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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 20, 2017

Asia's newest fear: a Trump currency war

Having called out China as a currency manipulator, U.S. President Donald Trump now says the dollar is too strong.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 20, 2017

Record 9.4 million foreign tourists visited Osaka in 2016

Over 9.4 million foreign tourists visited Osaka last year, the largest number ever, Osaka tourism authorities announced earlier this week.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 20, 2017

From Athens to Zihuatanejo, a global show of unity for women's rights

More than a million people are expected to attend women's marches around the world on Saturday to demonstrate against sexism and sexual violence and call for women's rights following the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th American president.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 19, 2017

Nissan, Toyota back U.K. plants despite May's Brexit plan

Toyota Motor Corp. and Nissan Motor Co. say they'll keep making cars in the U.K. despite Prime Minister Theresa May's plan to leave the European Union's single market, which could make exporting from British factories less lucrative.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Jan 18, 2017

The long goodbye: making sense of Brexit from Japan

What Brexit will mean in practice remains a mystery. Also unknown is what effect — if any — Britain's divorce from the EU will have on 'Brexpats' in Japan.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Jan 18, 2017

Re-entry to U.S. can be tough for a Tokyo Man drunk on white privilege

There is a price this former Tokyoite pays for being home. Because in America, being white can be less than a privilege — it is part of a complicated history.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 18, 2017

Toyota, Shell among giants betting $10.7 billion on hydrogen

Toyota Motor Corp. and four of its car-making peers are joining oil and gas giants including Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Total SA with plans to invest a combined €10 billion ($10.7 billion) in hydrogen-related products within five years.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / DAVOS SPECIAL 2017
Jan 17, 2017

Home to cutting-edge technology and innovation

Saitama City, a major bedroom community of Tokyo, is home to many leading technology companies that Japan can be proud to showcase to the world.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 16, 2017

Trump Cabinet nominees give Vietnam premier hope for TPP trade pact

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc is holding out hope that incoming U.S. President Donald Trump will reconsider the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal that would be a major boost to the export-driven Southeast Asian nation.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 15, 2017

Twenty years after Diana campaign, new land-mine crisis plagues Iraq and Syria

Twenty years after Princess Diana's iconic visit to a minefield in Angola, the world faces a new land-mine crisis in Syria and Iraq on a scale not seen for decades, campaigners said on Sunday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jan 14, 2017

Media sidesteps calling Japan Tobacco out on advertising conflicts

When I want a coffee I seek out Starbucks, not because I think it has the best product, but because it's the only coffee shop I know of that's 100 percent nonsmoking. Almost all others in Japan have separate smoking and nonsmoking sections, which are useless in terms of keeping smoke away from people...
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / ON: TECH
Jan 14, 2017

Here's to a new age of 'reality'

Feel the power of VR
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 14, 2017

The importance of water as a force for peace

Water, the world's most valuable resource in the 21st century, must be preserved and protected.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 12, 2017

Mali eradicates Guinea worm in global milestone against parasitic disease

Mali has eliminated Guinea worm disease bringing the world a step closer to eradicating the debilitating parasitic disease that is now only endemic in three African countries, the U.S.-based Carter Center said, citing provisional government figures.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 10, 2017

China's free ride set to end once Trump is president

After relishing the Obama administration's unremitting obsequiousness toward it, Beijing must now brace up and face an assertive new U.S. team that is unlikely to put up with its covert territorial expansion and trade manipulation.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 9, 2017

Studies find worrying misuse of medicine worldwide

Up to 70 percent of hysterectomies in the United States, a quarter of knee replacements in Spain and more than half the antibiotics prescribed in China are inappropriate, over-used health care, researchers said on Monday.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jan 7, 2017

Can Naoki 'The Flea' Nakahigashi extend his career?

Happy New Year to all Baseball Bullet-In readers, and let the countdown begin. Just 24 days until the Japanese pro ball clubs begin spring training camps on the way to opening day of the regular season on March 31.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 5, 2017

How Donald Trump can make Asia great again

U.S President-elect Donald Trump's desire to shake up the status quo could prod Asia's economies to lift their game.
JAPAN / GEARING UP FOR THE GAMES
Jan 5, 2017

Advanced tech used by Paralympic athletes could throw perception of disabilities into question

On Dec. 10, some 40 elementary school children showed up for a running workshop at Shin-Toyosu Brillia Running Stadium, a brand new indoor track facility opened the day before in Tokyo's waterfront Toyosu district.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 4, 2017

The silencing of an anti-U.S. base protester in Okinawa

The extended detention of Hiroji Yamashiro is a shocking display of raw government power.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 3, 2017

Brace for an interesting year

The period of economic and political upheaval that began in 2016 will continue this year.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 2, 2017

Sayonara to the year that was

U.S. President Barack Obama topped the 2016 list of winners and losers in Asia, but not in a good way.
MORE SPORTS
Jan 2, 2017

Taguchi shoulders WBA title, additional responsibility

Ryoichi Taguchi showed up before the media at his Watanabe Gym on Monday with his WBA light flyweight belt draped over shoulder. He described it as "the only positive thing" that happened in his latest fight, against Carlos Canizales on New Year's Eve.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / 2017 NEW YEAR SPECIAL
Jan 1, 2017

Big changes likely in '17

A year of surprises has come to a close, but its unresolved questions will generate many more quakes in 2017. Where are the fault lines, what about President-elect Donald Trump, and what does all this mean for Japan?
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 30, 2016

What Japan, Asia should hear from President Trump

Given U.S. interests in Asia during a time of increasing tension, it is vital that the Trump administration show where it stands on key economic and defense issues affecting Tokyo and the broader region.

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Koichi Tagawa’s diary entry from Aug. 9, 1945, describes the day of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
The horrors of Nagasaki, in first person