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CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
Mar 9, 2019
'Japan in the World': A comprehensive analysis of Japan's international image
Published near the height of Japan's global economic power in 1993, 'Japan in the World' brings together essays that reflect on the country's place in international affairs.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 7, 2019
Hong Kong protesters plead not guilty to trespassing at Tokyo's war-linked Yasukuni Shrine
A man and woman from Hong Kong charged with trespassing on the grounds of the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo in December pleaded not guilty Thursday in the first hearing of their case at the Tokyo District Court.
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ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Mar 7, 2019
Secret science of 'Lenin lab' keeps dead communist leaders looking fresh in North Korea and Vietnam
Perhaps none of the communist legacies shared by Vietnam and North Korea highlighted during Kim Jong Un's "goodwill visit" to Hanoi is stranger than the embalmed leaders on display in their capitals — and the secretive team of Russian technicians who keep the bodies looking ageless.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 28, 2019
Major events leading up to the second Trump-Kim summit
A chronology of major developments leading up to the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi:
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 27, 2019
Top U.S. government lawyer's presence at North Korea talks points to end-of-war declaration
In a potential sign that the U.S. is preparing to reach a deal in Hanoi with North Korea that could include a so-called end-of-war declaration and the opening of liaison offices in both countries, a top State Department lawyer who has handled key issues in East Asia is taking part in negotiations, sources...
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JAPAN / Politics
Feb 26, 2019
Japan protests South Korean foreign minister's remark at U.N. that 'comfort women' issue not settled
Kang Kyung-wha said in an ordinary session of the U.N. Human Rights Council that the matter has not been settled because the accord lacked a “victim-centered” approach.
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JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Feb 25, 2019
Japan's Ainu recognition bill: What does it mean for Hokkaido's indigenous people?
In a first for Japan, a bill to legally recognize the Ainu as the indigenous people of Japan is about to be submitted to the Diet.
JAPAN / History
Feb 23, 2019
List of 121 Japanese women held as POWs in Soviet labor camps after WWII discovered
The list of Soviet-held female Japanese POWs contains information on 121 women who were likely nurses assigned to a military hospital in what was then Manchuria.
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JAPAN / Politics
Feb 23, 2019
Abe becomes prime minister with fourth-longest total tenure
Abe's tenure, including his 12-month first term to September 2007, has reached 2,617 days, surpassing Shigeru Yoshida's total of 2,616 days between 1946 and 1954.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Feb 20, 2019
The onus is still on us to be black history
A few years back, I wrote a piece for Black History Month in which I challenged people of African descent living here in Japan to "be black history." I implored them not to necessarily dwell on the past but to: "Dwell on the now instead. Because everything you do now becomes history and herstory the...
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CULTURE / Books
Feb 16, 2019
'Japan Story': History enlivened at every turn with flashes of wit
Christopher Harding's comprehensive 'Japan Story' is an ultra-progressive account of modern Japanese history, ushering the often-ignored maverick women, socialist thinkers and doubters of the state version of modernity to the front.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 15, 2019
South Korean lawyers to start sale of Nippon Steel's assets over wartime labor
Lawyers visiting from South Korea say they will soon liquidate assets seized from Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corp. in a wartime labor ruling to compensate the four plaintiffs.
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JAPAN / Politics
Feb 13, 2019
Demand for 'comfort women' apology by Emperor angered many in Japan, Abe says, as U.S. seeks calm
An intensifying feud between Tokyo and Seoul continued to escalate Wednesday, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe telling a parliamentary committee that comments by the speaker of the South Korean National Assembly had angered many in Japan.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 13, 2019
Top U.S. military brass cautiously optimistic on North Korean diplomacy despite claim Kim won't relinquish his nukes
The top U.S. military commander for Asia and the head of American forces in South Korea have both expressed rare cautious optimism on diplomatic progress with North Korea while also reiterating earlier intelligence assessments that the country was unlikely to relinquish its nuclear arsenal.
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JAPAN
Feb 13, 2019
Wreck of USS Hornet, from which first WWII airborne attack on Japan was launched, found in South Pacific
The discovery of the wreck of the USS Hornet aircraft carrier, which played a key role in several monumental points during World War II including the Doolittle Raid on Japan and the pivotal Battle of Midway, was announced Tuesday by U.S. researchers, more than 75 years after the vessel was sunk.
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JAPAN / Politics
Feb 12, 2019
Japan demands South Korean speaker retract call for Emperor's apology to 'comfort women'
Abe denounced a top South Korean lawmaker's comments about Emperor Akihito as “extremely inappropriate,” ratcheting up already high tensions between the two neighbors.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 12, 2019
The state that accepted Japanese-Americans
The relationship between Japan and Colorado has been fantastic, in part because how the state's governor treated Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 12, 2019
Earth's earliest mobile organisms lived 2.1 billion years ago, Gabon shale fossils indicate
Scientists have discovered in 2.1-billion-year-old black shale from a quarry in Gabon the earliest evidence of a revolutionary development in the history of life on Earth, the ability of organisms to move from one place to another on their own.
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WORLD
Feb 11, 2019
Iran cheers U.S. 'dismay' and vaunts military might as revolution turns 40
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians held nationwide rallies on Monday to mark the 40th anniversary of the fall of the Shah and the triumph of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Shiite cleric who led an Islamic Revolution that rattles the West to this day.
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JAPAN
Feb 11, 2019
Japan's Taro Kono warns South Korean speaker after call for Emperor to apologize to 'comfort women'
Foreign Minister Taro Kono cautioned South Korea's top legislator against making divisive remarks after the lawmaker urged the Japanese Emperor to make a personal apology to women forced to work in the country's military brothels.
Japanese stripper bids to have her porn movies taken off internet
Plaintiff Miyuki Ariga (left) speaks at a news conference along with her lawyer, Yoshitomo Morohashi, after filing a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.
Kishida defends planned rule to revoke foreigners' residency
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a meeting of the Lower House Judicial Affairs Committee on Wednesday.
Human bone-like objects found at Nippon Steel plant’s molten iron pot, with one worker missing
Police believe it’s highly possible that human bones found in a molten iron pot at Nippon Steel's Oita factory belong to a missing male employee.
Was Onosato's defeat of Terunofuji an era-defining bout?
Onosato (right) defeats Terunofuji at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on May 12. While nothing in sumo is guaranteed, it seems almost inevitable that Onosato is destined for the top of the sport's pyramid.
Japanese billionaire sues Meta over investment scams using his image
Entrepreneurs Yusaku Maezawa (second from right) and Takafumi Horie (third from right) attend a study session on fake social media ads and investment scams at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo on April 10.
Japanese rap creates its mecca in Pop Yours
Tokyo-based artist Jumadiba says he forgoes the label of simply “rap” for his music because the Japanese rap scene isn’t confined to a particular sound.
Who’s toughest on China? Biden’s tariff tactic ups ante as election looms.
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about new actions to protect American workers and businesses from China's "unfair" trade practices, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Tuesday.
Was Onosato's defeat of Terunofuji an era-defining bout?
Onosato (right) defeats Terunofuji at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on May 12. While nothing in sumo is guaranteed, it seems almost inevitable that Onosato is destined for the top of the sport's pyramid.
Ishin struggles to set itself apart from other parties
Nippon Ishin no Kai Secretary-General Fumitake Fujita (right) speaks beside Yui Kanazawa, the party's candidate in the Tokyo 15th district by-election on April 28. Nippon Ishin lost in this by-election as well as another in Nagasaki held on the same day.

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