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JAPAN
Jul 22, 2015

20th women's conference looks to make history

Gender equality in the workforce is not a simple thing to achieve.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 22, 2015

Apple reports App Store, Apple Music services facing disruptions

Apple Inc. said it is experiencing some issues with its App Store, Apple Music, iTunes Store and some other services.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 21, 2015

Heads roll at Toshiba as scandal claims top brass

President Hisao Tanaka resigns over the accounting scandal that saw the firm allegedly pad its profits over the past seven years.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 21, 2015

Defense white paper stresses threat posed by China

The Defense Ministry says it remains deeply concerned about China's maritime ambitions in the region, particularly in the light of Chinese domestic trends.
WORLD
Jul 21, 2015

Islamic State cracks down on Internet use in Syrian stronghold: monitor

Islamic State militants raided Internet cafes in their Syrian stronghold city of Raqqa after ordering a ban on wireless networks that can be used by private homes, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said Monday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 20, 2015

Google appeals order to remove info about man's buying of sex from minor

Google Inc. is seeing to reverse a Saitama court decision ordering it to remove links to Web articles about a man convicted of paying a 16-year-old girl for sex three years ago.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 20, 2015

After gaffes, Republican candidate Walker brushes up on foreign policy

Scott Walker had a steep learning curve on U.S. foreign policy after some early miscues in his race for the Republican presidential nomination.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Jul 19, 2015

Women of color bound to Japan by love and family

Part 1 of a series looking at the black women who have taken vows binding their fates — and sometimes that of their children — to Japan, for better or for worse.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Jul 19, 2015

Brothers three: Mack, the dog formerly known as Bon, fits in with the family

The cocker-sheepdog mix Mack was first featured in this spot in November under his former name, Bon — a name that reflected not only his personality but also, apparently, his luck.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 19, 2015

Yeah right! Sarcasm poses problem for computer algorithms in data-driven U.S. election

When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld same-sex weddings in the same week that South Carolina debated keeping a controversial Civil War battle flag, Twitter user @xTomatoez posted "Gay marriage and the Confederate flag going down everywhere. Tough week for your redneck uncle on Facebook."
WORLD
Jul 19, 2015

Czech Foreign Ministry says five nationals are missing in Lebanon

Five Czechs and their Lebanese driver are missing in Lebanon, a spokeswoman for the Czech Foreign Ministry said Saturday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Jul 18, 2015

Tokyo exhibition examines the blurred lines between the real world and the spirit world

Ghostly spirits and summer go hand in hand in Japan, and there are few things more frightening than the annual August exhibition of hanging scrolls at Zenshoan Temple in Tokyo's Yanaka district.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / ON: TECH
Jul 18, 2015

Dust off those game cartridges for the Retro Freak; Break the ice in just six minutes; Parents can ditch the paper trail

Dust off those game cartridges for the Retro Freak
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jul 17, 2015

Ten years on, Maltine sticks to its guns on free music

Tomohiro Konuta sometimes imagines an alternate world where he's not running a music label.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 17, 2015

Tokyo Bay fireworks festival may be an Olympics loser, ousted by construction work

This summer could be the final time the Tokyo Bay Grand Fireworks Festival is held, ending a spectacular annual celebration that began in the feel-good years of the late 1980s.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 17, 2015

Disillusioned Hong Kong youths eye separatism

On a recent Sunday night in the working-class Hong Kong district of Mong Kok, a group of radical young activists swore through loudspeakers and gestured rudely as they denounced mainland Chinese as "prostitutes" and "barbarians."
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 17, 2015

Tennessee Marine slayings by lone gunman will be fully probed: Obama

President Barack Obama promised a full investigation into shootings at military sites in Tennessee that killed four Marines, described as a potential act of terrorism by U.S. officials.
WORLD
Jul 17, 2015

Aircraft over New Jersey, New York increasingly hit by laser beams

A cluster of laser beam strikes on commercial airplanes over New Jersey Wednesday pushed the total number of attacks over the U.S. to more than twice the daily average.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 15, 2015

Protesters decry passage of 'war legislation' by Lower House committee

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered Wednesday morning in front of the Diet building in Tokyo in a show of measured outrage as a Lower House special committee voted on the government's defense bills.
JAPAN
Jul 15, 2015

Ikata reactor in Ehime wins safety approval as nuclear plants inch closer to restart

Shikoku Electric Power Co.'s Ikata No. 3 reactor has become the fifth reactor to obtain regulatory approval for a restart since the 2011 Fukushima crisis began.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jul 15, 2015

China arrests Britons, South Africans for 'terror' videos

Twenty foreign tourists including Britons, South Africans and an Indian national have been arrested in northern China, according to reports by Britain's Foreign Office and a South African charity, on suspicion some had ties to a "terror group."
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 15, 2015

China-backed bid to take over tech firm Micron faces tough U.S. security scrutiny

A China-backed bid for chipmaker Micron Technology Inc. would encounter close scrutiny by American national security officials worried about Chinese control of U.S. technology firms.
EDITORIALS
Jul 14, 2015

Repairing Japan-South Korea ties

Having cooperated to obtain UNESCO world cultural heritage status for their historical sites, Japan and South Korea should continue to strive to prevent differences over historical perceptions from further straining bilateral ties.

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