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Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 28, 2015

Fungi glow to attract creatures

If you think you see a glowing mushroom, you might not be having a psychedelic hallucination. Some mushrooms indeed are bioluminescent, including one that sprouts among decaying leaves at the base of young palm trees in Brazilian coconut forests. Scientists have long wondered what possible reason there...
TENNIS
Mar 28, 2015

Nadal, Murray post first-round wins

Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray got their Miami Open bids off to a solid start with straight sets victories at Key Biscayne on Friday.
EDITORIALS
Mar 28, 2015

Stalking cases up a third year

The number of reported stalking cases rose for the third straight year last year, meaning that an average of more than 60 Japanese women every day are being stalked.
EDITORIALS
Mar 28, 2015

Disappointing levels of English

The report that high school English-proficiency scores have fallen far short of government goals is additional evidence that the English education system in Japan is still in desperate need of reform.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 28, 2015

Starbucks urges baristas to talk about race

The initiative by Starbucks Chief Exercutive Howard Schultz urging baristas in the U.S. to engage customers in conversation about racial inequality hasn't gone over well.
WORLD
Mar 28, 2015

Riyadh's Yemen gamble may define future regional role

Saudi Arabia's campaign to stop the Houthis from ruling over Yemen could define its role in the Middle East for years and shape its regional struggle with the rebels' ally Iran.
WORLD / Society
Mar 28, 2015

Arkansas Senate passes religion bill seen as targeting gays

The Arkansas Senate overwhelmingly approved on Friday a Republican-backed bill that, according to its authors, is intended to protect religious freedoms but which critics contend could allow businesses to refuse service to gay people.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 28, 2015

Reid to retire, wants Schumer to replace him as Senate Democratic leader

U.S. Senate Democratic Minority Leader Harry Reid said on Friday he will retire next year and threw his weight behind New York Sen. Chuck Schumer to replace him as leader after he leaves office.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 28, 2015

China's Xi preaches peace in keynote address

Chinese President Xi Jinping said Saturday that turmoil at home or abroad were not in the country's interests as its bitter past has shown, pledging that Beijing will never stray from its proclaimed path of peaceful development.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 28, 2015

Upset by Warren's calls for break-ups, U.S. banks debate halting some Senate campaign donations

Big Wall Street banks are so upset with Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren's call for them to be broken up that some have discussed withholding campaign donations to Senate Democrats in symbolic protest, sources said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 28, 2015

Elite Iranian guards training Yemen's Houthis -U.S. officials

The United States is increasingly concerned about training by Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards for the Houthi rebels in Yemen, where Shiite militias continue to make territorial gains despite airstrikes by neighboring Saudi Arabia.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 28, 2015

Jury clears venture capital firm in Silicon Valley gender bias case

A California jury on Friday cleared the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers of gender discrimination claims that had been brought against it by a former female partner in a trial that transfixed Silicon Valley.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 28, 2015

Primordial sea predator with spiky claws unearthed in Canada

A fossil site in the Canadian Rockies that provides a wondrous peek into life on Earth more than half a billion years ago has offered up the remains of an intriguing sea creature, a four-eyed arthropod predator that wielded a pair of spiky claws.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Mar 28, 2015

[VIDEO] Kirobo returns to Earth after 18-month journey

Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Mar 28, 2015

[VIDEO] DMM.make AKIBA — a new hub for hardware startups

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 27, 2015

Giants edge BayStars in 2015 season opener

Yomiuri manager Tatsunori Hara assured the media everything was all right during spring training as the Giants sputtered to six straight losses at the end of the exhibition season. The games began to count on Friday and for one night, opening night, at least, everything really was OK in Yomiuri Land....
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BUSINESS
Mar 27, 2015

Akihabara outfit aims to become a hub for hardware startups

Clustered electronics stores, maid cafes and the home of idol group AKB48 — Tokyo's Akihabara district is famous for many things.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 27, 2015

Abe, Portugal's Passos Coelho agree to bolster business ties

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told visiting Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho on Friday that shoring up ties with a country that plays central role in Portuguese-speaking nations around the world is in line with what he calls "diplomacy that takes a panoramic perspective of the world map."
BASKETBALL
Mar 27, 2015

Sendai prevails in 2OT against Tokyo, stretches win streak to nine

The Sendai 89ers outlasted the Tokyo Cinq Reves in double overtime on Friday night, winning 118-112.

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