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JAPAN
Jul 20, 2021
IOC's Bach lauds medical workers and says Games will send message of peace
'We can only be together today because of the heroic efforts of all the doctors, nurses, healthcare workers and the many volunteers around the world,' Bach said on Tuesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 20, 2021
Urbanization could help solve China’s shrinking workforce
Rapid urbanization has fueled China's economic boom over the past four decades.
OLYMPICS
Jul 19, 2021
Tokyo spectator ban leaves Olympic athletes perplexed
Despite a number of sporting fixtures taking place in front of fans in Japan, the upcoming Games will be almost entirely free of fans.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Regional Voices: Hokkaido
Jul 19, 2021
Osaka University ties up with town to turn manure into methanol using LEDs
The town is planning to build a dedicated experimental plant, and expects it to be a new source of income for local dairy farmers.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Kyushu
Jul 19, 2021
Japanese supporter of Myanmar orphanage forced to watch turmoil from afar
Takashi Takino has been warned that stocks of food at the facility in the city of Yangon are running low.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 19, 2021
OPEC+ clinches deal to boost output as Gulf allies call truce
The deal is evidence of the strong bonds between members and shows 'OPEC+ is here to stay,” Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 19, 2021
Coco Gauff to miss Tokyo Games after testing positive for COVID-19
American Coco Gauff will not compete in the Tokyo Olympics after testing positive for COVID-19, the 17-year-old said on Sunday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 18, 2021
Asia’s wealthy heirs are backing women in business
Companies with diverse executive teams deliver better sales growth while research indicates investment teams with gender-balanced leadership tend to outperform.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 18, 2021
Cuba’s protesters deserve American support
U.S. President Biden needs a way to maintain pressure on the government while moderating penalties that have unavoidably worsened the economic plight of ordinary Cubans.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 18, 2021
IOC backs transgender weightlifter's selection for Tokyo
Laurel Hubbard is set to become the first transgender athlete to compete at the Games after she was selected for the New Zealand team in the women's superheavyweight weightlifting category.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jul 18, 2021
Louis Oosthuizen leads Collin Morikawa by one at the British Open
After consecutive runner-up finishes at the PGA Championship and U.S. Open, the South African will return on Sunday looking to secure his second career major title.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jul 18, 2021
China is carrying out the world’s largest climate migration program
Increasingly, residents of towns and villages in the north and west are feeling the brunt of drought, global warming and desertification and are being asked to move.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 17, 2021
IOC aware of Japan skepticism over Olympics but hopes home success will shift mood
'We ask and invite the Japanese people, humbly, to welcome and support the athletes from around the world,' IOC President Thomas Bach said.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Jul 17, 2021
Europe gets tough on vaccinations as threats replace incentives
As governments across Europe push to get everyday life back to normal, the carrot-and-stick approach to inoculations is shifting more to the latter.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Jul 17, 2021
As floods hit Western Europe, scientists say climate change hikes heavy rain
In general the rising average global temperature — now about 1.2 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average — makes heavy rainfall more likely, according to scientists.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 17, 2021
Usain Bolt sees only tough times in Tokyo for Jamaica's men
While Jamaica's women look very strong going into their Tokyo campaign, the country's sprinting legend thinks the men will struggle.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 17, 2021
Sprawling Oregon wildfire, largest of dozens in U.S., continues to grow
The Bootleg fire, the biggest among dozens of wildfires flaring across the Western U.S., has scorched an area exceeding the land mass of New York City.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 17, 2021
U.S. will need to work with China to make progress on North Korea, official says
Washington wants to work with Beijing on some areas of overlapping interest, despite fraught relations between the two over issues including trade and human rights.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 17, 2021
Moon 'wobble' and climate change seen as driving coastal flooding in 2030s
U.S. coastlines will face increasing flooding in the mid-2030s thanks to a regular lunar cycle that will magnify rising sea levels caused by climate change, according to research led by NASA scientists.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 17, 2021
Sydney tightens lockdown as Australia's COVID-19 cases rise
The city ordered a shutdown of building sites, banned nonessential retail and threatened fines for employers who make staff come into the office.
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.

Podcast

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

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After the asset-price bubble crash of the early 1990s, employment at a Japanese company was no longer necessarily for life. As a result, a new generation is less willing to endure a toxic work culture —life’s too short, after all.
How Japan's youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic
By Alex K.T. Martin

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