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OVERSEAS

EDITORIALS
Jan 25, 2015
NHK must maintain independence
NHK has announced a three-year budget plan that includes strengthening its overseas services. But has Japan's national broadcaster figured out yet whether it exists as a news organziation or as a propaganda arm of the government?
WORLD / Politics
Jan 23, 2015
Sri Lanka to probe hidden foreign assets after Rajapaksa defeat
Sri Lanka's new government is to investigate "black money" transferred overseas by powerful figures in the administration of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, a Cabinet spokesman said on Thursday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 6, 2014
Honda among big firms that disclose too little on operations abroad, watchdog says
Honda Motor Co. is among the world's biggest companies that disclose little or no financial details about their operations abroad, according to a report by Transparency International, which also singled out Chinese companies and pointed to U.S. tech giants like Amazon.com Inc. and Google Inc. as well.
BUSINESS
Jul 31, 2014
Vehicle output surged 8.7% in first half, powered by tax hike deadline
Vehicle output rose 8.7 percent nationwide to 5,066,178 units in the first half compared with a year earlier, as strong demand before the April consumption tax hike more than offset a subsequent decline in sales, an industry body said Thursday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 26, 2014
Ajinomoto looks to take 'umami' worldwide
Ajinomoto Co., the creator of monosodium glutamate flavoring more than 100 years ago, plans acquisitions and is looking to expand in Poland as it seeks growth in frozen food and seasoning in Europe and the United States.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 15, 2014
Orix foresees spending $1.5 billion on takeovers over next 12 months
Orix Corp., Japan's most acquisitive financial firm, plans to spend ¥150 billion on takeovers around the world in the next 12 months, President Makoto Inoue said.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 11, 2014
BOJ policymakers expect exports to stay weak
Some Bank of Japan policymakers said exports may remain weak in the future as companies continue to shift production bases abroad and overseas demand wanes, the minutes of the central bank's March policy meeting showed Friday.
BUSINESS
Feb 20, 2014
New tax rules to hit holders of overseas assets
Individuals with overseas assets worth more than ¥50 million must report them to the nation's tax authorities or face tough penalties, according to new government regulations introduced ahead of this year's tax return filing.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 2, 2014
Ministry official knocks down barriers to overseas study
The success of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's effort to internationalize Japan might depend on a young entrepreneur who runs his own educational business.
BUSINESS
Nov 13, 2013
Hospitals await OK to invest overseas
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry is considering allowing hospital operators in Japan to invest in overseas medical institutions under the government's growth strategy.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Nov 4, 2013
Diet reform paralyzed by hypocritical habits
Indecision is a much-criticized feature of Japanese politics. Diet sessions are rife with unproductive wrangling as the ruling and opposition camps dispute the timing of the submission of bills while avoiding constructive discussions on them.
JAPAN
Nov 1, 2013
Foreign A-bomb survivors ask Abe to correct Hiroshima remarks
Six groups representing non-Japanese survivors of the atomic bombings are pressing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to correct his remarks that the Japanese are the "only people" to have experienced nuclear devastation in war.
JAPAN
Jul 31, 2013
Panel plans strategy for overseas Japanese language education
Experts discussing ways to increase the number of Japanese language learners overseas propose promoting 'Cool Japan' pop culture and online services to provide more opportunities for speaking the language.
Reader Mail
Apr 13, 2008
The true meaning of patriotism
I was appalled by the simplistic and utterly condemnable view of patriotism expressed in the April 6 letter from Wilson Hartz. His glib remarks display a remarkable lack of appreciation for the complexity of the long and agonizing controversy in this country over national symbols. Hartz would have the Japanese revive the same sort of pernicious nationalism that Douglas MacArthur hated and sought to stamp out.
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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