Articles from www.japantimes.co.jp

Articles from www.japantimes.co.jp

Brazil's far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro has denied ties to Trump strategist Steve Bannon, calling such reports "typical fake news" after his son Eduardo claimed to have met Bannon and said that they would “unite forces against cultural Marxism.” (www.japantimes.co.jp)
5 days ago Trump Far-right Brazil Bannon

More medical schools in Japan suspected of manipulating test scores of female applicants, minister reveals | The Japan Times (www.japantimes.co.jp)
6 days ago Japan

U.S. business group says Trump's China tariffs costing Americans $1.4 billion a month (www.japantimes.co.jp)
6 days ago Trump China U.S.

Gecko butt-dials 'bazillion' times from Hawaii seal hospital (www.japantimes.co.jp)
8 days ago

Japan continues to rely on coal and eyes more coal-fired plants despite global criticism (www.japantimes.co.jp)
9 days ago Japan

The Japanese traffic light blues: Stop on red, go on what? (www.japantimes.co.jp)
9 days ago Japan

Tokyo adopts ordinance banning discrimination against LGBT community - In a bid to curtail hate speech ahead of the 2020 Games, Tokyo on Friday adopted an anti-discrimination ordinance aimed at protecting the LGBT community. (www.japantimes.co.jp)
12 days ago Tokyo

New Zealand's civil rights watchdog raised concerns over new laws allowing customs officers to demand passwords for electronic devices at border. Failure to comply with “digital strip search” rules can result in fine of 5,000 New Zealand dollars along with seizure and destruction of device. (www.japantimes.co.jp)
13 days ago New Zealand

Osaka severs ties with sister-city San Francisco over 'comfort women' statue (www.japantimes.co.jp)
15 days ago San Francisco

Japan's sei whale meat sales deemed to be in violation of Washington convention - After the session, a Japanese government source said it was regrettable that the country's stance of putting emphasis on the importance of whaling for research purposes was not understood. (www.japantimes.co.jp)
15 days ago Japan

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Friday that Japan's pacifist Constitution stands out in the world for embodying peace and should be emulated, not revised. “If Japan revises its Constitution and allows itself to go to war then I think we are making a very regressive step,” he said. (www.japantimes.co.jp)
19 days ago Japan Malaysia

About 40 percent of seabirds surveyed around the world had toxic substances derived from plastic waste in their bodies amid concern over marine plastic pollution, according to a recent study by two Japanese universities. (www.japantimes.co.jp)
19 days ago Japan

New U.S.-South Korean free trade pact raises hopes for NAFTA, China deals (www.japantimes.co.jp)
23 days ago China U.S. Korea NAFTA

60% of Japanese view idea of relocating or closing ancestral graves as positive: survey (www.japantimes.co.jp)
25 days ago Japan

A pair of tiny robots released by the Hayabusa2 space probe touched down Saturday on an asteroid 300 million km from Earth, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said. (www.japantimes.co.jp)
26 days ago Japan Robot

A medical university in Tokyo that was recently found to have manipulated entrance exam scores to discriminate against female applicants has chosen its first female president, officials said Thursday. (www.japantimes.co.jp)
28 days ago Tokyo

Despite government push of AI and robots, Japanese fear tech to lead to inequality and job losses: survey (www.japantimes.co.jp)
2018-9-14 Japan AI Robot

'World-class' skeleton of herbivorous dinosaur excavated in Hokkaido - Announcing the completion of time-consuming “cleaning” work, a research team in Hokkaido has unveiled what it claims is the largest dinosaur skeleton ever found in Japan. (www.japantimes.co.jp)
2018-9-12 Japan

Japan fails to win approval to increase tuna catch quotas - The proposals were supported by Taiwan and South Korea but opposed by the United States and the Cook Islands. States in opposition said that it's too early to expand quotas as the numbers of such tuna are still extremely small. (www.japantimes.co.jp)
2018-9-8 Japan Korea Taiwan

Russia to stop flying U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station in April, increasing pressure on NASA (www.japantimes.co.jp)
2018-9-3 Russia NASA

Ahead of U.S. elections, Russian hackers and meddlers remain active: Nearly a year after Russian government hackers meddled in the 2016 U.S. election, researchers at cybersecurity firm Trend Micro zeroed in on a new sign of trouble: a group of suspect websites. (www.japantimes.co.jp)
2018-9-3 Russia U.S.

North Korea preparing large-scale military parade in September (www.japantimes.co.jp)
2018-9-2 Korea

America is one of the few cultures with insults for smart people (www.japantimes.co.jp)
2018-8-30 U.S.

Fifth death confirmed at Japan hospital after air conditioning fails | The Japan Times (www.japantimes.co.jp)
2018-8-30 Japan

Japan's child abuse hotline may go toll-free to reduce high hang-up rate (www.japantimes.co.jp)
2018-8-27 Japan Child Abuse

Sony's Aibo Robot Dog is coming to US (www.japantimes.co.jp)
2018-8-25 Robot Sony

President Donald Trump's tariff policies reflect a serious misunderstanding of the importance of free trade and Japanese companies' contributions to the U.S. economy, Japan's trade minister said. (www.japantimes.co.jp)
2018-8-25 Trump Japan U.S.

Most Japanese companies support loosening the country's tight immigration system to cope with a severe labor shortage, but they favor skilled workers who can fit into the workplace, not an influx of unskilled laborers, a poll shows. (www.japantimes.co.jp)
2018-8-20 Japan Immigration

Rare bamboo rat spotted at Machu Picchu after 10-year gap (www.japantimes.co.jp)
2018-8-20

Beijing basks in bluest skies in a decade as campaign against smog pays off (www.japantimes.co.jp)
2018-8-20 China Smog

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