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BUSINESS
Aug 8, 2014

Women armed with chain saws head to the hills under Abe's growth plan

Junko Otsuka quit her job in Tokyo and headed for the woods, swapping a computer for a bush cutter and her air-conditioned office for the side of a mountain.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 6, 2014

India's political, economic potential

The general election in India in May was groundbreaking in many aspects.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Jul 30, 2014

Fukushima disaster colors A-bomb anniversaries

Over the past three years, the atomic bombing anniversaries in August have increasingly become a time to ask new questions.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 20, 2014

India's defense sector faces the malcontents

Once again, India is being courted as a potentially lucrative market for global defense contractors, but after so many false starts in the past, the new Modi government will have some convincing to do.
BUSINESS
Jun 28, 2014

Could Kim be ready to declare war over a movie?

Asian geopolitics may never be the same now that Kim Jong Un has Seth Rogen and James Franco in his cross hairs.
EDITORIALS
Jun 13, 2014

Iraq collapsing

Islamic militants have overrun northern Iraq, taking control of the country's second-largest city and sparking fears of the collapse of the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
May 28, 2014

'Inside Llewyn Davis'

The Coen Brothers are exceptional among American filmmakers for having had a long and prosperous career without ever significantly watering down or altering their sensibility along the way. You could draw a line from their indie debut "Blood Simple" through to Oscar-winners "Fargo" and "No Country For...
COMMENTARY / World
May 16, 2014

Why the dollar will remain the top currency

China is missing one crucial ingredient as it builds the renminbi's claim to reserve-currency status: the world's trust with regard to a broader and more credible set of public and political institutions.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 21, 2014

Obama's state visit comes at crucial time

With defense and trade issues still to be resolved, Thursday's U.S.-Japan summit is a high-stakes game for both sides.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 20, 2014

Damascus refugees face starvation

The desperate residents of a besieged district of Damascus were expected to run out of food on Sunday, leaving 18,000 people facing starvation and leading relief agencies to declare the crisis "unprecedented in living memory."
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 18, 2014

GSDF to militarize remote Yonaguni

The government is sending 100 Ground Self-Defense Force members and radar to its western-most outpost, a tropical island off Taiwan, in a deployment that risks angering China with ties between Asia's biggest economies already hurt by a dispute over nearby islets they both claim.
JAPAN
Apr 4, 2014

Child abduction agreement too late for many parents

To some parents, Japan's official entry Tuesday into the Hague convention on cross-border child abductions doesn't represent the light at the end of the tunnel, but the arrival of more obstacles in the prolonged effort to retrieve their children, experts say.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 31, 2014

Why Russia won't tank U.S. Treasury market

Do the U.S. government's vast debts to foreign nations present a threat to its national security?
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / NET NEWS WATCH
Mar 20, 2014

Did Japan's hallowed cherry trees actually originate in South Korea?

Did Japan’s hallowed cherry trees actually originate South Korea?
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 14, 2014

Automakers luring Japan's interest-hungry banks to Mexico

Investments by Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. that look set to make Mexico the biggest car exporter to the U.S. are giving Japanese banks a chance to escape from the world's lowest yields.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 14, 2013

Beyond Newtown: 71 other young children killed by deliberate gunfire in 2012

The man with the gun burst into the apartment and opened fire. The first victim was a young woman, dead at 21. The second victim was her 25-year-old roommate. But it was the third victim who would cause the most anguished screams when the bodies were discovered. Shot in the head, he was a 6-month-old...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 10, 2013

Nuke 'black box' needed: investigator

The global nuclear power industry needs to share cross-border information to prevent accidents, replicating the transparency of international air traffic control, according to the head of an investigation into the disaster at Fukushima No. 1.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 2, 2013

China girds to open sectors to foreign investors

It appears that China's leaders are cautiously preparing to let foreign investors enter any industry other than those on a 'negative list.'
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 18, 2013

India, U.S. sup with the devil

Lost in India and the U.S.' diplomatic maneuvers with the Taliban is the age-old wisdom: He who sups with the devil should have a long spoon.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 17, 2013

China may long regret miserly typhoon aid offer

China's stingy donation to the Philippines in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan dramatically undercut its recent regional charm offensive.
JAPAN
Nov 8, 2013

Fukuoka issues warning on high PM2.5 levels

High levels of PM2.5 particulate matter were recorded Friday in parts of western Japan, prompting the city of Fukuoka to issue a warning amid growing concern that the pollution crisis in China will keep affecting Japan.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 24, 2013

U.S. keeps Pakistani officials in loop on drone strikes

Despite repeatedly denouncing the CIA's drone campaign, top officials in Pakistan's government have for years secretly endorsed the program and routinely received classified briefings on strikes and casualty counts, according to top-secret CIA documents and Pakistani diplomatic memos obtained by The...
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 7, 2013

Averting conflict over water

In an increasingly water-stressed world, shared water resources are becoming an instrument of power, fostering competition within and between nations and impacting ecosystems.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 6, 2013

The rich hit back at the poor

The economic divide between the haves and the have-nots may not be as wide in the United Kindom at it is in the United States, but it is growing dangerously.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Oct 5, 2013

Canadian sojourn helps to shake off Japan malaise

It was really good to escape the summer heat in Japan and spend two weeks in British Columbia with three of my grown offspring and five grandchildren, as well as with lots of friends both old and new.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 20, 2013

Putin: arch manipulator on a mission to check U.S. will

In novelist Victor Pelevin's pungent satire on contemporary Russia, "The Sacred Book of the Werewolf," its narrator, a 2,000-year-old shape-shifter, kisses Alexander, a brutish but alluring officer with the FSB, the Russian security service — who is a werewolf, like all his colleagues. In doing so,...
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 15, 2013

U.S. can take in more than 33 Syrian refugees

The U.N. estimates that 7 million Syrians are displaced in their own country or refugees in other countries. The world must do more to help them.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 9, 2013

Syrian situation highlights 'G-Zero' world order

Syria's situation is the strongest evidence yet of a new 'G-Zero' world order, in which no single power or bloc of powers will accept the costs and risks that accompany global leadership.

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