Wood shortage and soaring prices threaten lumber industry in Japan
With demand rising in the United States and China, where the national economies are picking up, lumber prices have skyrocketed and Japanese firms are struggling to procure material.
Japan preparing to provide COVID-19 vaccine to Vietnam
Upper House lawmaker Masahisa Sato, who heads the ruling party's Foreign Affairs Division, said on a television program that the government has started making arrangements with Vietnam.
What's behind surging tensions in the Taiwan Strait?
In recent months, China has ramped up its military activities near the island as the threat of conflict in a dispute with a long and complicated history grows.
Japan's opposition parties demand extended Diet session
Jun Azumi, from the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, said more time is needed to debate COVID-19 vaccination programs and whether to hold the Tokyo Olympics.
U.K.'s Boris Johnson calls on G7 to vaccinate world by end of 2022
Japanese gaming arcades are on their last life
A Mount Everest climbing season like no other
U.S. intel report on UFOs: No evidence of aliens, but ...
The damage done by a lengthy appeals process
3/11 museum complete in hard-hit city in Miyagi
Fish consumption in Japan showing signs of recovery
Japan Times 1971: Japanese believe they are 'superior'
Japan looks to hydroelectric dams to reduce emissions
Japan and South Korea unlikely to hold summit on fringes of G7 meeting
Tokyo reports 436 new COVID-19 cases while Okinawa logs 261
Asia-Pacific ministers agree on accelerating vaccine distribution
Tech giants and tax havens targeted by historic G7 deal
Exxon's activist director says she’s no climate radical
Honda to close Japan engine parts plant in 2025
Japan business sentiment down for first time in four months
Japan consumers get mixed bag of slow wage growth and forced savings
'An iron curtain': Exiled Belarusians protest on border
Taiwan to get 750,000 COVID-19 vaccine shots from U.S.
Trump starts public re-emergence with focus on his grievances
At least 138 killed in deadliest Burkina Faso attacks since 2015
In Peru's hinterland, a town battles world's worst COVID-19 outbreak
In rural India, fear of testing and vaccines hampers COVID-19 fight
Naomi Osaka shows what a real champion is made of
Osaka is an introvert with high expectations of herself and who battles anxiety and depression. Success and those earnings have not eliminated her unease.
An inexplicable lack of urgency stalls Japan’s vaccination campaign
Japan has the lowest rates of confidence in vaccines in the world, with just 30% of Japanese saying they “strongly agreed” that vaccines are safe and effective.
China may be the answer to Janet Yellen's 'mystery'
China is no longer easily caricatured as a place with a limitless supply of cheap labor churning out bargain-basement stuff for consumers and businesses around the world.
India’s suspect ‘Quad’ credentials
COVID-19 has brutally exposed the hollowness of India’s pretensions to power, status and influence and boasts of being a vaccine superpower and pharmacy to the world.
Memorial leader Jon Rahm forced out with positive COVID-19 test
League body says players should be freed from Copa obligations
Lions overpower Swallows in three-homer ninth inning
Japan's Olympic hopefuls thrash Ghana U-24
Shohei Ohtani whiffs 10 to lead Angels past Mariners
No fans would mean 'no fun' at Olympics, Kei Nishikori says after third-round win in Paris
Ran is a bashful beauty who's up for hanging out
Enoki the dog is ready to walk on into your life
Foreign Residents Support Center: A place to turn when you need assistance
Online harassment is all a part of Japan’s ‘post’ racism
Should we worry so much about our BMI?
‘Waffles + Mochi’ teaches kids how to eat — with gusto
At Dashin Soan, handmade noodles take pride of place
Breakfast (and lunch) is covered with this sara udon omelette
With diplomatic lines drawn and soft power spent, a standoff emerges
Exhibition commemorating Japanese A-bomb sites opens in Australia
‘Hokusai’: A force of nature brought to life
‘Brothers in Brothel’: Come for the sex, stay for the family drama
