Tag - donald-trump

 
Menu
Search
 
May 05, 2025
 

Today's print edition

Home Delivery
Subscribe for more access

DONALD TRUMP

Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 4, 2018
Americans should fret over Kim's mental fitness, not Trump's, White House says after tweet rant
The White House on Wednesday defended Donald Trump's tweet about the size of his nuclear button, saying Americans should be concerned about the North Korean leader's mental fitness, not their president's.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 4, 2018
Axed aide Steve Bannon calls Trump Jr. meeting with Russians 'treasonous' and followed by intro to dad
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon called a June 2016 meeting with a group of Russians attended by Donald Trump Jr. and his father's top campaign officials "treasonous" and "unpatriotic," according to excerpts of a new book seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 4, 2018
Iran deploys Revolutionary Guards to quell 'sedition' in protest hotbeds as pro-regime ranks take to streets
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards have deployed forces to three provinces to put down an eruption of anti-government unrest after six days of protests that have rattled the clerical leadership and left 21 people dead.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 4, 2018
Trump blasts Steve Bannon over 'treasonous' comments, says he lost his aide job and 'lost his mind'
President Donald Trump on Wednesday blasted former White House adviser Steve Bannon as having "lost his mind" in the fallout over damaging comments Bannon made about Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., in excerpts of a new book.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 3, 2018
Brace for a Trump New Year
U..S President Donald Trump and his allies in Congress appear determined to torpedo Special Counsel Robert Mueller's independent legal inquiry.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 3, 2018
What Tillerson didn't admit: The U.S. has no leverage
From North Korea to China to Russia and the Middle East, American objectives are clear — and the Trump administration has no credible road map to achieve them.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 3, 2018
U.S. puts Pakistan on notice: Stop playing 'double game' and do more to stop terrorism or risk losing aid
The United States accused Pakistan on Tuesday of playing a "double game" on fighting terrorism and warned Islamabad it would have to do more if it wanted to maintain U.S. aid.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 3, 2018
U.S. warns Pyongyang against new missile test and plays down Kim-proposed talks with Seoul
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, warned North Korea on Tuesday against staging another missile test and said Washington would not take any talks between North and South Korea seriously if they did not do something to get Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 2, 2018
The verdict is clear: Putin won
Vladimir Putin has done grave harm to the U.S., the legitimacy of the democratic process and U.S. decision-making.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 2, 2018
2018 finds Japan walking tightrope with Pyongyang, Seoul, Beijing — and Trump
Experts agree that the biggest national concern for 2018 will be the North Korean threat as Abe's government continues to walk a fine line among the region's leaders.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 1, 2018
Key GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham says 'let Mr. Mueller do his job'
The special counsel investigation of links between Russia and President Trump's 2016 election campaign should continue without interference in 2018, despite calls from some Trump administration allies and Republican lawmakers to shut it down, a prominent Republican senator said on Sunday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 1, 2018
Trump and his Republican allies endorse Iranian protesters
U.S. President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers offered implicit support on Sunday to tens of thousands of Iranians protesting the Islamic Republic's unelected clerical elite and Iranian foreign policy in the Middle East.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 1, 2018
Likud party calls for de-facto annexation of Israeli West Bank settlements
Reuters
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Dec 30, 2017
Japanese media's hits and misses of 2017
The term "fake news" was used in so many different situations this year that it no longer describes an agreed upon concept but rather anything you don't agree with. This is why the U.S. press has had a difficult time making sense of its president's conflation of cynical policy aims with his own deranged...
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 29, 2017
America had a near-record 15 billion-dollar weather disasters in 2017
In the year that President Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris accord and downplayed global warming as a security threat, the U.S. received a harsh reminder of the perils of the rise in the planet's temperature: a destructive rash of hurricanes, fires and floods.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 29, 2017
New York governor says new U.S. tax code may be unconstitutional by violating equal protection
The new U.S. tax code targets high-tax states and may be unconstitutional, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Thursday, saying the bill may violate New York residents' rights to due process and equal protection.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 29, 2017
'Bromance' with Xi over: Trump 'very disappointed' China still allowing oil into North Korea
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he was "very disappointed that China is allowing oil to go into North Korea" and that such moves would prevent "a friendly solution" to the crisis over Pyongyang's nuclear program.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 27, 2017
U.S. lawmakers quiz Georgian-American businessman who was at 2016 Trump Tower meeting: sources
A Georgian-American businessman who met then-Miss Universe pageant owner Donald Trump in 2013, has been questioned by congressional investigators about whether he helped organize a meeting between Russians and Trump's eldest son during the 2016 election campaign, four sources said.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 27, 2017
U.S. appeals court rejects challenge to panel seeking voter data in probe of Trump-alleged poll fraud
A U.S. appeals court in Washington on Tuesday upheld a lower court's decision to allow President Donald Trump's commission investigating voter fraud to request data on voter rolls from U.S. states.
WORLD
Dec 26, 2017
The top overseas news stories of 2017
The Japan Times newsroom selected these international news stories as the most important of 2017.
Britain responds after Expo 2025 afternoon tea brews outrage
The café space at the Osaka Expo's British pavilion
Why are rice prices still high in Japan?
Amid shortages, the price of a 5-kilogram bag of rice during the week of April 14 was ¥4,220.
Inflation and high hotel prices curtail Golden Week travels
Travelers in front of a flight information panel in a departure hall at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on April 26
Man arrested over body found in bag in Kawasaki
Hideyuki Shirai (center) at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Saturday
Japan ranks 66th in press freedom, lowest among G7
Japan climbed four positions from last year, with Reporters Without Borders noting that "the principles of media freedom and pluralism are generally respected" in the country.
Japan’s ‘tabi’ sock mecca runs on thread and memories
A seamstress at Kineya Tabi sews together split-toe "tabi" socks, once a major industry for the town of Gyoda, Saitama Prefecture.
Despite shifts in Japan's political landscape, constitutional revision still far off
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has been a staunch advocate for constitutional reform.
'Ukiyo-e in Play' showcases traditional art carved anew
The Adachi Institute has been working on creating brand new ukiyo-e prints in collaboration with contemporary artists such as Yayoi Kusama, whose “Mt. Fuji in Seven Colours: When life boundlessly flares up to the universe” (2014) can be seen on display at “Ukiyo-e in Play.”
Ishiba hears advice from across the aisle on how Japan should handle Trump
Prime Minister Shigaru Ishiba and CDP head Yoshihiko Noda at a parliamentary session in Tokyo on April 23.
Don't send in the clones: AI event nixed as Alt accounts get reality check
A screenshot from the website for Alt's AI conference, which was canceled after the company disclosed an investigation into its sales figures.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Dangami House is a 180-year-old structure that used to house a samurai family that was part of the Kato clan that ruled over the area where Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, now exists.
A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan
By Hanako Lowry

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

Smile! It’s ‘Sanrio Time,’ now and ever after
Smile! It’s ‘Sanrio Time,’ now and ever after

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS note

Read more

SUPPLEMENTS BINDER