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Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 15, 2015
Cyberspace becomes second front in Russia's clash with NATO
Russian computer attacks have become more brazen and more destructive as the country grows increasingly at odds with the U.S. and European nations over military goals first in Ukraine and now Syria.
JAPAN
Jun 29, 2015
Polish woman becomes shogi queen in rare move for foreigner
Karolina Styczynska, a 24-year-old Pole, was promoted to C1 level in the world of shogi (Japanese chess) after three wins and one loss in a Tokyo tournament Sunday, placing her one step away from becoming the first foreign female professional player.
WORLD
Jun 22, 2015
Hackers ground 1,400 LOT passengers at Warsaw
Around 1,400 passengers of the Polish airline LOT were grounded at Warsaw's Chopin airport on Sunday after hackers attacked the airline ground computer systems used to issue flight plans, the company said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 19, 2015
LOT Polish Airlines to start Warsaw-Tokyo flights in January
Poland's national LOT Polish Airlines announced Friday that it will launch direct flights between Warsaw and Tokyo next January, the first such route connecting Japan and Central Europe.
WORLD
Apr 26, 2015
Germany says will deny entry to some Russian Night Wolves bikers
Germany will block some members of an ultra-nationalist Russian motorcycle club from entering the country, government sources said Saturday, a day after Poland also announced an entry ban for the group which is blacklisted by the United States.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 22, 2015
Weary of Russian invasion, nervous Poles join volunteer militias
Spurred by the war in Ukraine, growing numbers of Poles are joining volunteer paramilitary groups to get basic military training and prepare to defend their homeland from what some see as a looming Russian invasion.
WORLD
Jan 26, 2015
Past horrors haunt a Polish town
Bogumila recalls how as a small girl growing up in the Polish town of Oswiecim she saw prisoners beaten by Nazi guards and watched with her mother the distant glow of the crematorium fires of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 10, 2014
CIA eased Poland's qualms over secret prisons with boxes of bank notes: Senate report
Poland threatened to halt the transfer of al-Qaida suspects to a secret CIA jail on its soil 11 years ago, but became more "flexible" after the Central Intelligence Agency handed over a large sum of money, according to a U.S. Senate report.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 23, 2014
Poland ruling party wins most seats in regional elections
Poland's ruling Civic Platform (PO) party has secured the highest number of provincial assembly seats in the Nov. 16 vote, the state election commission said, a surprising result seen as likely to further aggravate tensions over the already contentious vote.
WORLD
Oct 21, 2014
Putin offered in 2008 to divide Ukraine with Poland: Polish ex-minister
Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to Poland's then leader that they divide Ukraine between themselves as far back as 2008, Poland's parliamentary speaker, Radoslaw Sikorski, said in an interview published by the U.S. Politico website.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 14, 2014
Polish doctors test man for Ebola
A man has been hospitalised in Poland pending blood tests on whether he has the Ebola virus, but he had not travelled to Africa and the tests were being conducted as a precaution only, a health official said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Sep 6, 2014
Japan guns now bear on Kiaochou; German Army enters Poland; Olympic Village opens; agency seeks funds to compile Emperor's annals
100 YEARS AGOSunday, Sept. 13, 1914
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 1, 2014
Pragmatism, charm are Tusk's hallmarks
Donald Tusk relied on a mix of charm and pragmatism to rise to the top of Polish politics and stay in power longer than anyone since the Cold War. Being the European Union's president will test the extent of those talents.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 31, 2014
EU names Tusk, Mogherini to top jobs, readies Russian sanctions
European Union leaders on Saturday chose Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk to chair the European Council and named Italian Federica Mogherini to run the bloc's foreign relations as it prepared to threaten Russia with new sanctions over Ukraine.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 26, 2014
Poland's last communist ruler, Wojciech Jaruzelski, dies at 90
Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's last communist leader who imposed martial law to crush the Solidarity movement only to hand over power less than a decade later, died aged 90 on Sunday following a long bout of illness, a military hospital in Warsaw said.
WORLD
May 4, 2014
A glance at the history of Polish immigration to U.K.
Poles are now the second-largest foreign-born group of people in the U.K., with numbers at a record high following Poland's accession to the EU 10 years ago. But the history of Poles in Britain goes back much further.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 4, 2014
Polish immigrants find their footing in Britain
Ten years after Tomasz Dyl left his small hometown near Krakow as a 13-year-old to start a new life in Southampton on England's south coast, his personal trajectory has become emblematic of the story of Polish migration to the U.K.
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 struggles with gray zone of AI deepfakes exploiting children
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.
‘Wildcat Dome’ challenges Japan's historical narratives
On the surface, "Wildcat Dome" tells a personal story of damaged children — now adults — bound together by tragedy. Underneath, there’s a constant undercurrent of political consequence, invisible and pervasive like radioactive particles.
Reclaiming Sanya, one meal at a time
Magokoro Yoshihira (center) is the managing director of Yui Associates, which operates the neighborhood fixtures of Sanya Cafe and Juyoh Hotel. Yusuke Takahashi (left) met Yoshihira during a difficult period in his life and now works as the cafe’s chef. Nancy Anne (right) has worked for over 10 years at Juyoh Hotel and enjoys the multicultural environment.
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

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