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BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 23, 2018
Japan Post to launch cold storage parcel service in India
Japan Post Co. will launch a cold storage express parcel service to India later this month amid growing demand for fresh Japanese food among local and Japanese residents in the South Asian country.
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BUSINESS
Mar 7, 2018
Japan Post to start trial of self-driving delivery cars on public roads in Tokyo
Japan Post Co. will conduct a trial of self-driving delivery cars on public roads in Tokyo next week, with an aim of introducing a fleet of the vehicles by 2020 to cope with driver shortages.
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CULTURE / Art
Jan 30, 2018
Van Gogh's long-distance love affair
"Van Gogh & Japan" concerns a love affair of creative misperceptions between temporally and geographically distant admirers. Van Gogh (1853-1890) never went to Japan, though he idealized it briefly as a utopia in which artists worked communally in converse with nature.
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WORLD / Politics
Jan 26, 2018
Trump sought Van Gogh but Guggenheim offered him potty of gold: report
New York's Guggenheim Museum offered to lend an 18-karat gold toilet to President Donald Trump after the White House asked to borrow a painting by Vincent Van Gogh, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.
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COMMENTARY / World
Jan 21, 2018
Today's newspapers wouldn't publish the Pentagon Papers
Speaking truth to power is becoming a lost art as corporate interests gain control of editorial content.
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CULTURE / Entertainment news
Jan 18, 2018
Lebanon allows Spielberg flick 'The Post' after censorship threat
Lebanon will let cinemas show Stephen Spielberg's latest film "The Post" after the interior minister ruled on Wednesday against a request to ban it over the director's links to Israel.
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JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jan 15, 2018
Japan's parcel firms test drop-off lockers, as social change increases the costs and reduces the appeal of face-to-face deliveries
The timely and secure delivery of packages through face-to-face services has long been a source of pride for Japanese couriers.
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BUSINESS / Companies / Taking the Lead
Jan 14, 2018
Japan Post chief sees bright future beyond mail services
Even for Masatsugu Nagato, an experienced business executive who has worked in prominent companies, making Japan Post Holdings Co. stand on its own two feet as a private company comes as a daunting challenge.
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JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jan 6, 2018
2018: Year of the 800-pound Gorilla
Four topics dominated Japan's non-Twitter news cycle for the last quarter of 2017. Two involved sports: the signing of 23-year-old baseball superstar Shohei Otani to play for the Los Angeles Angels of the American League; and the resignation of sumo grand champion Harumafuji after assaulting a younger wrestler, which set off a three-way power struggle between headstrong stablemaster Takanohana, the Japan Sumo Association and a group of Mongolian wrestlers who currently dominate the sport.
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JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Dec 30, 2017
Who can we trust during these new wars of the world?
Swords into ploughshares. Spears into pruning hooks. Three thousand-odd years ago, when civilization was rough and passions raw, an extraordinary visionary saw peace dawning. His words, recorded in the Biblical book of Isaiah, transcend religious denomination and national affiliation. They belong to all mankind: "They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift sword against nation. ... The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the kid."
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JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Dec 16, 2017
Showa's not giving up without a fight
The government has decided that the 31st year of Heisei will end with the abdication of Emperor Akihito 120 days into 2019, on April 30. Then on May 1, Crown Prince Naruhito will become emperor and a new nengō (name of the period of reign) will be announced.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 22, 2017
Japan Post Bank to invest ¥500 billion in foreign funds
Japan Post Bank Co. will invest up to ¥500 billion ($4.4 billion) in several foreign funds as part of efforts to diversify its profit sources, in response to the nation's low interest rate environment, the president of the bank's holding company said Wednesday.
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JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Nov 18, 2017
Ad money makes the news world go round
In a Nov. 8 press release, the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center announced that Katsuya Takasu, the most famous plastic surgeon in Japan, was no longer a member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery (AACS). Previously, the center had been urging the AACS to expel Takasu because of his public praise for Nazism and statements that "deny the Holocaust and the Nanjing Massacre."
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 2, 2017
MLB union threatens to block Shohei Otani posting agreement
The Major League Baseball Players Association is threatening to block a new posting agreement over the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters' posting fee, the New York Post reported on Wednesday.
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JAPAN
Oct 19, 2017
Ex-Toshiba chief Taizo Nishimuro, prominent business leader, dead at 81
Taizo Nishimuro, a former president of technology conglomerate Toshiba Corp. and a leading figure in the Japanese business community, has died at age 81, a Toshiba source said Wednesday.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Oct 14, 2017
Posting a pair of overalls overseas
'I'd like to send a pair of overalls overseas. Do I need a special kind of package?'
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JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 15, 2017
Japan Post must compensate nonregular workers on allowances but not pay: district court
In a victory for contract workers, the Tokyo district court rules that Japan Post must compensate those denied allowances given to full-time employees who performed the same work.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 11, 2017
TV ads for Japan Post's ¥1.3 trillion share sale will target individual investors
Japan Post Holdings Co.'s underwriters will seek to attract retail investors to its ¥1.3 trillion ($12 billion) public offering, betting they will shrug off the stock's slack performance and market anxiety over North Korea.
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BUSINESS
Sep 5, 2017
Japan Post to hike parcel delivery rates by 12% next March
Japan Post Co. said Tuesday it will raise basic shipping fees for its door-to-door parcel delivery service by an average 12 percent from next March as labor costs continue to climb due to a courier shortage.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 4, 2017
Japan Post mulls using drones to move parcels between post offices in mountainous areas, to remote islands
Japan Post Co. says it may use drones to move packages between post offices, possibly as early as next year, due to the worsening shortage of delivery workers.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
As visitors surge, Japan seeks ways to make tourism eco-friendly
Much like other hot spots across Okinawa, Onna has diligently strived to captivate both domestic and international tourists, while at the same time grappling with the environmental strain induced by the influx of visitors.
G7 eyes plan on U.S.-led $50 billion aid package for Ukraine
A local resident visits the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on Thursday. The U.S. is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Kishida talks up bolstered Latin American ties as China cements position
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida holds a news conference in Sao Paulo on Saturday.
'Monster' Inoue ready to tear down Luis Nery in title defense at Tokyo Dome
Naoya Inoue (left) and Luis Nery following a pre-fight news conference in Yokohama on Saturday, two days ahead of their super bantamweight title fight.
Debate on constitutional revision at a standstill despite Kishida's pledges
With less than two months left before the conclusion of the current session of parliament, any possibility that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can deliver constitutional reform before the end of his term as Liberal Democratic Party president in late September, as he has promised, appears remote.
Sapporo court ruling on Ainu fishing rights presents tough questions
A traditional Ainu preserved food called <i>satchep</i> (dried fish) being made at the government-run National Ainu Museum and Park, nicknamed Upopoy, in the town of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, on Dec. 25. The Sapporo District Court ruled last month that the Raporo Ainu Nation's rights as an Indigenous people did not extend to having an inherent right to fish for commercial reasons.
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.
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.

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