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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 14, 2019

Trump bows to economic fears in move to delay China tariffs

U.S. President Donald Trump bowed to pressure from American businesses and concerns over the economic fallout of his trade war with China, delaying the imposition of new tariffs on a wide variety of consumer products including toys and laptops until December.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 14, 2019

History and the logic of empires

Current events in Asia echo the days of British rule.
JAPAN
Aug 14, 2019

Tokyo Games' corporate sponsors begin drills to counter potential cyberattacks

In the run-up to the Tokyo Olympics next year, the sponsors are speeding up preparations to counter cyberattacks.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 14, 2019

'Aesop's Game': Ueda follow-up is neither tortoise nor hare

Last year, Shinichiro Ueda made Japanese film history with "One Cut of the Dead," a zombie comedy he scripted and directed. Opening in just two Tokyo theaters in June, 2018, the film ended up earning ¥3.21 billion — or more than 1,000 times its ¥3 million budget.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 14, 2019

Japan Post scraps catalog gift quotas after employees spent own money to meet sales targets

Japan Post Co. will not require staff to meet sales targets for gifts marketed in its catalogs after those unable to meet the quota made up for the shortfall from their own pockets.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 14, 2019

Kremlin says it is winning arms race against U.S. despite rocket accident

The Kremlin boasted on Tuesday it was winning the race to develop new cutting edge nuclear weapons despite a mysterious rocket accident last week in northern Russia that caused a temporary spike in radiation levels.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 13, 2019

Japan needs guidelines and infrastructure for multilingual support for foreign residents

It is high time that the national government formulated guidelines on what information it should disseminate in what languages.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 13, 2019

Genta Ishizuka: Beneath and on the surface

Contemporary urushi lacquerware artist Genta Ishizuka — winner of the 2019 Kyoto's Best Young Artist Award and Loewe Foundation Craft Prize — re-imagines the decorative beauty of traditional lacquer in unusual and sculptural pieces.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 13, 2019

Japan says South Korea has failed to justify stripping Tokyo of fast-track trade status

Industry minister Hiroshige Seko said Seoul has not shown how Japan has fallen short of international export control measures following the latest move in the bilateral spat.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 13, 2019

Hispanics in El Paso flock to firearms classes after being targeted in Walmart mass shooting

More El Paso residents than ever before crowded into a class over the weekend to become certified to carry a concealed gun in public in Texas following this month's mass shooting at a Walmart store that killed 22 people.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Aug 13, 2019

Surge in arrests of foreign teachers reported as China pushes to clean up education system

Arrests and deportations of foreign teachers in China have soared this year, lawyers, schools and teachers say, amid a broad crackdown defined by new police tactics and Beijing's push for a "cleaner," more patriotic education system.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 13, 2019

Scientists hail promise of first effective Ebola treatments in Congo trial

Scientists are a step closer to finding the first effective treatments for the deadly Ebola hemorrhagic fever after two potential drugs showed encouraging survival results in a clinical trial in Congo.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 12, 2019

Canadian water polo teams show progress at Pan American Games, one year after Morioka camps

Holding training camps in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, have helped Canada's men's and women's water polo teams achieve some of their loftiest goals.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 12, 2019

Australia's Morrison says nation will spend $340 million on improving special forces' capabilities

Australia will spend 500 million Australian dollars ($340 million) to improve the capability of its special forces troops, the first stage of a AU$3 billion, 20-year plan that the government said Monday will enable a better response to security threats at home and abroad.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 11, 2019

Via language, song and nature, young Taiwanese reconnecting with indigenous roots

The Truku elders of Taiwan still dream about their mountain home four decades after bulldozers tore it down — a classic symptom of trauma as community members struggle to accept their loss.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Aug 11, 2019

Myanmar politicians take advantage of China's junket tours

The National League for Democracy was forged in an uprising against one-party rule. Its activists spent years in jail under Myanmar's military junta. But since taking power three years ago, the party led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has found an unlikely ally — the Chinese Communist Party.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 10, 2019

Osaka prosecutors close Moritomo Gakuen case after reconfirming no bureaucrats will be indicted over scandal

The Osaka District Public Prosecutor's Office decided again on Friday not to indict former senior Finance Ministry bureaucrat Nobuhisa Sagawa and nine others over the Moritomo Gakuen cronyism scandal that hit the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Aug 10, 2019

China paid for positive news coverage, using Taiwan media to win hearts and minds on island

The articles on the website of the leading Taiwan newspaper were gushing about a new Chinese government program to lure Taiwanese entrepreneurs to the mainland.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 10, 2019

U.S.-based experts suspect deadly Russian blast involved nuclear-powered 'Skyfall' cruise missile

U.S.-based nuclear experts said on Friday they suspected an accidental blast and radiation release in northern Russia this week occurred during the testing of a nuclear-powered cruise missile vaunted by President Vladimir Putin last year.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 9, 2019

Apple and Goldman Sachs roll out virtual credit card

Apple Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. rolled out a virtual credit card on Tuesday, which will help the iPhone-maker diversify from device sales and also build out the Wall Street bank's new consumer business.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 9, 2019

The Mideast has oil, China has rare earths

China has a powerful trade-war weapon: an overwhelming dominance in the production of rare earths.
Transport ministry issues warning to Haneda Airport operator
The operator of Tokyo's Haneda Airport has been warned by the government over its inappropriate transactions.
Xi defiance pays off as Trump meets most China trade demands
Then-Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping visits a school in South Gate, California, in February 2012. Experts say Xi won big in his standoff with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Nissan shares surge as carmaker set to cut 20,000 jobs in huge overhaul
U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on cars and car parts imported to the U.S. have been painful to most global brands, but crippling in Nissan’s case.
Japan might be playing long game in U.S. tariff talks
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the White House earlier this year. Ishiba said Monday that farmers won't be sacrificed for automakers in Japan's tariff negotiations with the U.S.
More details emerge about stabbing near Tokyo University metro station
Yoshitaka Toda, the suspect in Wednesday's knife attack at Todaimae Station on the Tokyo Metro Nanboku Line, leaves a police station in the Japanese capital the same day for a pre-detention medical examination.
Sculpted waves, sleek updos: Showa hairstyles are back in fashion
The larger-than-life hairstyles of Japan's Showa Era are unmistakable — and they're making a comeback.
Consumption tax set to dominate Upper House election debate
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba enters his office in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan should produce its own AI defense solutions, Sakana AI CEO says
Sakana AI CEO David Ha speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Nissan gets ‘wake-up call’ with $4.5 billion annual net loss
Nissan CEO Ivan Espinosa in Tokyo as the company releases its results
Japan set for bigger role in Philippines after SDF’s debut in key drills
Philippine Army Brig. Gen. Michael Logico, who was involved in managing the latest iteration of the Balikatan U.S.-Philippine drills, told The Japan Times that he expects military ties with Japan to surge even further once Tokyo ratifies a key visiting-forces agreement with Manila.

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