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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 4, 2016

Putin struggles to kick-start Russia's flagging economy

Vladimir Putin's economy has been shrinking for 18 months but he still doesn't have a plan to get it going again.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 3, 2016

Abe's defense minister pick sparks concern over relations with South Korea

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's choice for the key post of defense minister, Tomomi Inada, is a politician known for her strong nationalistic views.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 3, 2016

Bitcoin sinks after hackers steal $65 million from exchange

Bitcoin plunged after one of the largest exchanges halted trading because hackers stole about $65 million (¥6.6 billion) of the digital currency.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 3, 2016

Experience valued over youth in Abe's reshuffle of LDP executive

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reshuffled executives of his ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Wednesday, but gravitated heavily toward old veterans in an apparent bid to stabilize his power base.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Aug 2, 2016

Sagamihara mass murder exposes flaws in mental health system

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced that the government will seek further measures on compulsory hospitalization, but experts warn that more focus should be placed on aftercare to prevent such an incident from happening again.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 2, 2016

Of course U.S. candidates have ties to Russia

Russian oligarchs have yet to give Donald Trump a dime, but they have donated thousands of dollars to Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / ANALYSIS
Aug 2, 2016

Didi's dominance of Uber in China offers road map for ride-hailing competitors

China ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing's dominance of Uber Technologies Inc. in the China market may provide a play book for other regional rivals to fend off the biggest U.S. ride-hailing company, especially in other Asian countries.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 2, 2016

As Indonesia wages war on drugs and cuts funding for rehabilitation, some addicts seek out traditional treatment

Rizki Mulyadi sits half-submerged in a steaming herbal bath, hands folded in his lap and head down.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 1, 2016

Abe's wand has lost its magic

Prime Minister Abe's failing is that he sees Abenomics as a magic wand that he can wave and all will be well.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Aug 1, 2016

Savvy campaign helped Koike's election as Tokyo's first female governor

Yuriko Koike's focus must turn now to how she can get along with the metropolitan assembly.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 1, 2016

Extravagant gamble of Rio's mayor

The Olympic Games could make or break the career of Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes.
JAPAN
Aug 1, 2016

Plan for new Korean school in Tokyo threatened by Koike election

Yuriko Koike could complicate already strained Japan-South Korea ties if she follows through with her promise to kill a plan to lease a property in Shinjuku Ward for use as a Korean school.
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Aug 1, 2016

Pension fund's huge ¥5.3 trillion loss tied to management's passive investing

Friday was a big day for the world's largest pension fund, which posted its worst annual loss since the financial crisis and disclosed individual equity holdings for the first time. The two may be connected.
BUSINESS
Aug 1, 2016

Abe aide Hamada favors Japan proclaiming debt-monetizing policy

One of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's top advisers says he favors a declaration by Japan's policymakers that their current measures are monetizing the nation's debt.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 1, 2016

Tokyo Gas in talks with European firms to swap LNG cargoes

Tokyo Gas Co., the nation's second-biggest buyer of liquefied natural gas, is in talks with European companies to swap cargoes it owns from the U.S. with those in Asia to reduce shipping times and costs.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 1, 2016

As its territory shrinks, Islamic State group increasingly looking to global attacks

The Islamic State group, losing territory and on the retreat in Iraq and Syria, has claimed credit for a surge in global attacks this summer, most of them in France and Germany.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 1, 2016

Former environment minister Yuriko Koike wins landslide election as Tokyo's first female governor

Former environment minister Yuriko Koike of the Liberal Democratic Party was elected Tokyo governor Sunday, winning a landslide victory to become the capital’s first female leader.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Aug 1, 2016

Pope wants Aussie justice to play out before remarking on sex abuse claims against Cardinal Pell

Pope Francis said on Sunday that he will wait until Australian justice takes its course before taking a position on Cardinal George Pell, who is under investigation in his homeland over sexual abuse allegations.
COMMUNITY / Issues / JUST BE CAUSE
Jul 31, 2016

For Abe, it will always be about the Constitution

Nobody here on the Community page has weighed in on Japan's Upper House election last July 10, so JBC will have a go.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 31, 2016

Hong Kong pro-independence candidate disqualified from election

A member of the pro-independence Hong Kong National Party has been disqualified from running in September’s Legislative Council elections after he declined to sign a controversial new form saying the city is an “inalienable” part of China.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 31, 2016

Erdogan eyes closing military schools, bringing armed forces under Defense Ministry control

Turkey will shut down its military academies and put the armed forces under the command of the defense minister, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday in a move designed to bring the military under tighter government control following a failed coup.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Jul 30, 2016

Commuters fight back against groping

Takako Tonooka's life at high school did not start out the way she had anticipated. On the very first day she attended class, she was groped on the train — and that was only the beginning of her nightmare. For a year and a half, she was the victim of persistent groping attacks during her commute to...
Japan Times
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Jul 30, 2016

IOC's decision on Russia a disgrace

The IOC has exposed itself as a toothless tiger. The Olympics' global governing body showed it lacked the moral fortitude and backbone to take a necessary stand against Russia.
EDITORIALS
Jul 30, 2016

Plastic waste turning seas toxic

The government and consumers alike must do everything they can to stop polluting the world's oceans with plastic waste.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jul 30, 2016

Ex-Wolverines set for Japan debut

Like most other American players, quarterback Devin Gardner and wide receiver Jeremy Gallon had no idea that football was even played there.
‘Confugenics’ and East Asia's demographic crisis
East Asia’s fertility plunge is driven not just by financial costs but by perfectionist cultural expectations that burden parents with intense educational and social demands.
Japan prince comes of age as succession crisis looms
Prince Hisahito concludes his elaborate "kakan no gi" coming-of-age ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Saturday.
Bangladesh is a South Asian time bomb
Many Bangladeshis hoped that the overthrow of long-time leader Sheikh Hasina last year would revitalize the country’s democracy after an authoritarian lurch under the “iron lady.” Instead it has led to proliferating human-rights abuses, intensifying repression and widespread Islamist violence.
Japan to experience blood moon lunar eclipse on Monday
A blood moon is seen during a partial eclipse in the sky over Lake George near Canberra on March 14.
Japan's $550 billion investment pledge outlined in MOU
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Ryosei Akazawa, Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, sign trade agreements on Thursday in Washington.
In rural Hokkaido, the stops and starts of tourism revival on full display
Redevelopment plans for Kawayu Onsen have hit some snags — an example of how bringing tourists back to declining rural communities is far from easy work.
London’s calling and sumo’s top division — along with Hello Kitty — are ready to answer
Yokozuna Hoshoryu and Hello Kitty, an ambassador for sumo's upcoming tour to London, at Tokyo's Kokugikan on Tuesday
Resonac creates 27-member consortium to pursue advanced chip developments
Representatives from member companies of JOINT3, a consortium working together on semiconductor-related developments announced by Resonac, pose for a photo in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Haru Nemuri’s radical new album refuses easy listening
Musician Haruna Kimishima, better known as Haru Nemuri, confronts Japan’s politics, nationalism and censorship on her recent output.
Overseas sluggers step up to bat in small-town Hokkaido
The Betsukai Pilot Spirits welcomed new players (left to right) Yuta Yamanaka, Roman Guthrie, Scott Bellina and Leo Jiminian this year, pictured here with Yassir Lachkar of the Ishikari Red Phoenix.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past
By Alex K.T. Martin

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