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Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 9, 2015

Smog from Beijing may reach northern Japan

The ongoing pollution "red alert" in Beijing may affect northern Japan, a model of weather patterns suggests, although pollutants will be well within safe limits when they arrive.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 9, 2015

The brothers Farook: one a decorated veteran, the other a killer

One brother liked to party and chase girls. After high school, moved by what he saw as his patriotic duty, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and received two medals recognizing his contributions to "the global war on terror."
WORLD
Dec 9, 2015

Failure-prone mine-hunting drone seen jeopardizing U.S. Littoral Combat Ship program

The U.S. Navy's new Littoral Combat Ship would be ineffective at hunting for mines because an underwater drone made by Lockheed Martin Corp. that's supposed to find them often fails to work, the Pentagon's weapons-testing office found.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 8, 2015

Deutsche Bank Japan brokerage penalized

Deutsche Bank AG's Japanese brokerage unit faces regulatory penalties after the nation's securities watchdog found that its employees improperly shared information about a company's earnings with clients.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Dec 8, 2015

The $8.6 billion Yahoo dilemma facing Japan's second-richest man

Masayoshi Son has a $8.6 billion dilemma on his hands.
WORLD
Dec 8, 2015

EU lawmakers, nations agree on bloc's first cybersecurity law

EU lawmakers and member states struck a deal on the bloc's first cybersecurity law on Monday that will require Internet firms such as Google and Amazon to report serious breaches or face sanctions.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Dec 7, 2015

Afghan brain drain threatens to cause severe economic damage

Afghan software entrepreneur Farshid Ghyasi, chief executive of the Netlinks company, is struggling to keep his best employees, as more plan to join a wave of migrants leaving for Europe that risks causing long-term damage to the country and its economy.
WORLD
Dec 7, 2015

Austria police nab Swedish girl, 17, who said she was Syria-bound to join Islamist militants

Austrian police have detained a 17-year-old Swedish girl who said she was on her way to Syria and is suspected of planning to join Islamist militants there, a Vienna police spokesman said on Sunday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Dec 6, 2015

A penny for your thoughts: a dog named Jerry

Jerry is something of an introvert, an intelligent dog and an incredibly quick study. But he's no stick-in-the-mud.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Dec 6, 2015

Punk survivor Phew changes direction on 'A New World'

Even as a child, Phew realized she was a bit different. "When I was at school, if the teacher told a joke and everyone else in the class laughed, I was always the one who couldn't see what was funny," she says. "I've always been like that."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Dec 6, 2015

Soichi Terada arrives fashionably late to the global house-music scene

Good things come to those who wait. For 50-year-old producer Soichi Terada it's a wait that has lasted more than 20 years, but now he's one of the most in-demand artists in the house music scene, and has just returned from a tour of Europe that saw him perform in front of capacity crowds in some of the...
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 6, 2015

Islamic State claims California killers as followers

The Islamic State group said on Saturday that the married couple who killed 14 people in a mass shooting in Southern California were its followers, and FBI agents raided a home apparently belonging to a friend of the husband.
ENVIRONMENT
Dec 5, 2015

Taking the sting out of household infestations

The vast majority of telephone calls on household pests fielded by the Shibuya Ward Office's Public Hygiene Division in 2014 were not about rats, cockroaches or spiders but they involved something with a little more sting in its tail — hornets, wasps and bees.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Dec 5, 2015

Oku-Nikko: Once home from home for Japan's diplomats

‘One of the principal points to which travelers will direct their steps is the Lake of Chuzenji,” writes Ernest Mason Satow (1843-1929) in “A Guide Book To Nikko,” the first English tourist guide of the area published in 1875. Satow, a British diplomat and Japanologist, arrived in Japan in 1862...
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Dec 5, 2015

Bathed in good design

The traditional Japanese end-of-year "spring clean" is usually when you discover that some of the home's furnishings are a bit worse for wear. So why not look into some stylish investments now, before you get the broom out for the new year.
EDITORIALS
Dec 5, 2015

Remembering Setsuko Hara

Fans and critics regretted that acting great Setsuko Hara never made more films after 1961, but with her passing perhaps a new generation will discover the pleasure, complexity and intensity of her work.
EDITORIALS
Dec 5, 2015

Unfair pressure during job hunt

Companies forcing university students to take the first job offer they get is piling anxiety, pressure and confusion on these young people before they even enter the workforce.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 5, 2015

FBI investigating California massacre as 'act of terrorism'

The FBI is investigating the fatal shooting of 14 people in California by a married couple as an "act of terrorism," officials said Friday, noting the wife was believed to have pledged allegiance to a leader of the militant Islamic State group.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 5, 2015

Investigators piece together portrait of Pakistani woman in California shooting

Tashfeen Malik's path to accused mass killer in California began in a small city on the Indus River in Pakistan's Punjab province.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / THE HIGH GROUNDS
Dec 4, 2015

Coffee Amp turns the tables on Tokyo's imported coffee culture

For coffee lovers in Tokyo, the past five years have felt like a never-ending bonanza. Where once you might have trekked halfway across town to get a decent brew, now nearly every neighborhood seems to have its own micro-roaster or fancy coffee stand. Yet when Coffee Amp first opened in early 2010, at...
JAPAN
Dec 4, 2015

U.S. military announces return of two slivers of land in Okinawa in 2018

The United States and Japan announce the return in 2018 of two strips of land from military bases in Okinawa to widen civilian roads.
BUSINESS
Dec 4, 2015

China vows copyright protection for online news media

China will crack down on illegal reproduction of online news, the country's media watchdog said, days after an influential Chinese news magazine complained publicly about what it described as unauthorized republishing of its stories.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 3, 2015

The climate-terror connection

Where climate change threatens to lay waste to the environment, fanatics have banded together to lay waste to civilization.
The unstoppable rise of konbini tourism
Guests typically follow Ryo Ito’s lead as he weaves through the narrow, colorful aisles of convenience stores.
More Japanese universities pushing toward teaching in English
Waseda University in Tokyo
A narrow Pacific waterway at heart of U.S. plans to choke China’s vast navy
Philippine and Australian troops fire an M777 howitzer during live fire exercises as part of joint military drills in Laur, Nueva Ecija, the Philippines, in August.
Trump would make U.S. Supreme Court history by attending tariffs case
There is no record in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 235-year history of a sitting president ever attending arguments, according to Clare Cushman, director of publications and resident historian at the Supreme Court Historical Society.
Dodgers clinch back-to-back World Series titles as Blue Jays downed in thriller
Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto and teammates celebrate after winning the World Series against the Blue Jays. Yamamoto was named MVP for the series.
How airlines are refining their in-flight food in Japan's tourism boom
All Nippon Airways' gourmet program, The Connoisseurs, showcases the Japanese concept of "shun" (peak season for ingredients), giving passengers a preview of the refined cuisine that awaits them in Japan.
The unstoppable rise of konbini tourism
Guests typically follow Ryo Ito’s lead as he weaves through the narrow, colorful aisles of convenience stores.
Anime isn’t competing with Hollywood — it’s beating it
After its July release, “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — Infinity Castle,” an animated feature adapted directly from a TV arc, became the highest-grossing Japanese film ever.
Oasis returns to Japan after 16 years — and fans can still sing every word
Liam Gallagher commanded the stage with effortless charisma during Oasis' Tokyo Dome set on Saturday.
At Japan Mobility Show, BYD gears up to conquer Japan's EV market
BYD Auto Japan President Atsuki Tofukuji unveils the Racco at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Wednesday.

Podcast

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

Longform

Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes
By Alex K.T. Martin

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