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JAPAN
May 24, 2018
Russian residents of disputed islands make first visa-free trip to Japan this year
Around 60 Russian residents of disputed islands off Hokkaido arrived Thursday in Nemuro on the first visa-free tour of 2018 under a bilateral exchange program.
COMMENTARY / World
May 22, 2018
Battling campus oppression of the freedom of expression
'Bias response teams' are squelching liberty of speech at American universities.
EDITORIALS
Apr 22, 2018
Japan and EU aiming to affirm global trade order
The Japan-EU trade deal is a rejection of protectionism, and an affirmation of multilateral trade agreements and the existing trade order.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Apr 7, 2018
With free-range, Japan shows signs of a slow improvement
Hiragai (u5e73u98fcu3044), or free-range husbandry, where the animals can move around freely outdoors for at least part of the day, is still a somewhat foreign concept in Japan.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 3, 2018
Japan's Indo-Pacific strategy falls short
The government must demonstrate that its commitment to international law and democratic values is more than just a fig leaf.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 30, 2018
Goal to achieve full barrier-free access at major transport terminals by 2020 Olympics adopted
The government on Friday set a target of achieving full barrier-free access for the disabled at major train stations, bus terminals and airports ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics
BUSINESS
Mar 28, 2018
Conservatives can't force YouTube to be free-speech zone: California judge
A producer of online civics lessons with a conservative bent got schooled by a federal judge on why it's hard to sue Google for censorship.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 22, 2018
African nations agree to form giant free-trade bloc but top economies Nigeria and South Africa stay on sidelines
African leaders agreed to form a $3 trillion continental free-trade zone encompassing 1.2 billion people, but its two biggest economies, Nigeria and South Africa, did not sign up, diminishing its impact.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 20, 2018
U.S. meets opposition at G-20, vowing to defend national interests with tariffs on metals and China
World financial leaders pleaded for an endorsement of free trade on Monday amid concerns over U.S. metals tariffs and looming trade sanctions on China, but Trump administration officials said they would not sacrifice U.S. national interests.
EDITORIALS
Mar 11, 2018
Amending the Constitution for free education
The issue of free education should not be used as a subject of short-term political bargaining.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 9, 2018
11 states, minus U.S., sign TPP in free-trade push in face of protectionist Trump
The 11 countries remaining in the Trans-Pacific Partnership after the pullout of the United States signed the revised trade pact on Thursday, in a show of unity in pushing free trade amid a rising protectionist threat by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 6, 2018
Will Trump rejoin the Trans-Pacific Partnership? Let's hope so
Reentering the trade agreement could make the U.S. a winner.
BUSINESS
Feb 16, 2018
Mnuchin says Washington studying possible return to TPP through renegotiation
President Donald Trump's administration is actively discussing the possibility of rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal on condition that the United States renegotiate it to secure better terms, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 22, 2018
What to do when liberals are the censors?
'Offense' and 'hurt' are central concepts in rising efforts on the left to curtail free speech.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 16, 2018
Assault on free press feared as Philippine online news site critical of Duterte is ordered shut
MANILA
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LIFE / Digital / ON: TECH
Dec 17, 2017
Smart ways to communicate
The Babel fish stick
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JAPAN
Dec 4, 2017
Japan's first public sign language phones installed at Haneda airport
The nation's first public phones allowing communication via sign language were set up Sunday at Tokyo's Haneda airport.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 29, 2017
LDP backs away from election promise of 'free education' election promise
Ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers tasked with drawing up proposed constitutional amendments approved a plan Tuesday that does not include a guarantee to make all education free.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 20, 2017
Trump gets the trade problems wrong
Embracing protectionist policies won't solve America's trade problem.
EDITORIALS
Nov 13, 2017
What policies the TPP 11 should pursue
The 11 countries remaining in the Trans-Pacific Partnership should not be content with launching the free trade pact among themselves.
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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