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BUSINESS / Tech
May 7, 2017

China announces regulations to further tighten control over internet

China will further tighten its internet regulations with a pledge Sunday to strengthen controls over search engines and online news portals, the latest step in President Xi Jinping's push to maintain strict control over content by the Communist Party.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 4, 2017

Democratic Party struggles for relevance in face of LDP-Komeito juggernaut

It would be an understatement to say the Democratic Party, Japan's biggest opposition party, is struggling.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 3, 2017

Abe declares 2020 as goal for new Constitution

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he hopes to see a revised Constitution take effect in 2020, revealing the clearest goal yet of his long-held ambition to amend the national charter.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 2, 2017

Trump says he'd be 'honored' to meet North Korea's Kim 'under the right circumstances'

U.S. President Donald Trump said he would meet with Kim Jong Un amid heightened tensions over North Korea's nuclear weapons program if the circumstances were right.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 2, 2017

North Korea says U.S. bomber flights push peninsula to brink of nuclear war

North Korea accused the United States on Tuesday of pushing the Korean Peninsula to the brink of nuclear war after a pair of strategic U.S. bombers flew training drills with the South Korean and Japanese militaries in another show of strength.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Apr 30, 2017

Japan fares well at Salone del Mobile

Once again, Salone del Mobile Milano, the world's largest furniture and interiors trade fair, provides a platform for some of Japan's most innovative ideas on both practical and conceptual design.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Apr 30, 2017

Economists disagree with Trump's two-dimensional view of U.S. trade deficit

By President Donald Trump's math, renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement and other deals will largely pay for the massive tax cuts his Cabinet laid out this past week.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 29, 2017

North Korea fails in latest test of ballistic missile

North Korea watches another ballistic missile test fizzle in its own territory, while Tokyo Metro plays up the drama by shutting down all its subway lines.
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 27, 2017

Mystery deepens over Moritomo land deal as recording with Finance Ministry emerges

The shadowy Moritomo Gakuen scandal takes a new twist after a recording of the land negotiations between its former chief and the Finance Ministry emerges.
EDITORIALS
Apr 26, 2017

The Democratic Party in disarray

The DP leadership needs to take the revolt and defection of its members seriously and rebuild the party before it's too late.
JAPAN
Apr 26, 2017

Pachinko industry raises money for low-income students, but critics call it a marketing stunt

The pachinko industry is urging customers to donate steel balls from their winnings to help put hard-up students through university.
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 26, 2017

Reconstruction chief Imamura resigns over latest Tohoku gaffe

The minister for disaster reconstruction, Masahiro Imamura, stepped down Wednesday over a gaffe where he said it was better the 2011 quake and tsunami hit the Tohoku region and not near Tokyo.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 26, 2017

Internal U.S. State Department memo strengthens case to stay in Paris climate accord

An internal U.S. State Department memo says the Paris climate accord imposes few obligations on the United States, bolstering the case for Trump administration officials who want to stay in the deal.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 25, 2017

Brexit to dominate as May sets out plans for U.K. re-election

Whatever Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives promise in their manifesto before a June election, managing Britain's exit from the European Union will limit her opportunity to push wide-ranging radical domestic change.
EDITORIALS
Apr 25, 2017

A political earthquake rocks France

The May 7 presidential ballot will mark the first time in the modern French republic that no major party is represented in a presidential election.
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 25, 2017

Tokyo evasive on report of secret deal with NSA over mass surveillance program

The government's top spokesman on Tuesday declined to comment on — but did not deny — a report alleging that Tokyo has secretly and closely cooperated with the U.S. National Security Agency in intelligence-gathering, having been provided with an extremely powerful mass-surveillance tool that can...
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Apr 24, 2017

Prewar bayonetting martial art makes return to schools

A little-known Japanese martial art called jukendo came under the spotlight recently after it was stipulated in the revised junior high school curriculum guidelines for the first time as one of nine martial arts schools can choose to teach students.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 21, 2017

Even a horrific killing isn't enough to shake Pakistan's blasphemy laws

The murder of Mashal Khan is the latest tragedy connected to blasphemy accusations in Pakistan. His death won't be the last.
EDITORIALS
Apr 20, 2017

Erdogan's referendum win is Turkey's loss

The West must now prepare for an even more contested relationship with Turkey.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 20, 2017

Putin-run intel think tank drew up plan to sway 2016 U.S. election in Trump's favor: documents

A Russian government think tank controlled by Vladimir Putin developed a plan to swing the 2016 U.S. presidential election to Donald Trump and undermine voters' faith in the American electoral system, three current and four former U.S. officials told Reuters.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 18, 2017

Teach patriotism, not chauvinism

Despite its politically incorrect connotation today, patriotism is essential in any democratic society.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 16, 2017

Trump more believable and moral than Putin?

In the Syrian strikes Trump effectively followed the policy of 'bomb first, prove later' — exactly the sequence Bush followed in Iraq in 2003 to commit the greatest geopolitical blunder since World War II.

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