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JAPAN
Nov 25, 2013

Space industry faces choice for next direction

The air is so clear the mountains in the distance look almost fake, as if added digitally. The desert floor is runway-flat, with a few Joshua trees popping up randomly, like lost cowboys. The dominant feature is the sky, preposterously vast, beckoning test pilots, rocketeers and would-be space travelers....
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 24, 2013

The immigration question

Despite Japan's low birthrate and rapidly graying population, only one in seven Japanese support the idea of increased immigration.
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CULTURE / Entertainment news
Nov 24, 2013

'The Stranger': Nobel Prize-winning author Camus an outsider in France

It is a century since French Nobel Prize-winning author Albert Camus was born — and more than 50 years since he died in an accident on an icy road — yet the polemics over his legacy and "mysterious" death rumble on.
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JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Nov 23, 2013

Nuclear whistle-blower spills secrets the way the media should

Genpatsu Whiteout' continues to climb the best-seller list, propelled by a guessing game over the identity of its author, who seems to know a lot about the nuclear energy business.
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WORLD
Nov 23, 2013

Dealey Plaza: birthplace of a mystery that still reverberates

Dealey Plaza is a depression. It is a shallow basin on the western edge of downtown, framed by concrete structures called pergolas and peristyles that were built in the late 1930s by the Works Progress Administration. Designed as a gateway to the city, the plaza is more of an ode to the automobile because...
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 22, 2013

Climate change as a form of terrorism

The typhoon in the Philippines is a useful reminder that we need to think more about what can be done, both on climate mitigation and on disaster preparation.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 22, 2013

Sony's Hirai plans $250 million in entertainment cuts

Sony Corp. will cut $250 million in costs at its entertainment units over two years, part of Chief Executive Officer Kazuo Hirai's plan to boost profit and keep full ownership of the movie, TV and music businesses.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / EVERYMAN EATS
Nov 21, 2013

Japan's love for curry means endless variety

It's only a slight exaggeration to say that Japanese curry saved my life. After relocating to Japan in the late 1990s, I found myself underemployed, surrounded by unfamiliar foodstuffs and suffering from a near-total lack of cooking skills. Yet I managed to fill up at the cafeteria of a local university,...
COMMENTARY
Nov 19, 2013

View Typhoon Haiyan as an early warning system

"We've been telling the rest of the world we don't want what's happening to us to happen to everyone else," said Lucille L. Sering, the vice chair of the Philippines' Climate Commission,, as the country struggled to cope with the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan. "This is your early warning system ... we...
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CULTURE / Music
Nov 19, 2013

Japan's juke scene gears up to go foot to foot with Chicago

I am at Battle Train Tokyo, the first official footwork dance tournament in Japan. It's being held at Kata, a gallery in the capital's Ebisu district. Sixteen dancers have signed up in the hope of becoming Japan's footwork champion, which comes with a ¥50,000 cash prize and a small championship belt...
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WORLD / Society
Nov 19, 2013

U.S. education official apologizes for 'white suburban moms' remark

Education Secretary Arne Duncan tried Monday to quell the outrage sparked by his comments that injected race and class into the debate about the Common Core academic standards taking root in classrooms across the country.
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ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Nov 17, 2013

Disaster-prone Philippines slow to address issues

In one of the world's most naturally deadly countries, catastrophes can originate almost anywhere. Flash floods race down mountainsides. A zigzag of tectonic plates collide below. Typhoons build in warm ocean waters and then tear westward.
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CULTURE / Books
Nov 16, 2013

Tales of wonder from Tohoku's deep past

The first time most people outside Japan heard about the country's northern Tohoku region was when it was struck by a devastating earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, leaving more than 15,000 dead and a million buildings damaged or destroyed. But to those familiar with Japan, Tohoku has long been...
COMMENTARY
Nov 15, 2013

Building financial safety nets for Asia

Tighter U.S. monetary policy could intensify the global credit shortage, thereby increasing pressure on Asia's economic and financial systems.
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Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Nov 14, 2013

An early Christmas in Osaka

The first record of a decorated Christmas tree came from 16th-century Germany, though some say the custom dates back to the eighth century, when an English monk, St. Boniface, traveled to Germany to help convert people there to Christianity.
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Events / Events In Tokyo
Nov 14, 2013

Save Earth from annihilation while exercising the brain

Feel like saving the world from a giant asteroid strike? Now's your chance.
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Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Nov 14, 2013

Tsuchiura city curries favor with visitors at its annual gourmet festival

When the world's largest Zeppelin made a stop in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture, during its world tour in 1929, locals prepared and served curry for the crew using the region's famous potatoes as an ingredient. Since then, the city has been known as a curry capital of Japan, and this weekend it holds...
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JAPAN
Nov 14, 2013

Kids create Tohoku ornaments

Students from an international school participated Thursday in a Christmas-season fundraising event by a Tokyo hotel that is supporting children in the Tohoku region affected by the March 2011 disasters.
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MORE SPORTS
Nov 13, 2013

U.S. spikers hand Japan four-set loss in FIVB Women's Grand Champions Cup

The United States volleyball team prevailed over Japan in four sets on Wednesday night, winning 25-19, 25-19, 19-25, 25-21 in their round-robin match at the FIVB Women's Grand Champions Cup.
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JAPAN / Politics
Nov 12, 2013

Koizumi calls on Abe to ditch nuclear power

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has abundant political capital and should declare an end to nuclear power, as the public mood for such a decision couldn't be better, predecessor Junichiro Koizumi said Tuesday.

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