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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Mar 17, 2017

Champagne & Gyoza Bar: A fine new pairing in the backstreets of Akasaka

It's gyōza time. These 1½-bite pan-fried dumplings — crisp and brown underneath, moist and meaty inside — may have their roots in China, but they're as deeply embedded in Japanese hearts and the daily diet as ramen and chahan (fried rice).
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JAPAN / Politics
Mar 16, 2017

Tillerson calls for new approach on North Korea

Visiting U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson indicated Thursday in Tokyo that Washington is ready to toughen its diplomatic approach toward North Korea, noting the futility of trying to convince it to abandon its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 8, 2017

Ideology behind intolerant students isn't new

The downshouters remind the rest of us that the true harbinger of an authoritarian future lives not in the White House but in the groves of academe.
Japan Times
JAPAN / AT A GLANCE
Feb 28, 2017

Tokyo's Shiodome area celebrates the old and new, the high and low

It's an area where the old and the new stand right next to each other. That's what the Shiodome district, which stretches from Minato to Chuo wards along Tokyo Bay, looks like.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 13, 2017

Germany's new president sees rocky trans-Atlantic relations ahead under Trump

Frank-Walter Steinmeier, a vocal critic of Donald Trump elected as Germany's 12th postwar president on Sunday, predicted "difficulties" in relations with the U.S. as the global order is upended by the new administration in Washington.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 10, 2017

New report says Mexico-U.S. border wall will cost $21 billion, take over 3 years to build

President Donald Trump's "wall" along the U.S.-Mexico border will be a series of fences and walls that would cost as much as $21.6 billion, and take more than three years to construct, based on a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) internal report seen Thursday.
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WORLD / Politics
Feb 8, 2017

China invites Britain to attend new Silk Road summit, sources say

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Rugby
Feb 7, 2017

Arrest made in bugging of All Blacks' hotel

Australian police have arrested and charged a 51-year-old man with public mischief after an investigation into the discovery of a listening device at the All Blacks hotel in Sydney ahead of their Rugby Championship clash against the Wallabies last year.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Feb 7, 2017

Trump offers no evidence of threat as immigration ban faces new legal hurdle

U.S. President Donald Trump's temporary immigration ban faced a legal hurdle on Monday that could determine whether he can push through the most controversial and far reaching policy of his first two weeks in office.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 3, 2017

Nintendo treading on shaky ground as new mobile game takes 'gacha' global

Nintendo Co. found out with its first smartphone game it's tough to get people to pay $10 even if the draw is Super Mario. With its second mobile title, the Japanese powerhouse is taking a different approach that is potentially more lucrative — and much more controversial.
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BUSINESS
Feb 2, 2017

Nestle Japan rolls out 'sushi' KitKats at new Ginza store

Japanese KitKats are famous — or perhaps infamous — for their varied and sometimes peculiar flavors, including green tea, sake and wasabi. But now Nestle Japan Ltd. has released arguably its strangest concoction yet: sushi.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jan 30, 2017

Japan breathes new life into regional, non-U.S. trade pact

With U.S. President Donald Trump's formal decision to withdraw from the long controversial American-led Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, attention in the Asia-Pacific region is turning toward making renewed efforts to complete a separate multilateral trade agreement that excludes the U.S. — the...
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MORE SPORTS
Jan 26, 2017

Goodell happy to give Brady trophy

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said Wednesday he would not be uncomfortable handing the Lombardi Trophy to quarterback Tom Brady if the New England Patriots win the Feb. 5 Super Bowl in Houston.
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COMMENTARY / World
Jan 17, 2017

Three rules of resistance against the new regime

It's time for Americans who oppose the Trump administration to get serious.

Longform

Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years