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Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 1, 2021
Day 8 recap: Jamaica sweep 100-meter podium as Games hit by first doping suspensions
Sprinter Elaine Thompson-Herah wins gold in the women's 100-meter showdown, becoming the fastest woman alive as she denies compatriot Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce a third Olympic title.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 31, 2021
Australian swimmer Emma McKeon closing in on record medal haul
Australian Emma McKeon could bow out of Tokyo 2020 on Sunday as the first female swimmer to win seven medals at a single Olympics.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 31, 2021
Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta beats listless Novak Djokovic for bronze
Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta claimed the bronze medal in the tennis men's singles at the Tokyo Games on Saturday, triumphing 6-4 6-7(6) 6-3 over a listless Novak Djokovic, a day after the Serbian was stopped in his bid to complete a historic "Golden Slam."
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 31, 2021
Xander Schauffele clings to gold medal position in Olympic golf as Hideki Matsuyama lurks
Matsuyama drained a clutch putt for par on 18 to finish with a four-under 67, keeping him a stroke off the pace heading into the final round.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 31, 2021
Russia emboldened to continue cheating, says USADA chief
Russia is competing in Tokyo as representatives of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) because the country was stripped of its flag and anthem for doping offenses.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 31, 2021
One person has Olympic accreditation revoked for leaving athletes' village for sightseeing
The organizers did not disclose how many people had their accreditation revoked, if the person or people involved were athletes, or when the violation took place.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 31, 2021
Walmart and Disney impose vaccination measures on some staff
Disney says all salaried staff working in-person in the U.S. must be inoculated, and is giving affected workers 60 days to comply and making certain limited exceptions.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 31, 2021
Olympics ratings slump forces NBC to haggle with advertisers
With the coverage now at its halfway point, average nightly viewership through Tuesday was down 42% from the 2016 Summer Games across all of NBC's outlets.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 31, 2021
EU envoys back Frenchman on hunger strike over Japan child custody
Japan, unlike most countries, does not recognize joint custody and children often lose contact with the noncustodial parent.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 31, 2021
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris to visit Vietnam and Singapore
Former U.S. foe Vietnam has emerged as a key U.S. partner and a vocal opponent of China's territorial claims in the South China Sea.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 31, 2021
Japanese fans enjoy Olympics at rare public viewing
A gathering at a theater in Gunma Prefecture saw 54 watch a volleyball game while maintaining social distance and keeping their masks on.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 31, 2021
Caeleb Dressel shatters world record to win Olympic 100 meter butterfly gold medal
American Caeleb Dressel stormed to the men's 100 meter butterfly gold medal on Saturday with a world record time of 49.45 to pick up his second individual gold of the Tokyo Games and Australia's Kaylee McKeown timed her swim perfectly to win the 200 meter backstroke.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 31, 2021
Britain takes home first-ever triathlon mixed-relay gold at Tokyo Games
Alex Yee delivered a superb final leg as Britain won the inaugural triathlon mixed relay gold medal on Saturday, their four-person team completing a wonderful week for the country, after also collecting two silvers in the individual events.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Jul 31, 2021
In pictures: Day 7 of 2020 Tokyo Olympics
It was a day of upsets (Ethiopia's Selemon Barega felled the reigning world 10,000-meter Olympic champion, Novak Djokovicu00a0was denied a gold) and a great day at the BMX races.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 31, 2021
Delta variant as contagious as chickenpox, warns U.S. health authority
The Centers for Disease Control recommends a return to universal wearing of face masks to reduce transmission.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 31, 2021
Day 7 recap: Novak Djokovic's golden dream ends on day of upsets marred by doping slur
Ethiopia's Selemon Barega fells the reigning world 10,000-meter Olympic champion on a day of upsets that saw doping allegations surface at the swimming pool.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 30, 2021
Olympic athletes are testing rules and taking a knee for Black Lives Matter
The pickup in demonstrations follows the International Olympic Committee's recent decision to relax decades-old restrictions on athlete expression.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Jul 30, 2021
The U.S.-China downward spiral will only get worse
Beijing is dismayed that the Biden administration has not softened Donald Trump's hard-line China policies and continues to hold it accountable for its misdeeds.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 30, 2021
South Korea's An San brushes off hairstyle critics to win third gold
Top-seeded An held her nerve as both her final and semifinal went to shootoffs, downing Elena Osipova of the Russian Olympic Committee to take gold.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 30, 2021
U.S. swimmer Ryan Murphy's suggestion of doping darkens mood at the pool
Murphy lost the second of his Rio backstroke titles to Russian Evgeny Rylov at the 2020 Olympics on Friday and the U.S. swimmer then suggested doping had played a part in his demise.
Japan won’t wait for G7 summit for possible U.S. trade deal
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top negotiator in tariff talks with the U.S. speaks to reporters at the Japanese Embassy in Washington on Friday.
Japanese universities step up to help international students after Harvard ban
The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University. U.S. President Donald Trump has barred Harvard from accepting international students, prompting Japanese universities to offer support.
Japan eyes tougher rules for foreign residents and tax hike for tourists
A tax-free shop in Kyoto in April 2024. Last week, members of a Liberal Democratic Party study group drafted a proposal seeking to scrap the country's tax-free shopping system altogether.
Foreign tourists with unpaid medical bills in Japan to be denied entry
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during ministerial meeting meeting on foreign residents in Japan on Friday at the Prime Minister's Office.
Victims mourned 17 years after Akihabara indiscriminate attack
A mourner prays for the victims of an indiscriminate fatal attack on a street of Tokyo's Akihabara district on the 17th anniversary of the incident on Sunday.
What can Kenji Yanobe’s cosmic cats teach us about humanity?
Kenji Yanobe’s spacesuited cats are the main characters of “Ship’s Cat Island,” the inaugural exhibition at Hyper Museum Hanno in Saitama Prefecture.
From ridicule to redemption: Rice crisis returns Koizumi to the spotlight
Agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks to the media as he inspects a warehouse storing stockpiled rice in Kanagawa Prefecture on May 30.
New Naoshima museum bets on Asia, not the West
Detail of Takashi Murakami, “Rakuchu-Rakugai-zu Byobu: Iwasa Matabei RIP” (2023-25)
Japan’s prison reform focuses on rehabilitation
Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Friday. Suzuki said preparations for the changes that will focus more on rehabilitation are being actively made at each correctional facility.
Accidents raise concern over how Japan vets foreign drivers
Keita Ueno (right), the owner of Kiki Driving School and an instructor who supports both foreign nationals and Japanese citizens returning from abroad in getting their foreign driver’s licenses converted, is worried about the current lax system for the process.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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How Japan's youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic
By Alex K.T. Martin

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