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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 21, 2016

A new playbook for Beijing and Southeast Asia

Both ASEAN and China must exercise self-restraint and start negotiating in good faith to resolve the South China Sea territorial disputes.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 12, 2016

U.S. transfers two Guantanamo inmates to Serbia as Obama looks to shutter infamous prison

Two inmates from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay were transferred to Serbia on Monday as the Obama administration pressed ahead with its long-held goal of shutting the widely condemned facility at the U.S. naval base in Cuba.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jul 6, 2016

BOJ bond valuation losses are said to be ¥874 billion in 2015

The Bank of Japan wrote down the value of its holdings of government debt by ¥874 billion ($8.5 billion) in the last fiscal year, undercutting the income from its still profitable asset-purchase program.
Japan Times
JAPAN / THE JAPAN TIMES FORUM ON TICAD VI
Jun 30, 2016

Africa outlook seeing shift from assistance to investment

The sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) will be held in Nairobi on Aug. 27 and 28, where political and business leaders from around the world will discuss various issues facing the continent.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / DECISION 2016
Jun 22, 2016

Abe plays economic card but opposition targets his 'hidden' agenda in Upper House election battle

The poll could pave the way for Abe to revise the U.S.-drafted Constitution nationalists see as a humiliating remnant of WWII.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FUKUSHIMA FILE
Jun 19, 2016

Fukushima rice set to make first EU foray with debut in Britain

Fukushima-harvested rice will hit the stores in Britain in July, which might make it the first member of the EU to import the grain, following a sustained effort by a group of Fukushima natives in London fighting rumors about the safety of the crop.
EDITORIALS
Jun 7, 2016

Close anti-graft law's loopholes

The prosecutors' decision not to charge former economy minister Akira Amari and his aides expose the limitations of the anti-graft law.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 6, 2016

Trans-Pacific shell game

While the Trans-Pacific Partnership might help the U.S. advance its goal of containing China's influence in the Asia-Pacific region, the economic case is not nearly as strong.
JAPAN / Media / DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN
Jun 4, 2016

Legal reform may start rooting out gangsters

Lawmakers in the Diet approved reform to the country's criminal justice system last month, mandating the recording of police interrogations in certain circumstances, revamping the existing wiretap law and introducing a plea bargain system for the first time.
EDITORIALS
May 30, 2016

Tsai moves, Beijing still unmoved

Beijing and Taipei must be prepared to compromise to ensure that the Taiwan Strait does not again become a regional flashpoint.
Japan Times
JAPAN / G7 ISE-SHIMA SUMMIT SPECIAL
May 25, 2016

Leaders expected to focus on economy, refugee crisis

When the Group of Seven leaders meet in Ise-Shima, Mie Prefecture, on Thursday for the two-day summit meeting, the global leaders will spend much of their time discussing wide-ranging issues from terrorism and the refugee crisis to China, which has been asserting its military power in the South China...
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
May 22, 2016

Cyberthieves exploit banks' faith in SWIFT transfer network

On Jan. 12, 2015, a message from a secure computer terminal at Banco del Austro (BDA) in Ecuador instructed San Francisco-based Wells Fargo to transfer money to bank accounts in Hong Kong.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 25, 2016

Should Britain leave the EU?

If British voters are to make the right choice about remaining in the EU, they will have to cut through the hyperbolic claims being made by leaders on both sides.
JAPAN / Politics / KANSAI PERSPECTIVE
Apr 24, 2016

Party name undermining Osaka Ishin candidate's chances in Kyoto by-election

What's in a name?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LABOR PAINS
Apr 24, 2016

Shakai hoken shake-up will open up pensions for some but close door on benefits for others

Law will enable some workers to join the employees' health and pension insurance system but will legally freeze out many more.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 18, 2016

Histories that shouldn't be secret

U.S. President Barack Obama should release classified documents on the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Bay of Pigs fiasco in Cuba in 1961.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 23, 2016

U.S. airports, airlines on high alert after deadly Belgium bombings

Airports in major U.S. cities were on high alert on Tuesday, with police out in force after at least 30 people were killed in bombings on Brussels airport and a rush-hour subway train, though officials said there was no specific threat to the United States.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 23, 2016

Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford dies after bout with rare cancer at 46

Rob Ford, who catapulted into the international spotlight after admitting he smoked crack cocaine while mayor of Toronto, has died. He was 46.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 15, 2016

Myanmar's new president is an unlikely leader

For years he walked alongside Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, a quiet confidant in her campaign for democracy in Myanmar. On Tuesday, with her blessing, Htin Kyaw became the country's president.
JAPAN / Politics / EXPLAINER
Mar 14, 2016

How a U.N. committee riled Japan with its criticism of women's rights

Recent recommendations issued to Japan by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women sparked a sharp response from Tokyo.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 10, 2016

Myanmar presidency beckons for Suu Kyi confidant Htin Kyaw

Until two months ago, Htin Kyaw was not even a member of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD). Now he is the favored presidential candidate of Myanmar's ruling party, on course to become the country's first head of state since the 1960s who is not a former top-ranking member of the...
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 4, 2016

Abe taps finance researcher for Bank of Japan's divided board

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government nominated an international finance researcher to the Bank of Japan's divided board to fill the seat of a retiring member who recently voted against expanding monetary stimulus.
Foreign nationals' presence in Japan emerges as key issue in Upper House poll
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers a campaign speech next to a Liberal Democratic Party candidate for the Upper House (top center left) in Yokohama on Sunday.
Trump announces new tariff rate on Japan — and extension of deadline to Aug. 1
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a trade letter sent by the White House to Japan during a news conference at the White House in Washington on Monday.
China’s housing crisis is worse than it seems
Residential buildings under construction in Shanghai in July 2022. The Chinese government risks long-term decline by repeating Japan’s policy mistakes in handling its real estate and demographic crises.
Japan braces for more quakes as authorities dismiss doomsday hype
Evacuees from Akuseki Island, located in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecuture, arrive at Kagoshima Port on Friday.
Japan stands its ground after Trump letter delivers 25% U.S. tariff shock
U.S. President Donald Trump (left) and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick at Morristown Airport, New Jersey, on Sunday. Trump on Monday sent letters to 12 countries notifying them of new "reciprocal" tariff rates effective Aug. 1.
From the Abes to the Ohtanis: How siblings shape athletic development
Olympic judoka Uta Abe (second from left) and Hifumi Abe (second from right) with their brother Yuichiro (center) and their parents. “I’m always consciously trying to be a good older brother,” Yuichiro said.
Foreign nationals' presence in Japan emerges as key issue in Upper House poll
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers a campaign speech next to a Liberal Democratic Party candidate for the Upper House (top center left) in Yokohama on Sunday.
Scams involving police impersonation surge
A video by the National Police Agency warns about fake scams.
Lawson to let visitors use larger parking lots as paid car campsites
A Lawson convenience store in Yachiyo, Chiba Prefecture. A new service from the company comes amid the rise in inbound tourists, making hotels and inns harder to book and more expensive.
The future is bright inside the visionary mind of architect Sou Fujimoto
The exhibition of Fujimoto’s architecture surveys his career to date, as well as looks ahead as shown in his proposal of a future floating city designed in collaboration with data scientist Hiroaki Miyata.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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