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Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 5, 2020
Residents take coronavirus surveillance into their own hands
A week after Malaysia ordered a partial lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus, construction supervisor Hafi Nazhan saw residents in his affluent Kuala Lumpur neighborhood jogging outside.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA
Apr 5, 2020
NBA's prospects for resuming season on the wane after CBA's move: report
The NBA's chances of resuming the 2019-20 season are growing smaller because of the global coronavirus pandemic, ESPN's Brian Windhorst said.
BASEBALL / MLB
Apr 5, 2020
Astros' Justin Verlander will donate pay during MLB shutdown
Veteran Houston Astros pitcher Justin Verlander said he will donate his adjusted paycheck during MLB's coronavirus shutdown to multiple organizations providing assistance during the crisis.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 5, 2020
Could Keir Starmer be U.K. Labour’s knight in dull armor?
After a decade in the political wasteland, members of Britain’s main opposition Labour Party have chosen a moderate, unflashy lawyer as their new leader. Their hope is that turning the page on the socialist radical Jeremy Corbyn, who was resoundingly rejected by voters last year, will see them re-take...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 5, 2020
Businessman paid ¥881 million by Tokyo's Olympic bid committee lobbied figure at center of French graft probe
A businessman who received millions of dollars for his work on Tokyo's successful campaign to host the 2020 Olympics, which were postponed in March due to COVID-19, has said he played a key role in securing the support of a former Olympics powerbroker suspected by French prosecutors of taking bribes...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 5, 2020
Mainland China sees rise in new coronavirus cases
Mainland China reported 30 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, up from 19 a day earlier as the number of cases involving travelers from abroad as well as local transmissions increased, highlighting the difficulty in stamping out the outbreak.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 5, 2020
New U.K. Labour leader Keir Starmer to work with Johnson on coronavirus
Britain’s opposition Labour Party elected Keir Starmer as leader, putting a moderate lawyer with an eye for detail in charge as Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s handling of the coronavirus comes under fire.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / Kateigaho International Japan Edition
Apr 4, 2020
Creative women find harmony in Hayama: A haven between hills and ocean
Hayama, a coastal town on the northwest corner of the Miura Peninsula in Kanagawa Prefecture, is a place that draws people to a more old-fashioned, natural way of life, including poet and Japanese culture expert Chieko Hirota.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Apr 4, 2020
Japan Times 1945: U.S. forces launch Okinawa invasion
The enemy forces landed in an area extending from the neighborhood of Kitadani to the vicinity of Cape Zampa in the southwestern part of the main island of Okinawa at about 10 a.m. on April 1 and are now continuously reinforcing their troops.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Apr 4, 2020
The eternal search for a pack of face masks
Middle-aged man (speaking Japanese): Masuku arimasuka? (Do you have any face masks?)
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 4, 2020
Not made in China is global tech's next big trend
Three years ago, manufacturing gadgets in China was a given. That’s changed fundamentally in the era of trade wars and coronavirus.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 4, 2020
Americans warned to leave Japan or risk long stay as virus cases surge
The U.S. Embassy in Tokyo issued a warning to American citizens Friday that said those with plans to return should do so now or risk being stuck here for an "indefinite period."
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 4, 2020
Modi’s call to switch off lights en masse to prompt blackouts in India
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for Indians to switch off their lights Sunday evening for nine minutes and instead use candles to "challenge the darkness” of the coronavirus outbreak will mean blackouts for some citizens as utilities take steps to safeguard their equipment.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 4, 2020
Coronavirus upends global food supply chains in latest economic shock
In the fertile Satara district in western India, farmers are putting their cattle on an unorthodox diet: Some feed iceberg lettuce to buffalo. Others feed strawberries to cows.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 4, 2020
IMF sees coronavirus-induced global downturn 'way worse' than financial crisis
Speaking at a rare joint news conference with the leader of the WHO, the IMF managing director called on advanced economies to step up their efforts to help emerging markets and developing countries.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Apr 4, 2020
Former French sports minister says staging Tour de France as planned would be 'crime against humanity'
Allowing the Tour de France to go ahead as scheduled despite the COVID-19 pandemic would be "madness" and a "crime against humanity," former French sports minister David Douillet said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 4, 2020
Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro isolated and weakened by coronavirus denial
At a tense Cabinet meeting on Saturday in the Brazilian president's official residence, Jair Bolsonaro found himself isolated.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 4, 2020
'They just sedate them': Coronavirus overwhelms Spain's care homes
As Spain struggles desperately to cope with almost 120,000 coronavirus infections, it barely has the strength to help its overwhelmed care homes and their elderly residents, singularly vulnerable to the respiratory disease.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 4, 2020
Jump in Jakarta funerals raises fears of unreported coronavirus deaths
The number of funerals in Jakarta rose sharply in March, a development the governor of Indonesia's capital city said suggested that deaths from the new coronavirus may be higher than officially reported.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Apr 4, 2020
You can always give an old dog new digs
Pickles, who had been featured in Adopt Me! twice before — most recently two years ago — has at long last found a home.
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.
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.
Hakuho’s departure highlights worrying sumo trend
Former <i>yokozuna</i> Hakuho performs a ring-entering ceremony at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo in February 2020.
Trump and Musk trade barbs on social media as alliance crumbles
The trouble between U.S. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk started brewing days ago, when Musk denounced Trump's sweeping tax-cut and spending bill.
How Japan's youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic
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.
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.
Six months into 2025, J-pop is having a full-on identity crisis (and a great time)
The year so far is only proving that Mrs. Green Apple is the biggest band in Japan. Their success also seems to be hinting at a change in the musical landscape more broadly.
Nintendo’s Switch 2 console is finally here
The Switch 2 is Nintendo's first new gaming console in eight years.
Hakuho’s departure highlights worrying sumo trend
Former <i>yokozuna</i> Hakuho performs a ring-entering ceremony at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo in February 2020.

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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.
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