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Politics › May. 24, 2013 - 04:00PM JST
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday defended his economic stragey, though the central bank chief acknowledged a need for better communication with financial markets, a…
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Politics › May. 24, 2013 - 03:50PM JST
Two elderly South Korean women forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels on Friday abruptly cancelled a meeting with Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto after…
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National › May. 24, 2013 - 04:00PM JST
As a native of the United States, I’m all too familiar with the controversy around daylight savings time. I’m not sure if anyone actually “loves”…
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National › May. 24, 2013 - 02:00PM JST
The Tokyo Board of Education has released the names of some of the schools in the capital at which the use of corporal punishment was…
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National › May. 24, 2013 - 06:57AM JST
All Nippon Airways (ANA) on Thursday said it would put its Dreamliner fleet back into service this weekend, several days ahead of schedule.
ANA, the…
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National › May. 24, 2013 - 06:45AM JST
Germany is the most popular country in the world despite well-publicized protests against its insistence on austerity measures within the European Union, an annual poll…
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National › May. 24, 2013 - 06:07AM JST
Cigarettes at one time were the hallmark accessory of any cool kid in school who dared sneak off to the bathroom to share a stolen…
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Crime › May. 24, 2013 - 02:00PM JST
Police said Friday they have arrested a truck driver after his vehicle struck and killed a 17-year-old schoolgirl on her bike in Moriya, Ibaraki Prefecture.…
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Crime › May. 24, 2013 - 07:10AM JST
The Association of Japanese Private Railways says violence against personnel at train stations is still rife.
According to the association's data, which covers the 16…
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Crime › May. 24, 2013 - 03:41AM JST
The billionaire ex-owners of Ranbaxy denied Thursday charges by the Japanese buyers of the Indian generics giant that they hid key details about a U.S.…
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Crime › May. 23, 2013 - 04:45PM JST
A Nepali man, who was wrongfully convicted of murdering a woman and spent 15 years in a Japanese prison before being released last year, has…
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Crime › May. 23, 2013 - 06:16AM JST
An 18-year-old youth has been arrested on a charge of attempted murder after he allegedly hit a 16-year-old girl in the head with a baseball…
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Entertainment › May. 24, 2013 - 08:06AM JST
A trip to space with Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio raised 1.2 million euros ($1.5 million) for charity at a glitzy fundraiser at the Cannes film…
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Entertainment › May. 24, 2013 - 06:47AM JST
Cinema audiences are migrating to television, followed by Hollywood writers, actors and directors, who look to the small screen as a place for greater artistic…
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Entertainment › May. 24, 2013 - 06:29AM JST
Blockbuster features that cost $100 million or more may grab the headlines, but the area of filmmaking that is growing fastest is documentaries, say industry…
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Entertainment › May. 23, 2013 - 12:57PM JST
Former Morning Musume singer Mari Yaguchi, 30, has apologized for having an illicit affair. Yaguchi apologized for the misdeed on her regular TV show this…
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Entertainment › May. 22, 2013 - 04:47AM JST
He's played a science-fiction hero, policeman and even Hamlet. But now actor Keanu Reeves is taking on a new role - as director of a…
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Politics › May. 24, 2013 - 12:30PM JST
Japan on Thursday accused a South Korean newspaper of "dishonorable" behavior for publishing an editorial suggesting the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were "divine…
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Politics › May. 24, 2013 - 06:56AM JST
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe flies to Myanmar Friday bearing almost $1 billion in development aid and a plan for a nationwide electricity grid as Japan…
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Politics › May. 24, 2013 - 05:36AM JST
The Philippines on Thursday warned that territorial rows in Asia are "causing considerable tension that could lead to conflict" as several countries face off with…
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Business › May. 24, 2013 - 03:45PM JST
Tokyo shares closed 0.89% higher Friday in a rollercoaster session that came a day after the Nikkei 225 index suffered its worst one-day drop since…
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Business › May. 24, 2013 - 06:51AM JST
Nissan Motor Co Ltd will recall about 841,000 vehicles worldwide including the Micra compact car, also known as the March, as a result of a…
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Business › May. 24, 2013 - 06:28AM JST
Japan's largest brokerage firm Nomura Holdings Inc says it is seeking partners to expand its retail and asset management operations in Southeast Asia and was…
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Business › May. 24, 2013 - 06:27AM JST
Japan's financial markets gyrated wildly Thursday, underscoring the vulnerability of its economy to a loss of investor confidence as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attempts shock…
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Business › May. 24, 2013 - 06:12AM JST
Spiking interest rates in Japan threaten to undermine, and possibly end, the recovery being engendered by Abenomics.
That could reverse gains not only in Tokyo…
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Technology › May. 24, 2013 - 07:00AM JST
Online retail titan Amazon announced Thursday it is expanding sales of its Kindle tablet computers to over 170 countries and territories around the world, and…
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Technology › May. 24, 2013 - 06:51AM JST
South Korea's Samsung Electronics said Thursday its latest flagship Galaxy S4 had become its fastest selling smartphone to date, topping 10 million units globally less…
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Technology › May. 24, 2013 - 04:35AM JST
NTT DOCOMO Inc has acquired MCV Guam Holding Corp (MCV), the largest cable television and Internet service provider in Guam and the Commonwealth of the…
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Technology › May. 23, 2013 - 12:29PM JST
Japan's SoftBank is preparing to hand the U.S. government an unusual degree of influence over operation of Sprint Nextel, after security concerns raised by the…
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Technology › May. 23, 2013 - 06:59AM JST
Twitter said Wednesday it was stepping up security measures for the popular messaging service following a series of high-profile breaches by hackers hitting media organizations…
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Sports › May. 24, 2013 - 01:57PM JST
Cleveland gave manager Terry Francona the satisfaction of victory upon his return to Fenway Park as the Indians beat Boston 12-3 on Thursday, staying top…
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Sports › May. 24, 2013 - 12:29PM JST
Jakub Kindl scored on a power play in the second period, Daniel Cleary had an empty-net goal and Jimmy Howard made 27 saves to help…
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Sports › May. 24, 2013 - 06:17AM JST
Keisuke Honda and Shinji Kagawa were picked Thursday in Japan's 26-man squad for the 2014 World Cup qualifier against Australia next month.
Japan has 13…
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Sports › May. 24, 2013 - 06:15AM JST
South Korea and Japan's domination of eastern Asian soccer is being further eroded, judging by the make-up of the quarterfinalists in this season's Asian Champions…
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Sports › May. 24, 2013 - 06:01AM JST
Hiroyuki Nakajima was reactivated from Major League Baseball's disabled list on Thursday by the Oakland A's, who sent the Japanese shortstop to their top developmental…
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World › May. 24, 2013 - 03:36PM JST
A powerful earthquake has hit Russia's Far East with slight tremors spreading westwards as far as Moscow.
Marina Kolomiyets, spokeswoman for Obninsk's seismic station of…
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World › May. 24, 2013 - 01:00PM JST
At least nine cars were torched and two schools and a police station were set ablaze as riots swept through Stockholm's immigrant-dominated suburbs early Friday…
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World › May. 24, 2013 - 12:55PM JST
Britain's newspapers on Friday paid tribute to the soldier brutally murdered in a suspected Islamist attack in London and demanded that the preacher suspected of…
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World › May. 24, 2013 - 07:20AM JST
U.S. President Barack Obama Thursday laid out new guidelines for drone strikes and launched a new bid to close Guantanamo Bay, warning that a "perpetual"…
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World › May. 24, 2013 - 07:16AM JST
The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks to gay Scouts but not gay adult Scout leaders — a fiercely contested compromise that some…
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Lifestyle › May. 24, 2013 - 06:26AM JST
Despite being a country where firearms are incredibly rare and licenses to own them notoriously difficult to obtain, there nevertheless remain thousands of gun nuts…
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Lifestyle › May. 23, 2013 - 05:57AM JST
Like many people who moved to Tokyo in their youth, most of the time I’ve spent in Japanese taxis has been directly preceded by heavy…
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Lifestyle › May. 22, 2013 - 07:20AM JST
Probably like the majority of the Japanese, I wasn’t familiar with Tommy Bahama before they opened their spacious two-story store with bar and restaurant in…
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Lifestyle › May. 21, 2013 - 05:45AM JST
NHK, Japan’s public service broadcasting corporation, has created a technology which offers hope to the visually impaired by making use of the sense of touch…
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Lifestyle › May. 20, 2013 - 06:17AM JST
Attention, bargain-hunters around the world: Japanese goods - from cars to televisions - are going on sale.
Credit Japan's drive to pump cash into its…
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Arts & Culture › May. 23, 2013 - 06:15AM JST
A new app aims to bring William Shakespeare's sonnets to the masses with the help of short films starring stage actors performing them in front…
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Arts & Culture › May. 22, 2013 - 07:18AM JST
When your enemy is sworn to exterminate every one of you, can you -- should you -- try to cut a deal with him to…
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Arts & Culture › May. 21, 2013 - 06:24AM JST
When amateur actress Etsuko Shigemoto walks out in front of a Paris audience in an all-Japanese production this month she will forget about being 87…
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Arts & Culture › May. 19, 2013 - 06:00AM JST
Sitting in a vault in Antwerp, the 32+ carat Koi Diamond is one of the world’s most unique large gems. Big and beautiful as it…
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Arts & Culture › May. 18, 2013 - 06:29AM JST
JJ Abrams is master of one universe — and he's about to try conquering another.
The director who rebooted "Star Trek" for a new generation,…
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Kuchikomi › May. 22, 2013 - 06:55AM JST
Silence and politics don’t mix. Politics is speech – perpetual, ceaseless speech. Small wonder if the tongue slips, or if politicians blurt out more than…
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Kuchikomi › May. 19, 2013 - 06:00AM JST
Mr A, a 59-year-old employee at a trading firm, resides in Saitama Prefecture. He's the not-so-proud father of three sons, the eldest in his 30s…
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Kuchikomi › May. 14, 2013 - 07:00AM JST
On April 15 during a visit to New York, Tokyo Gov Naoki Inose remarked that as a tentative first step to transforming Tokyo into a…
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Kuchikomi › May. 11, 2013 - 06:56AM JST
“Women,” observed Arthur Schopenhauer, “are by nature enemies.” Who cares what a crusty old 19th-century misogynist philosopher said? Shukan Bunshun (May 2-9), for one. The…
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Kuchikomi › May. 07, 2013 - 06:45AM JST
In Izumi Sano City, the municipality adjacent to Kansai International Airport, the streets since last September have been patrolled by pairs of elderly men wearing…
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Executive Impact › May. 20, 2013 - 06:31AM JST
With a 53-year history in Japan, Cathay Pacific is certainly one of the best known foreign airlines. Although it has been a tough two years…
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Executive Impact › May. 13, 2013 - 07:00AM JST
Build, move, cure and power – those four words sum up the business of GE, a multinational company with 300,000 employees in more than 150…
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Executive Impact › May. 06, 2013 - 06:55AM JST
English media companies have struggled in Japan over the past few years but Custom Media, a full-service media production and design company, is proving that…
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Executive Impact › Apr. 29, 2013 - 06:00AM JST
Salesforce.com Japan has come a long way since it opened for business in a one-room office in Shibuya in 2000. Today, the company has around…
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Executive Impact › Apr. 22, 2013 - 06:00AM JST
As general manager for the Public Affairs Division of Toyota Motor Corp, Masami Doi is pretty much asked by media about every possible aspect of…
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New Products › May. 24, 2013 - 06:53AM JST
JVC’s new powerful camcorder the GC-P100 is the sport oriented or action amateur filmmaker's dream come true. Indeed, thanks to JVC’s Falcon Bird technology, the…
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New Products › May. 23, 2013 - 06:07AM JST
Sharp has unveiled two models of 4K compliant LCD TVs: AQUOS UD1 – 70 inch and AQUOS UD1 – 60 inch. The 70 inch will…
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New Products › May. 22, 2013 - 05:35AM JST
Pioneer is releasing Blu-ray disk player BDP-160 with Wi-Fi Direct functionality that allows wireless connections to smart devices without a Wi-Fi environment.
BDP-160 also has…
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New Products › May. 21, 2013 - 06:24AM JST
Online shopping site FELISSIMO has started accepting orders for canned bread with the flavor of local specialties of the six prefectures in the Tohoku area.…
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New Products › May. 20, 2013 - 06:42AM JST
From Akao Aluminum comes the Ice Cream Shovel, the latest in its ispoon series of implements specially created to enhance your frozen confectionery eating experience.…
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Travel › May. 24, 2013 - 07:00AM JST
The cruise industry is adopting a passenger bill of rights that guarantees the "safety, comfort and care" of guests.
The bill of rights promises, among…
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Travel › May. 24, 2013 - 06:54AM JST
Every year, seven to eight million foreigners make the trip to Japan. But where do they go sightseeing? And, more importantly, do these places come…
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Travel › May. 22, 2013 - 05:54AM JST
Hear the word museum and odds are you conjure up an image of portrait halls and sculpture gardens - the traditional home of traditional art.…
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Travel › May. 20, 2013 - 06:52AM JST
Located in Kanagawa Prefecture, the city of Hakone is a popular weekend travel destination for people living in the Tokyo area. The town’s numerous open-air…
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Travel › May. 18, 2013 - 06:15AM JST
The Hilton Tokyo beer garden, tucked away on the hotel’s 7th floor, will open on June 1. Patrons making the pilgrimage to the beer garden…
