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Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 14, 2019
'Tinder for cows' matches livestock in the mood for love
A Tinder-inspired app is helping farmers match up potential partners for their cattle.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 11, 2019
May seeks more Brexit debates in push for negotiating time as U.K. biz lobby warns of no-deal 'emergency zone'
British Prime Minister Theresa May will later this week pledge to give Parliament another chance to voice their opinions on Brexit by Feb. 27, a government source said, as she tries to buy more time to negotiate a new deal with the European Union.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 10, 2019
May to promise new Brexit debate in push for more negotiating time
British Prime Minister Theresa May will pledge this week to give Parliament another chance to voice their opinions on Brexit by Feb. 27 as she tries to buy more time to negotiate a new deal with the European Union.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 9, 2019
Brexit's corporate refugee numbers in Netherlands set to swell
Brexit is driving companies out of the U.K., and the Netherlands is raking in the corporate refugees.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2019
Booming Edinburgh will be first U.K. city to introduce tourist tax of £2 per room
Scotland's capital, Edinburgh, is to become the first British city to introduce a tourist tax to try to better manage the impact of swelling visitor numbers and booming hotel occupancy, its council said on Thursday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 7, 2019
Nissan blow leads to regret and defiance in a Brexit heartland
Lisa Roley has worked at Nissan Motor Co.'s car plant in Sunderland, U.K., for the past two decades. Like the majority of people in the city, she also voted to leave the European Union in 2016.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 7, 2019
British colony or not, people of Gibraltar worried about life after Brexit
With London fuming over whether Gibraltar should still be called a "colony," residents of the British outpost on the southern tip of Spain are more worried about life after Brexit than about which word best explains their status.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 6, 2019
EU's Tusk rebuffs May, and says Brexiteers deserve a place in hell
The European Union will make no new offer on Brexit and those who promoted Britain's exit without any understanding of how to deliver it deserve a special place in hell, Council President Donald Tusk said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2019
U.K. revisiting secret plan to keep Irish border open after Brexit using Fujitsu tracking tech, Sun reports
Britain's department for exiting the European Union has been examining a secret new high-tech plan of keeping the Irish border open with the plan to be ready for a road test in March, the Sun newspaper reported late on Tuesday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 5, 2019
From a no-deal Brexit to a no-Brexit deal
The defeat of British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal means that all options are the table.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 5, 2019
Brexit Britain is left choking on Nissan's exhaust fumes
Nissan's decision to back out of a big U.K. investment may not be the last of its type.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 4, 2019
The shackles of history in a democracy
The boundary between historical fact and fiction is more porous than students of history might think.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 4, 2019
Nissan deals Brexit blow as Theresa May launches new working group to look for a plan B
The automaker cited doubts about the U.K.'s split from the EU in its decision to scrap plans to make the X-Trail at its Sunderland plant.
WORLD / Society
Feb 2, 2019
London woman guilty of mutilating daughter in landmark female genital mutilation trial
A London mother has been found guilty of subjecting her 3-year-old daughter to female genital mutilation in Britain's first conviction for the practice, more than 30 years after it was outlawed.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Jan 30, 2019
Irish unmoved by British PM Theresa May's plan to renegotiate Brexit deal with Brussels
After a week of missteps, Irish nerves are steadying again, unmoved by British Prime Minister Theresa May's promise to go back to Brussels to renegotiate the Brexit deal.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 30, 2019
Prince William and Kate laud Dundee for its team approach to challenges
Britain's Prince William and his wife, Kate, visited a gleaming new design museum on Tuesday as well as a factory facing closure, and praised Dundee residents for pulling together in difficult times.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 29, 2019
Conservative Party lawmakers offer last-minute compromise on Brexit plan
Lawmakers in British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party on Tuesday proposed a last-minute compromise Brexit plan which seeks to draw a line under internal divisions that have so far prevented Parliament from approving an exit deal.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Jan 28, 2019
Theresa May's Brexit 'Plan B': A guide to what could happen next in Parliament
Prime Minister Theresa May is aiming to break the parliamentary deadlock over Brexit by proposing to seek further concessions from the European Union on a plan to prevent customs checks on the Irish border.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 28, 2019
Retail rout deepens as U.K. and Germany lose thousands of jobs
Europe's retail crisis deepened as companies in the U.K. to Germany are set to cut thousands of jobs as online shopping accelerates erosion of sales from traditional bricks-and-mortar stores.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 25, 2019
Former Scottish leader Salmond, top figure in independence movement, charged with attempted rape
Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, a figurehead of Scotland's independence movement, denied committing any crimes on Thursday after he appeared in court charged with multiple sex offenses including two counts of attempted rape.

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