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JAPAN

EDITORIALS
Mar 7, 2013
Mr. Kuroda's high hopes
Bank of Japan presidential nominee Haruhiko Kuroda tells confirmation lawmakers that he will do anything he can to push Japan off its deflation path.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 7, 2013
The pope of Japanese finance
As with the deliberations at the Vatican, politics — not doctrinal debate — underpins the decision-making process for the next Bank of Japan governor.
Japan Times
CARTOONS / DAHL'S JAPAN
Mar 7, 2013
King Abe Jester DPJ
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 6, 2013
Japan and Australia: natural allies in the changing Pacific
Does the U.S. pivot to the Pacific represent a necessary rebalancing, overbalancing or counter-balancing against China's growing wealth, power and assertiveness?
BASEBALL / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 3, 2013
Uchikawa exhibits calm before WBC opener
After a four-year wait, the third edition of the World Baseball Classic has officially begun. Yet Seiichi Uchikawa kept his low-key manner one day before the two-time defending champions were set to face Brazil in Japan's tournament opener.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Mar 3, 2013
Trying to get things done in the wake of 3/11
Two years have passed since the magnitude-9 Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, the devastating tsunami it triggered and the disgraceful and deadly fiasco at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant that followed.
Japan Times
CARTOONS / DAHL'S JAPAN
Mar 3, 2013
Tub Radar
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Mar 3, 2013
Students convenient proxies in LDP's Pyongyang angst
Since returning to power late last year, the Liberal Democratic Party has said it will dismantle some of the social programs the Democratic Party of Japan implemented during its short reign.
BUSINESS
Mar 2, 2013
Japan surpasses China as holder of U.S. securities
Japan's purchases of U.S. Treasuries helped it overtake China last June as the largest foreign holder of American securities, including equities, asset-backed paper and U.S. government debt, Treasury Department figures show.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 2, 2013
Beware a revanchist China
In a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington on Feb. 22, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe informed the audience of officials, experts and journalists that Japan is "back" and will not stand down in its ongoing sovereignty dispute with China over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands....
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / Japan Pulse
Mar 1, 2013
Qusca: a good place to nap on the job
People fall asleep everywhere in Tokyo, but this cafe is actually made for it.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Japan Pulse
Mar 1, 2013
J-blip: Ramen cake
Have your cake and eat your ramen, too.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 28, 2013
JFK's daughter top candidate as envoy to Japan
Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy, is a leading candidate to become the next U.S. ambassador to Japan, two sources say.
CARTOONS / DAHL'S JAPAN
Feb 28, 2013
Ice Exports Imports
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 27, 2013
Vets help out foreigners with ill pets
Foreigners with low Japanese-language ability who live in Tokyo and have pets often worry about finding proper care for their animals and medical professionals who can communicate the necessary diagnostic and treatment information.

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A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami