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Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 4, 2018
U.S. gives immigrants faced with removal choice of leaving with or without their children: report
The Trump administration is giving some parents who were separated from their children after entering the United States illegally the option of either being deported with their youngsters or without them, NBC News reported on Tuesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 4, 2018
Washington grants temporary reprieve to ZTE, allowing Chinese company to maintain U.S. networks
The U.S. Commerce Department on Tuesday granted a temporary reprieve to ZTE Corp. that allows China's No. 2 telecommunications equipment-maker to conduct business needed to maintain existing networks and equipment in the United States as it works toward the lifting of a U.S. sales ban.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 4, 2018
Teens taken at U.S. border tell of crammed 'icebox' and 'kennel' cages
A 15-year-old girl who was forcibly separated from her mother after fleeing to the U.S. from El Salvador described to a Washington state investigator how she was crammed into a windowless room with 60 other girls and deprived of proper sleep or food for three days.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 3, 2018
Top U.S. diplomat to visit North Korea for talks amid questions over denuclearization commitment
A spate of reports detailing apparent efforts by North Korea to expand its nuclear arsenal are likely to put pressure on U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as he makes his third visit to Pyongyang later this week to flesh out the details of a plan for the North to relinquish its weapons of mass destruction...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 3, 2018
Trump looks to ban China Mobile from U.S. market over security concerns
The Trump administration moved against letting China Mobile Ltd. enter the U.S. telecommunications market, saying the government-owned company would pose national security risks.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 2, 2018
The West's crisis of ethical leadership
The behavior of some Western leaders is making Russia and China seem reasonable.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 2, 2018
United Nations Command stepped up use of U.S. bases in Japan last year amid North Korean weapons tests
The United Nations Command gave Japan 27 notifications of plans to use U.S. bases in the country in 2017, compared with 15 the previous year, Japanese and U.S. government sources have said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 2, 2018
Trump will press Putin on election meddling denials: John Bolton
U.S. President Donald Trump will press Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Moscow's denial of meddling in the 2016 presidential election when the two leaders meet next month, national security adviser John Bolton said on Sunday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 1, 2018
Japan to buy advanced U.S. radar for missile-defense system
Tokyo's upgrade could help ease trade friction with Washington and provide cutting-edge protection against the arsenals of North Korea and China.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 1, 2018
Iran's leaders seek ways to defend economy from U.S. sanctions
Iran is studying ways to keep exporting oil and other measures to counter U.S. economic sanctions, state news agency IRNA reported on Saturday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 1, 2018
Top U.S. diplomat for Asia to retire this month amid crucial negotiations with North Korea, China
The senior U.S. diplomat for Asia, Susan Thornton, will retire at the end of July, the State Department said Saturday, in the midst of critical negotiations with North Korea and China.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 29, 2018
China says U.S. should tell airlines to change websites in Taiwan row
China said on Friday that the United States should tell its airlines to change their websites to refer to self-ruled Taiwan as Chinese territory, after the United States said China had rejected requests for talks on the matter.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech / FOCUS
Jun 29, 2018
U.S. startups involved in 'critical' technologies at risk from Chinese influence
Danhua Capital has invested in some of Silicon Valley's most promising startups in areas like drones, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. The venture capital firm is based just outside Stanford University, the epicenter of U.S. technology entrepreneurship.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 29, 2018
'Fake refugees, get out': How South Koreans are channeling Trump
On the South Korean island of Jeju, a tourist hot spot famed for blue waters and sandy beaches, Lee Hyang is angry.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 28, 2018
Trump to meet Putin in Helsinki on July 16 for first bilateral summit between U.S. and Russia leaders
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will meet in Helsinki, Finland, on July 16 for their first bilateral summit as the leaders seek to reverse a downward spiral in relations that has been exacerbated by findings that Russia meddled in U.S. elections.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 28, 2018
Women must have been 'trained to kill' North Korean leader's half brother, Kim Jong Nam, in Malaysia: prosecutors
Two women accused of murdering the estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader must have been trained to carry out "an assassination" using the deadly VX nerve agent, Malaysian prosecutors said as they wrapped up their case on Thursday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 28, 2018
'America's got to up its game in the Arctic,' says U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis
The United States needs to "up its game" in the Arctic and deal with an increasingly important and developing part of the world, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said earlier this week, as a warming Arctic opens up new sea lanes and oil and minerals reserves.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 28, 2018
Rescuers to drill hole in flooded Thai cave in hunt for 12 missing boys, their soccer coach
Thai rescue workers will drill a narrow shaft into a cave where 12 schoolboys and their soccer coach are believed to be trapped by floodwaters, Thailand's interior minister said on Wednesday, the fourth day of a search that has been hampered by heavy rain.
BUSINESS
Jun 27, 2018
Sanctions on Iran create diplomatic headache, rather than economic catastrophe, for oil-dependent Japan
A new hard-line U.S. policy aimed at halting imports of Iranian crude oil may deal a significant blow to the growing ties between Tokyo and Tehran.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 27, 2018
U.S. Supreme Court condemns ruling that enabled internment of Japanese-Americans, but says travel ban is different
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld President Donald Trump's ban on travel from several mostly Muslim countries, but in the process also overruled an infamous 1944 decision that allowed the internment of 120,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II because of concerns over homeland defense following...

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