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COMMENTARY / World
Mar 23, 2017

Sorry Trump, Cambodia owes the U.S. nothing

The $500 million bill that Uncle Sam has come knocking for is a pittance compared to the destruction the U.S. wreaked on Cambodia by incessant B-52 bombing during the Vietnam War.
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COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Mar 22, 2017

Views from Osaka: Would you agree that Japanese society is built upon politeness and hospitality?

Robert Kodama asked passers-by in Japan's mercantile capital about two traits often mentioned in the same breath as 'Japanese people.'
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CULTURE / Film
Mar 22, 2017

'Jackie': More pomp than circumstance

There's a scene near the end of "Jackie" where the just-widowed first lady Jacqueline Kennedy (played by Natalie Portman) is talking with her priest (John Hurt) about the meaning of life and asks, somewhat bitterly, "Is that all there is?"
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BUSINESS
Mar 22, 2017

Ex-BOJ member says government must allay pension jitters before reflating economy

Former Bank of Japan Policy Board member Sayuri Shirai says the central bank has done about all it can do to end the nation's deflationary mindset.
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PRESS / Corporate Trends
Mar 22, 2017

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SPORTS / MAN ABOUT SPORTS
Mar 21, 2017

Tough to root against Tebow in attempt to make MLB

Tim Tebow sat alone in a corner of the New York Mets clubhouse, quietly working his iPhone.
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WORLD
Mar 21, 2017

Street fighter to peacemaker: Northern Ireland's Martin McGuinness dies at 66

Martin McGuinness, a former Irish Republican Army commander and deputy first minister of Northern Ireland who was a key figure throughout five decades of conflict and peace, has died at 66, his party, Sinn Fein, said on Tuesday.
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BUSINESS
Mar 21, 2017

Sending money overseas to get faster once banks pick winner among tech firms

In the quest for a faster and more traceable way to transfer money internationally, banks were gravitating a few years ago to Ripple, a platform backed by Silicon Valley luminaries and global financial institutions.
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BASEBALL
Mar 21, 2017

Players encouraged by growing interest in WBC

Adam Jones on Saturday night in San Diego made the catch heard 'round the World Baseball Classic when he leapt against the wall to rob Manny Machado of a home run.
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BUSINESS
Mar 21, 2017

Japan's 'Matrix'-style job fairs evolving as employers forced to think outside the square

Graduate recruitment in Japan looks a bit like a scene from the movie "The Matrix."
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LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
Mar 20, 2017

Want the cat to lend a paw?: handy Japanese phrases with 'te'

Introduce some phrases and idioms using the noun u624b (u3066, hand).
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BASEBALL
Mar 20, 2017

Jansen excited to join Dutch team at WBC

Kenley Jansen was back in the stadium he's called home for his entire MLB career and preparing to go practice with players he's known for most of his life.
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CULTURE
Mar 19, 2017

Brazilian YouTubers Prit and Lohgann are channeling their daily bread in Japan

Japan is a real wonderland when it comes to neat little toys, gadgets and fun candies — navigating the variety of Kit Kats alone could be its own article. If you're new to the country, it may be hard to tell which treats are worth your yen, and that's where YouTube helps.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 19, 2017

What's so bad about Imperial Rescript on Education anyway?

The 19th century rescript caught up in the Moritomo Gakuen scandal is not just a collection of homely moral precepts.
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JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Mar 18, 2017

The Japan tabloid guide to health and happiness

An alien first encountering Japan's weekly tabloid magazines might conclude he has come to Earth in a nation of inquisitive hypochondriacs.
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JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Mar 18, 2017

Darwin specimens showcase evolution for first time in Tokyo exhibition

Charles Darwin certainly did not consider it a sin to kill a mockingbird. The 19th-century English biologist killed many of the birds whilst on board the HMS Beagle survey ship as he traveled around the world. The specimens are more important than you might think and you can see a number of them at "Treasures...
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BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 17, 2017

The $3 billion biotech firm that almost wasn't finds new life

The biggest biotechnology company in Japan almost didn't get built.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 17, 2017

Uniqlo eyes speed to take on Zara for global crown

Uniqlo owner Fast Retailing Co. is betting that speed, both in supplying its stores with the latest fashion and getting custom-made products to shoppers, will allow it to overtake apparel powerhouse Zara.
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JAPAN
Mar 17, 2017

Fukushima moms don lab coats to measure radiation in food, sand and soil

At a laboratory an hour's drive from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, a woman wearing a white mask over her mouth presses bright red strawberries into a pot, ready to be measured for radiation contamination.
WORLD
Mar 16, 2017

Attack on aid convoy in South Sudan kills two, wounds three

Gunmen in famine-hit South Sudan killed two people and wounded three when they attacked a humanitarian convoy in the center of the country, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a statement on Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 16, 2017

Is America's Democratic Party destined to split?

Growing friction between liberal Democrats and the party's center-right corporate leadership caste could spur a divorce.
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BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 16, 2017

BOJ stays the course, leaves monetary policy unchanged after Fed hike

The Bank of Japan kept its unprecedented monetary easing program unchanged on Thursday, just hours after the Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate, increasing the policy divergence between the two central banks.
BUSINESS
Mar 15, 2017

Workers at top companies get meager 2017 pay hikes in Abenomics setback

Major firms offered the lowest base-pay hike in four years, a setback for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's campaign dubbed “Abenomics” to spur the long-sluggish economy.
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JAPAN
Mar 14, 2017

Japan lays groundwork for free education policy to help economy

Japan is laying the groundwork for a free education program for some households that will cover a student's costs from preschool to college to ensure the country maintains a highly-skilled workforce.

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Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
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