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Jan 11, 2018

Matt Patricia reportedly prefers to coach Giants over Lions

Signs reportedly are pointing to New England Patriots defensive coordinator Matt Patricia becoming the next head coach of the New York Giants.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 11, 2018

People of Japan, take a clear stance

Japanese are all too often reluctant to offer an opinion — on anything.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 10, 2018

Newly minted Japanese Supreme Court justice will issue rulings under maiden name, breaking with long tradition

Yuko Miyazaki, newly appointed to the country's top court, says she will issue her legal judgments under her maiden name — Miyazaki — becoming Japan's first woman to abandon the court's long tradition of using one's legal name after marriage.
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BUSINESS
Jan 10, 2018

Democrats vow to force vote on net neutrality, make it a campaign issue

U.S. Senate Democrats said on Tuesday they will force a vote later this year on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's reversal of landmark Obama administration net neutrality rules and will try to make it a key issue in the 2018 congressional elections.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 9, 2018

Former leading Chinese general latest 'tiger' to be caught in Xi anti-corruption net

In a stunning fall from grace, Chinese state-run media reported Tuesday that Gen. Fang Fenghui, a former member of China's powerful Central Military Commission and former chief of the CMC Joint Staff Department, had been referred to military prosecutors on suspicion of bribery.
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WORLD / Politics
Jan 9, 2018

Mueller's team discusses possible Trump interview with president's lawyers: NBC

Preliminary discussions are underway for special counsel Robert Mueller to potentially interview U.S. President Donald Trump as part of the probe of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election, NBC News reported on Monday.
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COMMENTARY / World
Jan 8, 2018

Europe caught between the U.S. and China

Unless the European Union as a whole embraces the cause, Europe risks becoming a casualty of China's efforts to bend the multilateral system to its own will or, worse, Trump's efforts to dismantle it altogether.
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MULTIMEDIA
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / The Big Questions
Jan 7, 2018

Ambassador eager to brand and boost country

'The readiness is all,' utters the Danish title character in the last act of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet.'
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COMMUNITY / Voices / COMMUNITY CHEST
Jan 7, 2018

More readers' responses to Japan Times Community articles from 2017

A selection of unpublished letters about Community stories from the second half of last year.
JAPAN / Society
Jan 6, 2018

Shifting attitudes toward sexual violence in Japan

The arrival of 2018 shouldn't bring the discussion of issues surrounding sexual violence to an end.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jan 6, 2018

2018: Year of the 800-pound Gorilla

Four topics dominated Japan's non-Twitter news cycle for the last quarter of 2017. Two involved sports: the signing of 23-year-old baseball superstar Shohei Otani to play for the Los Angeles Angels of the American League; and the resignation of sumo grand champion Harumafuji after assaulting a younger...
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JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Jan 6, 2018

Blackface, suicide and celebrity abuse: Welcome to 2018!

We're one week into 2018 and it seems Japan has an image problem.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 6, 2018

India's culture war comes to Bollywood

While it may seem alarmist to suggest freedom of expression in India is in peril, the atmosphere of intimidation is palpable.
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WORLD
Jan 6, 2018

U.S. delays Palestinian aid

The U.S. has delayed paying about $125 million to the United Nations agency that serves Palestinian refugees, said two people familiar with the matter, after President Donald Trump vented his frustration about getting no "respect" or help in the peace process despite American funding.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Jan 5, 2018

Japanese team's antibody treatment returns 80% of finger function to paralyzed monkeys

A joint research team formed by Kyoto University and Osaka University has succeeded in repairing finger function in monkeys with spinal cord injuries by using an antibody to thwart a protein that blocks neural regeneration.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 4, 2018

Japan's banks secure access to police agency database to help screen for yakuza and other 'anti-social forces'

Starting Thursday, Japanese Bankers Association members will be able to screen individual loan seekers using the National Police Agency's database of organized crime members.
COMMUNITY / Issues / JUST BE CAUSE
Jan 3, 2018

In 2017, Japan woke up to the issue of discrimination

The year saw a landmark human rights survey and action on hate speech and pensions — but conditions remain dire for foreign 'trainees' and other workers alike.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 3, 2018

History: North Korea's participation in previous games hosted by South Korea

North Korea reopened a border hotline with Seoul on Wednesday to discuss sending a delegation to the Winter Olympics in South Korea's Pyeongchang next month.

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Koichi Tagawa’s diary entry from Aug. 9, 1945, describes the day of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
The horrors of Nagasaki, in first person