List of Japan articles
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Aerial view of Tokyo city with Tokyo tower and Mount.Fuji, Japan at night. Are the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in Trouble?
With an out-of-control budget, bumbling leadership, and embarrassing scandals, the city of the future is looking to the past for guidance.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Will the U.S. Break This Fundamental Law of Finance?
The EU, Japan and others are doing something economists thought was impossible. Will the U.S. join them?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Yen and the Art of Political Scandals
What the downfall of Japan’s economy minister tells us about the surprising amount of corruption in honest Tokyo.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Davos Diary: Money is Rushing Out of Emerging Markets. Blame China.
China is slowing down, and pulling out hundreds of billions from emerging markets in the process.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Most Important Japanese Boy Band You’ve Never Heard of Isn’t Breaking Up
Even Japan’s prime minister is happy that his country’s oldest boy band is staying together
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How FP Stumbled Into a War With China — and Lost
Our intrepid reporters tried to find a peaceful solution to the crisis in the East China Sea. They ended up igniting a war in Asia.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What Type of Great Power Does China Want to Be?
Beijing has taken on a new role on the world stage. But is something worrisome driving this good behavior?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Wisdom of Japan’s Cunning Contrition
Questions for Jennifer Lind, an expert on apologies in international politics.
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URIBE, COLOMBIA: Members of the revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla forces, (L-R) Ivan Rios, an unidentified woman fighter, Joaquin Gomez, Marcos Calarca, Jairo and Pedro Aldana, arrive in Uriba, Colombia, 25 October 1999, for a new round of peace talks with government representatives. The talks resumed 24 October 1999 after months of delays and setbacks renewing hopes for an end to more than three decades of civil war. (ELECTRONIC IMAGE) (Photo credit should read PEDRO UGARTE/AFP/Getty Images) Stories You Missed in 2015
From the winding down of Colombia's 50-year war to Ireland's booming economy, here are the stories that flew under the radar this year.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Surge in Women’s Employment Is Driving Japan’s Economy
But a host of other negative indicators are pulling it into recession. Why can't Tokyo get its act together?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China Gets a Seat in the World’s Currency Country Club
The Chinese renminbi just joined the U.S. dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen, and the British pound in a most exclusive club.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Remember Abenomics? Neither Does Abe.
Japan's prime minister has been obsessing over defense policy and international affairs, at the expense of his country's lackluster economy.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Volkswagen Scandal Spreads to Iconic U.S. Carmakers
Ford and General Motors are accused of using a similar emissions cheat to the one used by Volkswagen.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Humbert Humberts of Japan Have a Powerful New Friend in Tokyo
"Compensatory dating," a practice whereby older men pay to date Japanese teens, appears to be a bigger problem than the government is willing to admit.
