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COMMENTARY / World
Aug 24, 2015

The demographic challenge

Worrying about the coming population decline in advanced countries is a meaningless diversion from the far more serious issues raised by the developing world's population explosion.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 23, 2015

Humanities under attack

Moves in the halls of power to downgrade, if not outright strip, the humanities and social sciences nation's universities are both outrageous and wrongheaded.
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JAPAN / History
Aug 22, 2015

Surviving the postwar Soviet detention camps

Japan's surrender on Aug. 15, 1945, marked the end of the most devastating global conflict in history.
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WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 22, 2015

White supremacist convicted for targeting Obama in New York 'death ray' case

A New York white supremacist was convicted by a federal jury on Friday of plotting to use a remote-controlled radiation device he called "Hiroshima on a light switch" to harm Muslims and U.S. President Barack Obama.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 21, 2015

Advent of yuan diplomacy

China has been transforming from a follower of rules to a rule maker and even a rule breaker thanks to the weight of its economy.
MORE SPORTS
Aug 20, 2015

German athletics chief slams IAAF council exclusion

Germany's athletics chief on Thursday said his country is likely to have paid a price for its tough anti-doping stance and recent doping revelations on German television as it missed out on an IAAF council seat after 20 years.
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Aug 20, 2015

Limits of Abe's leadership

Former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori has been and continues to be a thorn in Shinzo Abe's side, as evidenced by the National Stadium brouhaha.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 20, 2015

LDP lawmaker Takaya Muto quits party over money scandal

A Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker who has been accused over an alleged money scandal quit the party on Wednesday after apologizing for "causing great trouble" to the LDP.
JAPAN
Aug 19, 2015

No long-term threat seen in Bangkok blasts: experts

Crisis management experts say Bangkok's recent bombings do not pose a long-term threat in an otherwise relatively safe country. But they are nonetheless advising Japanese staying in the Southeast Asian city to exercise caution.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 19, 2015

Brazil's Olympic dig unearths a royal toothbrush

As Rio de Janeiro prepares to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, archaeology is enjoying a revival, thanks in part to an unlikely convergence of bureaucracy and sensibility.
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CULTURE / Film
Aug 19, 2015

'At Home' paints a terrible portrait of crime and family in Japan

So you want to make a movie about a happy family with a burglar dad, swindler mom and three smiling kids who have no problems with what their parents do for a living? Surely the obvious — indeed only — approach to a film like this is to make it a black comedy.
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SOCCER
Aug 19, 2015

FIFA exec Tashima warns Chung cannot bank on Japan's support

South Korean FIFA presidential hopeful Chung Mong-joon cannot bank on the support of neighboring Japan, FIFA executive committee member Kozo Tashima said Tuesday.
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WORLD / Society
Aug 19, 2015

Europe braces for threefold migrant surge; Italy nabs eight alleged traffickers tied to deaths

More than three times as many migrants were tracked entering the European Union by irregular means last month than a year ago, official data showed on Tuesday, many of them landing on Greek islands after fleeing conflict in Syria.
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COMMENTARY / World
Aug 18, 2015

Facing down secular stagnation in China

With President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption drive chipping away at the culture of personal gain among Chinese officials, now is the time to press ahead with structural reforms, not back away from them.
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JAPAN
Aug 18, 2015

Training academy needed to boost ranks of Japanese at U.N., ex-official says

The government needs to establish a training facility to nurture the skills of Japanese who want to work for the United Nations, according to Hitoki Den, a former senior political affairs officer with the global body.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 17, 2015

Jeremy Bentham's fallacies, then and now

Written in the early 19th century, Jeremy Bentham's 'The Book of Fallacies' still has resonance today.
EDITORIALS
Aug 17, 2015

Criminal justice system reform

Bills to reform the nation's criminal justice system may not accomplish the original goal of preventing false charges.
WORLD
Aug 17, 2015

Myanmar ruling party leaders to meet Monday before parliamentary showdown

Myanmar's ruling party has called a hastily arranged leadership meeting on Monday to prepare for a showdown with their ousted party chairman in parliament this week, two senior party members said on Sunday.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 17, 2015

South Korea comes full circle in one generation as aging crisis looms

It was only 20 years ago that South Korea was so intent on population control that getting sterilized put young couples on the fast track for public housing. Even the army was in on the act, offering a free pass from annual military training to any man willing to shuffle off for a vasectomy.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 15, 2015

Growing influence of Japan Conference reflects resentment at Tokyo's postwar settlement with Washington

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in April delivered a speech to the U.S. Congress — the first by a Japanese leader — that lauded deepening trade ties and the military alliance with the United States.
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COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Aug 15, 2015

Abe statement was vague in all the wrong places

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a hash of his long-anticipated statement on Friday commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
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LIFE / Digital / ON: TECH
Aug 15, 2015

Olympus Air AO1 goes retro in a futuristic way; Don’t drink and ride; You may never look back after trying a selfie ‘phablet’

The Olympus Air AO1 goes retro in a futuristic way
CULTURE / Books
Aug 15, 2015

Memoir of Akira Kurosawa's right-hand man reveals a history of vexed scripts

The films of Akira Kurosawa used to be the gateway into Japanese cinema for many non-Japanese. (That role has since been assumed by the films of Hayao Miyazaki and other animators.)
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JAPAN
Aug 15, 2015

Emperor voices 'deep remorse' over war at 70th anniversary of surrender; ministers visit Yasukuni

In comments in Tokyo to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, Emperor Akihito refers to his u2018deep remorse' over wartime events.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 14, 2015

Abe's WWII statement speaks of regret but dodges details

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, in a much-awaited statement about World War II, spoke of “deep remorse” over Japan's wartime misdeeds.
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SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Aug 14, 2015

Mourinho's treatment of team doctor a real disgrace

When Jose Mourinho was introduced to English football he announced he was a "special one."
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MORE SPORTS
Aug 14, 2015

Conte thinks WADA testing system a complete joke

Fourth in a four-part series
JAPAN / History
Aug 14, 2015

Emperor's WWII surrender aired amid turmoil in wartime regime

It was a hot day in Tokyo with a daytime high of 32.3 degrees Celsius 70 years ago when Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa, declared Japan's surrender in World War II.

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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