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EDITORIALS
Sep 9, 2015
Europe’s, and the world’s, failings
A failure to forge a coherent and morally acceptable refugee policy is just one more crisis in what has become an annus horribilis for Europe.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 9, 2015
Cameron is right about how to take in refugees
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron has taken a battering over his handling of Europe’s refugee crisis, but his new approach is the right one.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 9, 2015
Hungarian TV journalist fired for tripping up fleeing refugees
A camerawoman for a private television channel in Hungary was fired late on Tuesday after videos of her kicking and tripping up migrants fleeing police, including a man carrying a child, spread in the media and on the internet.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 9, 2015
Hungary’s Orban plays for high stakes with tough stance on migrants
Hungary’s fiery Prime Minister Viktor Orban has always relished a fight, be it with foreign bankers, international lenders or the European Union over policy toward Russia.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Sep 7, 2015
Every European parish should host a refugee family, pope says
Pope Francis called on Sunday on every European church parish and religious community to take in one refugee family in a gesture of solidarity, which he said would start in the tiny Vatican state where he lives.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 7, 2015
U.K. to use foreign aid money to pay for housing Syrian refugees
Britain will use part of its foreign aid budget to help meet the costs of accommodating refugees arriving from Syria, its finance minister said Sunday, in a bid to head off public concerns over the impact on local services.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 4, 2015
On Arctic tip of Europe, Syrian migrants reach Norway by bike
Some Syrian refugees have found a cheaper, safer, though much more roundabout way of reaching Europe than crossing the Mediterranean — heading to the Arctic Circle and entering Norway from Russia, sometimes by bicycle.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 1, 2015
Refugee crisis is suddenly Merkel’s biggest challenge
In the past two weeks, Germany has been shaken by a perfect storm of headlines that have elevated the refugee issue to the very top of the public and political agenda.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Sep 1, 2015
EU asylum rules strained as refugee throngs ride the rails to Vienna, points west
Trains carrying hundreds of migrants started arriving in Vienna on Monday after Austrian authorities appeared to give up trying to apply European Union rules by filtering out refugees who had already claimed asylum in Hungary.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 28, 2015
Some 50 migrant corpses found in Hungary-licensed refrigerator truck abandoned in Austria
Austrian police found as many as 50 dead refugees left in an abandoned truck on a highway near Vienna, sparking international calls to deal with the flood of migrants to the European Union.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Aug 27, 2015
Serbia vows to keep border open, even urges migrants to settle in depopulated towns
Serbia will never close its borders to migrants, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic told Reuters on Wednesday, but he said EU leaders must help frame a plan on how to cope with the tens of thousands pouring into the Balkan region.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Aug 19, 2015
Germany feels migrant strain, forecasts 750,000 will seek asylum this year
The German government will sharply raise its forecast for the number of asylum seekers expected to arrive this year to a record-breaking 750,000, coalition sources said on Tuesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Aug 19, 2015
Europe braces for threefold migrant surge; Italy nabs eight alleged traffickers tied to deaths
More than three times as many migrants were tracked entering the European Union by irregular means last month than a year ago, official data showed on Tuesday, many of them landing on Greek islands after fleeing conflict in Syria.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 9, 2015
The EU becomes the disunited bailout union
No one other than the Eurocratic elite believes in the EU. In the future the debate on the continent may increasingly be about how fast and far to roll back ‘Europe.’
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 9, 2015
What Greece needs to prosper
The remedy for Greece lies in adopting the right structural reforms, including dismantling corporatist arrangements and practices that obstruct innovation and entrepreneurship.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2015
Can Singapore save democracy?
The conditions exist for Singapore to move from being a showcase of efficient authoritarianism to an exemplar of that much-invoked but nearly extinct thing: democracy.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 3, 2015
U.S., NATO fear Greek fifth column to aid Russia
The paranoid panic that Greece’s economic problems could destroy Europe’s and America’s geopolitical standing should generate a mix of scorn and laughter.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 2, 2015
The night the dream died
The financial contagion of Greek profligacy may have been averted, but the price will be the even more virulent political contagion of Euroskepticism.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 28, 2015
‘Surreptitious’ Grexit plan not so secret after Varoufakis slip
Yanis Varoufakis divulged the details on how Greece could sneak out of the euro “without telling anyone” in a conference call released Monday.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 25, 2015
The Iran nuke deal is fine, but 10 years late
Everything gained in the Iran nuclear agreement could have been accomplished 10 years ago if not for stubborn resistance by Europe and the U.S.
‘My dream is broken’: Japan visa rules push out foreign residents
A man orders from a kebab shop in the Okubo district in Tokyo.
Japan triples departure tax in push to combat overtourism
Tourists in Yanaka Ginza, Tokyo, on Wednesday. Japan tripled its International Tourist Tax (departure tax) to ¥3,000 from ¥1,000 on Wednesday for all travelers leaving Japan, regardless of nationality.
Japanese-language education is at a turning point
The country is gradually transforming Japanese-language education from a volunteer-driven system into a professional, government-supported network to better serve its growing foreign population. 
More facilities in Japan placing sanitary bins in men’s restrooms
A sanitary bin with an awareness sticker placed in a men's restroom in the Nagasaki Municipal Government building
Japan plans to sharply raise fees for residence permits from October
Foreign tourists walk on the path leading to the Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in May.
Six of the best: rikishi of note in each sumo division
Kazuma (right) faces off against future <i>yokozuna</i> Onosato during the All Japan Amateur Sumo Championships at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo in December 2020.
Some startups see opportunity in an aging Japan
Yasmin Baba, CTO of Amilis, wins the Grand Prize at the Pitch2Tokyo Grand Final on Feb. 19.
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."
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.
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.

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