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BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 29, 2017

Resurgent Sony projects ¥500 billion operating profit for fiscal 2017

Sony Corp. on Friday forecasted an operating profit of ¥500 billion for the business year to March 2018, up 73.2 percent from the previous year, on brisk prospects for its semiconductor and gaming businesses.
EDITORIALS
Apr 28, 2017

Searching for consensus in global economic governance

It's no longer business as usual for the global economic order.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 28, 2017

This is life in Trump world

The world looks much less safe now than it did before U.S. President Donald Trump was inaugurated, but the threats are not quite what doomsters feared.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 28, 2017

More Chinese naval ships sail through Miyako Strait

The Chinese Navy has again sent vessels through the Miyako Strait, a strategic entryway into the Western Pacific between the islands of Miyako and Okinawa, as part of drills, Chinese state-run media said.
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JAPAN
Apr 28, 2017

Japanese fighter jets conduct joint drill with U.S. carrier off Okinawa

Fighter jets from the Air Self-Defense Force linked up with aircraft from the USS Carl Vinson carrier strike group for joint drills Friday in waters east of Okinawa as the U.S. vessel steamed toward the Sea of Japan amid soaring tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 28, 2017

Tillerson: China warned Pyongyang of sanctions after any nuclear test and Kim 'not crazy'

China has told the United States that it warned Pyongyang it would impose "sanctions actions on their own" against North Korea should it carry out another nuclear test, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Thursday.
EDITORIALS
Apr 27, 2017

Reconstruction minister axed

The resignation of the minister in charge of reconstruction from the March 2011 disasters over inappropriate remarks appears to be yet another sign of the loosening discipline among members of the Abe Cabinet.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 27, 2017

At 100 days, Trump's no Russian stooge or fascist

Slowly but surely, Trump has begun to resemble something less menacing and more normal than his foes predicted.
BUSINESS
Apr 27, 2017

Space, the final frontier for Earth's crude oil giants

The Middle East has an outsize impact on energy here on Earth. One analyst thinks some regional powerhouses may leverage that role into the development of natural resources in space.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League / B. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Apr 27, 2017

Quality coaches competing for top accolade

Who's the leading candidate to be named the B. League's coach of the year for the first time in the 18-team top division?
WORLD
Apr 27, 2017

Sunni militants take credit for killing 10 Iranian guards near Pakistani border: agency

Ten Iranian border guards were killed by Sunni militants in a cross-border attack on the frontier with Pakistan on Wednesday, Tasnim news agency reported.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 26, 2017

China launches first domestically built aircraft carrier

China launched its first indigenously built aircraft carrier Wednesday in a move that showcases the country's growing maritime clout amid simmering tensions over the disputed South and East China seas.
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JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 26, 2017

High court rejects appeal by teachers refused work for not standing and singing national anthem

A Tokyo court rejected an appeal by former school teachers who claimed it was unreasonable they were banned from working part time after retirement because they did not sing the national anthem.
Japan Times
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Apr 26, 2017

Emergence of new generation bodes well for Summer Basho

I was honored to be asked by The Japan Times to write a sumo column as part of the 120th anniversary revamp. This paper was probably the first place I read about sumo and was an invaluable source of news back in the days of dial-up internet, when I first came to Japan.
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 26, 2017

Reconstruction chief Imamura resigns over latest Tohoku gaffe

The minister for disaster reconstruction, Masahiro Imamura, stepped down Wednesday over a gaffe where he said it was better the 2011 quake and tsunami hit the Tohoku region and not near Tokyo.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 26, 2017

Macron says Le Pen is promoting hate, would wreck France's economy

French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron accused his far-right rival, Marine Le Pen, on Tuesday of promoting hatred and isolation with policies that he said would wreck the economy.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 25, 2017

North Korea marks foundation of military with huge live-fire drill amid flurry of U.S. activity

North Korea and the U.S. flexed their military muscles Tuesday as Pyongyang marked the 85th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Army — without testing a nuclear weapon or conducting a major missile test.
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 25, 2017

Gaffe-prone minister Imamura bows out over Tohoku remark

Masahiro Imamura, minister in charge of reconstruction of the disaster-hit Tohoku region, resigned Wednesday in the wake of controversial comments about the disaster.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 25, 2017

Trump's dangerous blank check

One should welcome America's re-engagement with the world, but not if diplomacy takes a backseat to bombs and tweets.

Longform

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.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past