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WORLD / Politics
Jan 21, 2017

Full transcript of Donald Trump's inaugural address

President Donald Trump's inaugural address, as delivered:
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MULTIMEDIA
Jan 21, 2017

January 21, 2017

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 20, 2017

Asia's newest fear: a Trump currency war

Having called out China as a currency manipulator, U.S. President Donald Trump now says the dollar is too strong.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 20, 2017

An economic policy for Trump

As Donald Trump assumes the U.S. presidency, a group of 35 prominent international business leaders is stepping forward to defend open markets, endorse the fight against climate change, and demand a massive push against global inequality.
JAPAN / Politics / GAUGING TRUMP
Jan 20, 2017

Echoes of 1980s trade war seen in Trump comments on Japan

As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump surprised and angered many in Japan with comments about how unfair Japan's trade policies were.
Reader Mail
Jan 20, 2017

Osprey training belies treaty provisions

Defense Minister Tomomi Inada confirmed in a rubber-stamping fashion that Ospreys' midair refueling drills in Okinawa would be resumed, even though the cause of the Dec. 13 crash had not yet been fully investigated and detailed to the public.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 20, 2017

Abe kicks off Diet session with vow to strengthen U.S. military alliance

Abe pledges to “further strengthen” the alliance with the U.S. in a speech at the outset of a six-month ordinary Diet session.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 20, 2017

Yahoo Japan defies calls to halt ivory sales as poaching soars

Yahoo Japan, the country's biggest online auction site, is rebuffing calls to end online ivory trading despite Yahoo Inc. CEO Marissa Mayer's misgivings over facilitating a business blamed for the illegal slaughter of African elephants.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 19, 2017

U.N. Charter's anachronistic enemy state clauses

It's high time the U.N. shed its image as an institution created by the victorious Allied powers and create a level playing field for all its members.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 19, 2017

Abe to pursue contentious law against criminal conspiracies from outset of Diet session

As this year's ordinary Diet session kicks off Friday, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to make waves yet again. His newest goal is to make conspiracies to commit crimes a punishable offense.
Japan Times
Uncategorized
Jan 19, 2017

AJC: Sole agent in Japan to boost Visit ASEAN@50

The year 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 18, 2017

What Obama deserves credit for — and doesn't

Did the departing U.S. president create national dysfunction, or was he just its victim?
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 18, 2017

Trump is the water beetle of American politics

Trump's feral cunning in manipulating the masses is instinctive, and his presidential term will be as novel as his campaign was.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 18, 2017

As demographic trouble looms, Asahi thirsty for overseas deals

Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. wants to grow its overseas business to about a third of sales with more acquisitions as the nation's largest brewer seeks to offset a falling beer market at home.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 17, 2017

The fortunate few and the forgotten many

The message for the super rich gathered in Davos should be clear: Building a more inclusive economy requires redistribution of wealth.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 17, 2017

Tokyo office boom fades with more space, fewer workers

Commercial property prices in Tokyo, a bellwether for the market, look to have peaked as the capital faces a glut of new offices even as the number of workers is set to decline.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 16, 2017

Japan's 'comfort women' error

In late December, South Korean activists stationed a statue of a young woman across from the Japanese consulate in Busan. Seated upright in a chair with her hands clasped in her lap, she stares intently, solemnly toward the consulate.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 16, 2017

Open society needs defending

Open societies are in crisis, and various forms of closed societies — from fascist dictatorships to mafia states — are on the rise.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 16, 2017

How Trump could push China and Japan together

Both China and Japan should work together to map out how to survive the Trump era.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 16, 2017

Why Trump is succeeding where Powell failed

The experience of British nativist firebrand Enoch Powell in the late 1960s and early 1970s can help shed light on Donald Trump's political success.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jan 16, 2017

Japanese law for endangered wildlife set for what critics call toothless revamp

The Law on Conservation of Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora is set to be revised once again to further improve government measures to prevent vulnerable animal and plant species from becoming extinct.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 16, 2017

Trump Cabinet nominees give Vietnam premier hope for TPP trade pact

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc is holding out hope that incoming U.S. President Donald Trump will reconsider the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal that would be a major boost to the export-driven Southeast Asian nation.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech / ANALYSIS
Jan 16, 2017

Nintendo takes big gamble with Switch's split personality

Nintendo Co.'s new Switch gaming console won't be in stores until March 3, but the machine is fully baked and ready to play. The press got a chance to try out the new machine at an event in Tokyo last week, and events will be held in Japan and North America to let people experience the product before...
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JAPAN / NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT
Jan 15, 2017

Japan gropes for cyberattack solution as victims suffer in silence

Last November, chilling news made headlines nationwide — the internal communications network of the Defense Ministry and Self-Defense Forces had been hacked in September, possibly by another nation.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Jan 15, 2017

Turning YouTube into yen: Can vloggers become the new foreign correspondents?

In 2015, Sharla of the YouTube channel Sharla In Japan found herself juggling two careers. Since 2011, the Canadian-born creator had been making videos about her life here to a quickly growing audience. But actually making them was tough, as she also had a day job.
Japan Times
Rugby
Jan 15, 2017

Rugby star Pocock preparing to swap Japan for African wilderness

Australian rugby star David Pocock has enjoyed locking horns with the big beasts of Japan's Top League since joining the Panasonic Wild Knights in December.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FUKUSHIMA FILE
Jan 15, 2017

Fukushima to play direct role in pitching its produce in Tokyo-area supermarkets

To fight harmful rumors about Fukushima farm produce and to revive sales, the prefectural government plans to set up permanent sales spaces for susceptible products in major supermarkets in the Tokyo metropolitan area this summer.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jan 15, 2017

Beijing's air pollution goal is double WHO's acceptable standard

Beijing's air quality target for 2017 is more than double the acceptable standard set by the World Health Organization, the mayor announced on Saturday in the wake of weeks of hazardous air pollution in the Chinese capital.

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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