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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 2, 2019
BMW and Peugeot go ahead with temporary U.K. plant shutdowns despite Brexit delay
BMW's Mini plant in Britain closes for four weeks from Monday and Peugeot's Vauxhall car factory shuts for two weeks in moves planned months ago to help the firms deal with any disruption resulting from Brexit, which has since been delayed.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 31, 2019
Britain's Theresa May under pressure to forge softer EU divorce deal
Britain's exit from the European Union was in disarray after the implosion of Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit strategy left her under pressure from rival factions to leave without a deal, go for an election or forge a much softer divorce.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 30, 2019
No-deal Brexit fears rise as Parliament sinks May's deal
Lawmakers rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal for a third time on Friday, sounding its probable death knell and leaving Britain's withdrawal from the European Union in turmoil on the very day it was supposed to quit the bloc.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 28, 2019
Theresa May offers to quit and MPs vote on eight other Brexit options, but still no end to stalemate
British Prime Minister Theresa May failed to sway hard-line opponents of her European Union divorce deal on Wednesday with an offer to quit, and Parliament's bid to agree on an alternative fell short, leaving the Brexit process as deadlocked as ever.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Mar 28, 2019
Who might be the prime minister to inherit the Brexit mess if Theresa May quits?
British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday offered to quit if her twice-defeated EU divorce deal passes, in a last-ditch attempt to persuade euroskeptics to back it.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 26, 2019
Brexit and the speaker's tale
The intervention by the speaker of the British House of Commons highlights the importance of a 643-year-old institution.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Mar 26, 2019
Shakespeare's birthplace of Stratford mirrors a 'scepter'd isle' riven by Brexit discontent
In William Shakespeare's ancient birthplace, discontent over Brexit runs even deeper than three years ago when this "scepter'd isle" shocked the world by voting to leave the European Union.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 26, 2019
U.K. lawmakers vote to take wheel of sinking Brexit ship — but just for one day
In a highly unusual bid to find a way through the Brexit impasse after Prime Minister Theresa May's EU divorce deal was rejected again, U.K. lawmakers wrested control of the parliamentary agenda Monday from the government — for just one day.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 25, 2019
'Time's up, Theresa'? Prime Minister May urged to set her own exit date to get Brexit deal
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May was under pressure on Monday to give a date for leaving office as the price to bring Brexit-supporting rebel lawmakers in her party behind her twice-defeated European Union divorce treaty.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Mar 25, 2019
Spoon-bending psychic Uri Geller urges mass-telepathy against Brexit
Spoon-bending psychic Uri Geller wants to bend British Prime Minister Theresa May's will against Brexit using mass-telepathy.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 24, 2019
Several of Theresa May's ministers plotting to oust her from top job: newspaper
Prime Minister Theresa May's top ministers are moving to oust her within days, The Sunday Times reported, as her Brexit strategy lay in tatters just weeks before the United Kingdom is due to leave the European Union.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 23, 2019
Hundreds of thousands march in London to demand new Brexit referendum
Hundreds of thousands of people opposed to Britain's withdrawal from the European Union marched through central London on Saturday to demand a new referendum as the deepening Brexit crisis risked sinking Prime Minister Theresa May's premiership.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 20, 2019
Testing EU's patience, May seeks Brexit delay of at least three months after third Parliament vote on her deal fails
Prime Minister Theresa May will ask the European Union to delay Brexit by at least three months after her plan to hold another vote this week on her twice-defeated divorce deal was thrown into disarray by a surprise intervention from the speaker of Parliament.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 19, 2019
'The clock is ticking': EU's patience 'sorely tested' as signs point to Brexit delay
European Union governments are exasperated by British dithering over quitting the bloc but have little appetite for pushing it out on schedule next week without a divorce deal, senior figures said on Tuesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 19, 2019
May prepares to seek long Brexit delay as speaker's ruling creates 'constitutional crisis'
Prime Minister Theresa May's plans for Brexit were in disarray late Tuesday, after the House of Commons speaker torpedoed her plan to win Parliament's approval of her twice-defeated deal for leaving the European Union.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 18, 2019
Pressure mounts on Tory lawmakers to back Brexit deal
U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond ramped up the pressure on Brexiteer Tory MPs as he warned they will trigger a long delay to leaving the European Union unless they support Theresa May's proposed deal when it returns to Parliament.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 18, 2019
It's just a flesh wound: Dutch leader likens May's Brexit tenacity to Monty Python character
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte used a Monty Python movie reference to describe British Prime Minister Theresa May's tenacity on Brexit despite repeated defeats.
EDITORIALS
Mar 15, 2019
The Brexit hole gets deeper
British lawmakers seem to think they hold all the cards in this situation and the EU will meekly acquiesce to whatever they want. They're wrong.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 14, 2019
Ford fears double-whammy from May's no-deal Brexit tariffs
Ford Motor Co. said it will be hit twice by U.K. tariffs to be imposed in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 14, 2019
U.K. Parliament votes against no-deal Brexit, paving way for delay in hopes of a better agreement
Britain's Parliament voted to avoid an economically disastrous no-deal split from the European Union, opening the door to delaying Brexit and radically re-writing the terms of the divorce.
Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell
Mamoru Iwai, stationmaster of Keisei Ueno Station, says that, other than earthquake-proofing, the former Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station has remained untouched.
Trump trims fentanyl-linked China tariffs after 'amazing' Xi meeting
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping greet each other as they arrive for talks at the Gimhae Air Base, next to the Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, on Thursday.
Japanese and South Korean leaders agree to boost ties in first meeting
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi shakes hands with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung ahead of their talks at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Thursday.
Takaichi and Xi reaffirm pledge in first meet to pursue ‘mutually beneficial’ ties
A screenshot from Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's X account shows Takaichi exchanging greetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Friday.　
Japan’s government ramps up bear control efforts amid rise in attacks
A bear roams around a field in the town of Kuzumaki, Iwate Prefecture, on Oct. 12.
Oasis returns to Japan after 16 years — and fans can still sing every word
Liam Gallagher commanded the stage with effortless charisma during Oasis' Tokyo Dome set on Saturday.
At Japan Mobility Show, BYD gears up to conquer Japan's EV market
BYD Auto Japan President Atsuki Tofukuji unveils the Racco at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Oasis returns to Tokyo: Rain, rapture and rock
Fans wait to get into the Oasis show at Tokyo Dome on Saturday. While lining up in the rain, some broke into impromptu versions of the British rock group's hits.
Kyushu banzuke sets the stage to cement 2025’s sumo narratives
Onosato ahead of his bout against Aonishiki at The Grand Sumo Tournament at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Oct. 18
Tokyo Film Festival opens with global stars and a spotlight on Asian storytelling
Director Junji Sakamoto (left) walked the Tokyo International Film Festival red carpet with Sayuri Yoshinaga (center) and Non (right), who both play mountaineer Junko Tabei, the first woman to summit Mount Everest, in the biopic "Climbing for Life."

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