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Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 13, 2016

Tokyo: photogenic to its very core

Care to take a guess what the new exhibition "Tokyo, Tokyo and Tokyo" at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum is about? In fact there are two exhibitions with the same name running concurrently, so it's "Tokyo, Tokyo and Tokyo" and "Tokyo, Tokyo and Tokyo."
BUSINESS / Markets
Dec 13, 2016

Muddy Waters targets Nidec in first Japan short

Carson Block, the prominent short seller and founder of Muddy Waters Capital LLC, targeted a Japanese firm for the first time with a negative report on motor-maker Nidec Corp.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 13, 2016

U.S. companies bet on stable China relations

In the more than four decades since President Richard Nixon's historic trip to China, the United States has become China's largest export and China is one of the largest markets for U.S. exporters and a source of supply for everything from smartphones to spark plugs.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 13, 2016

Trump selects Tillerson for State, dismissing Russia ties

President-elect Donald Trump planed on Tuesday to nominate Exxon Mobil Corp. chief Rex Tillerson for U.S. secretary of state, setting off a confirmation fight that puts the oilman's ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin — and Trump's own — in the spotlight.
Japan Times
Rugby
Dec 12, 2016

Sunwolves name squad for second Super Rugby campaign

Japan's Sunwolves endured a rocky debut season in Super Rugby, posting only one win. As they head into their second campaign, the Sunwolves' see the glass as half-full, because the only way left to go is up.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 12, 2016

Amamiya, aka 'Mr. BOJ,' shapes central bank policy behind the scenes

Masayoshi Amamiya is viewed as so essential to operations at the Bank of Japan that he's known inside the central bank as "Mr. BOJ."
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 10, 2016

China making big diplomat gains in Egypt

China is advancing to the center of the geopolitical stage just as — if not because — American and European leadership seems to be retreating into the wings.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 10, 2016

Trump team memo on climate change alarms Energy Department staff

President-elect Donald Trump's Energy Department transition team sent the agency a memo this week asking for the names of people who have worked on climate change and the professional society memberships of lab workers, alarming employees and advisers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 10, 2016

Trump to tap Goldman chief Cohn as head of National Economic Council

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will likely ask a senior Goldman Sachs banker to coordinate economic policy across his administration, turning again to Wall Street for expertise in managing the world's largest economy, a transition official said on Friday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Dec 10, 2016

Trump packing trade team with veterans of steel wars with China

President-elect Donald Trump is stacking his trade transition team with veterans of the U.S. steel industry's battles with China, signaling a potentially more aggressive approach to U.S. complaints of unfair Chinese subsidies for its exports and barriers to imports.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 10, 2016

Valentine denies official talk of being offered Japan ambassador post by Trump

Ex-Chiba Lotte Marines manager Bobby Valentine says he has not been in contact with the Trump team amid reports he is under consideration to become the ambassador to Japan.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Dec 9, 2016

December 10, 2016

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JAPAN / OKINAWA BEAT
Dec 9, 2016

Cruise liner influx overwhelming Miyakojima's economy

Amid rising hopes for economic growth, Japan's tourism boom has exposed the need for regional authorities to develop infrastructure and help secure the manpower needed to deal with the influx of foreign tourists.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 9, 2016

Pressure U.S. on free trade

The biggest loser in the U.S. presidential election was free trade.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Dec 9, 2016

[VIDEO] Tokyo Comic Con 2016

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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 8, 2016

New Zealand finance minister set to become next PM after rivals drop out

New Zealand Finance Minister Bill English is set to be confirmed as the country's next leader after both his competitors for the prime ministership dropped out of the race on Thursday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 7, 2016

Trump lays out U.S. military policy shifting from regime change to defeating Islamic State

President-elect Donald Trump laid out a U.S. military policy on Tuesday that would avoid interventions in foreign conflicts and instead focus heavily on defeating the Islamic State militancy.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Dec 7, 2016

Refugee team unsure for Tokyo 2020

The newly formed refugee team competing at this year's Olympics was one of the highlights in Rio de Janeiro but it is not clear if it will compete at the 2020 Games in Tokyo, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said Tuesday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 7, 2016

Former Sen. Bob Dole set up contacts between Trump campaign and Taiwanese leadership

Former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole, acting as a paid lobbyist for Taiwan's government, connected Donald Trump's staff with Taiwanese officials in advance of an unprecedented phone call between the U.S. president-elect and Taiwan's president.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 6, 2016

Italy's was just the latest stupid referendum

Like David Cameron's Brexit fiasco, this didn't have to happen.
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 6, 2016

Labor shortage is worst in least productive industries

Japan's aging and shrinking population is causing labor shortages that should be helping workers win higher pay.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 6, 2016

Trump's stimulus plan may give Japan a welcome tailwind in 2017

For now, the global winds are at Japan's back.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Dec 5, 2016

Giants stay busy during offseason

The Yomiuri Giants haven't won the Central League pennant since 2014, which might as well be 1914 in Yomiuri Land, and apparently are not going to sit idly by and watch another team take the flag in 2017.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 5, 2016

France and the 'right' to be spared from guilt

A French court is censoring a video that says Down syndrome children can be happy.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 5, 2016

Trump's dangerous economic nationalism

If Donald Trump fulfills his economic nationalistic pledges, he will redefine America's global role in a fundamentally deceptive and destructive way.
COMMUNITY / Issues
Dec 4, 2016

Japan's Board of Audit: unlikely guardians of the Constitution?

On Nov. 7, an annual ritual of government occurred: The Board of Audit delivered its report on the results of its audit of government accounts for the previous fiscal year (April 1, 2015, to March 31, 2016) to the Cabinet. The 1,123-page paper brick handed over to His Abe-ness identified billions of...
Britain responds after Expo 2025 afternoon tea brews outrage
The café space at the Osaka Expo's British pavilion
Why are rice prices still high in Japan?
Amid shortages, the price of a 5-kilogram bag of rice during the week of April 14 was ¥4,220.
Inflation and high hotel prices curtail Golden Week travels
Travelers in front of a flight information panel in a departure hall at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on April 26
Man arrested over body found in bag in Kawasaki
Hideyuki Shirai (center) at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Saturday
Japan ranks 66th in press freedom, lowest among G7
Japan climbed four positions from last year, with Reporters Without Borders noting that "the principles of media freedom and pluralism are generally respected" in the country.
Japan’s ‘tabi’ sock mecca runs on thread and memories
A seamstress at Kineya Tabi sews together split-toe "tabi" socks, once a major industry for the town of Gyoda, Saitama Prefecture.
Despite shifts in Japan's political landscape, constitutional revision still far off
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has been a staunch advocate for constitutional reform.
'Ukiyo-e in Play' showcases traditional art carved anew
The Adachi Institute has been working on creating brand new ukiyo-e prints in collaboration with contemporary artists such as Yayoi Kusama, whose “Mt. Fuji in Seven Colours: When life boundlessly flares up to the universe” (2014) can be seen on display at “Ukiyo-e in Play.”
Ishiba hears advice from across the aisle on how Japan should handle Trump
Prime Minister Shigaru Ishiba and CDP head Yoshihiko Noda at a parliamentary session in Tokyo on April 23.
Don't send in the clones: AI event nixed as Alt accounts get reality check
A screenshot from the website for Alt's AI conference, which was canceled after the company disclosed an investigation into its sales figures.

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