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JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Sep 20, 2017

Trump's fire and brimstone U.N. speech hands Abe a win on North Korea, but will victory be pyrrhic?

Experts warn that Trump's threat could reinforce Pyongyang's belief that nuclear weapons remain the sole means of securing the regime's safety.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 20, 2017

In first U.N. speech, Trump threatens total destruction of North Korea

U.S. President Donald Trump warned on Tuesday that the United States will be forced to "totally destroy" North Korea unless it halts its pursuit of nuclear weapons, mocking the isolated country's dictator, Kim Jong Un, as a "rocket man" on a suicide mission.
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CULTURE / Music
Sep 19, 2017

Ultra stakes a claim on Japan's music festival throne with help from Chainsmokers, Tiesto and more

Security tugs a woozy-looking man toward the exit of Odaiba Ultra Park after he got in a scuffle with another festivalgoer. His opponent, only steps behind, has bright red bumps on his face. He approaches a guard and, with a smile, snaps a selfie.
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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.
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JAPAN / Society
Sep 19, 2017

Japan's women's colleges grapple with shifting views on gender

It was at the end of 2015 when an all-girl junior high school affiliated with Japan Women's University received an inquiry from a mother of an elementary school student, asking if her daughter would be eligible to apply for enrollment.
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WORLD / FOCUS
Sep 19, 2017

U.N. making slow progress on sweeping goals to end global poverty amid rise of nationalism

Ambitious global goals aimed at ending poverty and inequality by 2030 are moving more slowly than expected and would struggle to get approval from United Nations members if put to a vote today, an exclusive survey showed on Tuesday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Sep 18, 2017

Sarfate thrives in perfect situation in Fukuoka

Dennis Sarfate is fit, but at a listed weight of 102 kg, he isn't exactly light. So it was with some apprehension that he allowed his Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks teammates to toss him in the air after the team won the 2017 Pacific League pennant on Saturday afternoon at MetLife Dome in Saitama.
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COMMENTARY / World
Sep 18, 2017

An American political tragedy

The U.S. has not had a proactive, forward-looking government since the 1960s, and it's hard to remember the last time it produced a policy that could serve as a model for others to emulate.
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LIFE / Lifestyle
Sep 17, 2017

Dancing to the tune of humanity

Penniless and subsisting on only water for three weeks, Tokyo street-dweller Tokuchika Nishi thought he had come to the end of his life.
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LIFE / Lifestyle / CHILD'S PLAY
Sep 17, 2017

Cooking classes can dish out plenty of culture bites

What's the best thing about exploring Japan with kids? For us, it may be the eating. With two kids born in Tokyo, I can say without doubt that one of our favorite things to do together is cook, eat and talk about Japanese food. One of our children's favorite Japanese meals is also one of the simplest:...
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 17, 2017

15 years after landmark Koizumi visit to Pyongyang, little progress on abduction issue

Little progress has been made on efforts to repatriate Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea since Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi made a historic visit in 2002.
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COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Sep 16, 2017

Grading Abe's flailing leadership and policy drift

In his penultimate Counterpoint column, Jeff Kingston gives Shinzo Abe a report card for the prime minister's nearly five years in office.
PRESS / Services
Sep 15, 2017

The Japan Times Starts a News Release Service in Conjunction with News2U Corporation

Tokyo, September 15, 2017 - The Japan Times has, through its tie-up with the internet PR company News2U Corporation, started a news release service in English on its website. This is positioned as a useful new information release service for our core readership of non-Japanese living both in and outside...
BUSINESS
Sep 14, 2017

Facebook adds new standards to keep ads off fake news, objectionable videos

Facebook Inc. is adding new standards that will keep advertising off fake news videos and objectionable content, moves that have become essential as the company starts to put ads inside videos and articles, instead of separately on the news feed.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 12, 2017

A silver-lining for graying Japan

Graying Japan faces a long list of daunting challenges, but it still has great potential.
EDITORIALS
Sep 12, 2017

Hun Sen flirts with dictatorship

While Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has ruled with an iron fist, he has maintained a veneer of democracy. That mask is slipping.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 12, 2017

How Honda lost its mojo, and the mission to get it back

The driver punched the air as his red and white McLaren-Honda roared over the finish line. It was in Suzuka, Mie Prefecture, 1988, and Ayrton Senna had just become Formula One world champion for the first time. The McLaren racing team and its engine maker, Honda Motor, were unstoppable that year, their...
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JAPAN / Society
Sep 9, 2017

Confronting youth suicide: Seeking ways to stop young people from taking their own lives

A grand piano stands silently in a tatami room at Naoko Nakashima's home in Toride, Ibaraki Prefecture. It has not been played in almost two years.
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JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Sep 9, 2017

It takes threats from the unstable for us to question security

Adolf Hitler is like that bad tooth you can't keep your tongue off, though it hurts to touch it. Seventy-two years postwar, he keeps surfacing. He fascinates. All the way up and all the way down the age scale — from Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso, 76, who last week praised Hitler's "motives," to the...
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LIFE / Food & Drink / JAPANESE KITCHEN
Sep 9, 2017

Attention turns to kabocha squash as cooler weather looms

With cooler weather around the corner, our thoughts turn away from cold noodles and salads to autumn comfort foods like nimono, simmered dishes in a broth, usually a classic seaweed and dried fish-based dashi.
JAPAN / Society
Sep 9, 2017

State panel to brainstorm lifestyle solutions for Japan's demographic ills

Japan is waking up to the need to think outside the box to tackle a spate of economic and social challenges posed by its declining birthrate and aging society.
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SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Sep 8, 2017

Arsenal's decline tarnishing Wenger's legacy

It has been necessary to remind ourselves that Arsenal FC remains one of the great clubs in English football and Arsene Wenger is second only to Sir Alex Ferguson on the list of Premier League managers who have won the most trophies with their English clubs.

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