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Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 3, 2018

Democrats blast Trump move to withhold 100,000 pages of Brett Kavanaugh's records

Senate Democrats criticized the withholding of documents ahead of Tuesday's start of confirmation hearings for President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, even as a top Republican predicted he would be approved by a healthy margin.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Sep 2, 2018

Glam girl: a white cat named Sarah

Sarah has a lot going for her. In addition to her beauty, she's full of energy, bubbly, vivacious, loves toys, people and chasing things.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 2, 2018

Elderly women to bear the brunt of Japan's spending cuts

As Japanese society ages and the government cuts social welfare spending, older women are bracing for the impact.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 2, 2018

Japan's FSA tightens screening process for aspiring cryptocurrency exchanges

The Financial Services Agency has effectively tightened its registration screening for cryptocurrency exchanges to see whether they are properly conducting risk management, sources say.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 1, 2018

Justice panel drafts rules to facilitate child custody exchanges

The rules will give enforcement officers more authority to facilitate child custody exchanges at a time when parents are under no legal obligation to cooperate.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS / ASIAN GAMES
Sep 1, 2018

Japan takes gold in field hockey

Sakura Japan set a lofty goal of winning gold at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and Friday's victory will certainly help give the team momentum and confidence to do so.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 1, 2018

Top U.S. spy catcher says China is using LinkedIn to recruit Americans

The United States' top spy catcher says Chinese spy agencies are using fake LinkedIn accounts to try to recruit Americans with access to government and commercial secrets, and the company should shut them down.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 1, 2018

Russia to stop flying U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station in April, increasing pressure on NASA

Russia's contract to ferry NASA astronauts to the International Space Station aboard Soyuz rockets will end in April, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told reporters on Friday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Aug 31, 2018

Speculative fiction or prophetic prose? Novel imagines a U.S.-North Korea nuclear conflict

Jeffrey Lewis' speculative novel, 'The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States,' takes the form of a 9/11 Commission-style report on a fictionalized war between North Korea and the U.S. and its Asian allies in March 2020.
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2018

Justice Ministry to enforce rule designating number of weeks Japanese-language schools must be in session

The measure is intended to ensure that students who enter Japan to learn the language do not spend the majority of their stay working.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 31, 2018

Myanmar army seen falsifying photos to smear Rohingya 'Bengalis'

The grainy black-and-white photo, printed in a new book on the Rohingya crisis authored by Myanmar's army, shows a man standing over two bodies, wielding a farming tool. "Bengalis killed local ethnics brutally," reads the caption.
WORLD
Aug 31, 2018

As world changes, Europe rethinks strategic dependence on Trump's U.S.

In 1776, the New World declared independence from the old. Today, it is the Old World that is declaring independence from the new.
MORE SPORTS
Aug 30, 2018

Discus thrower Masateru Yugami disappointed with performance in Jakarta

Masateru Yugami became one of the rising stars in Japanese track and field this year.
MORE SPORTS
Aug 30, 2018

Packers QB Aaron Rodgers becomes NFL's highest-paid player with $134 million deal

Before he became the NFL's highest-paid player again, Aaron Rodgers wore a denim suit and cowboy hat that made him look as if he were going to serve as a chaperone at a square dance.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 30, 2018

Toyota to target tripling of China output to 3.5 million vehicles over next decade

Toyota Motor Corp. is aiming to triple car production in China by as soon as 2030 in a renewed push to make up lost ground in the world's biggest market, according to sources.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / Sound Off
Aug 30, 2018

It'll take more than Ayumi Hamasaki to help streaming services in Japan

Ayumi Hamasaki has seen better days as a J-pop superstar, but she still carries some clout. So it should have been noteworthy that her newest release, the five-song "Trouble," would arrive on streaming services a bit earlier than in stores. That's a win for fledgling in-Japan operations such as Spotify...
MORE SPORTS
Aug 29, 2018

With shock silver in women's judo, Ami Kondo falls short again

Ami Kondo had already established her status as one of the elite judoka in her weight class in the world. But now she is about to be known as one who falls short in the clutch.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 29, 2018

The climate fight's next turning point

Scientists agree that global carbon dioxide emissions must reach a turning point in 2020 if we are to achieve carbon neutrality. Progress must be accelerated.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / IDEAS IN ACTION
Aug 29, 2018

The sky is the canvas: Tokyo startup looks to launch world's first artificial meteor shower

It was literally an out-of-this-world idea that seemed unfeasible when it struck her nearly two decades ago: Made-to-order shooting stars. But Lena Okajima's audacious project to reproduce nature's fireworks for mass entertainment is getting ready for takeoff.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 28, 2018

Startup takes stress out of fed-up workers' exit plans

There was the 24-year-old insurance saleswoman who got sick of being yelled at when she couldn't reach her quota. Then there's the exhausted designer who clocked 160 hours of monthly overtime. And the ramen noodle shop employee who suffered stress to the point of developing depression.
TENNIS
Aug 28, 2018

Yoshihito Nishioka faces tough task against Roger Federer at U.S. Open in latest stage of comeback

It's been a long road back from major knee surgery for Yoshihito Nishioka.

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