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Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Aug 2, 2018

New table tennis league set to begin

Tomokazu Harimoto, Miu Hirano and other top Japanese table tennis players will look to develop themselves to genuinely become the world's dominant powerhouse by competing in the newly launched professional T.League.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 2, 2018

Bowing to censorship, Google plans to launch search app in lucrative Chinese market, ending long boycott: sources

Google is preparing a version of its search engine for China that blocks results Beijing considers sensitive, according to people familiar with the situation.
EDITORIALS
Aug 1, 2018

The death of democracy in Cambodia

It's in Japan's long-term interest to support democracy in Cambodia.
JAPAN
Aug 1, 2018

Japanese journalist missing in Syria likely man in IS-style video: government

The government says the man in a video released by apparent militants is likely Japanese journalist Jumpei Yasuda, who is believed to have been kidnapped in Syria in 2015.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 1, 2018

U.S. considering higher tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports, sources say

The Trump administration is considering more than doubling its planned tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports, ratcheting up pressure on Beijing to return to the negotiating table, three people familiar with the internal deliberations said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 1, 2018

Mercury hits record 40.3 C in South Korea as country battles heat wave

Japan isn't the only Asian nation battling soaring temperatures — the mercury in neighboring South Korea also hit a record high 40.3 degrees Celsius on Wednesday as it grapples with a heat wave.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 31, 2018

In Soviet echo, Putin gives Russian army a political wing

Vladimir Putin has created a new directorate inside the Russian army to promote patriotism, evoking memories of a Soviet practice that once saw soldiers taught the precepts of Marxism and Leninism by political commissars.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 31, 2018

China says it will strive to hit growth target despite challenges

China will keep its economic growth within a reasonable range and achieve this year's growth target despite challenges, the state-run Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday, amid an intensifying trade war with the United States.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 31, 2018

Bank of Japan tweaks ultraloose monetary policy in bid for flexibility

The BOJ announced a rare set of monetary policy changes Tuesday, outlining a more flexible blueprint designed to let long-term interest rates “move upward and downward”.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Jul 31, 2018

Payment due: Pacific islands in the red as debts to China mount

Just over a decade ago, deadly riots in the capital of Tonga, Nuku'alofa, destroyed much of the small Pacific nation's central business and government districts.
MORE SPORTS
Jul 30, 2018

Independent committee rules Nihon University President Hidetoshi Tanaka ultimately responsible for illegal tackle scandal

The third-party committee appointed to investigate the Nihon University American football team’s illegal tackle scandal concluded Monday that school president Hidetoshi Tanaka was responsible for the lack of governance and must take accountability for the scandal.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 30, 2018

Cambodian leader's party claims all election seats as opposition sees 'death of democracy'

Prime Minister Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) said Monday it had won all 125 parliamentary seats up for grabs in a general election a day earlier that critics said was neither free nor fair.
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Jul 30, 2018

Let's discuss the heat wave

Twelve people died and nearly 10,000 people were taken to hospitals with heat exhaustion or heatstroke during the week through July 15, as a heat wave continued to scorch wide areas of Japan.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 30, 2018

After Indonesian earthquake terror, hundreds trek down from volcano

Nearly 700 trekkers headed down Mount Rinjani on Indonesia's tourist island of Lombok on Monday, a day after a powerful magnitude 6.4 earthquake terrified the climbers as boulders tumbled down the slopes of the volcano.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 30, 2018

South Korea to probe whether North Korean waitresses were forced or tricked into defecting

A South Korean human rights commission said on Monday it will investigate whether a dozen North Korean restaurant workers who defected to the South two years ago came of their own free will or were tricked or coerced by an intelligence agent.
Japan to experience blood moon lunar eclipse on Monday
A blood moon is seen during a partial eclipse in the sky over Lake George near Canberra on March 14.
‘Confugenics’ and East Asia's demographic crisis
East Asia’s fertility plunge is driven not just by financial costs but by perfectionist cultural expectations that burden parents with intense educational and social demands.
Japan prince comes of age as succession crisis looms
Prince Hisahito concludes his elaborate "kakan no gi" coming-of-age ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Saturday.
Ishiba to quit as prime minister amid LDP discontent
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announces his decision to step down, at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Sunday.
Bangladesh is a South Asian time bomb
Many Bangladeshis hoped that the overthrow of long-time leader Sheikh Hasina last year would revitalize the country’s democracy after an authoritarian lurch under the “iron lady.” Instead it has led to proliferating human-rights abuses, intensifying repression and widespread Islamist violence.
In rural Hokkaido, the stops and starts of tourism revival on full display
Redevelopment plans for Kawayu Onsen have hit some snags — an example of how bringing tourists back to declining rural communities is far from easy work.
London’s calling and sumo’s top division — along with Hello Kitty — are ready to answer
Yokozuna Hoshoryu and Hello Kitty, an ambassador for sumo's upcoming tour to London, at Tokyo's Kokugikan on Tuesday
Resonac creates 27-member consortium to pursue advanced chip developments
Representatives from member companies of JOINT3, a consortium working together on semiconductor-related developments announced by Resonac, pose for a photo in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Haru Nemuri’s radical new album refuses easy listening
Musician Haruna Kimishima, better known as Haru Nemuri, confronts Japan’s politics, nationalism and censorship on her recent output.
Overseas sluggers step up to bat in small-town Hokkaido
The Betsukai Pilot Spirits welcomed new players (left to right) Yuta Yamanaka, Roman Guthrie, Scott Bellina and Leo Jiminian this year, pictured here with Yassir Lachkar of the Ishikari Red Phoenix.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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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
By Mai Yoshikawa

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