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JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Mar 27, 2017

Japan's coveted cherry blossoms and other ecosystems threatened by alien species

Spring has come — the season when cherry blossoms bloom nationwide.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 27, 2017

Popular Thai city launches 'Happy Zone' in bid to clean up notorious image

With mascots dressed as smiling fish and a police rock band, Thai authorities launched a "Happy Zone" at the weekend to improve the image of a city notorious for sex tourism.
JAPAN
Mar 26, 2017

Moritomo Gakuen scandal another history Japan's nationalists may wish to rewrite

It began as a dream. Conservatives and nationalists, angry at what they saw as a public education system that taught a self-denigrating, incorrect view of Japan's 20th century history and upset at social changes they felt had led to a loss of respect among children for Japan's traditional values and...
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 26, 2017

The China-South Korea trade war must end

As long as North Korea poses such an acute threat, China's opposition to the THAAD missile defense system is pointless — and highly destructive.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 26, 2017

Beijing-backed Carrie Lam wins election, becomes Hong Kong's first female leader

Carrie Lam, who won an election to become Hong Kong's first female chief executive Sunday, is a former student activist who climbed the rungs of the civil service over 36 years, and a tough, capable and possibly divisive Beijing-backed leader.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Mar 25, 2017

Tillerson tells 'frenemies' Japan and South Korea to heal 'comfort women' rift

With Seoul in political paralysis and amid heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula, Japan's ambassador to South Korea remains in Tokyo — all because of some statues.
EDITORIALS
Mar 25, 2017

Set rules on GPS data collection

The Supreme Court has ruled that the collection of data through the Global Positioning System in police investigation without a warrant is illegal.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Mar 25, 2017

MLB Network’s Martinez, Waltz inform and entertain during WBC telecasts

Good show put on by Major League Baseball and the organizers of the 2017 World Baseball Classic Asia rounds held in Seoul and Tokyo earlier this month.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 24, 2017

Abe denies involvement in school land deal as emails shine light on links to wife

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe denies the influence-peddling allegations made by the head of a nationalist school firm and uses his wife's email messages to make his case.
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Mar 24, 2017

Leyland motivated Team USA on way to WBC victory

This, Jim Leyland insisted, was it.
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 23, 2017

Japanese researchers, firms part of global effort to develop spray-on solar panels

Imagine a future when solar cells can be sprayed or printed onto the windows of skyscrapers or atop sport utility vehicles — and at prices potentially far cheaper than today's silicon-based panels.
EDITORIALS
Mar 22, 2017

Take nuclear disaster ruling seriously

The government and the power industry must reconsider whether they are sufficiently assessing the risks of a nuclear power plant disaster.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Mar 22, 2017

In Japan first, woman gives birth using egg from anonymous donor

A woman suffering from fertility problems successfully gave birth using an egg from an anonymous donor in the first such case using in vitro fertilization in Japan.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 22, 2017

Ex-BOJ member says government must allay pension jitters before reflating economy

Former Bank of Japan Policy Board member Sayuri Shirai says the central bank has done about all it can do to end the nation's deflationary mindset.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 22, 2017

After six years, Assad now secure but country is carved up as war thunders on

More than six years since the start of the uprising against President Bashar Assad, he is winning on the battlefield but Syria's civil war is far from over, with his once stable country broken into fiefdoms ruled by rebels and warlords.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 21, 2017

Tokyo returns to world's 10 priciest cities as Asia dominates list

Tokyo returned to the ranks of the world's 10 costliest cities in 2017 as Asia's representation expanded, reflecting the region's rising clout in the global economy.
EDITORIALS
Mar 21, 2017

SDF peacekeepers' logs fiasco

Public trust in the Self-Defense Forces will be undermined if it turns out the SDF intentionally concealed its South Sudan peacekeeping records.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 21, 2017

Why people still live, and die, on garbage dumps

In the developing world, huge open dumps loom as one of this century's most pressing health and environmental challenges.
CULTURE / Stage
Mar 21, 2017

Modern dramatist's 'dark and gorgeous' kabuki tests famed brothers

Life and death are major themes for artists, and for dramatists no less.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Mar 21, 2017

Indonesia police say Interpol issues red notices for 3 Sinopec executives

Indonesian police said Tuesday that Interpol has issued red notices, the closest to an international arrest warrant, for three Chinese executives suspected of fraud linked to a more than $800 million Sinopec oil terminal development in Indonesia.

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A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami