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JAPAN
Jan 15, 2015

Trial classes for 2020 Games volunteers planned in Hachioji, Koganei

Tokyo will launch training seminars on a trial basis next month for volunteers interested in providing linguistic help to visitors at the 2020 Olympics.
EDITORIALS
Jan 14, 2015

Risky nursing care cutbacks

The government should carefully monitor the nursing care industry to ensure that budgetary cutbacks do not reduce quality of their services.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jan 14, 2015

Rising stars of kabuki run new-year Asakusa gauntlet

One of the major sightseeing spots in Tokyo, and indeed in Japan, is the city's oldest temple, Sensoji, which was founded in 645 in the Asakusa district of present-day Taito Ward. Though perpetually thronged with people, its beautiful precincts attract staggering numbers at New Year's, when this is invariably...
BUSINESS
Jan 14, 2015

Tesla to boost output to 'a few million' cars by 2025

Tesla Motors Inc. plans to boost production of electric cars to "at least a few million a year" by 2025 from fewer than 40,000 last year, Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 14, 2015

Wall St. gains after two-day drop; tech shares rise

U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday after a two-day decline, helped by gains in technology shares.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 13, 2015

The battle for the Arctic's resources heats up

At least three countries have staked overlapping territorial claims to the North Pole. How to assess the competing claims seems to hinge on whether a vast ridge that rises from the sea floor is an extension of the Greenland shelf or the East Siberia shelf.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 13, 2015

Reagan played key role in U.S. war on inflation

There is common agreement that the decline of double-digit inflation in the U.S. was the big economic event of the 1980s. But to say that President Ronald Reagan had almost nothing to do with that is wrong.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jan 13, 2015

Royal Blood reigns over British rock

The dressing room of Camden's Electric Ballroom in London is hardly the most glamorous of settings at the best of times, and for Royal Blood it is the early evening after the night before. The previous night, the blues rock duo played its biggest ever headline show at the venue and, preparing for an...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jan 13, 2015

Cheap smokes finally going up in price

Until the tobacco prices went up in 2010, third-class cigarette sales were very low.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Jan 12, 2015

Fighters' Saito braces for vital year

Yuki Saito is hard at work in Chiba, at Kamagaya Stadium, the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters' ni-gun base, these days. He's busy preparing for the upcoming season, which might turn out to be a pivotal one for the star pitcher.
Japan Times
SOCCER / World cup
Jan 12, 2015

Houllier challenges Japan to raise game

Former Liverpool and France manager Gerard Houllier has urged Japan to cast aside its inferiority complex and close the gap on the world's leading soccer nations.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 12, 2015

The campaign to glorify Gandhi's assassin

A strident new campaign by a radical Hindu group seeks to rehabilitate the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948 as an Indian hero who was inspired by 'love of country.'
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jan 12, 2015

Residences left empty posing problems across the nation

The population keeps aging and shrinking, but new housing keeps getting built even though Japan has a glut of unused dwellings.
WORLD
Jan 12, 2015

Oil glut spurs rush for supertankers to store excess at sea

Some of the world's largest oil traders have hired supertankers to store crude at sea, marking a milestone in the build-up of the global glut.
Japan Times
SOCCER / World cup
Jan 12, 2015

Houllier challenges Japan to take next step

Former Liverpool and France manager Gerard Houllier has urged Japan to cast aside its inferiority complex and close the gap on the world's leading soccer nations.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS / OLYMPIC NOTEBOOK
Jan 10, 2015

Kenyan greats call for law to punish dopers

Is it time to make doping in athletics a criminal offense?
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Jan 10, 2015

Toritani may have thrived in majors

Two seasons ago, when it was thought Takashi Toritani was considering a move to MLB, many of the Pacific Rim scouts coming in and out of Japan were mostly lukewarm about his MLB prospects. They may had been fooled into thinking he was on a sharp decline by a decent, but un-Toritani-like year in 2011...
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 9, 2015

It's time for Hong Kong's government to talk

For Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters, 2015 is off to a dismal start. Now that Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying has cleared the streets, he seems to have lost interest in talking.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 9, 2015

U.S. jobless claims dip; 2014 layoffs lowest in 17 years

The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week and job cuts declined sharply in December, suggesting the labor market is tightening.

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