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COMMENTARY / World
Aug 31, 2015

What if the 2008 crisis comes around again?

The obstacles to effective remedies for a major economic crisis would be formidable, but more political than economic.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2015

New MSDF 'family cards' hint at expanded Japan military role abroad: journalist

The Defense Ministry is quietly but steadily preparing for what comes after the controversial security legislation is enacted ? including determining who is eligible to fight in a war, according to journalist Yu Terasawa.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 30, 2015

12 Osaka-based Ishin no To Diet members expected to join Toru Hashimoto's new national party

Other Diet members will be asked to follow and join by Oct. 20, reports quoting unnamed party sources said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Aug 29, 2015

Only a teenager, yet an expert on war

'The last war was the worst."
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Aug 29, 2015

The revolution will be streamed online

Local media have been cautious in their coverage of the protest demonstrations that have materialized in recent years, but they appear to be intrigued by the college-age activists known as SEALDs (Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy).
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 29, 2015

Composer Shiro Sagisu scores songs to be devoured to on 'Attack on Titan' soundtrack

During one scene in Shinji Higuchi's recent film "Attack on Titan," soldiers leap from building to building battling a carnivorous giant with nothing but swords. The horror is heightened by the music: razor sharp synthesizers accentuate a foreboding orchestral melody. It's hard to imagine the action...
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JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Aug 29, 2015

SEALDs student group reinvigorates Japan's anti-war protest movement

Wearing shorts and a baggy T-shirt and clutching a microphone, Aki Okuda stands before a crowd, the pyramid-shaped roof of the Diet building lit up against the night sky behind him.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Aug 28, 2015

Bodyguard; Charlotte Kate Fox; CM of the Week: Universal Studios Japan

Hiroshi Tate plays "SP Yatsurugi Takashi" ("Secret Police Takashi Yatsurugi"; TBS, Mon., 9 p.m.), a member of the Metropolitan Police Department who is assigned to the security detail for the governor of Tokyo, Sawako Yoshimine (Hisako Manda), as she hosts a ceremony for guests from Singapore. During...
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 28, 2015

War on Islamic State has given Jordan new life

Tiny, oil-poor Jordan has parlayed the war against Islamic State into tangible gains.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 28, 2015

Kazakhstan to host first nuclear fuel bank to assist nonproliferation

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Kazakhstan signed an agreement Thursday to locate the world's first bank of low-enriched uranium in the ex-Soviet nation to ensure fuel supplies for power stations and prevent nuclear proliferation.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Aug 28, 2015

Honorary Oscars to go to Spike Lee, Gena Rowlands, Debbie Reynolds

Director Spike Lee and actresses Gena Rowlands and Debbie Reynolds will receive honorary Oscars for their filmmaking legacies, the organizers of the world's most coveted movie awards said Thursday.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 27, 2015

Ex-LDP lawmaker Takaya Muto involved in sex scandal: report

Takaya Muto, a Lower House member who quit the Liberal Democratic Party over an alleged money scandal last week, has engaged in sexual intercourse with a 19-year-old male prostitute repeatedly since last November, the latest issue of weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun reported.
WORLD
Aug 27, 2015

FAA starts probe after Allegiant jet aborts out-of-control takeoff

U.S. air-safety investigators are looking into a mechanical failure that caused the nose of an Allegiant Airlines jet to rise off the ground prematurely before takeoff, defying the crew's attempts to push it down.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 26, 2015

Osaka governor demands Ishin no To secretary-general resign as party division intensifies

Ishin no To (Japan Innovation Party), the second largest opposition party, is on the brink of disintegration once again as a confrontation between its Osaka-based and Tokyo-based members intensified Wednesday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / HOTLINE TO NAGATACHO
Aug 26, 2015

Abe's historically selective WWII speech gets borderline failing grade

I couldn't help asking myself what grade Prime Minister Abe would have got had he made his presentation in one of my Japanese studies classes. The answer, I regret to say, is C- or D+.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 25, 2015

Protecting Japan's democracy

Japanese voters need to punish politicians who ignore the Constitution, but first a viable alternative to the LDP must be established.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 25, 2015

New nuclear fuel bank a welcome development

The new Kazakh fuel bank is a significant step toward achieving a world free of nuclear weapons.
EDITORIALS
Aug 25, 2015

Defense Ministry internal document

The Abe administration needs to provide sufficient explanations on the SDF's activities and operations related to the bills to the Diet to prevent the SDF from making decisions while keeping the Diet and the public in the dark.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 24, 2015

Cultural treasures are also victims of conflict

Of the 1,007 known World Heritage sites, 48 are now in danger of being destroyed due to military conflict.

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