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JAPAN
Oct 12, 2018

New visa statuses proposed for blue-collar workers do not offer permanent residency: justice minister

Comments come as ministry details plan to allow people with knowledge and abilities Japan needs to work in the nation.
Reader Mail
Oct 12, 2018

High praise for Akita shottsuru

As someone whose family has been connected with the sake business for generations, I was very much impressed with "Bringing shottsuru fish sauce back from the brink of extinction" in the Sept. 30 edition.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 12, 2018

Trump's lawyers preparing answers to questions in Russia probe but not on obstruction allegations: source

President Donald Trump's lawyers are preparing answers to questions for the U.S. special counsel probing Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
EDITORIALS
Oct 11, 2018

Chinese Interpol chief goes missing

China's detention of Interpol Chief Meng Hongwei shows nothing takes precedence over the Chinese Communist Party's self-perceived need to protect itself. Governments around the world, including Tokyo, must take note.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 11, 2018

Hurricane Michael, fiercest in 80 years, pounds Florida with 250-kph winds

Hurricane Michael, the third-most-powerful ever to strike the U.S. mainland, battered Florida's Gulf coast with roof-shredding winds, raging surf and torrential rains before it was downgraded to a tropical storm as it headed through Georgia.
JAPAN
Oct 11, 2018

Yasukuni Shrine's chief priest forced to quit after criticizing Emperor for not visiting war-linked shrine

Kunio Kohori argued on June 20 that the Emperor is “now trying to crush Yasukuni Shrine” by not visiting it.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 11, 2018

Three women found apparently slain near Greece's Evros River border with Turkey

Three women of unknown origin were found dead, presumably murdered, on Wednesday on the Greek side of the river border between Turkey and Greece, police sources said, an area known for illegal migrant crossings.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 11, 2018

Limo company operator in New York crash disaster charged with negligent homicide

The operator of a limousine company that owned the vehicle involved in a crash that killed 20 people in upstate New York was taken into custody and charged with criminally negligent homicide, New York State Police said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 11, 2018

Russian website names third GRU officer involved in Salisbury nerve agent poisoning

The Russian news website Fontanka named on Wednesday a third GRU military intelligence operative, Sergey Fedotov, as having been involved in trying to kill ex-spy Sergei Skripal in the English city of Salisbury.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 10, 2018

Evidence of China's computer hardware tampering found at U.S. telecom in August: security expert

A major U.S. telecommunications company discovered manipulated hardware from Super Micro Computer Inc. in its network and removed it in August, according to a security expert working for the telecom company, in fresh evidence that critical technology components bound for the U.S. had been tampered with...
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 10, 2018

New Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki may meet top government spokesman and Abe in Tokyo on Friday

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Wednesday he is considering meeting with new Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki in Tokyo on Friday.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 10, 2018

The end of coal could be closer than it looks

Despite a pessimistic forecast, it's possible to meet consumption-cut targets on the current path.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LAW OF THE LAND
Oct 10, 2018

Japan demonstrates how too many rules can ruin governance

Culture of over-regulation helps explain the country's persistent problem with data falsification.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 10, 2018

Trump says second meeting with Kim will happen after November midterm elections

A second meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will have to wait until after the Nov. 6 midterm elections.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 10, 2018

Driver's kin blame vehicle as finger-pointing begins in search for cause of deadly NY limo crash

Lawyers for the family of a limousine driver who died along with 19 others in an upstate New York accident and the owner of the vehicle are clashing over the cause of the deadliest U.S. transport accident in nearly a decade.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 9, 2018

Northeast Asia as seen from Okinawa

Tokyo will continue to be the capital that is most concerned about North Korean medium-range ballistic missiles armed with nuclear warheads.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 9, 2018

A Nobel reminder of why research matters so much

Co-winner of the 2018 economics Nobel Prize, Paul Romer shows how new discoveries create a virtuous cycle of growth.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 9, 2018

North Korea's Kim invites Pope Francis to visit Pyongyang, Seoul says

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has invited Pope Francis to visit Pyongyang, a spokesman for South Korea's presidential Blue House said Tuesday.

Longform

Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight