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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 22, 2020
China unlikely to approve Oracle and Walmart's TikTok deal, state media says
Beijing is unlikely to approve an "unfair" deal Oracle Corp. and Walmart Inc. said they have struck with ByteDance over the future of video-streaming app TikTok, state-backed newspaper Global Times said in an editorial.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 22, 2020
International law under assault — from unexpected directions
Disturbing of late has been the growing disregard for international law among governments that have been pillars of the world's legal order such as the U.S. and the U.K.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 22, 2020
Sedition laws are the last resort of weak governments
It's highly unlikely anyone will be prosecuted for sedition by the DOJ, but the harm to the independence of the U.S. criminal justice system has already been done.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 22, 2020
China’s threats of war push Taiwan to boost U.S. economic links
The government of Tsai Ing-wen is aiming to provide more incentives for U.S. policymakers to intervene in any potential conflict.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 22, 2020
Advice on virus transmission vanishes from CDC website
The rapid reversal prompted consternation among scientists and again called into question the credibility of the world's premiere health agency.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 22, 2020
Trump to name Supreme Court pick by Saturday
Democrats' hope of keeping the seat empty faded when two Republican senators, Chuck Grassley and Cory Gardner, signaled their support for moving forward quickly.
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Sep 21, 2020
First Suga-Trump talks go off without a hitch, but challenges still ahead
U.S.-Japan alliance seen as focal point of the new prime minister's one-on-one talks with Trump, but questions remain over whether Suga will be able to preserve the status quo.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 21, 2020
Abortion was on the back burner in the U.S. presidential race — not anymore
An all-out fight over the issue could further alienate the more moderate suburban voters both sides are competing for.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 21, 2020
Chinese military video appears to show simulated attack on U.S. air base on Guam
The video, released on the People's Liberation Army Air Force Weibo account, came as China carried out a second day of drills near Chinese-claimed Taiwan.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 21, 2020
China's ByteDance says TikTok will be its subsidiary under deal with Trump
China's ByteDance said on Monday that TikTok's global business will become its subsidiary, even as Oracle Corp. and Walmart Inc. said over the weekend that they and U.S. investors would own the majority of the video app following a deal with U.S. President Donald Trump's administration.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 21, 2020
Major banks processed transactions they suspected were illegal, filings show
The more than 2,100 suspicious activity reports filed by major U.S. and international banks relate to more than $2 trillion of transactions between 1999 and 2017.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 20, 2020
Tories may warm to Biden, but they’ll miss Trump
Chances are that Joe Biden, if he wins in November, would be a little less interested in Britain and a little frostier toward Boris Johnson.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 20, 2020
Taiwan president says she has no plans to talk to Japan's Suga
Tsai Ing-wen's remarks came after China's Foreign Ministry warned Tokyo that such talks “will never happen.”
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 20, 2020
How Mitch McConnell can quickly push through Trump's top court nominee
The process is likely to be ugly, but it can be done.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Sep 20, 2020
Sudden Supreme Court vacancy a new 'wild card' in U.S. presidential race
The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has injected a volatile new element into the last stretch of a turbulent U.S. presidential race, potentially shifting the focus away from the coronavirus pandemic and the stagnant economy into a political battle over her successor.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 20, 2020
U.S. says U.N. sanctions on Iran are back as allies and rivals object
The U.S. said international sanctions on Iran are automatically "snapping back” in a move that most nations say the Trump administration doesn’t have the authority to demand since quitting a 2015 nuclear deal two years ago.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 19, 2020
Suga may look to end decades of silence and hold talks with Taiwan's Tsai
Such talks — which would be the first since formal diplomatic ties were severed in 1972 — would almost certainly stoke anger in China.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Sep 19, 2020
U.S. troops battling racism report high barrier for justice
As the U.S. confronts systemic racial injustice, the U.S. military, which has long promoted itself as an egalitarian system, is undergoing its own moment of reckoning.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 19, 2020
Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court nominees list gets new scrutiny following justice's death
U.S. President Donald Trump, who counts his two Supreme Court appointments as among his greatest successes, last week issued a new list of 20 potential nominees to the court. There was no vacancy at the time, and the exercise seemed aimed at focusing attention on an issue that had helped secure his election...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 19, 2020
Japan’s geopolitical balancing act just got harder
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s unexpected resignation last month for health reasons has raised many questions about the legacy of the country’s longest-serving premier. One of them is whether his successor, Yoshihide Suga, will be able to continue Abe’s geopolitical balancing act as tensions...

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Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
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