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JAPAN / Politics
Oct 9, 2015

Abe counts on Kato to reverse sliding birthrate, labor exodus in aging Japan

Prime Minister Abe is counting on his new minister in charge of population decline to inspire imitators. He's a father of four.
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CULTURE / Music
Oct 8, 2015

Guitarist Tomoyasu Hotei calls on his pals for 'Strangers'

Recalling his first encounter with rocker Iggy Pop, a huge grin flashes across the face of Tomoyasu Hotei. It occurred at Berlin airport around 30 years ago when he was recording in Germany with former band Boøwy. Despite being one of the most famous musicians in Japan, the guitarist was too shy to...
EDITORIALS
Oct 8, 2015

TPP deal needs a sober assessment

A sober assessment is needed of what Japan stands to gain and lose from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 8, 2015

Sony triggers clause to allow it to sell half of music venture stake to Jackson estate, or buy other half

Sony Corp. triggered a contract clause that would allow the Japanese electronics maker to to sell its half of the Sony/ATV Music Publishing venture it co-owns with Michael Jackson's estate, according to people familiar with the situation.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 7, 2015

Abe seeks to soothe party divisions with fresh faces in Cabinet

Abe aims to create a stable team with experienced managers while freshening its image with new ones.
EDITORIALS
Oct 7, 2015

Retrial system needs revamping

As illustrated by the case of Masaru Okunishi, who passed away after decades on death row without getting the new trial that he deserved, Japan's retrial system is seriously flawed and in need of reform.
EDITORIALS
Oct 6, 2015

Legislation Bureau misconduct

The Cabinet Legislation Bureau's failure to keep records of its internal discussions leading up to the Abe administration's reinterpretation of Article 9 only deepens suspicions about the legal legitimacy of the Cabinet decision and the subsequent security legislation.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 6, 2015

Democrats in U.S. House demand release of Benghazi probe transcripts

Democrats in the U.S. House are calling on the Republican majority to release interview transcripts from a special committee's investigation of the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 5, 2015

Japanese microbiologist Satoshi Omura shares Nobel Prize for medicine

Japanese microbiologist Satoshi Omura on Monday shared this year's Nobel Prize in medicine for his work on a therapy for debilitating diseases caused by parasitic worms.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 5, 2015

Time to eliminate harmful fisheries subsidies

Much of the $30 billion a year countries spend on fisheries subsidies directly encourages unsustainable, destructive and illegal fishing practices.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 5, 2015

Leaving our children nothing

If we set our minds to it, we could be the first in human history to leave our children nothing: no greenhouse gas emissions, no poverty and no biodiversity loss.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 5, 2015

Hitachi's $19 million settlement over improper payments offers insights into South African deals

Hitachi Ltd.'s $19 million settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission provides insight into how the company became a crucial supplier to South Africa's behind-schedule power plants that have yet to solve the country's electricity shortage.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 5, 2015

SoftBank's bond risk jumps as prospects sour from U.S. to China

SoftBank Group Corp.'s bond risk has climbed to a three-year high as founder and Chairman Masayoshi Son faces a perfect storm of troubles with its Chinese and U.S. investments and a push by the government to cut phone rates that threatens earnings at home.
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WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 5, 2015

Canada election may be so close that it leads to political instability

With Canada's three main political parties all getting around 30 percent support in polls, the odds of a period of political instability after the Oct. 19 election are rising.
WORLD / Society
Oct 5, 2015

World's 'extremely poor' to fall below 10% of global population for first time in 2015: World Bank

The number of people living in extreme poverty is likely to fall for the first time below 10 percent of the world's population in 2015, the World Bank said Sunday as it revised its benchmark for measuring the problem.
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JAPAN / GENERATIONAL CHANGE
Oct 4, 2015

Chance chat in Gaza alters a life

Kenji Sekine might have ended up as a wine importer at a supermarket chain in Tokyo had it not been for a chance encounter with a Palestinian boy during a trip to the Middle East in early 1999.
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LIFE / Travel
Oct 3, 2015

Listening to the wind on Battleship Island

As if from a dream, the island floated over the sea like a terra-cotta dreadnought from a century ago. I'd arrived at Gunkanjima, or Battleship Island, and its profile was unmistakable from the deck of my ferry battling high waves and winds.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 3, 2015

Ishikawa savors resilient Swallows' rise from cellar to CL champions

Masanori Ishikawa was soaked in beer from head to toe. The white Central League Champions T-shirt clung to the veteran Tokyo Yakult Swallows pitcher as he shuffled onto the makeshift stage in center field after the Swallows' pennant-clinching 11-inning 2-1 victory over the Hanshin Tigers on Friday night....

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A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami