit with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, U.S. leader Donald Trump keeps the heat on North Korea but also mentions his dissatisfaction with U.S.-Japanese trade.
EDITORIALS
Nov 6, 2017

A joint Japan-U.S. stand on North Korea

It will take far more than a solid Japan-U.S. alliance to resolve the North Korean crisis.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 31, 2017

Manafort indictment begins complicated story

Democrats who are getting revved up for special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation to follow the money from Russia to the Trump campaign shouldn't get too excited yet.
COMMENTARY / Japan / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Oct 26, 2017

'Comfort women' issue is far from black and white

Despite widespread perceptions, not all 'comfort women' were coerced into that existence, and not all were treated badly.
Japan Times
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Oct 24, 2017

Hanyu on track in preparations for Pyeongchang

Yuzuru Hanyu is continuing to build momentum in his run toward a second straight Olympic gold medal.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Oct 24, 2017

Starving Rohingya girls and women in refugee camps seen forced to engage in clandestine prostitution

As Rohingya women struggle to access even the very basics such as food and water in Bangladesh's overcrowded camps, a flourishing sex trade offers cash in times of desperation.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 11, 2017

Kuroda's reappointment as Bank of Japan chief likely to hinge on snap poll outcome

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's decision to call a snap election for Oct. 22 has clouded the outlook for Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda and one of the world's most radical monetary policy regimes.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Oct 4, 2017

Kyoto Seika's next dean, Oussouby Sacko, was schooled in the violent tumult of '80s China

Malian architect lived through protests by Chinese students targeting Africans just months before the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 29, 2017

Opioids demand rises in Japan as seniors use drugs to ease pain and improve quality of life

Selling painkillers in Japan used to be like pulling teeth. That was until baby boomers discovered how analgesics could take the sting from arthritis, diabetic nerve damage and the ravages of cancer.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society / FOCUS
Sep 26, 2017

China's Communist Party uses rap to tap youth culture, hook millennials

In his baseball cap and baggy yellow T-shirt, the rap star Li Yijie — better known by his stage name "Pissy" — is an unlikely face of China's strait-laced ruling Communist Party.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 25, 2017

Muslim insurgents fingered after bodies of 28 Hindu villagers found in Myanmar's Rakhine state

Myanmar government forces on Sunday found the bodies of 28 Hindu villagers who authorities suspected were killed by Muslim insurgents last month, at the beginning of a spasm of violence that has sent 430,000 Muslim Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 21, 2017

Moving toward Kurdish independence?

The Kurds' quest for self-rule puts them in the crosshairs of Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Russia and the United States.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 21, 2017

Seoul approves aid to Pyongyang as North calls Trump 'barking dog'

South Korea approved a plan on Thursday to send $8 million worth of aid to North Korea, as China warned the crisis on the Korean peninsula was getting more serious by the day and the war of words between Pyongyang and Washington continued.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 19, 2017

How the prime minister can win over Japan's neighbors

Pulling South Korea and Indonesia into the TPP tent would make the free trade pact all the more meaningful.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 16, 2017

North Korea's Kim vows to seek 'equilibrium of force' with U.S. after missile launch over Japan

Kim Jong Un also wants to force Washington to “dare not talk about” military action over its nuclear and missile programs.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 13, 2017

North Korea lambastes U.N. sanctions, vows to continue nuclear, missile drive 'at faster pace'

North Korea doubled down on its nuclear weapons and missile drive Wednesday, vowing to continue to develop the programs "at a faster pace," one day after the U.N. slapped the isolated nation with the toughest round of sanctions yet over its sixth nuclear test, which experts said may have had an explosive...
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Sep 11, 2017

Samurai Japan to face Asian rivals in November tournament

For manager Atsunori Inaba and Samurai Japan, it's full steam ahead for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. And the first stop on what Japan hopes is the road to a gold medal comes in November, when Inaba makes his debut at the inaugural Asia Professional Baseball Championship 2017.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Sep 9, 2017

Abe's extremism undermines Japan's interests

Alas, Japan's extremists have still not given up trying to find honor in the nation's 1945 wartime defeat and and the ideology that led to it.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 1, 2017

Macau junket king bets on Japan, Vietnam with multibillion-dollar expansion planned

Macau's biggest junket operator wants to be more than a middleman lender for Chinese high rollers, so it's spending billions of dollars to transform itself into an overseas casino operator on a par with Las Vegas Sands Corp. and Wynn Resorts Ltd.

Longform

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