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JAPAN / History
Aug 14, 2015

Japan's past apologies over WWII, colonial history, 'comfort women'

Following are some key excerpts from Japanese leaders' previous statements on the country's militaristic past.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 14, 2015

Kuroda Electric doesn't want activist, convicted inside trader Yoshiaki Murakami on board

Kuroda Electric Co. says adding Japanese activist investor Yoshiaki Murakami to its board would damage the company's reputation.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 13, 2015

Wolf Alice's Summer Sonic stop is another step on the way to the top

When London indie-rock foursome Wolf Alice makes its Japan debut at the Summer Sonic festival this weekend, it will be three years, two EPs, one debut album and countless incendiary live gigs since it first sent alternative music blogs into a frenzy with a single track uploaded to SoundCloud, that most...
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 13, 2015

Fear of a currency war grows

The Chinese central bank's major devaluation of the yuan this week has large parts of Asia now worried about the prospects of a currency war.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 12, 2015

China's 2% yuan devaluation clobbers stocks, stokes dollar, fuels currency war fears

China's 2 percent devaluation of the yuan on Tuesday pushed the dollar higher and hit Wall Street and other global equity markets as it raised fears of a new round of currency wars and fed worries about slowing Chinese economic growth.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 10, 2015

Heed Pope Francis' call to protect the Amazon

When world leaders meet at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year to craft a response to the challenges of global warming, they should put in place policies to protect tropical forests and the people who make them their home.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Aug 10, 2015

Japan's military that isn't: a short primer in self-defense doublespeak

Article 9 of Japan's Constitution, which renounces war, has been interpreted as permitting the maintenance and use of military force for self-defense, but this has led to some interesting linguistic gymnastics.
JAPAN
Aug 10, 2015

Reactor in Kagoshima poised for restart despite public opposition

Kyushu Electric Power will restart the No. 1 reactor at its Sendai nuclear plant on Tuesday, marking the country's first long-term return to nuclear power since the Fukushima crisis.
JAPAN / History / 70 YEARS AFTER THE WAR'S END
Aug 10, 2015

A legacy of WWII, Korean residents test nation's ability to accommodate non-Japanese

World War II had, and continues to have, a profound impact on the Korean community in Japan.
BUSINESS
Aug 10, 2015

Good times over for Japan teachers fund, now seeking to avoid losses

Japan's investment fund for teachers has switched its focus to avoiding losses, predicting the best days are over for both stocks and bonds.
WORLD
Aug 10, 2015

Protesters in Syria's Latakia seek punishment for Assad relative: human rights watchdog

Dozens of Syrians staged a rare protest in the coastal city of Latakia, bastion of President Bashar Assad, calling for the punishment of a member of his family they accuse of killing an army officer over a traffic dispute, monitors said.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Aug 8, 2015

Weeklies' summer specials feature sports, crimefighting, frozen treats and horror

The National High School Summer Baseball Tournament this year observes its 100th anniversary, and Asahi Geino (Aug. 13) recalls 10 hard-fought games at Koshien Stadium that fans still remember. In a short follow-up, the magazine introduces the "new monster," as he's being called, 16-year-old Kotaro Kiyomiya,...
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Aug 8, 2015

Tokyo's cool beasts of fashion

Monstrously cute dining in Harajuku
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Aug 8, 2015

Robbie Deans: 'Keep learning regardless of the outcome'

New Zealand rugby coach on the difference between a winning team and a losing team
EDITORIALS
Aug 8, 2015

Keep the spirit of Helsinki alive

The Helsinki Declaration has helped keep the peace in Europe for 40 years, and with tensions rising over the Ukraine crisis, it's vital to maintain that spirit of comprehensive security.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 7, 2015

Abe says National Stadium responsibility falls on him, promises 'all-out effort' to complete project

Amid opposition calls for the education and sports minister to resign, Abe says it's his job to make the event ”move people of the world.”
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 7, 2015

Realizing rapprochements with rogue states

With a regime as volatile as North Korea's, patience is never a virtue. The U.S. should begin informal contact with the North to probe Kim Jong Un's intentions.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 7, 2015

China removes cross from church after lengthy rooftop protest

Chinese authorities removed a cross from a church Friday after Christian protesters ended a month-long sit-in on the building's roof in a bid to protect the cross from what they said was its unfair removal, witnesses said.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 6, 2015

Abe advisory panel cites wartime 'aggression' but fails to address recent revisionism

A key advisory panel to Shinzo Abe published its report Thursday on Japan's modern history and postwar reconciliation, strongly criticizing the wartime "aggression" against other Asian countries but touching little on recent controversies over what is widely regarded as the prime minister's revisionist...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media
Aug 5, 2015

Asahi Shimbun apologizes for 'inappropriate' tweet about Shinzo Abe

Tadashi Tominaga, the newspaper's senior staff writer, had posted a photograph of an ultranationalist rally, writing that the participants were supporters of the prime minister.
EDITORIALS
Aug 4, 2015

Uncertain times for the Taliban

Mullah Omar's passing may well have weakened the Taliban, but that may not prove to be the advantage that the group's enemies had hoped.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 4, 2015

Debate on anti-discrimination bill begins in Diet

The Diet starts deliberations on a bill that would ban racial discrimination, including harassment and hate speech, and oblige the government to draw up anti-discrimination programs that report every year to lawmakers.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 4, 2015

Najib's critics unbowed after anti-graft agency calls $700 million 'donation'

Malaysian opposition parties and activists kept up pressure on Prime Minister Najib Razak on Tuesday, undeterred by an anti-corruption agency statement apparently clearing him of receiving nearly $700 million from the debt-laden state fund 1MDB.
JICA to designate four Japanese cities as 'hometowns' for African nations
The Japanese flag (left) with the flag of the African Union
103-year-old remembers Soviet attack right after WWII
Shoichi Takahashi holds a photo of himself when he was younger, in Otaru, Hokkaido, on May 17.
Schools get students involved in revision of unreasonable ‘black rules’
At Yawata Junior High School in Nagoya, there are no more rules on clothing and hairstyles. Students are free to wear either the school's uniform or clothes of their own choosing.
Tokyo crowned No.1 'workation' spot
Workations were a burgeoning trend in the corporate world for years before the COVID-19 pandemic turbocharged it.
Japanese man suspected of ordering double murder in Manila
Two suspects arrested over the killing of two Japanese last week are held in restraints in Manila on Tuesday.
Tokyo crowned No.1 'workation' spot
Workations were a burgeoning trend in the corporate world for years before the COVID-19 pandemic turbocharged it.
Atsushi Kitagawara’s exhibition finds poetry in architecture
The inverted cone, one of Atsushi Kitagawara’s six signature elements in architecture, is a key feature of the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection museum building.
Candidates preparing to make final pitches for Sawamura Award
Hawks pitcher Livan Moinelo has a 1.13 ERA in 19 starts this season.
Winning warship bid gives Japan confidence boost as Tokyo eyes more exports
Australia’s decision to select Japan's upgraded Mogami-class warship, seen in this computer-generated image, has been “well received across Japanese industry," a Defense Ministry official said.
In Paris, chefs Chizuko Kimura and Kei Kobayashi make their mark
Chef Kei Kobayashi is France's only Japanese chef with three Michelin stars.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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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.
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