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JAPAN

Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 30, 2021
Organizers of Olympics to allow nursing mothers to bring children to games
By Manasi Pathak
Some athletes had complained that they were being forced to choose between the games and their young children.

ASIA PACIFIC

Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 30, 2021
North Korea's Kim slams officials over 'great crisis' in virus fight
By Jesse Johnson
Kim accused senior officials of failing to carry out strict anti-virus measures, leaving the isolated country vulnerable to 'grave consequences,' state media reported Wednesday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 30, 2021
Finding relevance in the Communist Party among China's Gen-Z
By Yew Lun Tian
Party membership grew by a record 2.43 million in 2020, and as is typical, about 80% of new joiners were 35 or under.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 30, 2021
Australia hit by new lockdown as slow vaccine rollout criticized
By Georgina McKay
Since the weekend, more than 12 million Australians have been ordered to stay home in cities across the country, including the state capitals of Sydney, Brisbane and Perth.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 30, 2021
How China’s security law changed Hong Kong forever in 12 months
By Iain Marlow
The law China imposed on Hong Kong a year ago was much more than a piece of legislation: It showed Beijing was now running the show.

BUSINESS

Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2021
India eases route for companies to switch to green energy
Accelerating the use of clean energy in offices and factories, India's largest power-consuming segment, will be key to achieving the country's emissions goals.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2021
What inflation? Pandemic leaves emerging Asia's consumer recovery behind.
By Leika Kihara and Tom Westbrook
Slow vaccinations and a new wave of coronavirus infections have delayed economic recoveries in countries like Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and India.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2021
Big Tech is gearing up for a massive fight with Modi’s India
By Saritha Rai and Vlad Savov
India is growing more assertive in its efforts to control online communications, challenging Twitter and Facebook's practices and threatening to set a precedent that could extend worldwide.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 30, 2021
80-year-old Japanese firm may be key to next-gen chip tech
By Yuki Furukawa and Pavel Alpeyev
Disco is one of a number of little-known Japanese companies that are indispensable to semiconductor production.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Jun 30, 2021
When do electric vehicles become cleaner than gasoline cars?
By Paul Lienert
The question has become a hotly debated issue that's taking center stage as governments around the world push for greener transport to meet climate targets.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2021
Elon Musk touts Starlink progress as cost and demand hurdles linger
By Supantha Mukherjee and Hyunjoo Jin
If the service is successful, it could vastly expand the reach of broadband internet around the world and even provide a new platform for traders and others with exotic internet needs.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 30, 2021
One Japanese company’s approach to remote work: Pay up to stay home
By Yuki Furukawa and Pavel Alpeyev
The gradual rollout of vaccines globally has fueled a debate over how to entice workers back to the office.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2021
Japan's factory output fell 5.9% in May amid pandemic and chip scarcity
By Yuko Takeo and Yoshiaki Nohara
The drop in industrial production was several percentage points worse than even the most pessimistic forecast, as car production remained stunted by semiconductor shortages.

Opinion

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 30, 2021
How the Irish question affects us all
By David Howell
Partition of Ireland was the solution in the last century, but now it persists as the impossible problem in this one.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 30, 2021
A half-century of an endless drug war
By Ricardo Lagos, Helen Clark and Olusegun Obasanjo
Fifty years of failure is enough. Now is the time for the U.S. to lead the world toward humane, people-centered and evidence-based drug policy for the twenty-first century.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 30, 2021
Paid maternity leave saves lives
By Joia Crear-Perry
Without paid leave, mothers often return to work before they are healthy enough to do so, resulting in a ripple effect of postpartum health complications.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 30, 2021
Coronavirus and China’s geopolitical rollercoaster
By Ramesh Thakur
It seemed for a time that the pandemic could mark a moment of ascendancy in the “psychological balance of power” as China moved to supplant America's leadership role.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 30, 2021
How great powers should compete
By Michael Spence
Many in the West disapprove of China's single-party governance structure, just as vocal elements in China disparage Western liberal democracy, which they argue is in terminal decline.

Sports

Japan Times
SOCCER
Jun 30, 2021
Late Artem Dovbyk winner sends Ukraine into first Euro quarterfinals
Sweden looked resigned to taking the game to penalties — but Dovbyk had other ideas, scoring in the 12st minute to send Ukraine into uncharted territory.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jun 30, 2021
Is there such a thing as too much Shohei Ohtani?
By Victor Mather
The Angels' two-way star has leapt into this year's MVP conversation, but in order to prove himself a winner he will have to balance his workload on the mound and in the batter's box.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Jun 30, 2021
Kyoya Sasaki hopes time with Tokyo Samurai will aid U.S. ambitions
By Kaz Nagatsuka
The Morioka Municipal High School ace is among a growing number of players without an international school background who are developing through an elite basketball program.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA
Jun 30, 2021
Hawks pull level with Bucks as Giannis Antetokounmpo exits injured
Antetokounmpo had 14 points and eight rebounds in 24 minutes before exiting with 7:14 left in the third quarter.
Living conditions index hits lowest level in 15 years in Japan
The share of respondents to a Bank of Japan quarterly survey in June who said they have become worse off came to 61.0%, up 5.1 percentage points from the previous survey.
Tokyo emerges as a top market for global tech talent
Tokyo ranks among the world's top tech talent hubs alongside Beijing, the San Francisco Bay Area, Bengaluru, Paris, New York and Dublin, according to Colliers' newly released global tech markets report.
From stalking to death threats, female candidates still face harassment
Mayu Ushida, a former NHK newscaster running for election in the Tokyo electoral district on the Democratic Party for the People ticket, signs an autograph for a voter after a public rally at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Tuesday.
CDP leader criticizes ‘Japanese First’ policy and calls for inclusive society
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Yoshihiko Noda said it is obvious that Japanese society could not function without the help of foreign workers in manufacturing, health care, construction and public transportation.
JSA’s 100th anniversary event is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for sumo fans
Egyptian wrestler Osunaarashi has some fun with children during a special Japan Sumo Association event in 2017.
Japan's rice farmers are confounded by Shinjiro Koizumi’s policies
Kiyoshi Shibata stands in front of one of the rice paddies in Murayama, Yamagata Prefecture, where he produces the prefecture's signature rice brand Tsuyahime.
From stalking to death threats, female candidates still face harassment
Mayu Ushida, a former NHK newscaster running for election in the Tokyo electoral district on the Democratic Party for the People ticket, signs an autograph for a voter after a public rally at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Kawaii Lab redefines idol pop for the TikTok generation
Misa Kimura is the main producer for Kawaii Lab, a project by entertainment agency Asobisystem whose groups have found success by pairing a social media-first strategy with a fresh perspective on traditional idol-pop tropes.
Craig Mod's life in motion in a disappearing Japan
Mod's memoir “Things Become Other Things” chronicles his walking trips across the Kii Peninsula, surveying “a graceful end to a certain life cycle.”
With China and Trump, Japan defense report says world entering ‘new era of crisis’
A senior member of a Self-Defense Forces honor guard inspects a formation before the arrival of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for a visit to the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on June 30.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan
By Megha Wadhwa

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