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JAPAN
Apr 23, 2016

Australian police to investigate submarine tender leak: report

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) have been asked to investigate how classified information on the country's 50 billion Australian dollar submarine tender emerged — the second such probe into leaks in the program, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. said Friday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 22, 2016

Pachinko firm scores with iPhone-cracking digital forensics unit

The hackers at Cellebrite Mobile Synchronization Ltd., the forensics unit of a little-known Japanese pinball company, are fast becoming the go-to guys when law enforcement needs to unlock smartphones. Its group chief has plans to keep the firm on the front lines against terrorism.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Apr 22, 2016

A monthly subscription to the craft of specialty coffee

Finding good coffee roasters in Tokyo wasn't always easy. Though there's no shortage of chain cafes and canned coffee, roasters that focus on quality beans seemed few and far between.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Apr 22, 2016

Buddhist cafe gives Tokyo caffeinated enlightenment

The hum of conversation and the clinking of spoons and coffee cups fills the wood-panelled cafe in a fashionable Tokyo neighborhood as more than a dozen customers sip drinks and nibble desserts.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Apr 22, 2016

NNN Document 16; Fukigen-na Kajitsu; WOWOW

Tokai Television has become an expert on the subject of adoption in Japan, and this Sunday it will air the latest installment in its series "NNN Document 16" (Nippon TV, 12:55 a.m.)
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 21, 2016

Pain pays off for Leonardo DiCaprio and Alejandro G. Inarritu in 'The Revenant'

Norwegian painter Edvard Munch once said, "Art comes from joy and pain ... but mostly from pain." It's a sentiment that Leonardo DiCaprio knows well.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 21, 2016

Trump and Clinton gain more than delegates

Hillary Clinton has the Democratic nomination all but locked up, and Donald Trump is back on track.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 20, 2016

Clinton's election momentum makes continuity of Asia 'pivot' more likely

Experts say Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's victory in New York's primary Tuesday is good news for Japan. The former secretary of state is likely to inherit President Barack Obama's foreign policy outlook should she be elected as the first female president of the United States....
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 20, 2016

Abe poses a grave danger

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ideology and creed is nothing other than state capitalism.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 20, 2016

Ginza Kumamoto-kan 'antenna shop' logs record sales for disaster-hit prefecture

As a series of aftershocks continued to rattle Kumamoto Prefecture on Wednesday, swarms of people turned up at an outlet run by its government in Tokyo's Ginza district, hoping to support the disaster-hit region by purchasing local specialties.
JAPAN
Apr 19, 2016

Women's health award; furthering medical study

Women's health award
JAPAN
Apr 19, 2016

'Economy-class syndrome' concerns grow as Kyushu quake toll rises to 47

One woman has died and at least 23 others are suspected of suffering from so-called economy-class syndrome after evacuating from their homes in Kumamoto Prefecture.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 19, 2016

U.N. rapporteur on freedom of expression slams Japan's 'press club' system, government pressure

A United Nations expert on freedom of expression concludes that Japan's media independence is being jeopardized by government pressure.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Apr 19, 2016

Chinese man sentenced to death for leaking more than '150,000 state secrets'

A Chinese man has been sentenced to death for leaking more than 150,000 classified documents to an unidentified foreign power, state television said Tuesday, offering unusual details of a kind of case rarely mentioned in public.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 18, 2016

U.S. to give Philippines eye in sky to track South China Sea activity

The United States will transfer an observation blimp to the Philippines to help it track maritime activity and guard its borders amid rising tensions in the South China Sea, a U.S. diplomat said Monday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 18, 2016

Japan index compilers rush to please BOJ and excite normal investors

A man walks into a tailor, orders a custom-made suit and then says he's bound by his own rules to only buy half of it. Sell the rest to someone else, he says.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Apr 18, 2016

Kyushu quakes spark 3% Nikkei plunge, shutter factories; survivors line up for food

The Japanese share market plunged more than 3 percent on Monday after a series of earthquakes measuring up to 7.3-magnitude struck a southern manufacturing hub, killing at least 42 people and forcing major companies to close factories.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Apr 17, 2016

Rainbow Disco Club may be the dance music scene's pot of gold

With new venues such as Contact and Sankeys opening their doors in Tokyo this spring, there is hope for a resurgence in the underground electronic music circuit in 2016. But with a glut of EDM mega-bashes, the festival scene for mature dance music fans can sometimes look a bit bleak.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LAW OF THE LAND
Apr 17, 2016

Two years after Japan signed Hague, children have been returned but old issues remain

A couple of years have passed since Japan signed the international convention on child abduction, and there is cause for celebration — and concern.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Apr 17, 2016

Who loves ya, baby?: a pup named Buruta

Although he looks been around the block a few times, Buruta's no toughie.
JAPAN
Apr 16, 2016

More powerful magnitude-7.3 quake rocks Kumamoto, kills dozens

Another strong earthquake rocked Kumamoto Prefecture early Saturday, killing dozens and injuring hundreds more, bringing the combined death toll since Thursday to at least 41.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Apr 16, 2016

Minimalist family 'camping' in the foothills of Mount Fuji

The birds are singing, the wind is rustling in the forest and sunlight is filtering through the treetops. So far, so idyllic — until my 3-year-old releases a primal bird-scattering shriek as she thrusts an axe into a piece of wood.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 16, 2016

The real reason women still get paid less

Despite progress in some areas of discrimination in the United States, the male-female wage gap persists, and it's big.
JAPAN
Apr 16, 2016

Kumamoto international center offering shelter, translation services for foreigners

Kumamoto City International Center in the city of Kumamoto is offering shelter for non-Japanese residents affected by the current series of earthquakes, with multilingual translators available there to help.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 16, 2016

'Bigotry' in U.S. presidential race an assault on American values: U.N. rights chief

The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights launched a thinly veiled attack on U.S. Republican front-runner Donald Trump and other presidential hopefuls on Friday, in a speech titled "The road to violence."
Transport ministry issues warning to Haneda Airport operator
The operator of Tokyo's Haneda Airport has been warned by the government over its inappropriate transactions.
Xi defiance pays off as Trump meets most China trade demands
Then-Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping visits a school in South Gate, California, in February 2012. Experts say Xi won big in his standoff with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Nissan shares surge as carmaker set to cut 20,000 jobs in huge overhaul
U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on cars and car parts imported to the U.S. have been painful to most global brands, but crippling in Nissan’s case.
Japan might be playing long game in U.S. tariff talks
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the White House earlier this year. Ishiba said Monday that farmers won't be sacrificed for automakers in Japan's tariff negotiations with the U.S.
More details emerge about stabbing near Tokyo University metro station
Yoshitaka Toda, the suspect in Wednesday's knife attack at Todaimae Station on the Tokyo Metro Nanboku Line, leaves a police station in the Japanese capital the same day for a pre-detention medical examination.
Sculpted waves, sleek updos: Showa hairstyles are back in fashion
The larger-than-life hairstyles of Japan's Showa Era are unmistakable — and they're making a comeback.
Consumption tax set to dominate Upper House election debate
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba enters his office in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan should produce its own AI defense solutions, Sakana AI CEO says
Sakana AI CEO David Ha speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Nissan gets ‘wake-up call’ with $4.5 billion annual net loss
Nissan CEO Ivan Espinosa in Tokyo as the company releases its results
Japan set for bigger role in Philippines after SDF’s debut in key drills
Philippine Army Brig. Gen. Michael Logico, who was involved in managing the latest iteration of the Balikatan U.S.-Philippine drills, told The Japan Times that he expects military ties with Japan to surge even further once Tokyo ratifies a key visiting-forces agreement with Manila.

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