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WORLD
Nov 23, 2016

On JFK anniversary, Zapruder relative says assassination film hovers over family

Alexandra Zapruder was not yet born when her grandfather trained his home-movie camera on President John F. Kennedy's motorcade rolling through downtown Dallas 53 years ago on Tuesday, but that 26-second film has become a difficult family legacy.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Nov 23, 2016

As Park fights for survival, power vacuum weighs on South Korea

As the chorus grows louder for South Korean President Park Geun-hye to resign over a corruption scandal, a power vacuum is weighing on her administration, leaving her political survival in doubt and the vulnerable economy exposed to political shocks.
EDITORIALS
Nov 22, 2016

The ICC: death by a thousand cuts

The International Criminal Court is not perfect but it has proven able to make a difference. It must not be allowed to fail.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 22, 2016

Cabinet hopefuls kept guessing as they parade before Trump high above NYC

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump met with Cabinet hopefuls at his Manhattan office tower on Monday and later outlined plans for his first day in office, including withdrawing from a major trade accord and investigating abuses of work visa programs.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 21, 2016

Taiwan sees exchange with China's leader at APEC as positive

A brief exchange between representatives from Taiwan and China at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders' meeting is a "positive" development for relations across the Taiwan Strait, Taiwan's Presidential Office said Monday.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 21, 2016

Powerful Japanese lawmaker urges re-evaluation of U.S. relationship with Trump taking office

Japan must undertake a major review of the way its decades-long alliance with the United States works and adopt a more proactive approach toward its top ally after Donald Trump takes office in January, a veteran Diet member says.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 21, 2016

America's political checks and balances in peril

The outcome of the 2016 election is likely to gut the already weakened U.S. political system's checks and balances on government power.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Nov 21, 2016

Painful bloopers in Japanese can be valuable learning experiences

While working on the island of Guam in the early 1970s, I had regular business dealings with the expat Japanese business community — basically a good-natured crowd who were used to hearing locals mangle their language on a daily basis.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Nov 21, 2016

Concerns grow after Trump ally cites Japanese-American internment as precedent for Muslim registry

One of the darkest periods in American history was thrown into stark relief in recent days after a surrogate to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said a proposal for a Muslim immigrant registry had precedent in the World War II internment of Japanese-Americans.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 21, 2016

South Korean opposition parties move toward Park impeachment

South Korea's opposition People's Party will start collecting signatures for an impeachment motion against President Park Geun-hye, while the main opposition Minjoo Party will review the conditions for impeachment, a party spokesmen said Monday.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 18, 2016

How Trump's win boosts the Putin myth

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, both pursuing their ultimate ends of personal power and enrichment at the expense of the ordinary people, are natural allies.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 18, 2016

Trump win gives Kuroda breathing room, ex-BOJ executive says

Donald Trump's election win has given Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda room to breathe by easing concerns that the yen will strengthen, a former BOJ executive says.
JAPAN
Nov 17, 2016

Japan's top buzzword candidates for 2016 range from Pikotaro to 'the Trump phenomenon'

The 30 nominees for Japan's top buzzwords of 2016 were announced Thursday by the Jiyukokuminsha publishing house, covering a variety of new popular terms ranging from the "Shin Godzilla" film to the "Zika fever."
WORLD
Nov 16, 2016

Kerry announces Yemen cease-fire over objections of government

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday that Yemen's Houthi group and the Saudi-led coalition fighting it had agreed to a cease-fire from Thursday as Washington presses for an end to the war before President Barack Obama leaves office.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 15, 2016

Will Donald Trump reset U.S.-Russia relations?

Vladimir Putin is happy to see Trump win the White House.

Longform

Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers