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VLADIMIR PUTIN

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 24, 2015
With friends like Vladimir Putin, who needs enemies?
Avenging the City of Light, Russia and the West can turn Syria into the desert of darkness, but from that darkness nothing good will come.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Nov 24, 2015
Power-line sabotage in Crimea risks military move by Putin
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has taken an ominous new turn. So far it's Crimea that's paying the price, but Kiev could be next.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 23, 2015
United with Putin against terror?
Putin sees the Paris terrorist attacks as an opening for Russia to improve its ties with the West, and he wants to take advantage of it. The West should not shut him out.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 23, 2015
A doomsday machine, or the next best thing
It was no accident that Russia leaked its plans to build an incredibly powerful nuclear weapon capable of laying waste to vast portions of the U.S. or China.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 23, 2015
Islamic State main foe and Russia must realize Assad must go, Obama says
U.S. President Barack Obama said Russia must make a strategic decision about Syria and the next several weeks will show whether Russian President Vladimir Putin will give up backing the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad to join in a broad campaign against Islamic State.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 17, 2015
Putin questions U.S.-led TPP trade pact arrangements
Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized on Tuesday the way the U.S.-backed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal is being arranged, saying the "clandestine talks" do not promote stability in the Asia-Pacific region.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 17, 2015
No city is safe while the war continues in Syria
France and other U.S.-led coalition countries must all now assume they are potential targets for attacks like the ones in Paris. They need to decide whether they should subscribe to Putin's method of stamping out terror.
WORLD
Nov 16, 2015
U.S. carries out second delivery of ammunition to Syrian Arab fighters battling Islamic State
The United States has carried out a fresh delivery of ammunition to fighters from the Syrian Arab Coalition battling the Islamic State group in northern Syria, pushing ahead with a strategy that initially unnerved ally Turkey, a U.S. official said Sunday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 16, 2015
Focus on wiping out Islamic State in Syria, Obama urges Putin
U.S. President Barack Obama vowed on Sunday to step up efforts to eliminate Islamic State and prevent more attacks like those in Paris, while urging Russia's Vladimir Putin to focus on combating the jihadist group in Syria.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 15, 2015
Talks to end Syria war shift gear in wake of deadly Paris attacks
Russia, the United States and powers from Europe and the Middle East outlined a plan Saturday for a political process in Syria leading to elections within two years, but differences remained on key issues such as President Bashar Assad's fate.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 14, 2015
WHO says 25,000 wounded a month in Syria; medicines lacking and cholera feared
About 25,000 people are wounded each month in the escalating warfare in Syria and it getting harder to deliver medical supplies for civilians trapped in areas held by Islamic State insurgents, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 12, 2015
Putin's daughter and Russia's second-generation elite
Since Vladimir Putin began cementing his grip on Russia in the 1990s, many of his friends have grown famously rich.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 11, 2015
Syrian crisis: Are we near the beginning of the end?
With the Syrian regime proving far stronger than Western countries expected, a political settlement to the horrible civil war may finally be within reach.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 11, 2015
Assad represents nothing more than a dead end
Syrian President Bashar Assad created the very monster that he is now pretending to fight, and he has no interest in winning.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 9, 2015
Putin's Fortress Russia takes an economic toll
Hit by Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis, Vladimir Putin has adopted an isolationist policy that is crippling the Russian economy.
WORLD
Nov 9, 2015
Social media photos purport to show Russian soldiers in multiple Syria locations, bloggers say
Three serving or former Russian soldiers have been geolocated by photographs in Syria, including locations near Hama, Aleppo and Homs, Russian bloggers said Sunday, suggesting the Kremlin's operation stretches well beyond its air campaign.
WORLD
Nov 4, 2015
Unlike Iran, Russia may be open to Assad's exit
Russia does not see keeping Bashar Assad in power as a matter of principle, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow said on Tuesday in comments that suggested a divergence of opinion with Iran, the Syrian president's other main international backer.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 2, 2015
Nothing harmless about Putin's new 'Moscowteers'
Across Europe, apologists for Russia and Russian policy have coalesced into what amounts to a fifth column.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Oct 31, 2015
Trenches, improved tactics help rebels survive Syria onslaught
After the initial shock of intensive Russian airstrikes, Syrian rebels on the receiving end of a major offensive say better organization and new tactics have helped them to stem losses and fight back.
WORLD
Oct 28, 2015
Parents of first Russian soldier to die in Syria want another autopsy: report
The parents of the first Russian soldier to die in Syria are demanding a repeat autopsy, the Novaya Gazeta newspaper reported Wednesday, a day after they said they doubted the military's account that their 19-year-old son had hanged himself.
Japan braces for more quakes as authorities dismiss doomsday hype
Evacuees from Akuseki Island, located in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecuture, arrive at Kagoshima Port on Friday.
Heatstroke alert issued for 19 prefectures as Japan enters 'once-in-a-decade' heat wave
Japan will experience a heat wave through mid-July on a “level only seen once in a decade,” the Meteorological Agency said on June 30.
Hidden AI prompts in academic papers spark concern about research integrity
Waseda University is one of 14 institutions in eight countries found to have used hidden prompts in research papers.
Tokyo and Kyoto feature among top ‘noctourism’ destinations
Tokyo ranked second after New York and ahead of Dubai and Singapore in a ranking of the top global cities for nighttime tourism.
Global matcha 'obsession' drinks Japan's tea farms dry
Matcha is added to beverages on offer at Kettl Tea in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles on May 20.
Ainu land rights in crosshairs as Hokkaido communities debate nuclear waste
A street in Suttsu, Hokkaido, with a sign put up by an anti-nuclear organization. The small community is considering hosting a facility that would hold nuclear waste.
Ghibli’s Isao Takahata exhibit shows how beloved anime is made
“The man who planted Japanese animation” exhibition includes a variety of sketches, drawings and animation cels from Isao Takahata films such as color design for characters by Michiyo Yasuda from "Grave of the Fireflies."
Flag football facing challenges and opportunities ahead
Japan’s women’s flag football team at the 2025 International Bowl in Los Angeles in June. The sport is enjoying continued growth in the country.
From Hokusai’s Great Wave, shinkansen to One Piece: a cultural treasure box for Lego Japan
Michael Ebbesen, general manager of Lego Japan, says Lego bricks based on Japanese culture have a rich global appeal and are sellable around the world.
With farmed fish, RelationFish swims against the tide in fine dining
Chef Hideaki Matsuo (middle) and the staff of Oseto Suisan Fisheries prepare to check on their sustainably farmed fish.

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