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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 28, 2014

China plots massive state sector shake-up

Far from the spotlight, in secretive high-level meetings and company boardrooms, Beijing is drawing up one of the country's thorniest reforms: an overhaul of China's hugely inefficient state-owned industry.
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BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 28, 2014

Wireless is way forward for Internet

The Internet may feel like it is everywhere, but large pockets of sky, swaths of land and most of the oceans are still beyond a signal's reach.
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: ARCHITECTURE
Apr 28, 2014

Japanese architecture on show in Venice, and the loss of a legend

Architects often claim to be deeply concerned about protecting the distinctive soul of places and regions, which would seem to imply that architects should stay close to their roots. Yet the export of architectural services and the global circulation of architects has never been higher. This paradox...
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BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Apr 27, 2014

The price is right, but sometimes difficult to read

Since the tax hike went into effect, price tags aren't what they used to be.
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ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Apr 26, 2014

A journalist who gets climate change right

Dr. Heather Goldstone is a rare breed. She's a journalist who insists on getting the science right, and she loves sharing it with the public.
JAPAN
Apr 24, 2014

Obama assures Abe on Senkakus

President Barack Obama says Thursday that he wants to see a dispute between China and Japan over islands in the East China Sea resolved peacefully, while affirming that the mutual security treaty with Japan applies to the islands.
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 24, 2014

Abe Futenma plan hailed by Nakaima

Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima welcomed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's announcement Thursday that he would seek U.S. President Barack Obama's cooperation in closing U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa within five years.
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JAPAN
Apr 23, 2014

Sushi legend Jiro enlisted in bid to wow president

After arriving at Haneda airport, U.S. President Barack Obama is whisked to Ginza for a “casual dinner” with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the modest yet widely revered sushi restaurant Sukibayashi Jiro.
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JAPAN
Apr 23, 2014

Parade aims to raise awareness of sexual minorities

Tokyo Rainbow Pride, the nation's largest festival for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities, will have its third annual parade in Tokyo on Sunday, aiming to raise awareness of sexual minorities in Japan.
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CULTURE / Stage
Apr 23, 2014

PUK's children's puppet shows suspend disbelief for all ages

Parents around the capital seeking entertainment options for young children over the next several weeks could do a lot worse than check out Puppet Theater PUK, where old and new stories will come to life in the hands of seasoned puppeteers.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / DESSERT WATCH
Apr 22, 2014

Get in line for Japan's latest Cronut homage

Tokyo may not have a branch of Dominique Ansel, but it does have a Japanese answer to the New York bakery's famous Cronut. The next time you're waiting for a friend in front of Shinjuku's Alta building, grab the titular snack of Croissant Taiyaki (¥210), comprising sweet bean filling wrapped with a...
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LIFE / Food & Drink / OSAKA RESTAURANTS
Apr 22, 2014

Cafe Ibaraki Yu: Former bathhouse offers a bite of the old days

The city of Ibaraki in the north of Osaka is home to Tadao Ando's Church of the Light, a modernist concrete masterpiece. Out of the spotlight, another architect in Ibaraki has been quietly but busily breathing life into buildings whose glory days would otherwise be behind them. Cafe Ibaraki Yu might...
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ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 22, 2014

'No response' as S. Korea ferry crew asked for orders to abandon ship

The crew of a South Korean ferry that sank with hundreds of people on board repeatedly asked officers on the bridge whether or not to give the order to abandon ship, but there was no response, a crew member has said.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 21, 2014

South Korean class trip to resort island turned into horror with sinking

It was supposed to be their last bit of teenage fun.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 21, 2014

Captain of ill-fated Korean ferry praised safety in promotional video

The captain of the ferry that sank off South Korea's southwestern tip, with hundreds feared dead, said in a promotional video four years ago that the journey was safe — as long as passengers followed the instructions of the crew.
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WORLD / Politics
Apr 21, 2014

Deadly gunbattle in eastern Ukraine shakes fragile Geneva accord

At least three people were killed in a gunfight in the early hours of Sunday near a Ukrainian city controlled by pro-Russian separatists, shaking an already fragile international accord that was designed to avert a wider conflict.
JAPAN / NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT
Apr 20, 2014

'STAPgate' shows Japan must get back to basics in science

On Jan. 30, as NHK kicked off its evening news program with upbeat music, footage aired of a young woman with immaculately coiffed brown hair wearing pearl earrings and her trademark "kappogi," a Japanese-style white apron.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 18, 2014

Ukraine's Chernobyl factor

Twenty-eight years after its Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded, Ukraine confronts a nuclear specter of a different kind: the possibility that the country's reactors could become military targets in the event of a Russian invasion.
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BUSINESS
Apr 17, 2014

Toyota ratchets up 'green car' race with 2015 fuel cell vehicle launch

In 1997, Toyota caught its competitors by surprise with the revolutionary Prius, the first commercially successful gasoline-electric hybrid car. Now it is trying to do the same with a technology that seems straight out of science fiction.
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CULTURE / Art
Apr 16, 2014

All aboard the art train to Ichihara

Just after the train departs, a passenger falls to the floor. Further down the small train carriage another person follows suit. "Ma'am, are you sane?" questions a female announcer over the loudspeaker. The diesel train chugs forward. A young man asks, "Mom where did you go?" The mother responds, "The...
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Apr 15, 2014

Butagumi Dining: Quality tonkatsu pork cutlets to eat and go

What's not to like about the original Butagumi? Tokyo's temple to high-end tonkatsu (deep-fried pork cutlets) really is the finest in town. Where else serves such beautiful cuts of premium pork — from hand-reared breeds of "heritage" pigs — and in such a classic setting?
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WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Apr 14, 2014

Next six weeks crucial as Putin tries not to lose Ukraine

Vladimir Putin looks likely to go down in history as the Russian leader who won back Crimea, but he is fighting to avoid also being remembered as the man who let Ukraine escape from Moscow's sphere of influence.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Apr 12, 2014

Appearances can be deceptive

New male recruit: You don't drink beer, do you?
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JAPAN
Apr 10, 2014

Simulation of texting at Shibuya crossing goes viral

What would happen if 1,500 pedestrians walked across the famous crossing in front of Tokyo's Shibuya Station while using their smartphones?

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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