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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 29, 2017
China's neo-Maoists welcome Xi's new era, but say that he's not the new Mao Zedong
A fringe group of hard-line conservatives who long for the way things were under communist China's founding leader, Mao Zedong, have welcomed President Xi Jinping's "new era" of socialism and its renewed emphasis on equality.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 27, 2017
DP leader Seiji Maehara to resign; Atsushi Oshima emerges as candidate to run Kibo no To
Democratic Party President Seiji Maehara steps down over his failure to unite the opposition camp ahead of the general election.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / Decision 2017
Oct 22, 2017
Abe emerges stronger with win, but faces nation still divided over constitutional revision
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe might have emerged from the Lower House snap election with a stronger power base — but he faces a sharply divided nation.
JAPAN / Politics / Decision 2017
Oct 22, 2017
Top opposition forces see contrasting fates after poll
The two opposition parties launched less than one month ago to challenge Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party-Komeito coalition met contrasting fates in the general election.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Oct 21, 2017
Identifying the 'liberal' in Japanese politics
The current group of conservative public figures in the United States wants to return to an age when certain middle-class values were ascendant, without acknowledging that many of those values were realized because President Franklin Roosevelt implemented progressive social policies and trade unions...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / Decision 2017
Oct 21, 2017
Voters head to polls to deliver verdict on Abe
Voters prepare to go to the polls Sunday as a typhoon threatens to tip the odds in favor of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's conservative ruling coalition.
JAPAN / Politics / Decision 2017
Oct 20, 2017
Anchored by Edano's underdog charm, CDP turning into formidable force ahead of election
Yukio Edano was the face of Japan during the unprecedented nuclear crisis that hit Fukushima Prefecture in 2011, leading numerous news conferences as the government's top spokesman.
JAPAN / Politics / Decision 2017
Oct 19, 2017
'Manifesto' era may be over but election campaigns still rife with rosy pledges and vague bottom lines
Eight years is a long time in Japanese politics and people are quick to forget, but things were vastly different then.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 19, 2017
Japan Inc. wants ruling bloc to prevail in election win but with smaller majority: poll
Japanese companies overwhelmingly want Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition to stay in power in this Sunday's national election but about two-thirds want it to lose seats, a Reuters poll found.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 18, 2017
Japan's oldest village by age sees LDP leadership as key for survival
Chikara Imai, 73, is quick to dismiss the new parties in Sunday's national election, saying old ties with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party is what the country's most elderly village needs for survival.
JAPAN / Politics / Decision 2017
Oct 16, 2017
Edano taking center stage as CDP gains momentum
Yukio Edano, founder and president of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, is taking the spotlight ahead of the general election.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 4, 2017
Yukio Edano's liberal party rides wave of Twitter support, nearly catching up to Abe's LDP
A liberal-minded political party founded by ex-Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano has been sweeping its way through Japan’s Twitter community, amassing more than 100,000 followers in just a few days since its official launch on Monday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 2, 2017
Former DP heavyweight Yukio Edano seeks to fill void with new liberal-minded party
Edano says his new liberal-minded party will maximize the chances of dethroning Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 28, 2017
Democratic Party may field no candidates in snap poll as ranks look to run as part of Yuriko Koike's new force
The leader of Japan's main opposition force, the Democratic Party, will propose that the party stand no candidates in next month's Lower House election, and let its members run under the banner of the new party led by Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, sources said Wednesday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society / FOCUS
Sep 26, 2017
China's Communist Party uses rap to tap youth culture, hook millennials
In his baseball cap and baggy yellow T-shirt, the rap star Li Yijie — better known by his stage name "Pissy" — is an unlikely face of China's strait-laced ruling Communist Party.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 19, 2017
Hillary Clinton: the perfect one
Hillary Clinton's new campaign memoir remains true to her long-standing line: The fault for any mistakes always lies with others.
China seizes disputed reef near key Philippine military outpost
China Coast Guard officers unfurl a national flag on Sandy Cay reef, near the Philippine-held Thitu Island, in disputed waters of the South China Sea this month in this screen shot taken from Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.
Japan to resist Trump efforts to form trade bloc against China
As Japan gears up for the trade talks, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is also seeking to cushion the blow that the U.S. tariffs may have on the domestic economy.
As many as nine dead after driver plows into Vancouver festival crowd
An ambulance is parked at the site of the Lapu Lapu day festival, where a vehicle drove into a crowd killing several people in Vancouver on Saturday.
Japan’s legal system struggles to deal with AI-made child sexual abuse images
AI-generated content — including those made using pictures of real people, which are known as “deepfakes” — is not explicitly covered under Japan's current legal framework, nor are human-drawn illustrations that depict child abuse.
How to bring up bad news in Japanese
As in other cultures, when someone shares bad news in Japanese it’s best to respond with supportive words.
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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