JAPAN TIMES Brexit Headlines: 1 Apr - 30 Apr 2019

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BUSINESSMAY 1, 2019

U.K. auto output to collapse on no-deal Brexit, industry body warns

Britain's car output under a no-deal Brexit could collapse to a level last seen in "the dark days of the 1980s," the nation's industry body forecast on Tuesday. The warning came as Jaguar Land Rover said its new Land Rover Defender model would be assembled ...

BUSINESS  APR 30, 2019

Sense of urgency: Facebook joins study on how social media impact elections

Facebook announced Monday it would make its data available to academics studying the 

impact of social media on elections, part of an effort to prevent manipulation of social 

platforms. The leading social network said some 60 researchers from 30 academic 

institutions across 11 countries were ...

COMMENTARY / WORLDAPR 28, 2019

Watch out U.K. conservatives, Farage is coming after you

BY THERESE RAPHAEL

The anti-EU militant's new Brexit Party seeks seats in the European Parliament, but his larger ambition is realigning British politics.

NATIONAL / POLITICSAPR 26, 2019

Abe implores EU leaders to avert no-deal Brexit and safeguard Japan's 'gateway to Europe'

Touring ahead of the G20 summit, Abe told European Council chief Donald Tusk and European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker to avoid a no-deal exit “by all means.”

WORLD / POLITICSAPR 25, 2019

Scotland will prepare for a second independence vote regardless of U.K. nod: Nicola Sturgeon

Scotland will start preparing for an independence referendum before May 2021 without permission from London, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Wednesday. Scotland, part of the United Kingdom for more than 300 years, rejected independence by 10 percentage points in a 2014 referendum. But differences over ...

COMMENTARY / WORLDAPR 23, 2019

Brexit: compromise or chaos?

BY DAVID HOWELL

At long last, a whiff of compromise is in the air.

WORLD / POLITICSAPR 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. May survived ...

BUSINESS / ECONOMYAPR 16, 2019

Foreign Minister Taro Kono asks U.K. counterpart Jeremy Hunt to ensure a smooth Brexit

In a meeting Tuesday in Tokyo with U.K. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Foreign Minister Taro Kono expressed a "strong hope" that Britain will make a smooth exit from the European Union and avoid a "no deal" Brexit. Because the recent impasse over Brexit has led ...

BUSINESSAPR 15, 2019

Abe asks U.K. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt to minimize Brexit impact on Japan firms and world

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday asked the U.K. to minimize the negative impact of its departure from the European Union on Japanese companies and the broader global economy. During a meeting with British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt in Tokyo, Abe said Japan welcomes the ...

WORLD / POLITICSAPR 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. But even as David Lidington, May's de facto deputy, said there was common ground between the two ...

WORLD / POLITICSAPR 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 ...

WORLD / POLITICSAPR 13, 2019

Brexit chaos leaves Scotland on independence tightrope

With the U.K. tearing its hair out over Brexit confusion, Scotland's government is biding its time as it prepares for the ultimate prize — independence. Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, a strong opponent of Brexit, has said she will set out her thinking on independence ...

WORLD / POLITICSAPR 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. May promised to step aside once the divorce agreement has been ...

WORLD / POLITICSAPR 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. The Wednesday evening European Union summit ...

BUSINESSAPR 11, 2019

Japan government to monitor markets after Brexit delayed, Abe says

Japan will continue to urge the U.K. to avoid leaving the European Union without any deal, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Thursday, following news that an arrangement had been reached to delay Brexit by six months. On Wednesday, European Union and U.K. leaders agreed ...

WORLD / POLITICSAPR 10, 2019

EU set to force U.K. into long Brexit delay in danger for Theresa May

The U.K.'s exit from the European Union looks set to be delayed by as long as a year — a blow for Theresa May that risks a destabilizing backlash at home. European Council President Donald Tusk rejected May's request for a brief postponement to the ...

WORLD / POLITICSAPR 10, 2019

May pleads with Macron and Merkel for Brexit delay

British Prime Minister Theresa May toured Berlin and Paris on Tuesday to plead for an extension to the deadline for Brexit, which looked increasingly likely to be approved by EU leaders at a crunch meeting in Brussels. May has asked for a second extension to ...

ASIA PACIFIC / SOCIAL ISSUESAPR 9, 2019

As 'Brexodus' gap leaves U.K. short of nurses, Filipino candidates struggle with IELTS English test

Bracing for life after Brexit, U.K. hospitals badly need more nurses like Filipino Jobie Escalona. But she twice flunked the English language test that is required to get there, in which she was asked to write about topics such as the merits of immigration ...

WORLD / POLITICSAPR 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 ...

WORLD / POLITICSAPR 8, 2019

Give us a strong leader and reform the Brexit-fatigued system, Britons say in survey

British voters want a strong leader who is willing to break the rules and force through wide-scale reform after three years of Brexit crisis pushed confidence in the political system to a 15-year low. The 2016 referendum revealed a United Kingdom divided over much more ...

WORLD / POLITICSAPR 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. "So far, our impression is that Mrs. ...

WORLD / POLITICSAPR 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. "If we are forced to remain in we must be the ...

WORLD / POLITICSAPR 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. May has ...

WORLD / POLITICSAPR 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. May wrote to ...

COMMENTARY / WORLDAPR 4, 2019

Options for Britain amid the Brexit mess

BY HARUAKI DEGUCHI

Britain's history was woven through its close connection with the continent, and it cannot prosper without it.

BUSINESS / CORPORATEAPR 4, 2019

U.K. government and labor union officials plan trip to Japan in bid to save Honda's Swindon plant

British government officials and senior labor union members are set to visit Japan soon to urge Honda Motor Co. to review its plan to close its automobile plant in Swindon, in the south of the country. Late last month, thousands of people — including workers ...

NATIONAL / POLITICS  APR 4, 2019

Japan and U.K. to postpone 'two-plus-two' security talks amid Brexit deadlock

Tokyo and London have decided to postpone their ministerial security talks scheduled 

for next week, a Japanese government source said Wednesday, due to the U.K. 

Parliament's continued efforts to end the Brexit impasse. The fourth "two-plus-two" 

meeting between the two countries' foreign and defense ministers ...

WORLD / CRIME & LEGAL  APR 3, 2019

U.K. police investigate devices found placed on rail line linked to Brexit

British police on Tuesday were investigating two attempts to disrupt the rail network

 that they said were linked to Britain's exit from the European Union. The devices 

were found by rail workers on tracks in central England on March 21 and 27, but 

police said ...

WORLD / POLITICSAPR 2, 2019

U.K. Parliament rejects four alternatives to May's Brexit deal

The British Parliament has spoken — and it has said no, again. Lawmakers seeking a way out of the U.K.'s Brexit morass on Monday rejected four alternatives to the government's unpopular European Union divorce deal that would have softened or even halted the country's departure. With ...

BUSINESSAPR 2, 2019

BMW and Peugeot go ahead with temporary U.K. plant shutdowns despite Brexit delay

BMW's Mini plant in Britain closes for four weeks from Monday and Peugeot's Vauxhall car factory shuts for two weeks in moves planned months ago to help the firms deal with any disruption resulting from Brexit, which has since been delayed. BMW, which builds just ...

WORLD / POLITICSMAR 31, 2019

Britain's Theresa May under pressure to forge softer EU divorce deal

Britain's exit from the European Union was in disarray after the implosion of Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit strategy left her under pressure from rival factions to leave without a deal, go for an election or forge a much softer divorce. After one of the ...

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