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Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 15, 2013
NSA said collecting millions of email address books, 'buddy lists' daily
The U.S. National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal email and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to senior intelligence officials and top secret documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
WORLD
Sep 25, 2013
Rousseff slams U.S. over snooping
United Nations THE WASHINGTON POST Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday delivered a stinging rebuke of electronic espionage by the U.S. National Security Agency, telling the U.N. General Assembly that American eavesdropping constitutes "a breach of international law and an affront" to Brazil's...
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 22, 2013
Vetting firms 'rush' through security clearances
When Ileana Privetera started working for the contractor USIS, the firm that vetted National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden and Washington Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis, it sounded like the perfect job. A mother, she would have flexible hours for her family, and she would be helping the country...
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 14, 2013
The desperate search for online privacy is over
Privacy in the traditional sense is most certainly dead. But the killer isn't the NSA. It's the Internet itself — or, more to the point, our entire reliance on it
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 5, 2013
After Snowden revelations, China worries about cyberdefense
China has been seen as the aggressor in cyberattacks, but many worry its own defenses are woeful.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Sep 3, 2013
Nukes, terrorists, intel gaps: U.S. 'black budget' shows extent of distrust toward Pakistan
The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaida, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one purported ally: Pakistan, which appears at the top of charts listing critical U.S. intelligence gaps.
WORLD
Aug 22, 2013
NSA email collection violated law: court
For several years, the National Security Agency unlawfully gathered tens of thousands of emails and other electronic communications between Americans as part of a now-revised collection method, according to a 2011 secret court opinion.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 20, 2013
Manning and Snowden made secrecy impossible
To whom do U.S. Army privates and intelligence contractors owe their loyalty? To country? To the national security apparatus? Or to the people the apparatus protects
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 20, 2013
Why U.S. government is afraid of itself
The U.S. war on leaks has degenerated to a government deliberately destroying its property to keep its staffers from catching sight of publicly available information.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 10, 2013
Putin taken to task on soured U.S. relations
Vladimir Putin's Russia has slid back toward the suspicions and mistrust of the Cold War contest with the United States, U.S. President Barack Obama said Friday, adding that it is appropriate to "reassess" a relationship that has been damaged most recently by the case of National Security Agency leaker...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 1, 2013
'Help us defend the country:' NSA chief
It doesn't get much stranger than this, even in Vegas.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 29, 2013
Risks of limiting NSA's collection of phone data
There's a risk that Congress or the White House will impose constraints on the NSA that would reduce America's ability to protect itself against the next 9/11.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 28, 2013
Idaho mom sues Obama over surveillance program
Anna Smith is a mother of two who lives in rural Idaho, works the night shift as a nurse and goes to the gym a lot. She rarely follows the news and knows little about the debate over government surveillance and privacy that has rocked Washington in recent weeks.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 28, 2013
Breakneck NSA growth fueled by insatiable demand for its product
Twelve years later, the cranes and earthmovers around the National Security Agency are still at work, tearing up pavement and uprooting trees to make room for a larger workforce and more powerful computers. Already bigger than the Pentagon in square meters, the NSA's footprint will grow by an additional...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 28, 2013
DuckDuckGo chief spills on search engine wars
AltaVista, one of the leading search engines of the 1990s, has died. It was 18 years old. It had languished for years before its owner, Yahoo, finally pulled the plug.
WORLD / FOCUS
Jul 18, 2013
Germans direct NSA ire at Merkel
German Chancellor Angela Merkel grew up in a society where the government kept a Big Brother eye on its citizens. Now, critics say, she has assented to similar practices — this time coming from the U.S., not East Germany's fearsome secret police.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 16, 2013
Of spies and whistleblowers
Edward Snowden, a former contractor to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, has been trapped in the transit lounge of Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow for the past two weeks, while the United States government strives mightily to get him back in its clutches. Recently it even arranged for the plane flying...
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 16, 2013
Declassify Yahoo data decision: FISA court
The secret surveillance court that approved the U.S. government's broad collection of millions of Americans' telephone and email records called Monday for the White House to declassify and release as much as it can of one of the court's early legal decisions sanctioning that collection.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 15, 2013
NSA chief on quest to 'collect it all'
In late 2005, as Iraqi roadside bombings were nearing an all-time peak, the National Security Agency's newly appointed chief began pitching a radical plan for halting the attacks that then were killing or wounding a dozen Americans a day.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 12, 2013
America's dirty war at home
Not only have the counterinsurgency wars of the past decade failed, but their methods and hardware have ended up being used against Americans and Britons at home.
Naked man’s rampage in Saitama linked to one fatality and 10 injured
Police believe Daisuke Nishimura may have been involved in roughly 20 incidents in the 90 minutes leading up to his arrest, including a fatal hit-and-run and multiple assaults.
Japan set to fine cyclists on the spot for rule violations from 2026
Under new rules, those who use smartphones while riding a bicycle would be subject to the maximum fine of ¥12,000.
Japan brings forward deadline for electronic travel authorization system
Japan is planning to implement by March 2029 a new online screening system in which foreign visitors who don’t need a visa apply for a certification before entering the country.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
Crow meat, goat tartare: Mauvaise Herbe raises its game
Crow meat, shaped into a ball and attached to a foot of the bird, is one of the peculiar offerings of game at Mauvaise Herbe.

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