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BUSINESS
Nov 5, 2018
High-flying women are closing the exec pay gap with men in U.S., U.K.: report
High-flying women are catching up with men when it comes to executive pay but are still woefully underrepresented at the top of the working world, a pay comparison firm said on Monday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 3, 2018
North Korea warns it could restart nuclear weapons development if sanctions aren't lifted
North Korea has warned that it could revive its scrapped policy of building up its nuclear arsenal if the U.S. does not remove harsh economic sanctions as part of reciprocal measures Pyongyang has demanded in ongoing denuclearization talks.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 3, 2018
Harvard defends admission policy as Asian-American bias trial wraps up
Harvard University defended its admissions policies Friday against a group accusing it of discriminating against Asian-American applicants in the closing arguments of a trial that could change the role of race in U.S. college admissions.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 3, 2018
U.S. top court won't halt trial over census citizenship question
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected a request by President Donald Trump's administration to halt a trial set to begin on Monday that will test the legality of the government's contentious decision to ask people taking part in the 2020 national census whether they are citizens.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 3, 2018
Twitter deletes over 10,000 accounts that sought to discourage U.S. voting
Twitter deleted more than 10,000 automated accounts posting messages that discouraged people from voting in Tuesday's U.S. election and wrongly appeared to be from Democrats, after the party flagged the misleading tweets to the social media company.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 3, 2018
Trump backtracks on suggestion U.S. troops could fire on migrants
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday backtracked from his suggestion a day earlier that American troops sent to the U.S. border with Mexico would be free to fire on migrants who throw rocks at them, saying that rock-throwers would only be arrested.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 3, 2018
Trump says 'I think we'll make a deal with China' on trade
U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that he will likely make a deal with China on trade, adding that a lot of progress had been made to resolve the two countries' differences but warning that he still may impose more tariffs on Chinese goods.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 3, 2018
Saudi sisters likely committed suicide in New York's Hudson River, police say
Two young Saudi women whose bodies were found a week ago along the rocky Manhattan shore of the Hudson River, bound together with duct tape around their waist and ankles, likely committed suicide, New York police said Friday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 3, 2018
On U.S. campaign trail, Obama warns against fear as Trump touts economy
Former U.S. President Barack Obama warned on Friday against rhetoric he said was designed to sow fear as he campaigned in support of Democratic candidates while President Donald Trump hammered a hard-line anti-immigration message to energize Republicans.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 3, 2018
Trump considering U.S. State Department spokeswoman for U.N. ambassador post
President Donald Trump on Thursday said he was seriously considering naming U.S. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert to succeed Nikki Haley as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, adding he would make a decision on the posting soon.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 2, 2018
Trump signs sanctions order targeting Venezuela gold exports: John Bolton
Washington ratcheted up pressure on Venezuela's leftist President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday with new measures aimed at disrupting the South American country's gold exports, U.S. national security adviser John Bolton said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 1, 2018
World's top consumer drone maker scores U.S. wins despite security concerns as China trade war takes toll
DJI, the world's top seller of drones for consumers, has snagged a pair of wins in its effort to court businesses.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 1, 2018
Trump contends U.S. Constitution does not cover birthright citizenship, despite 14th Amendment
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the U.S. Constitution does not guarantee the right to citizenship to everyone born in the country, an assertion that runs counter to the long-established legal interpretation of the document.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 31, 2018
North Korea preparing nuclear test site for international inspectors: report
North Korea may be preparing for a visit by international inspectors to its shuttered Punggye-ri nuclear test site, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Wednesday, citing the country's spy agency.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 31, 2018
U.S.-South Korea alliance strained as Trump keeps suspending 'war games'
The U.S. and South Korea have spent almost seven decades honing their preparedness for war. Now fears are growing among the alliance's proponents that extended peace talks are eroding that advantage.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 31, 2018
U.S. presence at premier Cuba trade fair dwindles amid Trump hostility
A yellow excavator, forklift and other heavy equipment made by U.S. firm Caterpillar gleam outside Cuba's annual trade fair, reflecting once-bright hopes for increased U.S.-Cuban commerce fanned by the 2014 detente between the old Cold War foes.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 30, 2018
Are U.S. FONOPs upholding freedom or stirring up trouble?
U.S. freedom of navigation missions in the South China Sea are aimed at preventing Beijing from establishing a sphere of influence.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 30, 2018
Top U.S. diplomat expected to meet Kim's right-hand man next week, report says
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is expected to meet with a top North Korean official next week as they seek to arrange a second summit between the two countries' leaders, according to a South Korean report.
BUSINESS
Oct 30, 2018
U.S. curbs exports to Chinese chip firm Fujian Jinhua as trade war intensifies
Opening a new front in its trade and technology disputes with China, the Trump administration on Monday took action to cut off a Chinese state-backed semiconductor maker from U.S. exports of components, software and technology goods.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 30, 2018
Britain to target online platform giants like Google, Facebook and Amazon with new digital services tax
Britain said it would tax the revenue that online platforms such as Google, Facebook and Amazon make in the country to update a system that had not kept pace with changing digital business models.
How Pakistan shot down India's cutting-edge fighter using Chinese gear
An Indian Air Force pilot gets out of a Rafale fighter jet during its induction ceremony at an air force station in Ambala, India, September 2020.
China’s unbeatable new production model export
China is not merely moving more goods; it is exporting a new, ruthlessly efficient production model powered by automation, AI and state-guided industrial optimization.
Trump: The $550 billion pledged by Japan is 'our money'
U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday. He told CNBC that investment pledges are like signing bonuses.
Australia announces new warships will come from Japan
The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mogami-class frigate Niyodo sails at an undisclosed location in this image released Tuesday.
Japan swelters as previous heat record melts
A worker tries to cool down a street in central Tokyo Tuesday as wide swaths of the Kanto region sweltered under intense heat. In Gunma Prefecture, the temperature rose 41.8 degrees Celsius, the highest ever recorded in Japan.
Australia announces new warships will come from Japan
The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mogami-class frigate Niyodo sails at an undisclosed location in this image released Tuesday.
Fuji Rock's weekend of surprises was one of its best yet
Radwimps lead singer Yojiro Noda threw himself into the rock band’s Green Stage performance ahead of headliner Vampire Weekend.
How Trump is gaslighting on climate change — with Japan’s help
The Bishu Maru LNG tanker, owned by Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, next to the Freeport LNG terminal in Texas
With a new distillery, Suntory makes a spirited move on gin market
A staff inspects a distillation pot still at Suntory's new Osaka Spirits & Liqueurs Craft Distillery, which will focus on gin production and help Suntory capture a bigger slice of the fast-growing gin market.
Junglia brought dinos back to Okinawa. But will it bring tourists?
At Panorama Dining, one of Junglia’s two proper restaurants that also doubles as the rooftop Inifinity Terrace overlook, guests can pay extra to sit in balcony tables made to look like birds’ nests overlooking the park grounds.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

A mushroom cloud from the atomic bombing on Hiroshima taken from a U.S. military aircraft on Aug. 6, 1945. Copying the photo without permission is prohibited.
80 years on, a Japanese American hibakusha recalls the day the bomb dropped
By Elizabeth Beattie

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