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COMMENTARY / World
Oct 20, 2015

Putin fires a shot across Obama's bow

Barack Obama insists that Vladimir Putin's intervention in Syria is a sign of weakness, but the Russian Navy's recent cruise missile launch showed rising strength.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA
Oct 15, 2015

Odom 'took cocaine' before hospitalization

Basketball and reality TV star Lamar Odom was reportedly fighting for his life in a Las Vegas hospital on Wednesday after he was found unresponsive at a legal brothel, where employees said he used cocaine and a sexual performance-enhancing supplement, a sheriff said.
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2015

Cabinet minister was questioned over theft of woman's underwear, gossip magazine says

One of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's newly appointed ministers has come under scrutiny after a gossip magazine reported Thursday that he was once suspected in the theft of a young woman's underwear.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Oct 3, 2015

Japan's elderly can't live off happy memories

Around the first week in December, lifelong-learning company U-Can sponsors an event that designates the top buzzwords of the year. Almost certain to be in the running for first place this year is "karyū rōjin" (low-class elderly people), a term that has been spreading like wildfire since summer.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 30, 2015

Down and out with Tokyo's manga artists

That Japanese movies are often adapted from Japanese manga is no secret. Less well known is the subgenre of films about the lives of some Japanese mangaka (manga artists), which is informally known as mangakamono. Many of these fictional biopics have gone on to become local blockbusters, but we'll get...
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 28, 2015

With eye on succeeding Abe, Ishiba launches own LDP faction

Liberal Democratic Party heavyweight and current minister for regional revitalization Shigeru Ishiba launched his own faction within the ruling party Monday, with an eye toward succeeding Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as the party's next president.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 24, 2015

Ted Cruz hopes to press quest to defund Planned Parenthood by forcing Saturday session

Will Texas Sen. Ted Cruz be the Grinch that stole the weekend again?
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Sep 19, 2015

Yakuza infighting puts nation on edge

Around the start of this year, the weekly magazines — Shukan Taishu, Asahi Geino and Shukan Jitsuwa in particular — were brimming with articles feting the centennial anniversary of the Yamaguchi-gumi, which had gone from being a small group of tough guys on the Kobe waterfront in 1915 to Japan's...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 18, 2015

Former vice finance minister Sakakibara sees end to era of weaker yen

The era of a weaker yen is coming to an end and Japan's currency may strengthen toward 115 per dollar, according to Eisuke Sakakibara, a former vice finance minister.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 16, 2015

Japan waits to see whether new Australian leader will rock the boat on defense

Japan watches anxiously after one of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's closest Asia-Pacific allies in ousted in a party leadership vote.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 15, 2015

Corbyn rides socialist wave to leadership of Britain's Labour Party

Uncorking the spirit of British socialism was the masterstroke that handed Jeremy Corbyn the Labour Party's top job, but he now faces a much bigger challenge — convincing voters that an admirer of Karl Marx should be Britain's next prime minister.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 15, 2015

As historic election looms, Myanmar trials target student protesters

Every Tuesday, the moss-covered redbrick courthouse in Tharrawaddy erupts into activity for a weekly ritual: the mass trial of student protesters.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 10, 2015

Child serial killer Sakakibara believed to have launched vanity website

A notorious serial killer whose murders of two children in 1997 revolted the nation has apparently set up a website on which he says he will post updates about his life.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Sep 9, 2015

'MacDonald's,' the first English school in Japan, was its teacher's prison

The first unofficial English school in Japan was 'founded' in the late fall of 1848 in a prison cell in Nagasaki.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 9, 2015

Hungarian TV journalist fired for tripping up fleeing refugees

A camerawoman for a private television channel in Hungary was fired late on Tuesday after videos of her kicking and tripping up migrants fleeing police, including a man carrying a child, spread in the media and on the internet.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 2, 2015

Is it Australian Border Security Force or farce?

An operation by the Australian Border Force to check visas on the streets of Melbourne is met with scorn by a public with no interest in accepting 'fascist nonsense.'
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 1, 2015

Refugee crisis is suddenly Merkel's biggest challenge

In the past two weeks, Germany has been shaken by a perfect storm of headlines that have elevated the refugee issue to the very top of the public and political agenda.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Aug 29, 2015

SEALDs student group reinvigorates Japan's anti-war protest movement

Wearing shorts and a baggy T-shirt and clutching a microphone, Aki Okuda stands before a crowd, the pyramid-shaped roof of the Diet building lit up against the night sky behind him.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 26, 2015

Lawmaker Takaya Muto denies involvement in stock fraud, says he won't resign

Embattled Lower House lawmaker Takaya Muto on Wednesday dismissed an allegation that he was involved in investment fraud and said he had no plans to resign from the Diet.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS / MAN ABOUT SPORTS
Aug 25, 2015

College football fanatic delivers predictions for upcoming season

Donning his favorite turban — the one adorned with a replica ruby — MASwami gazes into his New York City souvenir snow globe and reveals his "Pigskin Prognostications" for the upcoming college football season.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 25, 2015

Economic forecasting in the age of big data

Properly used, new data sources have the potential to revolutionize economic forecasts.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Aug 21, 2015

Don't take my life, please, as Pakistan's comics roast nation's woes, try not to bomb, blaspheme

The crowd exploded into laughter as Pakistani comedian Shehzad Ghias Shaikh threw them his final punchline, gripping the microphone as he roasted the dating app Tindr and traditional South Asian family matchmaking.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 20, 2015

Shiga residents slam lawmaker who resigned from LDP amid money scandal

Lower House member Takaya Muto, who quit the Liberal Democratic Party on Wednesday over allegations of a financial scandal, has come under fire among his constituents in Shiga Prefecture for betraying their trust, and faces an uncertain future as an independent politician.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / 70 YEARS AFTER THE WAR'S END
Aug 14, 2015

Abe's nationalism reflected in conservative political movement, but polls show voter dissent

The hot political season is back as the nation observes Aug. 15, which is always an emotional date as it marks Japan's surrender in World War II — and this year is the 70th anniversary of that fateful event.
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,...

Longform

Ichiro Suzuki, one of the most iconic players in NPB and MLB history, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame with 99.7% of the vote.
With Hall of Fame induction, Ichiro makes himself heard loud and clear