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WORLD / Politics
Nov 16, 2019

Twitter details bans on political ads

Twitter on Friday said its political advertising ban will include references to political candidates or legislation, and it will not allow ads that advocate for a certain outcome on social and political causes.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 13, 2019

Tokyo confirms it will hold vote for governor and assembly by-elections on July 5

Tokyo will hold a gubernatorial election on July 5 next year, ahead of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on July 24, the capital's election committee announced Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 13, 2019

Russia says Kyiv should extend east Ukraine special status law to 2020

Borys Gryzlov, Russia's envoy to an international working group on the conflict in eastern Ukraine, said on Tuesday that Kyiv should extend until 2020 a policy granting special status to that region, known as Donbass, Interfax news agency reported.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 11, 2019

Democrats say GOP impeachment witnesses may testify but not Hunter Biden or the whistleblower

Democrats signaled their willingness to let some witnesses requested by Republicans testify as the House starts public impeachment hearings of Donald Trump this week, but only those people with knowledge of the president's actions. And not Hunter Biden or the whistleblower.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Nov 9, 2019

2020 races move north to Sapporo as cooler heads prevail

"It's like you're submerged underwater, but the water is boiling, and you're kind of halfway cooked" — that's how one distance runner described conditions at the women's marathon at the 2019 World Athletics Championship in Doha on Sept. 27-28.
JAPAN / Society
Nov 9, 2019

Japan to go ahead with using descriptive questions in university entrance exams from 2020

Japan will carry out plans to introduce descriptive questions for Japanese and mathematics subjects under a new unified university entrance examination system starting in fiscal 2020, education minister Koichi Hagiuda said.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 7, 2019

Election for Tokyo governor looks set for July 5, three weeks before Olympics

The Election Administration Commission hopes to minimize the impact from the election on the quadrennial sporting event, sources said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 6, 2019

Trump-backed Kentucky governor loses election; Democrats seize Virginia legislature

U.S. Democrats scored an upset victory in Kentucky on Tuesday over a Republican governor backed by President Donald Trump and seized control of the state legislature in Virginia, where anti-Trump sentiment in the suburbs remained a potent force.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Nov 2, 2019

Democrats' decision to televise Trump impeachment hearings could prove politically perilous

Democrats in the U.S. Congress took a major step toward impeaching President Donald Trump this past week when they agreed on the rules for publicly televised hearings after weeks of testimony behind closed doors. But it is also a step onto more politically perilous terrain for a party seeking to persuade...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Nov 1, 2019

Japan's shrine meant to celebrate Hokkaido's Ainu divides them

On a wooded lake shore in southwest Hokkaido, the government is building a modernist shrine that has divided the indigenous Ainu community whose vanishing culture it was designed to celebrate.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 26, 2019

Sports are feeling heat from climate change

Thanks to deadly heat waves, the Olympic marathon is moving from Tokyo to Sapporo next year. It's a sign of things to come.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 22, 2019

Russian accounts targeted U.S. voters on Instagram ahead of 2020 election, Facebook says

A network of Instagram accounts operated from Russia has targeted Americans with divisive political messages ahead of next year's presidential election and posed as local people in U.S. states including Virginia and Florida, Facebook said.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 11, 2019

Trump impeachment is a deep Democratic coup against Warren

The old DNC cabal is more interested in getting rid of the progressives in their own party than in defeating Trump.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 11, 2019

Tokyo's Toyosu fish market still pestered by problems a year after move from Tsukiji

The first anniversary of the costly and contentious relocation of Tokyo's famous Tsukiji fish market from Chuo Ward to the site of a former gas plant 2 km south along Tokyo Bay was commemorated by a tuna auction Friday morning.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 11, 2019

Manned SpaceX mission will happen in first quarter of 2020, says NASA boss

NASA boss Jim Bridenstine said on Thursday that the first manned mission into orbit by SpaceX's Crew Dragon would take place in the first quarter of next year, pending the satisfactory outcome of tests.
Japan Times
Special Supplements / Global Startup Program
Oct 9, 2019

2020 fair touted as a Japan-Italy first

"(The Global Startup Program) is a chapter of a program that we have with Japan that is now involving the embassy, but also other institutions that are financing the presence of Italian startups in this market," said Italian Ambassador to Japan Giorgio Starace in a recent interview.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 5, 2019

Iranians tried to hack Trump's re-election campaign, sources say

A hacking group that appears to be linked to the Iranian government attempted to break into U.S. President Donald Trump's re-election campaign but were unsuccessful, sources familiar with the operation told Reuters on Friday.
BUSINESS
Oct 3, 2019

Japan begins compiling fiscal 2020 budget

A subcommittee of the Fiscal System Council launched full-fledged discussions Thursday to compile the budget for fiscal 2020.
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Sep 28, 2019

Social media conversation on Rugby World Cup reflects concern about 2020 Olympics

Netizens have been anticipating the start of the Rugby World Cup in Japan for months now and not just because of the action on the field. While the online masses closely followed and reacted to the Japanese team’s opening match win over Russia — not to mention anything related to the All Blacks’...
JAPAN
Sep 28, 2019

Olympic Village subcontractor had ties to yakuza gang, Tokyo police say

A construction company with suspected ties to a yakuza gang participated as a subcontractor in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic athletes village project.
EDITORIALS
Sep 27, 2019

U.S. takes fateful step toward impeachment

The impeachment process will have many political and policy implications. Japan must be prepared for the impacts.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 26, 2019

Why Trump's call is impeachment-worthy

Criminals get convicted all the time on evidence this strong.
Japan to start new residency system for foreign workers
Students hoping to work in Japan attend a Japanese class at a job placement company in Hanoi in October 2022.
Japan to regularly accept assistant language teachers from India
Indian assistant language teachers pose for a photo with Japanese Ambassador Keiichi Ono (center) at the Japanese Embassy in New Delhi on Friday.
At LDP’s post-election meeting, calls intensify for Ishiba’s resignation
Prime Minister and Liberal Democratic Party President Shigeru Ishiba, flanked by LDP Secretary-General Hiroshi Moriyama (left) and LDP Vice President Yoshihide Suga, speaks at a meeting of party lawmakers and executives at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Monday.
Why Ishiba refuses to quit even amid intense pressure for him to go
Supporters of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba take part in a rally across the street from the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.
Vietnamese technical intern arrested over Saga murder
Saga Prefectural Police officials speak during a news conference held in the city of Imari, Saga Prefecture, early Monday following the arrest of a Vietnamese man a day earlier on suspicion of murder.
Amid fossil fuel shift in U.S., hope emerges for India and Japan tie-up on solar
A technician works on the assembly line at a solar panel manufacturing hub on the outskirts of New Delhi last October.
Japan and NATO to launch defense-industrial talks, top envoy says
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte looks at military equipment on the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mogami stealth frigate during a visit to the MSDF's naval base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, in April.
‘Killer satellites’ beware: Japan unveils first space defense guidelines
Defense Minister Gen Nakatani speaks to reporters during a visit to the Air Self-Defense Force's Space Situation Awareness radar in Sanyo-Onoda, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Monday.
Three decades and a pile of notebooks: The beat writer who chronicled Ichiro’s career
Reporters and photographers, including long-time baseball beat writer Keizo Konishi, swarm around Ichiro Suzuki during the World Baseball Classic in San Diego in 2009.
Tokyo is the No. 2 choice for international students
The University of Tokyo. International students are increasingly flocking to Asia, with affordability being a particularly important metric.

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