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Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 28, 2018
Deadly Florida video game contest shooting reignites gun rights debate
The slaying of two competitors at a Florida video game tournament on Sunday has stirred the long-simmering gun rights debate in the state on the eve of its hotly contested state and federal primary elections.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 23, 2018
U.S. election security steps hobbled by Congress-White House funds feud
A battle between U.S. President Donald Trump and Democrats over federal funding to help secure November's U.S. elections stymied legislation in Congress on Wednesday, at least for now, that is aimed at thwarting Russian meddling by strengthening states' voting procedures.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 4, 2018
Accountant of former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort testifies on falsified documents
An accountant for U.S. President Donald Trump's one-time campaign chairman Paul Manafort admitted in trial testimony on Friday that she helped backdate documents and falsify financial records at Manafort and his business partner's request to reduce his tax burden and help him qualify for loans.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 3, 2018
Amid tumult and scorn for media, Trump takes in Pennsylvania rally for hard-line GOP candidate
President Donald Trump swiped Pennsylvania from the Democrats in 2016. Now he is trying to help Republicans take a Senate seat there.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 1, 2018
Facebook removes pages and accounts after finding 'sophisticated' efforts to sow division and disrupt 2018 U.S. elections
Facebook Inc. said Tuesday it had identified a new coordinated political influence campaign to mislead its users and sow dissent among voters ahead of U.S. congressional elections set for November.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 25, 2018
Offering no evidence, Trump says Russia this time will back Democrats in midterm election
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he believes Russia will work hard to sway November U.S. congressional elections toward Democrats and not his fellow Republicans, but provided no evidence to back up his assertion.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 20, 2018
Rod Rosenstein cites growing cyberthreat by foreign adversaries against U.S. elections
The threat of foreign adversaries such as Russia trying to influence U.S. politicians, campaigns and the public "continues to grow," with elections presenting an especially attractive target, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 19, 2018
Day after acceptance, defiant Trump again claims Russia is not still targeting U.S.
President Donald Trump contradicted U.S. intelligence agencies again on Wednesday, saying that Russia was not still targeting the United States, and accused his critics of being deranged.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 2, 2018
A divided Costa Rica votes in runoff fought over gay rights
Voters in Costa Rica were deciding in an Easter Sunday runoff whether to elect conservative Christian singer Fabricio Alvarado Munoz their next president, a result that could mark a sharp turn from the current government's embrace of gay rights.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 20, 2018
Cambridge Analytica stage-managed Kenyan president's campaigns: U.K. TV
Cambridge Analytica, the U.K. political consultancy at the center of Facebook's election manipulation scandal, ran the campaigns of President Uhuru Kenyatta in the 2013 and 2017 Kenyan elections, according to video secretly recorded and broadcast by Britain's Channel 4 News on Monday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 19, 2018
Democrats should run on impeachment
For Trump-hating Democrats, everything hangs upon winning back Congress.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 7, 2018
Democrats buoyed by Texas voter turnout in quest to retake U.S. House
After record-high early voter turnout, Democrats hope Texas' primary election on Tuesday will show that anger over U.S. President Donald Trump's policies could help them flip congressional seats from Republican control in November.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 14, 2018
2018 elections already 'under attack' by Russia: U.S. intelligence chief
Leaders of U.S. intelligence agencies warned on Tuesday that Russia will try to interfere in the 2018 U.S. midterm elections by using social media to spread propaganda and misleading reports, much as it did in the 2016 campaign.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 6, 2018
Democrats could lose again this fall
Americans vote their pocketbooks, and their wallets are feeling better than they have in a long time.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 10, 2018
Democrats vow to force vote on net neutrality, make it a campaign issue
U.S. Senate Democrats said on Tuesday they will force a vote later this year on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's reversal of landmark Obama administration net neutrality rules and will try to make it a key issue in the 2018 congressional elections.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 7, 2017
GOP cuts to homeowner tax breaks threaten to cost Republicans in 2018 races, hit property values
Laura Russo is just the kind of voter the Republicans need, but the party's proposed tax overhaul, which includes limits on the deductions for mortgage interest, state taxes and property taxes, is pushing her away.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 17, 2017
U.S. regulators set to require disclaimers on internet election-related ads in light of Russia meddling
U.S. regulators on Thursday kicked off a process that could result in mandatory disclaimers on election ads that appear on social media, a reaction to anonymous, Russia-linked ads on sites such as Facebook ahead of the 2016 U.S. elections.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 9, 2017
U.K. Conservatives lose majority as May's election gamble over Brexit backfires
Prime Minister Theresa May was fighting to hold on to her job on Friday as British voters dealt her a punishing blow, denying her the stronger mandate she had sought to conduct Brexit talks and instead weakening her party's grip on power.
EDITORIALS
Apr 24, 2017
Lower House electoral system needs an overhaul
Only comprehensive reform can resolve the Lower House electoral system's problems.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 27, 2017
Chiba Gov. Morita returned for third four-year term
Chiba Gov. Kensaku Morita won a third four-year term in Sunday's gubernatorial election, beating three independent newcomers.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
The 'outsiders' creating some of Japan's greenest spaces
Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Traders spooked by intervention risk trim record yen shorts
Traders edged back from record bets on yen weakness this past week, in a period that included a likely bout of intervention by Japan to prop up the currency.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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