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Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Nov 21, 2018
Libyan coast guard forces over 90 stranded migrants off rescue ship in Misrata port
Libyan authorities on Tuesday forcibly disembarked more than 90 migrants who had refused to leave a cargo ship that rescued them before docking in a port west of Tripoli, a coast guard commander said.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 19, 2018
The prolonged torture that is Brexit
The only force that could save Theresa May's deal is the Labour Party, but hopes are very thin.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 19, 2018
May faces day of reckoning on Monday, lawmaker says
British Prime Minister Theresa May faces a day of reckoning on Monday as mutinous lawmakers try to trigger a no confidence vote over their opposition to her draft European Union divorce deal, a rebel member of her Conservative Party said.
BUSINESS
Nov 19, 2018
44% of German firms expect growing trade strains with U.S., survey finds
Forty-four percent of German firms expect a further escalation of trade tensions between Europe and the United States, which is likely to continue to dampen new investments, the RND newspaper chain reported, citing a survey by the IW economic institute.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 18, 2018
Brexit is killing the great British curry house
Syed Joynu was in for a rude shock on a September morning when he walked into Indos — the curry house he owns just outside London. It was already 10:30 a.m. and not a single employee had turned up.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 18, 2018
May sees 'no alternative' to her Brexit plan
British Prime Minister Theresa May says she sees no alternative to the Brexit deal she presented earlier this week, amid reports that some of her senior ministers want her to renegotiate the draft agreement before meeting EU leaders next weekend.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 17, 2018
More than two years after Brexit vote, U.K.'s path forward remains up in the air
To leave, or not to leave: Two and a half years since the United Kingdom voted to exit the EU, that is still the question.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 17, 2018
May takes control of Brexit endgame as ministers defy her plans
Theresa May rolled the dice with a dramatic reshuffle of her ministerial team as she battles to cling onto her job and stop her own party from tearing up her Brexit deal.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 16, 2018
What Trump gets right in his spat with Macron
The U.S. president is correct that Europe could fall apart without the trans-Atlantic alliance, but he's the one who's endangering it
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 16, 2018
Brexiteers bet U.K. can defy gravity in post-divorce trade
The U.K.'s hard-line Brexit backers are making their move. If they get their way on the U.K.'s new trade arrangements, they will face a test of gravity.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 16, 2018
May vows to carry on as Brexit's hard-liners try to topple her
British Prime Minister Theresa May is defying demands to quit as she battles to keep control of her fractious government long enough to deliver a Brexit deal that has drawn ire from across the political spectrum.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 16, 2018
How Britain's Dominic Raab tripped on 'Barnier's staircase' during British exit negotiations
Dominic Raab tripped up on Michel Barnier's Brexit staircase — that is how EU negotiators see how the reworking of a draft deal reached a month ago led to new demands on Britain that prompted him and other ministers to resign.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 16, 2018
Business bosses alarmed as U.K. Cabinet resignations imperil Brexit deal
Business leaders expressed growing alarm on Thursday as a draft Brexit agreement seen as the only chance of preserving some stability in U.K.-EU trading threatened to unravel, sending stock prices and the pound plunging.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 15, 2018
U.K. Conservative lawmaker Rees-Mogg to submit letter of no confidence in Prime Minister Theresa May
Senior euroskeptic U.K. Conservative lawmaker Jacob Rees-Mogg will submit a letter of no confidence in Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday, a spokesman for the influential euroskeptic group of Conservative lawmakers he leads said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 14, 2018
May puts Brexit deal to U.K. Cabinet as political perils mount
Prime Minister Theresa May has clinched a Brexit deal with the European Union after months of deadlock. She now has to convince a skeptical Cabinet that it's not a sellout and overcome near impossible odds to get it through Parliament.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 13, 2018
Brexit deal possible in 24 to 48 hours, May's deputy says
Britain and the European Union are on the cusp of a Brexit deal which could be clinched in the next 24 to 48 hours, Prime Minister Theresa May's de facto deputy said on Tuesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 13, 2018
Japanese, EU cars in the crosshairs as U.S. weighs tariffs on national security grounds
The U.S. Commerce Department has submitted draft recommendations to the White House on its investigation into whether to impose tariffs of up to 25 percent on imported cars and parts on national security grounds, two administration officials said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 12, 2018
May stares into the Brexit abyss as domestic opposition mounts
Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit strategy came under attack from all sides Monday, increasing the risk that her plan for leaving the European Union will be voted down by parliament and thrust the United Kingdom towards a potentially chaotic "no-deal" Brexit.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 10, 2018
U.K. ministers reportedly present May with 'plan B' for no-deal Brexit scenario
British Cabinet ministers have drawn up a "plan B" for a no-deal Brexit in case Parliament votes down Prime Minister Theresa May's proposed plan to leave the European Union, The Sun reported on Friday.
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 7, 2018
$240 billion-a-day financial market to leave London over Brexit
The City of London is being dealt another Brexit blow.
Japan eyes two types of 'hometown resident' registration
People buy groceries from a mobile supermarket in a rural area of Nagomi, Kumamoto Prefecture. The government is considering a new "hometown resident" registration system to help strengthen regional revitalization measures.
Ed Sheeran teams up with Tokyo’s Oedo Line
The “Oh! Ed! Collaboration Campaign,” launched on Tokyo's Keio Line to celebrate the Friday release of Ed Sheeran’s latest album, “Play,” includes a eight-car train dedicated to the pop star's music and trivia related to his career
Workers say corporate South Korea was warned about questionable U.S. visas before Hyundai raid
Activists holding signs that reads "No one is illegal!" protest against a huge immigration raid last week in the U.S. state of Georgia, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on Tuesday.
Three Japanese nationals among those detained by ICE at Hyundai plant in Georgia
Investigators from the U.S. Homeland Security Investigations at a factory being built by South Korea's Hyundai Motor in Georgia on Friday
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.
Shizuoka farmers fight to preserve sustainable tea method that’s steeped in tradition
As of August 2024, the number of confirmed chagusaba farmers had fallen to 302, just over half the 582 reported in 2015, according to the Shizuoka Chagusaba Farming Method Promotion Council.
Search is on for loopholes in Japan’s $550 billion investment pledge
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick argues that U.S. President Donald Trump has sole authority to invest Japan's promised $550 billion.
In rural Hokkaido, the stops and starts of tourism revival on full display
Redevelopment plans for Kawayu Onsen have hit some snags — an example of how bringing tourists back to declining rural communities is far from easy work.

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Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight
By Mai Yoshikawa

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