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DRUGS

COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Nov 8, 2018
Views from Tokyo: Should Japan follow Canada and legalize recreational marijuana?
What do Tokyoites and tourists think of Canada legalizing pot for recreational use? Could or should it ever happen in Japan?
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Oct 26, 2018
Singapore hangings spur fresh calls by rights groups to scrap death penalty
Singapore on Friday hanged a Malaysian convicted of drug trafficking, the latest in what rights groups said was a series of executions prompting them to renew calls for the wealthy city-state to abolish the death penalty.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 22, 2018
As Canada legalizes recreational marijuana, Japanese citizens warned the law from home may apply
Canada's legalization of the recreational use of marijuana, which went into effect last week, has prompted the Japanese government to issue warnings that Japan's law on cannabis use may apply to its nationals even when they are abroad.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Aug 13, 2018
Arrested and killed: Inside the Bangladesh prime minister's war on drugs
Bangladesh police arrested Riazul Islam as he was walking home from his in-laws' house. At 3:15 a.m., he was shot dead in a sandy field beside a set of railroad tracks north of Dhaka.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 18, 2018
Takeda bets on China for global growth, seeing the country as 'on a par' with the U.S. and Europe
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. sees China becoming a "core country" for its global growth strategy, and is optimistic its $62 billion (¥6.94 trillion) acquisition of Shire PLC will win approval by the country's regulators.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 7, 2018
Mexico extradites key lieutenant of drug kingpin 'El Chapo' to U.S.
Mexico on Friday extradited to the United States a senior lieutenant of the Sinaloa Cartel drug gang formerly headed by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the attorney general's office said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 2, 2018
Two years of Rodrigo Duterte: A mixed picture of drug war and economic boom
President Rodrigo Duterte's two years in office in the Philippines have been marred by controversy, but with one big success: A booming economy. The jury is still out if that's because, or in spite, of him.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 26, 2018
Philippines' Duterte calls God 'stupid,' faces uproar in Asia's biggest Catholic nation
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has sparked an uproar in Asia's biggest Catholic nation after he called God "stupid," prompting a rebuke from church officials who have been instrumental in toppling past leaders.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Jun 23, 2018
No drugs or alcohol found in body of U.S. celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain
U.S. celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, who killed himself in a French hotel room earlier this month, had no narcotics or alcohol in his body when he died, a prosecutor said on Friday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 8, 2018
Media forecasts populist Ford will win Ontario election
Doug Ford, whose populist message of smaller government and tax cuts drew comparisons to Donald Trump, will be the next premier of Canada's most populous province and economic engine.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
May 28, 2018
Malaysians make record bust of crystal meth; drugs said shipped from Myanmar
Malaysia has made its largest ever seizure of crystal methamphetamine, officials said Monday, finding nearly 1.2 tons of the drug disguised as tea in a shipment from Myanmar, and arrested six suspected traffickers.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 12, 2018
Canadian gets second Japanese arrest warrant in alleged minpaku drug-smuggling cases
A fresh arrest warrant has been served to a Canadian man for allegedly smuggling stimulants into Japan by sending them to a minpaku (private lodging service) facility in Tokyo.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 6, 2018
Social media looks like the new opiate of the masses
Researchers have found some troubling parallels with addictive drugs.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 14, 2018
Duterte to withdraw Philippines from International Criminal Court
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will withdraw from the International Criminal Court's (ICC) Rome Statute, officials said on Wednesday, due to what he said were attacks by U.N. officials and violations of due process by the ICC.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Mar 7, 2018
Duterte says International Criminal Court has no jurisdiction to indict him over killings in drug war
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has said there is no chance of him going on trial at the International Criminal Court because "not in a million years" would it have jurisdiction to indict him.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 5, 2018
Asia rethinks drug wars that Trump admires
The region is tilting away from executions and toward rehab.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 28, 2018
Manila says it welcomes U.N. probe into killings in drug war — but not by current special rapporteur
The Philippines will allow an investigation into alleged human rights abuses in its bloody war on drugs, but not if it is conducted by the United Nations' current special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, a senior official has said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 21, 2018
Philippines 'concerned' as U.S. intelligence tags Duterte a threat to democracy
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte is taking seriously the U.S. Intelligence Community's report tagging the firebrand leader a threat to democracy in Southeast Asia, his spokesman said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 11, 2018
OxyContin maker stops promoting opioids
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP said on Saturday that it has cut its sales force in half and will stop promoting opioids to physicians, following widespread criticism of the ways that drugmakers market addictive painkillers.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 10, 2018
U.S. sailors investigated over alleged drug ring in Japan
The U.S. Navy is investigating allegations that sailors from the 7th Fleet based in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, are involved an alleged drug ring in Japan.
Top Japan trade negotiator canceled U.S. trip over rice, report says
Ryosei Akazawa
‘Mount Fuji Lawson’ becomes a symbol of Japan’s overtourism problem
A couple poses for a wedding photo in front of a Lawson in the town of Kawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Aug. 25.
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.
The Nobel Prize and a testy phone call: How the Trump-Modi relationship unraveled
U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi greet one another at the start of a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington in February.
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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