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WORLD / Society
Sep 23, 2015

OECD sees million refugees a year for decade as EU looks to shelter 120,000 amid grievance-fraught vote

European Union interior ministers agreed to shelter 120,000 refugees from Middle Eastern wars and civil strife, while continuing to feud over which countries will take them in.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 22, 2015

Thai military delivers oppression, not happiness

The longer Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha and his cronies rule, the less likely Thailand is going to enjoy stable democracy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 22, 2015

Time to curb the worst of Chinese corruption

The case could be made that corruption was actually good for China's economy, but the time has come where this is no longer true.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 22, 2015

Could 2016 really see a Trump vs. Sanders race?

Those who quickly wrote off Donald Trump as a buffoon failed to see that he has shrewdly read the Republican zeitgeist, and that he knows precisely where to stick the knife into competitors.
EDITORIALS
Sep 21, 2015

U.K. Labour swings back to the left

Jeremy Corbyn's rise to power in Britain's Labour Party is a manifestation of a deep unease that can produce more extreme candidates on the right and the left.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 21, 2015

Hey Xi, try this on your U.S. trip: visit Detroit

Chinese investment is playing a significant part in protecting Detroit from a return to the crumbling urban disaster of recent headlines.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 21, 2015

Nature of sovereignty a key issue in Russia-U.S. divide

While Russia adheres to the traditional notion that state sovereignty is inviolable, the U.S. now believes it's trumped by humanitarian considerations.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 21, 2015

Thaksin advises red shirt opposition to 'play dead' — for now

From self-imposed exile, the influential leader of Thailand's rural red shirt opposition movement has delivered a simple message to followers chafing at the military junta's iron rule: lay low for now, don't panic, "play dead."
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Sep 20, 2015

'Don't sell your soul for a Japanese man'

Having overcome isolation and a loss of self-confidence in Japan, one American mother now finds herself doling out advice to women seeking Asian men.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 20, 2015

Did Charlie Hebdo mock the dead refugee boy?

If the people who now wax indignant about the Aylan Kurdi cartoons supported Charlie Hebdo last winter and joined demonstrations carrying 'Je suis Charlie' signs, they clearly did it for the wrong reasons.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 20, 2015

Venezuela's president starts to look desperate

Chavismo has never looked as vulnerable in Venezuela as it does now with President Nicolas Maduro's approval rating scraping bottom.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Sep 19, 2015

Taiji drops anchor on dolphin hunts despite increasing pressure

On the harbor road heading east toward Tomyozaki Point, there is a moss-encrusted monument dedicated to an ill-fated whaling expedition in 1878. Facing fierce westerly winds, the fishermen released their catch, a right whale and her calf, and tied their boats together with nets to bolster defenses, but...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Sep 19, 2015

Kakunodate town: Looking back on historical charm

Despite the fact that we've arrived on a weekend, the parking lot along Kakunodate's river is relatively empty. From our spot under the shady branches, my friends Felicity and Nori and I haul our convenience-store-purchased picnic up to the edge of the walking path that hugs Hinokinai River. The cherry...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Sep 19, 2015

Money matters when it comes to security

Media coverage of the Liberal Democratic Party's plans to bolster Japan's military position in the world has largely focused on the constitutionality of the two bills that allow the Self-Defense Forces to come to the aid of allies overseas. Those who oppose these bills have used this constitutional question...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 19, 2015

VW admits cheating on U.S. pollution tests; criminal charges weighed

Volkswagen AG's admission that it cheated to make its diesel cars appear cleaner-burning leaves it facing billions in fines, its executives risking criminal charges and its U.S. expansion plans in tatters.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 18, 2015

Syrian army using new surface, air weapons from Russia; Raqqa bombed

The Syrian military has recently started using new types of air and ground weapons supplied by Russia, a Syrian military source told Reuters on Thursday, underlining growing Russian support to Damascus that is alarming the United States.
BUSINESS
Sep 18, 2015

Boeing rivals seek to compete for Britain's next sub-chasing aircraft

Global defense companies are clamoring for the chance to compete with Boeing for a multi-billion-dollar contract to provide Britain with submarine-hunting aircraft, as the U.K. government ponders a gap left by recent defense cuts.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Sep 16, 2015

Japan's men hopeful of earning berth for 2016 Games

Basketball
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Sep 16, 2015

Japan's defense reform tarnished by low public support, unconvincing sales pitch

The ruling bloc's effort to pass a pair of controversial security bills has failed in an important respect: to win public support.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 16, 2015

Weary of refugees, Munich to find release in Oktoberfest

Germany's decision to restore border controls to stem a tide of refugees may have stunned Europe but is being cheered in Munich as it gears up for a far bigger influx of 6 million beer-swigging visitors to the 182nd Oktoberfest.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 15, 2015

Ruling bloc, three small opposition parties agree on security bills

The ruling bloc and three small opposition parties have basically agreed to have Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's national security bills accompanied by a resolution to ensure a greater role for the Diet in approving Self-Defense Forces dispatches abroad, and to vote on them, according to informed sources....
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 15, 2015

Clues to why a woman can't be more like a man

A recent scientific study suggests that hormones may be responsible for the differences in men's and women's brains.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 15, 2015

Corbyn rides socialist wave to leadership of Britain's Labour Party

Uncorking the spirit of British socialism was the masterstroke that handed Jeremy Corbyn the Labour Party's top job, but he now faces a much bigger challenge — convincing voters that an admirer of Karl Marx should be Britain's next prime minister.
WORLD
Sep 14, 2015

Taliban's Mullah Omar died of natural causes in Afghanistan, son says

Mullah Omar, founder of the Afghan Taliban, died of natural causes in Afghanistan, his son said in a statement calling for unity and quashing rumors about his father's mysterious death amid a leadership dispute.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 14, 2015

China experts highlight need for economy based on consumption, innovation

Can the Chinese economy continue to thrive? This was the question that dominated discussions among leading Chinese and foreign business executives who gathered at a World Economic Forum meeting in the northeastern city of Dalian last week.

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