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COMMENTARY / World
Oct 21, 2013
America’s reckless financial policy
The U.S. pattern of decision making (or nondecision making) on debt deadlines has already created additional risk and will surely be reflected in upward pressure on interest rates.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 21, 2013
China has its own political gridlock to worry about
The U.S. and Chinese governments share a significant problem: how to align their political systems to enable the vital structural economic changes their countries desperately need.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Oct 20, 2013
Wildlife victory: shark fin falls from favor in China
Once a rare delicacy served to honored guests, shark fin soup had become so popular among China’s fast-growing elite in recent years that it was pushing some shark species close to extinction.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 19, 2013
U.S. helped asylum-seeker Wang tell Beijing about Bo in 2012: Clinton
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has disclosed new information about the United States’ role in a major 2012 diplomatic incident in which a Chinese official sought asylum at a U.S. consulate but was turned away. The incident — which helped trigger the downfall of prominent Communist...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Oct 13, 2013
Chinese prison bars U.S. doctor from dissident
Moved by the plight and failing health of a Chinese dissident imprisoned for a few lines of poetry, a retired American doctor traveled from her quiet life in suburban Washington to the gates of his eastern China prison on Saturday and asked she be allowed to give him a medical evaluation.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 8, 2013
Obama’s lesson in losing face
The White House is likely hoping that APEC leaders do not take President Obama’s cancellation of a planned trip to Southeast Asia because of a budget impasse as a slap in the face.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society / FOCUS
Oct 8, 2013
As China targets graft, bribes abound in schools
For years, Yang Jie’s friends warned her to save up for her daughter’s education. Not for tuition or textbooks, but for the bribes needed to get into the city’s better public schools.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society / ANALYSIS
Oct 3, 2013
As Xi tightens grip, hopes for China reforms vanish
After Xi Jinping took over as head of China’s Communist Party in December, some liberals dared to hope that change was in store for the world’s most populous nation.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 3, 2013
Chinese dissident Chen gets backing from Catholic University, two institutes
A Chinese human rights activist whose dramatic escape from his homeland last year made him a celebrity appeared Wednesday in Washington with officials of Catholic University and two other institutions to announce they will sponsor his crusade against abuses by Beijing.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 23, 2013
Parts of fallen star’s legacy may yet survive
Ousted Chinese politician Bo Xilai’s prospects of an eventual comeback evaporated Sunday after he was sentenced to life in prison and permanently deprived of all political rights, but aspects of his legacy may live on, experts said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Sep 22, 2013
Bo sentenced to life in prison over corruption
Ousted Chinese Communist Party heavyweight Bo Xilai gets life in prison for corruption, embezzlement and abuse of power as the fallen star’s heavily publicized trial concludes.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Sep 18, 2013
For world, U.S. gun violence is new norm
Jimmy Davis, a 41-year-old London disc jockey, was saddened when he heard about the latest mass shooting in the United States. But like much of the world after the attack Monday at Washington’s Navy Yard, he was no longer shocked.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 17, 2013
Beijing sees a victory as UNSC role gets a boost
China has every right to be pleased with the U.S.-Russia agreement on Syria, which has returned the United Nations to center stage.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Sep 16, 2013
Activist Chinese billionaire detained
Last month, Chinese police invited Wang Gongquan in for a “cup of tea,” often a prelude to detention. He had launched a public petition calling for the release of arrested dissident Xu Zhiyong, and the authorities were not amused. But Wang effectively told the police to forget it — he had no time...
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 15, 2013
China’s Net crackdown shows fear trumps reform
China’s new government is threatening jail terms for Web comments deemed defamatory. But by Beijing’s definition, ‘defamation’ could mean anything that any politically connected person doesn’t want to see made public.
EDITORIALS
Sep 13, 2013
Improving chilly Japan-China ties
Japanese and Chinese leaders must work to prevent the Senkaku issue from harming broader, mutually important interests.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 5, 2013
After Snowden revelations, China worries about cyberdefense
China has been seen as the aggressor in cyberattacks, but many worry its own defenses are woeful.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 3, 2013
China’s population time bomb
China’s one-child policy, implemented to prevent overpopulation and raise living standards, will likely negatively impact China’s future economic growth.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 2, 2013
Could a maritime conflict start a Sino-American war?
There is now little doubt that China and the West are going to clash. The as yet unanswered questions are will the conflicts become ‘physical,’ and if so how and why
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 1, 2013
Why Bo Xilai stole the show instead of the CCP
Bo Xilai may be heading to jail, but he retains some chance of political rehabilitation should things change dramatically in China.
Uruguay federation reportedly cancels charter flight after World Cup exit
Uruguay's Jose Maria Gimenez reacts after the team's loss against Spain at the 2026 FIFA World Cup on Friday.
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
India’s gig workers pay the price for exposure to New Delhi’s hazardous air
Rohit Kushwaha waits for a customer as he delivers his last parcel of the day, in New Delhi in January. His work as a delivery driver has helped pay the family’s bills, but has had a significant impact on his health.
Life inside Japan’s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
Japan’s fertility system offers few safe paths for same-sex couples
A Tokyo Pride parade participant holds a sign that says "we want to be a married couple, not a couple."
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
A French ship with close ties to Japan combines arts and sciences on the high seas
Romain Troublé, the executive director of Tara Ocean Foundation, speaks to visitors aboard the Tara during a rare port call in Tokyo in April.
In Kyushu’s far south, Senti.U sparks a culinary destination
Chef Yasuhiko Uchida was born in Saga Prefecture but has made his home in Kanoya, Kagoshima Prefecture, since 2012.
‘The colors speak for themselves’: How Japan’s chroma bible went global
“A Dictionary of Color Combinations” is meant to function as a quick-reference guide for artists, designers and anyone with a passing interest in aesthetics as a quantifiable pursuit.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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