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COMMENTARY / World
Jun 23, 2015

Chinese investors are swimming in a bubble

The belief that China can prevent the crash of a market already defying the most wildly optimistic of economic scenarios is mistaken.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 23, 2015

GOP candidates to give donations from white supremacist cited by Charleston shooter to charities

The head of a white supremacist group cited by the alleged killer of nine people at a black South Carolina church last week has given thousands of dollars to several 2016 Republican presidential candidates, according to media reports.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 22, 2015

What attracts people to white supremacy?

Supremacists offer disaffected whites someone to love and someone to hate, along with an assurance that the problem isn't in you, but in 'them.'
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 22, 2015

China's answer to Europe's needs

Europe would do well to remember that China's investments are a cumulative means to a geopolitical end — one at odds with some of the West's own principles.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 21, 2015

China's the reason why U.S. needs the TPP

The Trans-Pacific Partnership will make the U.S. stronger in the cool war it's waging with China.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 21, 2015

Time for the European Union to let Greece go

The world, which owes much to ancient Athens' legacy, including the idea of democracy, is indebted to today's Athens for the reminder that reality does not respect a democracy's delusions.
JAPAN / NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT
Jun 21, 2015

Suspicion tarnishes 50th anniversary of Japanese-South Korean ties

As Tokyo and Seoul mark 50 years since normalizing bilateral relations after the war, the anniversary is unlikely to yield much to celebrate as trust issues continue to fester.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 21, 2015

Charleston shooting echoes 1963 Birmingham church murders that helped galvanize civil rights movement

Half a century ago in the deeply Southern city of Birmingham, a racially motivated attack on a black church left four young girls dead and helped galvanize a civil rights movement that changed voting laws across the United States.
JAPAN / View from Osaka
Jun 20, 2015

Abe and Hashimoto's political dance will have to avoid stepping on any toes

One month after Osaka voters said no, just barely, to his pet project of fundamentally restructuring the municipal government, Mayor Toru Hashimoto finds himself courted by an increasingly anxious Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who hopes to borrow whatever is left of Hashimoto's influence in the Japan Innovation...
Reader Mail
Jun 20, 2015

G-7 needs to grow with the times

The editorial "Keeping the G-7 relevant" on June 12 points out the salient points of the G-7 summits.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 19, 2015

Charleston church aftermath: Republicans avoid talk of race, guns

Republican presidential candidates steered clear on Thursday of addressing the role gun rights and racial tensions may have played in a deadly mass shooting in South Carolina as Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton called for the United States to face what she called the "hard truths" underpinning...
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 16, 2015

Unfortunately, corporate Japan thinks it's 1985

Japan's biggest companies are greeting reforms aimed at improving corporate governance with a halfhearted shrug.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 15, 2015

Speculation swirls over result of Abe-Hashimoto meeting

Speculation is swirling among the politically well-connected that Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto may have agreed to help Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pass contentious security legislation when the two met in Tokyo on Sunday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 15, 2015

Jeb Bush runs from Romney's ghost as he readies U.S. presidential bid Monday

When Republican Jeb Bush gathered donors in Miami for an April retreat, it was clear he planned a less-scripted, more-inclusive U.S. presidential campaign bearing little resemblance to that of the unsuccessful 2012 nominee Mitt Romney.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jun 12, 2015

Japan security bills reveal irreconcilable divide between scholars, politicians

The full-scale battle over security reform highlights an unbridgeable gap between politicians and scholars that will have to be filled by Japan's less-than-proactive Supreme Court.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 12, 2015

How outrage became a U.S. growth industry

Intolerance is making the U.S. less free, and less fun.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 11, 2015

Abe war anniversary statement will improve China ties, LDP official says

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's planned statement on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II is expected to improve relations with China, according to a ruling party official known for his efforts to revive Asian ties.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 9, 2015

Dark days ahead for Turkey?

The AKP's setback in Sunday's Turkish elections make make President Recep Tayyip Erdogan more autocratic, not less.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 9, 2015

The Japanese government's Peter Pan problem

Until the government does its part by loosening labor markets, lowering trade barriers and creating tax incentives to support entrepreneurship, the BOJ's yen printing won't save the day.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jun 9, 2015

On European Commission leader's watch list, EU struggles to curb Hungary's Orban

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban took it as a joke but his supporters at home were furious when European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker saluted him with an audible "Hello dictator" before the world's cameras last month.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 8, 2015

Worrying plight of the young and unemployed

Advanced economies must try to promote a sense of purposefulness and self-reliance for their bloated pools of disengaged youth.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 8, 2015

Washington should offer to talk to Pyongyang

The possibility of division and dissension in Pyongyang gives Washington a new reason to suggest direct discussions without preconditions, but with the prospect of benefits for a change in direction.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 8, 2015

Japan's maverick billionaire bets big abroad

Corporate Japan should seriously consider emulating Softbank CEO's Masayoshi Son's gutsy approach to doing business.
CULTURE / Music
Jun 7, 2015

Old Lacy Bed and a legacy left by Vivian Girls

"Share the Joy," the 2011 album by Brooklyn trio Vivian Girls, starts off with the distinctive rumble of a drone strike in progress before suddenly veering into a lollygagging eighth-note groove for beginner musicians.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 7, 2015

The best and worst ways to default on sovereign debt

If Greece does decide to default, it should seek to make its path as smooth as possible.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Descendants in Philippines denied Japanese citizenship
China warns of military response if Japan intervenes in Taiwan contingency
Representatives from the Japan Innovation Party hand over a proposal to designate Xue Jian, the Chinese consul-general in Osaka, as persona no grata, to a staff of the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Wednesday.
As attacks surge, who can cull bears in Japan?
Police cars leave the Akita Prefectural Police headquarters to cull bears, in the city of Akita on Thursday.
Japan may triple departure tax to tackle overtourism
A plane takes off from Haneda Airport.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
Tatsuya Nakadai: A masterful leading man and postwar icon
Tatsuya Nakadai had the look of a leading man in his youth, but his large and searching eyes suggested the pain and loneliness of an old soul.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.
Takaichi doesn’t mince words on Taiwan, but dramatic policy shift unlikely
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in parliament on Tuesday.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
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