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Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 12, 2015
NBC News reports female prison worker, in love, agreed to drive escapee getaway car but got cold feet
A female prison worker being questioned by police, who are hunting two escapees from an upstate New York prison, thought she had a romantic relationship with one of them and had planned to drive the getaway car, NBC News reported on Thursday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 12, 2015
Rupert Murdoch to step down as 21st Century Fox CEO
Rupert Murdoch is preparing to step down as chief executive officer of 21st Century Fox Inc. and hand the CEO title to his son James, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 2, 2015
TSA airport screeners fail undercover tests, prompting U.S. security boost
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said on Monday he had ordered improved security at U.S. airports after media reports that checkpoint screeners failed to detect mock explosives and weapons in 95 percent of tests carried out by undercover agents.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 9, 2015
The BBC's worldwide coverage is losing its way
BBC worldwide coverage is increasingly losing its way, suffering from budget cuts, dumbing down of content, loss of news priorities and a sacrifice of a true world view.
WORLD
Jan 27, 2015
Man fatally shoots self outside News Corp. building in New York
A man shot and killed himself in an apparent suicide on Monday outside the News Corp. office building in Midtown Manhattan, police said.
EDITORIALS
Dec 28, 2014
Using errors to advance agendas
An independent panel's findings on the Asahi Shimbun's retraction of a series of past articles on the 'comfort women' issue offer important lessons to reporters, editors and newspaper management.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 8, 2014
City rankings out of touch with 21st century reality
These days there are so many news stories about disease, disaster, doom and death that some media apparently want to lighten the gloom by reporting silly surveys on the most pleasant city to live in.
COMMENTARY / World / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Sep 1, 2014
U.S. media coverage reveals a pro-Israel bias
Imagine Boston, including its coast, hemmed in by a relentlessly hostile superior power ready to attack it anytime from air, land and sea. Boston is about a third of the Gaza Strip in land area, but the same in population density.
EDITORIALS
Jul 12, 2014
Mood changes from Facebook
Facebook at least learned one thing from its secretive experiment to manipulate users' news feeds to find out how their moods changed. It produced a lot of negative emotions in response.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 1, 2014
Coulson faces retrial on News Corp. bribery charges
Andy Coulson, who will be sentenced this week over phone hacking, will be retried on bribery charges after a London jury failed to reach verdicts following an eight- month trial into wrongdoing at News Corp. tabloids.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 16, 2014
The damage done by 'moderates'
Every day the insipid overlords of America's inane corporate news media put out the same message: Extremism is extremely bad. But might the so-called moderates be worse?
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 3, 2014
What really happened at Tiananmen?
In recent years the Tiananmen Square 'massacre' story has taken something of a beating as people in the square that night, including a Spanish TV unit, have emerged to tell us that there was no massacre in the square.
Japan Times
CULTURE
Jan 1, 2014
The most viewed culture stories of 2013
Pop culture ruled the roost in popular stories, but also showed its staying power: The most read online story from the JT culture section this year turned out to be a review of a manga drawn by Osamu Tezuka and first published in 1972. Meanwhile, Hayao Miyazaki's final feature at Studio Ghibli generated buzzes both positive and negative, a father charmed photo-lovers with whimsical snaps of his two daughters, and two different sides of popular Japanese music were revealed.
Japan Times
LIFE
Jan 1, 2014
The most viewed life stories of 2013
From burgers to ballerinas, LINE sending to gender bending, kawaii cute to Nadeshiko adorable, here are the life section stories that caught online readers' eyes in 2013. As a gyaru might say, “Yababa!”
Japan Times
SPORTS
Jan 1, 2014
The most viewed sports stories of 2013
The sports story most read online in the year in which Japan won the bid for the 2020 Olympics should come as no surprise. Baseball fans had plenty to celebrate, and figure-skating followers had no shortage of drama. Let's hope to see some Sochi gold medals in this round-up next year.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 1, 2014
The most viewed news stories of 2013
On first impression, the news stories most read online in 2013 paint a fairly gloomy picture, a mix of loneliness, darkness and tragedy. However, you can also see readers' penchant for science and fantasy, even if Atlantis was not actually discovered. May there be plenty of good news in 2014!
Japan Times
JAPAN / YEAR IN REVIEW 2013
Dec 25, 2013
A look back at the year's top 10 Japan news stories
Japan Times editors selected the following domestic stories as the most important in 2013.
Japan Times
WORLD / YEAR IN REVIEW 2013
Dec 25, 2013
A look back at the year's top 10 world news stories
Japan Times editors selected these world stories as the most important of 2013.
Japan Times
SPORTS / YEAR IN REVIEW 2013
Dec 25, 2013
A look back at the year's top 10 Japan sports stories
Japan Times editors selected these domestic sports stories as the most important of 2013.
Japan Times
SPORTS / YEAR IN REVIEW 2013
Dec 25, 2013
A look back at the year's top 10 world sports stories
Japan Times editors selected these international sports stories as the most important in 2013.
When will Japan intervene to support the yen?
Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki has reiterated the government's readiness to take an appropriate action as the yen continues to slide against the U.S. dollar.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Raising kids in Japan as a single parent? It takes a village.
Making things work as a foreign, single mother in Japan isn't easy, but these tips and tricks can help you through the hardest parts.
Yen rebounds strongly after first slide past ¥160 since 1990
The yen dropped to ¥160.245 per dollar on Monday before heading into the other direction to ¥155.01 amid speculation of an intervention by Japanese currency authorities.
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.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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