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EDITORIALS
Mar 11, 2015

China's daunting challenges

Beijing has yet to realize that China will not achieve long-term stability if its economic reforms are not accompanied by political reforms.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Mar 11, 2015

Going where Terayama's rare spirit lives on

The avant-garde stage and film director, poet, critic, author and founder of the experimental theater group Tenjo Sajiki, Shuji Terayama (1935-83), influenced theater the world over with his iconoclastic plays such as "Mink Marie," "Heretics" and "Directions to Servants."
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 11, 2015

Washington state kidnapper caught on video running with toddler

A baby boy who was seen on video being abducted by a man in a park in Washington state was saved thanks to his two young siblings screaming and giving chase, authorities said on Tuesday.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Mar 10, 2015

IOC stunned by death of French athletes in helicopter crash

The IOC on Tuesday mourned the death of three French sports stars, including two Olympic medalists, in a helicopter accident during the filming of a reality show.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 10, 2015

Three reasons why Japan will get more stimulus

With no sign that Japan's economy is on the path of a self-sustaining recovery, a third dose of quantitative easing is almost certain.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 10, 2015

Why Nemtsov's death got pinned on Chechens

The shooting of a Putin opponent by an underling of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has probably brought the sovereign and vassal closer together.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 10, 2015

Hong Kong lawyers 'edit out' criticism of China in electoral reform report

The Law Society in Hong Kong edited out criticism of Beijing in its report to the government on electoral reform, one member said Tuesday, adding that he was "embarrassed" by its silence.
Japan Times
SPORTS / MAN ABOUT SPORTS
Mar 10, 2015

Wisconsin hoop coach Ryan goes way back with MAS

When NCAA March Madness gets underway next week, Bo Ryan-coached Wisconsin will be one of the favorites to win the whole loopy hoopy shebang.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 10, 2015

Sharp eyes LCD shift to business products

Sharp Corp. said Tuesday it aims to expand sales of LCD panels for business products to establish a more stable portfolio rather than depend on highly volatile consumer products.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KANPAI CULTURE
Mar 10, 2015

G10 Sake Night washes down well at Tokyo's Bar Shampoo

It's Saturday night at Bar Shampoo, one of the roughly 200 tiny watering holes crammed into the Golden Gai district of Shinjuku, and Takashi Goto is setting up for G10 Sake Night, the popup event he's hosted every weekend since June.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 10, 2015

Rebel fighters enjoy lull on eastern Ukraine front

Uneasy calm and domesticity have settled over rebel positions in the ruins of front-line towns in east Ukraine as steps are taken to observe a fragile cease-fire that each side expects the other to violate with a fresh offensive.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 10, 2015

Modi's Indian Ocean tour aimed at muscling out China

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was set to begin a tour of three Indian Ocean countries Tuesday as he seeks to prevent China from establishing a military foothold in a region his nation has dominated for decades.
JAPAN / History
Mar 10, 2015

Statement adviser to Abe: Acknowledge Japan waged 'war of aggression'

A noted political and diplomatic scholar widely considered to be a close adviser to Prime Minister Shinu00adzo Abe takes a surprising stance.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 9, 2015

Netanyahu's 'wolf' refrain tests longtime ties with U.S.

By trying to bury a proposed nuclear deal with Iran in front of the U.S. Congress, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put the most critical Israeli relationship at risk.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Mar 9, 2015

Avoiding the subject isn't such a bad idea in Japanese

Japanese is so efficient as a language that it can sometimes leave new students feeling as though they are floating in space. Without the familiar gravity of shugo (主語, subjects), students are sometimes at a loss to create sentences that involve multiple actors and both direct and indirect actions....
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Japan Pulse
Mar 9, 2015

Will Line put the brakes on Uber with its taxi app?

Line is expanding its smartphone messaging platform by letting users book cabs in Tokyo via its app.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Mar 9, 2015

Tokyo firebombing survivor fears Japan starting down road to war again

Katsumoto Saotome was 12 the night he ran for his life through a sea of flames, jumping over smouldering railroad ties along a train track as U.S. B-29 bombers rained incendiary bombs down around him.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Mar 8, 2015

Computers ousting human traders at TSE

The rise of high-frequency trading drew widespread attention in the United States, but the shift in Japan has gone largely unnoticed outside the financial community.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 8, 2015

China defends island-building in South China Sea

China's foreign minister on Sunday defended his government's controversial policy of reclamation on disputed isles in the South China Sea, which has sparked regional concern, and said Beijing is not seeking to overturn the international order.
WORLD / Society
Mar 8, 2015

Small Washington town becomes first to open government-run pot shop

A small town in southern Washington on Saturday opened the state's first recreational marijuana store that is both owned and operated by the local government, officials said.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Mar 7, 2015

The problems and pleasure of publishing the horrors of the 3/11 tsunami

At a symposium on "Trauma and Utopia" held in Tokyo in October 2014, photographer Naoya Hatakeyama talked about his work in the aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, a disaster that killed his mother and destroyed his home in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture. During this, he acknowledged...
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 7, 2015

Electricity and gas deregulation

The Abe administration has readied two bills for finalizing the deregulation of the nation's electricity and city gas businesses, but each bill comes with a rider allowing the delay of implementation if conditions aren't right for the utilities.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Mar 7, 2015

Nemtsov's friends ask: Where were the police when he was shot?

When Boris Nemtsov was shot dead as he walked across a bridge next to the Kremlin, it took 11 minutes before a police car arrived at the scene, according to the time stamp on closed-circuit television footage.

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