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BARACK OBAMA

ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 3, 2013
China, U.S. at odds over human rights
U.S. officials said Friday that human rights abuses in China are worsening and that their latest talks with China on the issue "fell short of expectations."
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Aug 2, 2013
Putin gives Russian voters what they want in Snowden move
Russian President Vladimir Putin is showing his gamesmanship on a global stage by giving his voters what they want with the asylum granted to ex-U.S. contractor Edward Snowden while leaving the White House flustered.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 2, 2013
Freddie Mac vet Koskinen nominated to lead IRS
President Barack Obama on Thursday nominated John Koskinen to head the embattled Internal Revenue Service.
JAPAN
Jul 31, 2013
Obama may visit as early as spring
Tokyo and Washington are arranging for President Barack Obama to make an official visit to Japan possibly next spring for talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on strengthening the bilateral alliance, government sources said Wednesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 31, 2013
Obama offers deal over taxes, jobs
President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed spending more on creating jobs in exchange for an overhaul of business taxes. But the idea quickly devolved into the type of partisan finger-pointing that shows why any agreement will be so difficult.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 29, 2013
Former whistle-blowers struggling
The former high-ranking National Security Agency analyst now sells iPhones. The top intelligence officer at the CIA lives in a motor home outside Yellowstone National Park and spends his days fly-fishing for trout. The FBI translator fled Washington for the West Coast.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 28, 2013
Idaho mom sues Obama over surveillance program
Anna Smith is a mother of two who lives in rural Idaho, works the night shift as a nurse and goes to the gym a lot. She rarely follows the news and knows little about the debate over government surveillance and privacy that has rocked Washington in recent weeks.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 28, 2013
How Republicans lost their economic edge
While Barack Obama is unlikely to be celebrated in history for his economic record, his presidency marks the end of Republican orthodoxy on such matters.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 28, 2013
Breakneck NSA growth fueled by insatiable demand for its product
Twelve years later, the cranes and earthmovers around the National Security Agency are still at work, tearing up pavement and uprooting trees to make room for a larger workforce and more powerful computers. Already bigger than the Pentagon in square meters, the NSA's footprint will grow by an additional...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 28, 2013
Obama: Korean War vets 'deserve better'
President Barack Obama praised veterans of the Korean War at a ceremony Saturday marking the anniversary of the armistice, using their return to an apathetic America decades ago as a promise to better care for the generation that is returning from distant battlefields today.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 26, 2013
Obama wants Congress to just get out of the way
There have been many economy road shows over the past 4½ years, a mix of presidential pageantry and salesmanship to convince the United States and Congress to do more to create jobs and improve future economic prospects.
WORLD
Jul 25, 2013
Proposal to restrict NSA tracking fails
A controversial proposal to restrict how the National Security Agency collects Americans' telephone records failed to advance in the House of Representatives by a narrow margin Wednesday, a victory for the Obama administration, which has spent weeks defending the program.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 23, 2013
Obama's blunder with Bangladesh
President Barack Obama's recent suspension of trade benefits on a trifling amount of Bangladeshi exports makes one question his sense and sensitivity.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jul 21, 2013
Obama gives voice to what it still means to be black in U.S.
President Barack Obama's comments Friday about the killing of Trayvon Martin were remarkable in many respects, but not least because of the distance he has traveled since the equally notable speech he delivered in 2008 during the controversy about his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 16, 2013
Declassify Yahoo data decision: FISA court
The secret surveillance court that approved the U.S. government's broad collection of millions of Americans' telephone and email records called Monday for the White House to declassify and release as much as it can of one of the court's early legal decisions sanctioning that collection.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 7, 2013
Never mind Obama's hedge on the rule of law
President Barack Obama acts as if he can simply post a 'never mind' notice on the White House website if he finds a law's details politically inconvenient.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 3, 2013
White House delays health care rule that businesses insure workers
The mandate requiring U.S. employers to provide insurance for workers will not take effect until 2015.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Jul 2, 2013
Record shows U.S. officials misled public on NSA programs
Amid the cascading disclosures about National Security Agency surveillance programs, the top lawyer in the U.S. intelligence community opened his remarks at a rare public appearance last week with a lament about how much of the information being spilled was wrong.
WORLD
Jul 2, 2013
Surveillance court judge defends role
Recent leaks of classified documents have pointed to the role of a special court in enabling the government's secret surveillance programs, but members of the court are chafing at the suggestion that they were collaborating with the executive branch.
WORLD
Jun 28, 2013
Snowden had contempt for leakers
When he was working in the intelligence community in 2009, Edward Snowden, the U.S. National Security Agency contractor who passed top-secret documents to journalists, appears to have had nothing but disdain for those who leaked classified information, the newspapers that printed their revelations and...
America wasn’t made for walking, and it’s killing them
A 2010 study found that U.S. adults averaged 5,117 steps daily and that this was lower than the averages found in similar studies in Switzerland, western Australia and Japan.
Rare sequel to 'My Neighbor Totoro' to play at Cannes
A screening of "Mei and the Baby Cat Bus," which is being billed as a "mini-sequel" to the Studio Ghibli classic "My Neighbor Totoro," is set to take place at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday.
Japanese stripper bids to have her porn movies taken off internet
Plaintiff Miyuki Ariga (left) speaks at a news conference along with her lawyer, Yoshitomo Morohashi, after filing a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.
Saudi crown prince seeks soft power in game hub Japan
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman welcomes Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, last July.
Japan survey finds 30% of student interns experience sexual harassment
The proportion of recent graduates in Japan who have worked as interns have experienced sexual harassment during their internship was 30.1%, according to a labor ministry survey, up 4.6 percentage points from the previous survey in fiscal 2020.
Fuchu Prison adapting to foreign prisoners
From the outside, the light-brown complex that is Fuchu Prison in western Tokyo could easily be mistaken for a city hall.
The politicians moving Japan forward on climate
While not the most outspoken politician on the issue, digital minister Taro Kono has a track record of being serious in his commitment to addressing the climate crisis.
Seoul's eclectic Art OnO shines light on Japan's artists and galleries
Art OnO, which took place from April 19 to 21 in Seoul, featured a modest number of 36 participating galleries from 15 countries.
Want to be a voice actor? Stay 'true to the character'
SungWon Cho is a veteran with more than 10 years of experience portraying characters in anime, cartoons and video games.
Local theater in Japan is more than a hobby — it’s a community
Japan Times contributor Laura Pollacco (front right) was offered the role of one of her all-time favorite heroines, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Bennet, in the Tokyo International Players’ production of “Pride and Prejudice.”

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