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Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Nov 24, 2015

Hongo's shot at Grand Prix Final in doubt

Rika Hongo jeopardized her chance to make the Grand Prix Final for the second straight year after struggling through a poor free skate at the Cup of Russia in Moscow on Saturday.
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COMMENTARY / World
Nov 24, 2015

With friends like Vladimir Putin, who needs enemies?

Avenging the City of Light, Russia and the West can turn Syria into the desert of darkness, but from that darkness nothing good will come.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 24, 2015

Clinton's weaknesses hidden by GOP disarray

Hillary Clinton doesn't excite important constituencies — young people, independents, possibly even minority voters — and that could sink her bid for the White House.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Nov 23, 2015

When kanji components sound off, be sure to pay attention

Many common kanji include easily recognizable phonetic components that give a pretty good idea of how they should be read.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 23, 2015

Islamic State is an existential threat to the West

Western leaders are wrong: Islamic State does pose an existential threat.
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COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Nov 21, 2015

Resumption of Antarctic whaling flouts rule of law

The rule of law has been Japan's trump card in its ongoing rhubarb with China over competing territorial claims in the East China Sea.
EDITORIALS
Nov 21, 2015

Young people with 'old eyes'

It's starting to become clear that overuse of electronic gadgets like smartphones and computers is having a dramatic impact on the health of young people's eyes.
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BUSINESS
Nov 20, 2015

BOJ easing seen as blunt tool by one fund, blowing bubbles by another

TCW Group Inc. says the Bank of Japan has made a mistake and should exit quantitative easing as soon as possible. Invesco Ltd. says the only error was not starting sooner.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 19, 2015

Many children with cancer born at risk: U.S. study

Gene sequencing of more than 1,000 children and adolescents diagnosed with cancer found that as many as 8.5 percent were born with genes that increase their risk of developing cancer, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 19, 2015

Paris attack prompts name holdout Isis Pharmaceuticals to finally rebrand

The terrorist attacks in Paris may have finally spurred a brand change for Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc., a drugmaker that until now has steadfastly held on to its name even as the militant group rose in prominence in the Middle East.
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2015

Tokyo criticized after advertises for part-time anti-terrorism analyst

Experts voiced doubt Wednesday at just how serious Tokyo is in trying to collect intelligence on terrorism after the Foreign Ministry posted a job offer on its website in September seeking a part-time security analyst on global terrorism.
WORLD
Nov 17, 2015

G-20 leaders stick to 2% extra growth goal despite hurdles, widen focus to pressing issues

The leaders of the world's largest economies stuck to a goal of lifting their collective output by an extra 2 percent by 2018, even though growth remains uneven and weaker than expected globally, they said in a statement Monday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 13, 2015

Transgender bureaucrat sues METI over sex discrimination

A transgender trade bureaucrat on Friday launched a landmark ¥18 million discrimination lawsuit against the government, claiming the trade ministry refused to let her use the female toilets and harassed her about her sex change.
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JAPAN
Nov 13, 2015

Style complements functionality at Shibuya exhibition of aids for disabled

A new design exhibition in Tokyo is aiming to give the public perception of disability a makeover by placing style at the top of the agenda.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Nov 12, 2015

Medical bodies launch system to track laparoscopic surgeries

In response to last year's scandal in which a number of patients died after undergoing laparoscopic liver surgery, two key medical bodies have introduced a system to track such procedures to ensure safety and transparency.
EDITORIALS
Nov 12, 2015

Supreme Court and marriage rules

Lwmakers should shed their outdated view and proceed to make necessary legal amendments to end the discrimination, injustice and inconveniences caused by two marriage-related articles in the Civil Code.
JAPAN
Nov 9, 2015

Attorney group to offer free advice to ID-less 'mukoseki' citizens

Japan's attorneys are planning a wide-scale effort to advise people trapped in mukoseki status who are deprived of basic government services because they do not appear on family registries and thus lack legal identity.
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LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Nov 9, 2015

Real, imagined and forgotten fears stalk Japanese phrases

A look at how fears and anxieties are expressed in daily conversation in Japanese.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Nov 7, 2015

TV Asahi gets 'The Scoop' on false convictions

Last week the Tokyo Shimbun ran an article about Keiko Aoki and Tatsuhiro Boku, the couple convicted of murdering Aoki's 11-year-old daughter in 1995 and sentenced to life in prison. The upcoming retrial, which will likely reverse the guilty verdict, may reveal that the Osaka pair were coerced into making...
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JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Nov 7, 2015

Without doubt, company executives will just go with the flow

Asahi Kasei. Toyo Tire & Rubber. Toshiba. What's the connection? Executives lined up before the cameras, bowing their heads in shame.

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past