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BASKETBALL
Dec 8, 2015

Kyoto's Palmer brings end to long career in Japan

Kyoto Hannaryz forward David Palmer on Monday revealed that he's decided to retire — effective immediately. He said he made up his mind in early November, citing injuries and various physical ailments as factors that led to this decision.
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Dec 8, 2015

Hanyu, Mao look to make history at Grand Prix Final

Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu and three-time world champ Mao Asada will be looking to add to their already illustrious resumes at the Grand Prix Final this week in Barcelona, Spain.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 7, 2015

Leaders of DPJ, Ishin no To to test unity with joint parliamentary group

Leaders of Japan's biggest and third-biggest opposition parties agree to form a joint parliamentary group and step up their challenge to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ahead of next summer's Upper House election.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 6, 2015

Ishin no To re-elects Matsuno as head, sets stage for DPJ tie-up talks

Japan's third-largest opposition party re-elects its leader as momentum grows for a tie-up with the Democratic Party of Japan.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 2, 2015

In Maldives, politics, greed trump climate change

Few places are as threatened by climate change as the Maldives, but the current regime, which took over in a coup, is more interested in selling oil-drilling licenses than in saving the nation.
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WORLD
Dec 2, 2015

NATO to keep Afghanistan troop level intact, seek funds amid 'sobering' realities on ground

The NATO allies decided on Tuesday to hold alliance troop levels in Afghanistan steady at about 12,000 next year and launched a campaign to fund the 350,000 Afghan forces it hopes can some day secure the country against Taliban militants.
WORLD
Nov 28, 2015

China police bust online gun ring, seize 1,180 guns

Police in China, where gun possession by ordinary people is illegal, have busted an online gun selling operation, seizing 1,180 guns and more than 6 million bullets, the state news agency Xinhua reported on Saturday.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 27, 2015

Toshiba claims ignorance in Westinghouse scandal

Scandal-hit Toshiba Corp. apologized Friday for not disclosing the massive impairment loss of U.S. nuclear power plant maker Westinghouse Electric Co. and vowed to be committed to more proactive information disclosure.
EDITORIALS
Nov 27, 2015

Time to fix the vote-value disparity

Lawmakers have dallied long enough: Chastised again by the Supreme Court, it's time they got down to business and resolved the disparity in vote values between districts.
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JAPAN
Nov 25, 2015

Public education spending in Japan lowest in OECD for sixth straight year

Japan's public spending on education as a percentage of GDP was the lowest among the OECD countries in 2012, marking the sixth consecutive year that the nation was saddled with the ignominy of being the stingiest spender, the group's latest report on education shows.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 24, 2015

Clinton's weaknesses hidden by GOP disarray

Hillary Clinton doesn't excite important constituencies — young people, independents, possibly even minority voters — and that could sink her bid for the White House.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 23, 2015

Abe's growing China problem

Abe talks big on reform but hasn't delivered the radical change needed to adapt to 6 percent growth in China.
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COMMENTARY / World
Nov 20, 2015

How alliances of convenience spur deadly terrorist attacks

Western powers must reconsider their regional strategies, which have long depended on allies of convenience ranging from despotic Islamist rulers, as in the Persian Gulf, to Islamist militias.
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COMMENTARY / World
Nov 16, 2015

Myanmar's democratization deserves support

While ownership of the democratization process belongs to the government and the people of Myanmar, the international community, including Japan, should continue to support Myanmar's democratization process to ensure genuine democracy takes root.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Nov 13, 2015

NRA starts clock ticking on Monju, advising operator be replaced

The Nuclear Regulation Authority asks the science minister to replace the manager of the Monju fast-breeder reactor, casting a shadow over the long-troubled experimental facility.
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JAPAN
Nov 10, 2015

In first, Japanese researchers observe chimp mother and sister caring for disabled infant

A Japanese study of a chimpanzee mother caring for her disabled infant in the wild has shed light on how humans developed their social behavior.
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COMMENTARY / World
Nov 6, 2015

China's one-child calamity

The abolition of China's 35-year-old one-child policy closes one of the darkest chapters in the country's history.
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BUSINESS
Nov 5, 2015

Kyocera founder's secret: Make workers happy

If this 83-year-old billionaire is right, one of the most important lessons of business school is pretty much wrong.
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COMMENTARY / World
Nov 3, 2015

Primaries are what keep the GOP from winning the White House

The Republican Party would likely have a better shot at winning the White House in 2016 if it let party power-brokers choose its candidate instead of primary voters.
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JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Oct 31, 2015

U.S. sea patrols fuel war of words in print

As this column went to press, the Japanese media had their collective attention focused on a potential hot-spot in the disputed South China Sea, where the destroyer USS Lassen, in a modern-day show of "gunboat diplomacy," took an in-your-face drive-by (or sail-by if you prefer) past Chinese encamped...

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A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami