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DONALD TRUMP

Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 17, 2016
Third-party candidates ruled out for first U.S. presidential debate
Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party hopeful Jill Stein have failed to quality for the first planned U.S. presidential debate on Sept. 26, the Commission on Presidential Debates said on Friday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 17, 2016
Trump finally backs off Obama birth claim, falsely says Clinton started it
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump on Friday abandoned his false claim that Barack Obama was not born in the United States after spending five years peddling conspiracy theories that the country's first African-American president started life as a foreigner.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 14, 2016
Trump presidency could cost U.S. economy $1 trillion, research firm says
The U.S. economy could be $1 trillion smaller than otherwise expected in 2021 if Republican candidate Donald Trump wins the presidential election in November, economics research firm Oxford Economics said on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 14, 2016
Hacked again, Democratic Party blames Russians
The head of the Democratic National Committee said on Tuesday the organization had been hacked by Russian state-sponsored agents who were trying to influence the U.S. presidential election, after a similar leak in July roiled the party.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 13, 2016
Team Clinton attacking Trump's lies with ... lies
Why are Hillary Clinton's people resorting to the exact same style of lying that they claim to criticize about Donald Trump?
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 13, 2016
Clinton never learns she can't hide every stumble
The drip-drip-drip of revelations about Hillary Clinton's actions have been far worse for her than if she'd been more forthcoming in the first place.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 13, 2016
Germs, bugs everywhere virtually guarantee getting sick on the U.S. campaign trail
Hillary Clinton's bout of pneumonia has shed light on a problem seldom seen by American voters: The long days, little sleep, cross-country travel, bad food and kissing babies add up to a recipe for illness for presidential candidates and aides.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 13, 2016
Ex-CIA chief who backed Iraq war, felt Hussein plotted 9/11, now Trump adviser
Former CIA Director James Woolsey, a vocal advocate of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq who promoted allegations that Saddam Hussein harbored illegal weapons, will serve as a senior national security adviser to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, the campaign announced on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 13, 2016
Online betting markets pare prospects of Clinton win amid health scare but she still tops Trump
Online betting markets cut back Hillary Clinton's prospects of winning the Nov. 8 election after a video showed the Democratic presidential candidate stumbling and having difficulty walking as she was helped into a van at a Sept. 11 memorial, raising concerns about her health.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 8, 2016
Republicans seek to use spending bill to close door on Syria refugees
Some conservative U.S. Republican lawmakers want to tie President Barack Obama's Syrian refugee resettlement program to a spending bill that must pass in order to keep the federal government open after the fiscal year ends on Sept. 30.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 6, 2016
U.S. has 'false economy' and interest rates must change: Trump
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said on Monday that the U.S. Federal Reserve is keeping interest rates low to prevent an economic downturn and "at some point" the rates must change.
BUSINESS
Sep 5, 2016
Ex-Canada leader Mulroney slams Trump plan to ditch NAFTA, predicts his defeat
Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney on Sunday criticized Donald Trump's potential plan to scrap the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and said the U.S. presidential candidate will likely lose the Nov. 8 election.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 5, 2016
Kaine blames Clinton's classified email errors on 'improper labeling'
Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine on Sunday defended Hillary Clinton against criticism over her handling of classified information as secretary of state, saying she was unaware of the sensitivity of some information she exchanged over email because it had been "improperly labeled."
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 5, 2016
Border wall cost taboo at Trump's Mexico meeting but Pena Nieto raised topic: Giuliani
A close ally of Donald Trump said talks about the cost of building a wall with Mexico were not supposed to be part of the discussion during the Republican presidential candidate's recent meeting with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 3, 2016
Putin says DNC hack was public service, denies Russia had any hand in it
President Vladimir Putin said the hacking of thousands of Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails and documents was a service to the public, but denied U.S. accusations that Russia's government had anything to do with it.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 3, 2016
One secret of Trump's low-cost campaign: free labor at the top
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has run an unusually cheap campaign in part by not paying at least 10 top staffers, consultants and advisers, some of whom are no longer with the campaign, according to a review of federal campaign finance filings.
WORLD
Sep 2, 2016
Melania Trump sues blogger, Daily Mail over 'escort' reports
Melania Trump, wife of U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, on Thursday filed a lawsuit against two media entities for libel over reports that she was an "escort" in the 1990s.
BUSINESS
Sep 2, 2016
Report: White nationalists use Twitter with impunity, dwarf Islamic State's use; Trump camp no comment
White nationalists and self-identified Nazi sympathizers located mostly in the United States use Twitter with "relative impunity" and often have far more followers than militant Islamists, a study being released on Thursday found.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 31, 2016
Trump calls Democrats the 'party of slavery' in effort to reach out to minorities
Republican Donald Trump on Tuesday night called Democrats the "party of slavery" and praised what he called the millions of black Americans with successful careers as he tries to reach out to minority voters.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 31, 2016
TPP foe Trump set to blast trade in trade-dependent Boeing's backyard
Republican Donald Trump, who has made his criticism of a pending Pacific trade agreement central to his campaign, on Tuesday was to visit a Seattle suburb that is home to a large Boeing Co. plane manufacturing facility that depends heavily on sales to Asian markets.
Philippine bid to acquire used Japanese warships gains steam
Tokyo is looking to transfer Abukuma-class vessels to the Philippines as part of broader efforts to boost the defense capabilities of like-minded neighbors amid growing Chinese military assertiveness in the region.
Japan to launch broad review of immigration policies amid rise in foreign nationals
Foreign tourists at Narita Airport in June. A report released Friday stresses that Japan is at a turning point and that current ad-hoc measures on immigration are no longer sufficient.
Top Japan trade negotiator canceled U.S. trip over rice, report says
Ryosei Akazawa
Most Japanese teens struggling with school find end of summer ‘painful’
Some 93.1% of Japanese teenagers who struggle with school life said they felt like they “wanted to disappear from the world" at the end of summer vacation ahead of the start of a new term, according to a recent survey released by Yokohama-based nonprofit Daisan Kazoku.
Most Trump tariffs are not legal, U.S. appeals court rules
Workers hang a large poster of U.S. President Donald Trump on the facade of the Department of Labor headquarters building in Washington on Wednesday.
Japan to launch broad review of immigration policies amid rise in foreign nationals
Foreign tourists at Narita Airport in June. A report released Friday stresses that Japan is at a turning point and that current ad-hoc measures on immigration are no longer sufficient.
Japan is warming up to tattoos — just not permanent ones
Tattoos have a complex history in Japan, but new types of temporary ink are letting locals curious about body art experiment without the commitment.
YouTube Music Weekend is where Japan’s internet-born performers go global
Headlining the second day of YouTube Music Weekend is Vocaloid artist Kikuo, who, with 1.46 million YouTube subscribers, is one of the most popular artists in the genre.
Japan looks to build drone ‘shield’ in record defense budget request
A group of Ground Self-Defense Force service members discuss drone operations and capabilities at a joint static display during the Orient Shield 24 opening ceremony at the Yausubetsu Training Area in Hokkaido in July last year.
Can anime carry the memories of World War II?
Many schools in Japan show "Grave of the Fireflies" as educational material to tell the emotionally grueling story of a boy who has no means to prevent his sister from starving to death.

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