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WORLD
Sep 2, 2015

Sierra hiker missing nine days recounts straying from group, injurious fall, whistling for rescue

A 62-year-old hiker stranded for nine days with broken bones in the Sierra National Forest in California said on Tuesday that when she blew her whistle to draw rescuers to her, she felt it was her last chance at survival.
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WORLD / Politics
Sep 2, 2015

If Clinton stumbles, Democrats would bank on Biden: Reuters/Ipsos poll

U.S. Democratic voters would choose Vice President Joe Biden as their preferred candidate for president in 2016 if current front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton shows signs of faltering, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday.
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CULTURE / Art
Sep 1, 2015

Poster woman for the war against the U.S.-led TPP

For Yoko Inoue, art is like a bomb: Throw it into a crowded street and the truth just might explode out of it.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 1, 2015

The future is gray for the developed world

Over the next three decades, the developed world is set to contend with many challenges related to rapid societal aging
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COMMENTARY / World
Sep 1, 2015

Norwegian television taps into fear of Russia

Norway's new TV series called 'Occupied' taps into Norwegians' wariness of Russia and their uneasiness about being the EU's gas station.
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JAPAN / AT A GLANCE
Sep 1, 2015

Tateishi outwardly nondescript but grilled fare, comraderie offer inner glow

About 30 people young and old make a line in front of a small izakaya pub that offers grilled innards at 2 p.m. on a weekday in the Tateishi district of Katsushika Ward, Tokyo — an odd sight perhaps for first-timers, but a daily one for regulars.
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Rugby
Sep 1, 2015

Ono eager to taste victory at 2015 Rugby World Cup

Hitoshi Ono, a veteran lock for Japan's national team, is set to make his third appearance at the Rugby World Cup and said with a smile that playing on the sport's biggest stage never gets old.
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JAPAN / Politics
Sep 1, 2015

Defense budget hike sought to fortify island chain facing China

The Defense Ministry is seeking a fourth-straight annual budget hike to help fortify Japan's far-flung island chain in the East China Sea, close to ocean territory claimed by Beijing.
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WORLD / Society
Sep 1, 2015

EU asylum rules strained as refugee throngs ride the rails to Vienna, points west

Trains carrying hundreds of migrants started arriving in Vienna on Monday after Austrian authorities appeared to give up trying to apply European Union rules by filtering out refugees who had already claimed asylum in Hungary.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 31, 2015

Ishin, DPJ agree to work together to challenge ruling coalition

Leaders of Ishin no To and the Democratic Party of Japan agree to bolster cooperation in the Diet and future elections with the aim of taking the fight to the ruling camp.
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LIFE / Lifestyle
Aug 31, 2015

Katana swordplay exercise is a hit with Tokyo women

Samurai may be known as a man's pursuit, but feudal Japan produced a number of legendary female warriors who took to the battlefield with a sword that still holds a high cultural position today.
WORLD
Aug 31, 2015

Islamic State flips gold coins to break Federal Reserve 'enslavement'

Forget the printing press. In readying for the rollout of Islamic State's new money, goldsmiths and silver smelters have been toiling away.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Aug 30, 2015

I've often thought about your doppelganger, but have you?

Have you considered that maybe your double lives in Japan? And that you might meet them someday?
EDITORIALS
Aug 30, 2015

JPS an easy target for hackers

Structural deficiencies and lack of awareness about cyberattacks made the Japan Pension Service an easy target for hackers.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 30, 2015

A Korean woman recalls the tragedy of two wars

Seventy years have passed since the end of World War II, but memories of it and the Korean War that followed remain vivid in the mind of a 90-year-old Korean woman.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 30, 2015

Europe fails to meet recycling goals for electronics

Only a third of Europe's electronic waste is properly recycled, with vast numbers of cellphones, computers and televisions illegally traded or dumped, a study led by the United Nations and Interpol said on Sunday.
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LIFE / Travel
Aug 29, 2015

Okinawa: always worth returning to

The island of Okinawa shimmers beneath the wing of our plane, a dark green smudge on the azure seascape. I can't see it well, ensconced as I am in the aisle seat, already subconsciously distancing myself from this visit. But my daughter, on the other end of the row, peers out the window with wide eager...
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JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Aug 29, 2015

The revolution will be streamed online

Local media have been cautious in their coverage of the protest demonstrations that have materialized in recent years, but they appear to be intrigued by the college-age activists known as SEALDs (Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy).
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LIFE / Style & Design
Aug 29, 2015

Keith Haring's urban art finds apt lodgings in Japan's countryside

If someone were to tell you that the largest private collection of New York street and pop artist Keith Haring's work is stashed in some of Japan's lushest mountainous countryside, and if you went to visit it, you could stay in a Keith Haring-inspired boutique hotel, you would probably think they were...
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CULTURE / Music
Aug 29, 2015

Koji Hirata finds the 'soul of tango' through his bandoneon

Koji Hirata encountered the bandoneon, a type of concertina, at the young age of 13. While it's common for a teenager to take up a musical instrument, Hirata showed an unusually high level of commitment when, at 16, he took a solo trip to Argentina to learn it.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 29, 2015

Virginia shooter identified with 9/11 attackers, other mass murderers

The gunman who killed two Virginia television journalists on air had planned the assault well and identified with mass murderers and the Sept. 11 attackers, authorities said on Friday.
WORLD
Aug 29, 2015

Web campaign raises $67,800 for Syria refugee family in a day

An online fundraiser has raised more than $67,800 for a refugee from Syria and his daughter after a campaigner based in Norway shared moving pictures on social media of the man selling pens in the streets of Beirut.
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JAPAN / Politics
Aug 28, 2015

Diet passes bill aimed at boosting women in the workplace

The Diet passed a bill Friday aiming to promote the role of women in the workplace, along with greater female participation in the economy at a time when the country's population is expected to shrink further.

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