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ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 13, 2017

Relief camp in China swells as thousands flee conflict in Myanmar

Within earshot of mortar fire echoing from beyond a ring of hills, a sprawling relief camp in southwestern China is swelling steadily after fighting erupted last week between a rebel ethnic army in Myanmar and government troops just across the border.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 13, 2017

Erdogan sending Turkey into a death spiral

Three decisions by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have fueled his country's decline.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Mar 13, 2017

Abe stands his ground as Moritomo Gakuen scandal drags on

More than a month has passed since nationalistic school operator Moritomo Gakuen first made headlines over a controversial land deal for its next school.
BASKETBALL
Mar 13, 2017

Dominant Sunflowers finish season unbeaten

The Jx-Eneos Sunflowers are perhaps the most dominant sports team in Japan today.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Mar 13, 2017

China lawmakers add defaming Communist Party 'heroes' to civil code offenses

Lawmakers on Sunday introduced amendments to China's nascent civil code to make defaming "heroes and martyrs" of the ruling Communist Party a civil offense, as the leadership moves to strengthen its grasp on the history of the People's Republic.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 13, 2017

China's Xi pushes advanced technology for military

China's military needs to promote technological innovation as the "key" to its upgrading and modernization, President Xi Jinping told military delegates to the annual meeting of parliament.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 13, 2017

Clash of style and substance as Merkel makes Trump serious study before their key meeting

She is controlled and cautious, a physicist from East Germany who takes her time making decisions and has never relished the attention that comes from being Europe's most powerful leader.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 12, 2017

South Korea's dismissed president exits official residence in disgrace

Disgraced South Korean leader Park Geun-hye left the presidential Blue House on Sunday, two days after a court dismissed her over a corruption scandal, bound for her private home and facing the possibility of prosecution and jail.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 12, 2017

At party convention, DP shies away from plan to phase out atomic power by 2030

The Democratic Party postpones adopting a bold target of slashing the nation's reliance on nuclear power to zero by 2030.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 12, 2017

Populism versus prosperity

The battle that will define this century will pit long-term thinking against short-term thinking.
EDITORIALS
Mar 12, 2017

Once again, bird flu is in the air

China is central to the success of the effort to combat the latest outbreak of avian flu and its record is troubling.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 12, 2017

Trump could be handing a big gift to China

A turn toward protectionism by the United States could well be a blessing in disguise for China.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Mar 11, 2017

'Japandemonium Illustrated: The Yokai Encyclopedias of Toriyama Sekien': Excavating Edo's ancient memes with the power of 'yokai'

Beginning with 2008's "Yokai Attack!," translators Hiroko Yoda and Matt Alt have been on a quest to bring an aspect of Japanese culture that has lurked in the shadows to the world at large.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Mar 11, 2017

Cherry blossom season is the perfect time to visit Japan

If Japan is on your bucket list, there's at least a strong chance that you're thinking of going during cherry blossom season.
EDITORIALS
Mar 11, 2017

Hometown tax donation system

The hometown tax donation program is rife with problems and should be abolished.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 11, 2017

A wry squint into the grim future of the U.S.

Novelist Lionel Shriver imagines America slouching into dystopia merely by continuing current practices.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 11, 2017

Relief over Tillerson at State Department replaced by unease

U.S. diplomats breathed a sigh of relief three months ago when Rex Tillerson was nominated as secretary of state, welcoming the oilman as a seasoned manager who would shield them from ideologues ready to gut America's foreign policy machinery.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 11, 2017

South Korean upheaval won't slow U.S. deployment of THAAD anti-missile system

The U.S. military said on Friday it plans to forge ahead with building the THAAD missile defense system in South Korea, separating the issue from the political crisis in Seoul that led to President Park Geun-hye's removal from office on Friday.
JAPAN
Mar 10, 2017

Moritomo Gakuen head to resign, withdraw controversial school application

Moritomo Gakuen President Yasunori Kagoike announced his intention to resign Friday after telling Osaka Prefecture that he was withdrawing an application to approve the opening of a new elementary school.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 10, 2017

Airbnb gets Cabinet OK as Japan sets rules on home-sharing businesses

The Cabinet approved rules limiting home-sharing by private citizens to 180 days a year, according to the final draft of the legislation headed for the Diet.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 10, 2017

Japan to end SDF's South Sudan mission in May

The decision puts an end to participation in a U.N.-led peacekeeping operation that has been in place for over five years, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Friday.
EDITORIALS
Mar 10, 2017

Six years after the 3/11 disasters

Efforts to reconstruct the lives of people thrown out of their homes by the 3/11 disasters remain woefully uncompleted.
JAPAN / AFTEREFFECTS OF MARCH 2011
Mar 10, 2017

Nuclear energy industry lacks new talent as Fukushima fallout turns off graduates

At a Tokyo job fair for the atomic energy industry on March 4, Kenta Kakitani, a graduate student at the University of Tokyo, hopes to some day become a nuclear plant design engineer.

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