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ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 30, 2017
China bets U.S. won't carry out strike against North Korea
China is betting that U.S. President Donald Trump won't make good on his threats of a military strike against North Korea, with Beijing continuing to provide a lifeline to Kim Jong Un's regime.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 30, 2017
It's high noon on the roof the world
The two nuclear powers have to come to terms with the fact that no one will come out a winner if they resort to military action.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 30, 2017
Image analysis reveals North Korea may have planned to send first ICBM test much closer to Japan
A new imagery analysis obtained exclusively by The Japan Times sheds light on how North Korea views Japan and Tokyo's American protector as it seeks to master the technology for a long-range missile.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 30, 2017
U.S. bombers link up with ASDF, South Korean fighters in 'direct response' to North Korean ICBM test
U.S. strategic bombers flying from Guam linked up with Japanese and South Korean fighter jets Sunday in a display of the allies' ability to project "overwhelming force" after North Korea's second successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jul 29, 2017
Chinese woman undergoes plastic surgery in failed bid to evade $3.7 million debt
A 59-year-old woman from the central Chinese city of Wuhan transformed her appearance through plastic surgery in order to avoid 25 million yuan ($3.7 million) of personal debts, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 28, 2017
China's weaponization of trade
China is exploiting states' economic reliance on it to compel their support for its foreign policy objectives.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jul 28, 2017
Chinese man sentenced to death for killing parents and 17 others
A court in China's southwestern Yunnan province sentenced a man to death for killing his parents and 17 other people in a spat last year over money, state media said on Friday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 28, 2017
Britain to send warship to South China Sea for freedom of navigation exercises next year
Britain plans to send a warship to the disputed South China Sea next year to conduct freedom of navigation exercises, Defence Minister Michael Fallon said on Thursday, a move likely to anger Beijing.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Jul 26, 2017
Normalizing the North Korean threat with malls and tourism at South Korean city beside the DMZ
A half-hour's drive north of Seoul, along a highway lined with barbed wire, lie two shopping malls the size of several stadiums, a stone's throw from the world's most militarized border.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 25, 2017
North Korea threatens U.S. with 'nuclear hammer' after CIA chief appears to hint at regime change
North Korea vowed Tuesday to strike the U.S. with a "powerful nuclear hammer" after CIA chief Mike Pompeo hinted last week that Washington was open to the possibility of regime change.
EDITORIALS
Jul 25, 2017
Confrontation in the Himalayas
The distrust and the ensuing competition between Asia's two largest nations — both armed with nuclear weapons — must be contained.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 25, 2017
China police warn against illegal gatherings after rare Beijing protest
Police in the Chinese capital have warned against illegal gatherings after they shut down part of a major road when demonstrators gathered to stage a rare protest in Beijing, complaining the government was unfairly targeting a charity.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 24, 2017
Chinese fighter jets intercept U.S. spy plane in latest close encounter between two militaries
Two Chinese J-10 fighter jets have intercepted a U.S. Navy surveillance plane in an "unsafe" and "unprofessional" manner in international airspace over the East China Sea, the Pentagon said Monday, in the latest such incident involving the two militaries.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 24, 2017
What China's Himalayan warmongering reveals
The Sino-Indian crisis has underscored the centrality of propaganda in China's foreign policy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 24, 2017
Beijing is watching Justin Bieber
In China it is politics, or the perception of such, that is the surest route to getting stamped 'banned by Beijing.'
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 24, 2017
Vietnam says Indonesian Navy shot its fishermen in South China Sea
Indonesia's navy shot and wounded four Vietnamese fishermen aboard a fishing boat in the South China Sea over the weekend, Vietnamese authorities said.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jul 24, 2017
Beijing police hunt suspect after stabbing spree and deadly hit-and-run
Beijing police are hunting for a man suspected of stabbing five people and then plowing into a group of nine others with a van, killing one and injuring eight, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

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A sinkhole in Yashio, which emerged in January, was triggered by a ruptured, aging sewer pipe. Authorities worry that similar sections of infrastructure across the country are also at risk of corrosion.
That sinking feeling: Japan’s aging sewers are an infrastructure time bomb