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UNITED

SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Feb 28, 2014
Moyes' Manchester United dream rapidly turning sour
Imagine you are Malcolm Glazer, the owner of Manchester United who is the Howard Hughes of sport. Glazer, also the owner of the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers, never speaks to the media, probably doesn't even read newspapers.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 21, 2014
U.S. media losing credibility
The U.S. media's reduction of the recent diplomatic row between New Delhi and Washington to India wrong, America right, is an indictment of their professional integrity.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 18, 2014
U.N. investigators issue report on North Korea's systematic human rights abuses
North Korean security chiefs and possibly even Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un himself should face international justice for ordering systematic torture, starvation and mass killings bordering on genocide, U.N. investigators said on Monday.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 11, 2014
U.K. must not be left behind in the global drugs debate
Britain owes it to its own young people to help countries such as Colombia break the stranglehold of the drug lords once and for all, writes Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg,
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 11, 2014
President Obama’s magic words and numbers
President Barack Obama's critics should reconsider their assumption that he is cynical. It is his belief in magic words and numbers that is scary.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 10, 2014
Myths about economic inequality
True, the gap between the rich and the poor is enormous, wider than most Americans would wish, but this reality has made economic inequality a misleading intellectual fad, blamed for many of our problems.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Feb 8, 2014
West Ham appeal over Carroll doomed to failure
West Ham was left with enough egg on its face to make omelettes for its entire squad. The club's appeal against an appeal to try to find a loophole that would enable Andy Carroll to get off his red card ended in predictable failure, leaving the club with a six-figure legal bill.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 4, 2014
Netanyahu's talks with Kerry will be critical
Support for an independent Palestine alongside the state of Israel is not a constant. An odd tension in public opinion exists on both sides: The desire for the two leaderships to negotiate a settlement is set against a much weaker conviction that they are capable of doing it.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 4, 2014
Republicans debating illogical immigration deal
U.S. House Republicans' big idea for advancing immigration reforms is to let Illegal immigrants who meet various conditions work in the U.S. legally, but not let them get on a fast track to citizenship. Republicans should drop this subject if they can't do better.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 31, 2014
The Affordable Care Act's four-word Waterloo?
If the defense of a state prerogative, filed in federal court by Oklahoma's attorney general, succeeds, the decline of Obamacare will accelerate.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 31, 2014
What exactly are these Obama 'executive orders'?
In the aftermath of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, there is a lot of confusion about the phrase 'executive actions.' These are an optional tool the president can use to get something done.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 28, 2014
Marijuana's sobering lessons from Prohibition
Like alcohol after the repeal of Prohibition, legal marijuana will be a profitable business kept on a tight leash. And we should expect the public health consequences tol be mixed, though hardly a disaster.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 27, 2014
Why the world must remember the Holocaust
This year's observance of the International Remembrance Day — the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp — fell at a time when there are reminders all around us of the dangers of forgetting.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Jan 24, 2014
Mata's arrival likely signals end for Kagawa at Man United
There can be a fine dividing line between knowing when you are well off and lacking ambition.
COMMENTARY / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Jan 21, 2014
Is the Obama administration prioritizing ties with China?
The different tones of the U.S. and Japanese reactions to China's recent establishment of an air defense identificatin zone raises the question of whether the Obama administration is prioritizing ties with Beijing.
COMMENTARY
Jan 21, 2014
The real cause of Japan's renewed prosperity
Despite the apparent disconnect in recent years between the exemplary performance of Japanese students and the nation's stock and currency market fluctuations, the knowledge and skills that students bring to the workplace in the form of human capital make the companies that hire them more competitive.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 17, 2014
How U.S. won — and lost— the war on poverty
In reality, Americans both won and lost the War on Poverty launched 50 years ago this month. This is an ambiguous truth that the acrimonious U.S. political culture has trouble accepting.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Jan 17, 2014
Mourinho in form ahead of Man United showdown
With Jose Mourinho it is usually a metaphorical knife in the ribs followed by a supportive arm around the shoulder.
SDF spots China’s biggest aircraft carrier for first time
The Fujian aircraft carrier is seen in Shanghai in May 2024 as it leaves for its first sea trial.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Is America ready for Japanese-style 7-Elevens?
Convenience stores are a fixture of Japanese life and 7-Eleven, a chain that began in the U.S. in 1927, opened its first store in Japan in 1974 — and then became wholly Japanese-owned in 2005 through parent company Seven & I Holdings.
Final weeks of World Expo in Osaka likely to see large crowds
With one month left to go, crowds are expected to swell at the World Expo in Osaka during its final weeks.
Japan's elderly population down at around 36.2 million
The estimated number of people age 65 or older in Japan stands at 36.19 million as of Monday, accounting for record 29.4% of the country's total population, according to the internal affairs ministry.
Pole vault rivals in awe after Duplantis has another historic night in Tokyo
Sweden's Armand Duplantis competes in the men's pole fault final during the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium in Tokyo on Monday.
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.
Tara Davis-Woodhall leaps to gold and finds redemption at world championships
Tara Davis-Woodhall celebrates after winning the women's long jump final at the World Athletics Championships at Tokyo's National Stadium on Sunday night.
An aesthetic escape to Hakone’s art-drenched hills
Between traditional examples of fine art and sleek, modern exhibitions that blend with nature, Hakone offers a unique escape from Tokyo's urban sprawl.
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Sumadori Bar on Shibuya Ward's main Center Gai street targets young customers who prefer low-alcohol drinks or abstain altogether.
Rethinking that second drink: Japan’s Gen Z gets ‘sober curious’
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