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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 22, 2019
It’s time for a green EU deal
With the world facing increasingly serious environmental threats, European leaders should make a green Europe their number-one priority for the coming years.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 22, 2019
Facebook signals softer stance on political ad rules for EU elections
Facebook Inc.’s head of global affairs said the social-media company is willing to explore ways to exempt some European parties and EU elections from its rules about online political advertising, the Financial Times reported.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 21, 2019
Theresa May’s party reportedly will tell her to quit before July
A top member of Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party will tell her in the coming week that she must step down by the end of June or her lawmakers will try again to depose her, the Sunday Times reported, without citing sources.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 18, 2019
U.S. planes, tractors and food on EU tariff list over Boeing-Airbus subsidy spat
Planes, tractors, food and handbags featured on a list of U.S. imports worth $20 billion that the European Union said on Wednesday it could hit with tariffs in a transatlantic aircraft subsidy dispute.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 16, 2019
The Chinese have landed in Europe
The China presence in Europe seems far more complicated, extensive and insidious than that of Japan during its economic heyday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 15, 2019
May under fire from Tories as hunt for Brexit compromise goes on
Both Theresa May’s government and the opposition Labour Party said Sunday that their talks represented the best chance of finding a Brexit solution and ending months of deadlock.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 13, 2019
British lawmakers handed 11-day break to ruminate over ways to break Brexit deadlock
Britain’s overwrought members of Parliament have been sent home for 11 days, to rest and reflect on how to get the country out of the Brexit deadlock. As they ponder the future of the divorce talks, which now look like dragging on until the end of October, here are some scenarios they will be weighing:...
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 13, 2019
U.K. finance chief says Theresa May won’t quit until Brexit is delivered
Theresa May will stay on as U.K. prime minister to get Brexit done, even if that means remaining in the job until the end of October, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond said Friday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 12, 2019
Some in EU imagine there could be another Brexit delay after Halloween deadline
The ink was not yet dry on EU leaders’ deal to give Britain a hard-fought, second delay to Brexit until November when some diplomats and officials in the bloc grudgingly conceded: This may well not be the last extension.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 11, 2019
China struggles to ease concerns over ‘Belt and Road’ initiative as summit looms
China is struggling to ease worries about President Xi Jinping’s signature plan to build a new Silk Road as it readies for a major summit in late April, especially among Western nations wary about debt, transparency and Chinese influence.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 10, 2019
First hotel with sleeping capsules opens in Slovenian capital
Tourists who visit Ljubljana can now stay in the Slovenian capital’s first sleeping capsules after the city’s Central Hotel put up 10 capsules in a former telephone switchboard room.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 10, 2019
Suffering and deaths mount in Libya conflict as Islamic State exploits chaos
Casualties from the battle for Libya’s capital mounted on Tuesday while Islamic State killed three people in a desert town, illustrating how jihadis may exploit renewed chaos.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 9, 2019
Brexit hangs in balance as May talks with Labour ahead of bid for delay at EU summit
Brexit hung in the balance on Monday as Prime Minister Theresa May tried to coax the Labour Party into agreeing to a divorce deal with a better chance of passage by Parliament, ahead of a crisis EU summit where she will try to delay the April 12 departure.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 8, 2019
China wants to work with EU on trade and is not trying to split east from west, premier writes
China wants to work with the European Union on issues from climate change to trade, Premier Li Keqiang wrote in a German newspaper before a summit next week aimed at cementing ties.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 7, 2019
May has not moved ‘an inch’ on Brexit, says Labour’s legal chief
British Prime Minister Theresa May has not moved “an inch” on her Brexit “red lines,” Labour’s top legal policy chief Shami Chakrabarti said on Sunday, suggesting there was little hope of a quick breakthrough before an EU summit.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 7, 2019
Euroskeptic lawmaker says Britain should make life difficult if left in EU
Leading euroskeptic Conservative lawmaker Jacob Rees-Mogg said if Britain were to stay in the European Union beyond April 12, the country should become the bloc’s most difficult member and veto a seven-year financial framework.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 7, 2019
U.K.’s Theresa May, seeking compromise with opposition, warns of greater risk of no-deal Brexit if talks drag on
British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Saturday that the longer it takes to find a compromise with the opposition Labour Party to secure a parliamentary majority for a Brexit deal, the less likely it is that Britain will leave the European Union.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 6, 2019
May’s Brexit talks with Labour stall as delay request fails to convince EU
Britain’s opposition Labour Party said Friday that talks with the government on a last-ditch Brexit deal had made no progress, as EU leaders said Prime Minister Theresa May had not convinced them that they should let Britain delay its departure next week.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Apr 5, 2019
UNHCR warns of false rumors as migrants gather near Greece’s northern border, seeking to cross
Dozens of refugees and migrants stuck in Greece gathered in a field near the country’s northern border on Thursday, seeking to travel onward to Northern Europe.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 4, 2019
Options for Britain amid the Brexit mess
Britain’s history was woven through its close connection with the continent, and it cannot prosper without it.
Murakami says his novels are ‘different’ from AI literature
Haruki Murakami's first book in three years hit shelves in Japan on Friday.
Thailand gets serious about chasing high-spending tourists
Chinese tourists at Wat Arun Ratchawararam Rathawaramahawihan in Bangkok
Japan needs caregivers. Young Indians are answering the call.
Young people in India's northeast are increasingly studying Japanese in hopes of building new lives and careers in Japan.
Tokyo hospital baby hatch accepts 20 newborns in first year
Hitoshi Kato (left), head of San-ikukai Hospital in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, speaks during a news conference at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building on Thursday.
Hayabusa2 flies past asteroid as Japan aims to acquire data for planetary defense
A graphic illustration of the Hayabusa2 probe flying past the asteroid Torifune
Okinawa’s prized seaweed under threat as oceans warm
Local harvesters gather <i>mozuku</i> during low tide at Hyakuna Beach in the city of Nanjo, Okinawa Prefecture. As the planet warms, rising ocean temperatures are placing increasing pressure on the seaweed industry.
‘Defense,’ not ‘warfare,’ stressed as pacifist Japan beefs up capabilities
Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi attends an annual training session near Mount Fuji at Higashifuji Training Field in Gotemba, Shizuoka Prefecture, on June 7.
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.
X Games returns to Chiba with new team format
Skateboarder Sora Shirai practices at Makuhari Messe in Chiba on Friday afternoon. X Games Chiba begins on Saturday.
NU Festival tests Takanawa Gateway City complex’s culture cred
Veteran improvisers Kazuo Imai and Atsuhiro Ito brought some unruly energy to NU Festival, a three-day multimedia event held at the Takanawa Gateway City complex.  

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