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ASIA PACIFIC
May 30, 2017

North Korea blasts South for 'nuclear bomb-dropping' drill with U.S. B-1B strategic bomber

North Korea lambasted the U.S. on Tuesday over the staging of what it called a "nuclear bomb-dropping drill" by flying a two B1-B strategic bombers close to its border with the South a day earlier.
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MORE SPORTS
May 29, 2017

Workers embrace Square Mile Relay Tokyo

Marunouchi is the district located right next to Tokyo Station where you will see a lot of business people in suits and ties on weekdays.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
May 29, 2017

Carp star Suzuki working on 'godlike' encore

Hiroshima Carp outfielder Seiya Suzuki was "godlike" last season. At least that was the word.
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BUSINESS
May 29, 2017

Cash levels pile up as investors continue to wait-and-see

Investors' wait-and-see approach this year is leading to a growing problem. Cash.
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BUSINESS / Tech
May 29, 2017

BITPoint in talks to add bitcoin payments to outlets across Japan

BITPoint Japan, the company behind Peach Aviation's move to let travelers use bitcoin to pay for tickets, is planning to give hundreds of thousands of retail outlets the ability to accept the digital currency.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
May 29, 2017

Brewing Kake Gakuen scandal points to alleged Abe favoritism

On Thursday a former top ministry official dropped a bombshell in a hastily held news conference in Tokyo.
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ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
May 28, 2017

Come what may, we're doing just fine

Rain had started pelting the cherry blossoms when I returned from Tokyo last month, squelching the plans of countless would-be outdoor revelers.
JAPAN
May 28, 2017

Nuclear storage crisis grows as reactor restarts continue

More than six years after the March 11, 2011, Tohoku quake, tsunami, and triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, Japan is accelerating efforts to restart as many reactors as it possibly can. Four have been revived so far, and Kansai Electric Power Co. plans to restart the Takahama...
WORLD / Politics
May 28, 2017

British leader May's lead narrows ahead of election

British Prime Minister Theresa May's lead over the opposition Labour Party has narrowed sharply, according to five opinion polls published since the Manchester attack, suggesting she might not win the landslide predicted just a month ago.
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JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
May 27, 2017

Magazine snares rival 'scoop thief' red-handed

In its May 25 issue, Shukan Shincho set pens a-pushing and tongues a-wagging throughout the nation by accusing rival weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun of engaging in sneaky schemes to steal its thunder.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
May 27, 2017

Japan's dreaded sixth season

'I can't tell if it's hot or cold (outside).'
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Rugby
May 27, 2017

Cheetahs blow out Sunwolves

The Sunwolves failed to pick up their second win of the Super Rugby season on Saturday after a 47-7 defeat to South Africa's Cheetahs.
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ASIA PACIFIC
May 27, 2017

Chinese jets involved in another 'unsafe' intercept of U.S. reconnaissance plane, Pentagon says

For the second time in a week, a U.S. military plane has been intercepted by Chinese fighter jets in an "unprofessional" and "unsafe" manner, the Pentagon said Saturday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 26, 2017

Carp hurler Okada gets big support from offense, holds Giants in check

The Hiroshima Carp have pretty much dominated the Yomiuri Giants this season.
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MULTIMEDIA
May 26, 2017

May 27, 2017

JAPAN
May 26, 2017

Meiji to slash output of Karl, limit snack to western Japan as sales dwindle

Shock waves buffeted fans of the long-selling corn puff snack Karl on Thursday after its maker, Meiji Co., said it will limit the flavors to two and pull it from shelves in eastern Japan beginning this summer.
LIFE / Travel
May 26, 2017

Looking for 'omotenashi' in Cuba's southeast

Though half a world apart in geography, history, language and just about anything else you could name, Cuba and Japan are not entirely without similarities.
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COMMENTARY / World
May 26, 2017

China's imperial overreach

According to a Chinese proverb, 'To feed the ambition in your heart is like carrying a tiger under your arm.' The further Xi carries China's 'one belt, one road' initiative, the more likely it is to bite him.
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BUSINESS
May 26, 2017

Why ex-Goldman trader shunned hedge funds for a Japan broker

As the biggest earthquake ever recorded in Japan rocked the Roppongi Hills skyscraper in central Tokyo, Makoto Yamada put on his helmet, dropped to his knees, and traded.
BUSINESS
May 26, 2017

Japan's 2016 net external assets rose to second-largest on record

Japan's net external assets rose to their second-highest amount on record at the end of fiscal 2016, driven by rising mergers and acquisitions overseas by firms and portfolio investment, the Finance Ministry said Friday.
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WORLD
May 26, 2017

Who welcomes the most refugees? Most mistakenly think it's the West, survey says

People surveyed on five continents mistakenly think wealthy Western countries are welcoming most refugees as the world grapples with its worst migration crisis in decades, a survey showed on Thursday.
JAPAN / Politics
May 25, 2017

Ex-education official vouches for Kake papers, says he has copies

The education ministry's former top bureaucrat says the documents behind Prime Minister Abe's latest scandal are real and that he's willing to testify about it in the Diet.
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JAPAN
May 25, 2017

Backers of immigration detainees blast prolonged stays as violation of human rights

After a nearly two-week hunger strike at two immigration centers, supporters of the detainees blast Japan's practice of consecutive detentions as a violation of human rights.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
May 25, 2017

Printed rocket makes history

Rocket Lab, a Silicon Valley-funded space launch company, on Thursday launched the maiden flight of its battery-powered, 3-D-printed rocket from New Zealand's remote Mahia Peninsula.
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CULTURE / Film
May 25, 2017

Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia teams up with Exile's Hiro to create a contemporary fusion of vision and sound

From its debut in 1999 as the passion project of actor Tetsuya Bessho, Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia has grown into a big event on the local and regional film calendar. Size is one reason: The 19th edition, which unspools from June 1 to 25 at six venues in Tokyo and Yokohama, features nearly 250...
Reader Mail
May 25, 2017

Rethink laws governing Imperial family

While wishing the young couple a happy future together, I do feel it is a pity that Princess Mako will be "obliged to leave the Imperial family" in order to marry her university classmate Kei Komuro ("Princess Mako, granddaughter of Emperor, to marry former classmate" in the May 17 edition).

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Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers