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UNITED

EDITORIALS
Feb 11, 2013
An American risk to the world
The Obama administration is walking a financial tightrope as long as Democrats and Republicans fall short of overall agreement on U.S. fiscal reform.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 11, 2013
Consequences of teens' living for the camera
Growing up in front of a camera has planted the seeds of some seriously scary consequences for kids with regard to what they want most in life today.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 4, 2013
Ending the international war against women
According to the United Nations, one in three women worldwide will be raped or beaten in her lifetime.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 4, 2013
Cameron lost in channel fog
In his speech demanding a new deal for Britain in the EU, British Prime Minister David Cameron sought a popular political fix to quiet his rightwing rebels.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 1, 2013
Mortgage fraud culture has its walk of the stars
A few criminal convictions have sent a powerful signal in the fight against insider trading. The stars of wider-scale bank mortgage fraud have walked.
EDITORIALS
Jan 25, 2013
A defiant North Korea
If North Korea goes ahead with a threatened nuclear test in reaction to a U.N. Security Council scolding, it will the first under new leader Kim Jong Un.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 23, 2013
The American comeback kid
One of the more startling forecasts is that China will become the largest economy by 2016 and that the U.S. will become an energy exporter by 2020.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jan 19, 2013
Japan's growing diaspora reflects concern for the country's future
Here's a surprising fact: One Japanese in a hundred lives abroad. It's surprising because so much is made lately of Japan's growing insularity. Young people seem less interested than ever in studying overseas, and voters last month elected a new government whose platform includes strong doses of patriotism...
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 15, 2013
Agricultural land grabs in developing countries?
Should rich countries — or investors based there — be buying agricultural land in developing countries?
Japan Times
SOCCER / SOCCER SCENE
Jan 10, 2013
Kagawa returns to changed landscape at high-flying United
Shinji Kagawa will not have expected anything to come easy when he joined Manchester United last summer, but having returned from injury over the holiday period to a team that has been winning in his absence, the forward will have to work overtime to establish himself at Old Trafford.

Longform

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’