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Japan Times
JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN
Jul 1, 2008
¥60 billion G8 budget draws flak
Japan plans to spend more than ¥60 billion in taxpayer money to host next week's Group of Eight summit in Hokkaido and related events, prompting some to question if that sum could better be used to alleviate the national health-care and social welfare crises.
JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN
Jun 30, 2008
U.N. chief calls for leadership on setting midterm emissions cuts
KYOTO — U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said Sunday that while long-term goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are important, it is more critical that a post-Kyoto Protocol treaty with midterm targets be concluded in Copenhagen by next year.
JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN
Jun 28, 2008
G8 security steps hit as dangerous precedent
KYOTO — Their region having played host to three Group of Eight ministerial conferences over the past month, many in Kansai are breathing a sigh of relief and hoping the security measures that residents, and even summit participants, found excessive are now in the past.
Japan Times
JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN
Jun 28, 2008
Blair shifts focus on climate to Copenhagen conference
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Japan Times
JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN
Jun 27, 2008
Land woes taking a back seat to CO2
While climate change has finally won the attention of world leaders, the United Nations is concerned about a lack of action on another major — and yet interlinked — global challenge: land degradation and desertification.
JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN
Jun 23, 2008
G8 to support sectoral approach to emissions
Group of Eight leaders plan to back Japans' proposal for a sector-by-sector approach to slashing greenhouse gas emissions in a chairman's summary to be issued after the July 7-9 summit in Hokkaido, according to diplomatic sources.
JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN
Jun 20, 2008
Consensus elusive ahead of climate meet
Time is running out for Japanese diplomacy — and possibly for the future of the Earth, too.
Japan Times
JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN
Jun 20, 2008
Ambassador touts biofuel as climate change cure
Criticism that Brazil has prioritized the manufacture of biofuel at the expense of food production is preposterous and flies in the face of a superb solution for global warming, according to the Brazilian ambassador to Japan.
BUSINESS / G8 COUNTDOWN
Jun 12, 2008
Soaring prices pose challenge to G8 finance chiefs
Finance chiefs from the Group of Eight countries are expected to discuss Friday in Osaka how their economies can tame the soaring oil and food prices battering businesses and consumers around the world.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / COSPLAY CULTURE
Mar 9, 2008
A global dress-up
"I get e-mails all the time from Brazil and the United States," said Tatsumi Inui, a staffer at Japan's largest kosupure ("cosplay" or "costume play") Web site, Cure.
Japan Times
LIFE / COSPLAY CULTURE
Mar 9, 2008
Fashion fantasies come to life in cosplay
Silver wig, blue contact lenses, a mock sword and a (kind of) knight's costume.
Tokuryū, a new crime menace in Japan, emerges from the shadows
The National Police Agency coined the term "tokuryū" to classify individuals involved in dark part time jobs and quasi-gangsters, using the words "tokumei" (anonymous) and "ryūdo" (fluid) to reflect their characteristics.
Thanks, tourists. Views of Mount Fuji are now blocked.
Tourists pose in front of a convenience store with Mount Fuji on Friday in the town of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture. Local residents are upset over littering, overcrowding and the inconvenience caused by the visitors.
Is Modi’s party heading for a stunning election loss?
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's campaign tactics have escalated, including anti-Muslim rhetoric and fearmongering, reflecting his ruling party's desperation.
Two more arrested over brutal murder of couple in Tochigi
A vehicle carrying Seiha Sekine, the 32-year-old common-law husband of the deceased Tokyo couple's first daughter, leaves a police station in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Tuesday.
After blockbuster boxing victory, what next for ‘Monster’ Inoue?
Naoya Inoue celebrates his victory over Luis Nery in their IBF-WBA-WBC-WBO super bantamweight title boxing match at Tokyo Dome on Monday.
Stormy seas ahead as Beijing and Manila trade barbs over secret deal
Philippine Marines wave to Philippine Navy personnel and the media during a resupply mission at their military outpost, the BRP Sierra Madre, a warship run aground in the disputed Second Thomas Shoal in 1999, in the South China Sea, in March 2014.
Unlike 10 years ago, Japan's new security bill sparks little debate
The Lower House starts discussing a security clearance bill on April 19 in Tokyo.
After blockbuster boxing victory, what next for ‘Monster’ Inoue?
Naoya Inoue celebrates his victory over Luis Nery in their IBF-WBA-WBC-WBO super bantamweight title boxing match at Tokyo Dome on Monday.
Xi bristles as Macron and von der Leyen urge China to do more on Ukraine
French President Emmanuel Macron, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen walk after their meeting in Paris on Monday.
How a Japanese scientist is turning the climate crisis into music
A screencap of a performance of Hiroto Nagai's “String Quartet No. 1 ‘Polar Energy Budget’” by the PRT Quartet

Podcast

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Longform

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