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OLYMPICS
Aug 7, 2021
Day 14 recap: Sun bakes volleyball sands as Belarus feels IOC heat
Italy scorch field in 4x100-meter final to win an unprecedented fifth Olympic track and field gold.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 6, 2021
American Nelly Korda closes in on gold as India's Aditi Ashok eyes surprise medal
Japan's Mone Inami sits five shots off the pace in a four-way tie for third.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Aug 6, 2021
Stand with the people of Myanmar
ASEAN must be reminded that its credibility depends on how it deals with Myanmar's coup. Otherwise it could be seen as an enabler of authoritarianism.
OLYMPICS
Aug 6, 2021
Double glory for Japan's golden Kawai sisters
Risako, 26, and Yukako, 23, both won their categories in women's freestyle wrestling, standing on top of the podium and singing the national anthem two days in a row.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 6, 2021
Ignoring WHO call, major nations stick to vaccine booster plans
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on Wednesday for a halt to boosters until at least the end of September.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 6, 2021
Japan's men's table tennis team tops South Korea for Olympic bronze
Japan's trio of Jun Mizutani, Koki Niwa and Tomokazu Harimoto clinched bronze in the men's team event on Friday after a 3-1 win over South Korea.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 6, 2021
Okinawa native Ryo Kiyuna mesmerizes in men's kata contest
Japan's Ryo Kiyuna looks set to collect gold on Friday as he dominated the men's kata competition with lofty scores that were a cut above the rest.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 6, 2021
From unitards to period-proof tights: Brands embrace women's sportswear revolution at Olympics
Women have fought long and hard for the right to choose what they wear when they compete at the Olympics, and at the Tokyo Games more and more athletes are speaking out.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Aug 6, 2021
In pictures: Day 13 of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
This was the day that the host nation surpassed its own national record for most gold medals, including two from a pair of wrestling sisters.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 6, 2021
Day 13 recap: Giants of the track fall, skateboarders soar and a bite backfires
U.S. men continued to splutter on the track, kayaker Lisa Carrington became New Zealand's most decorated Olympian and American Ryan Crouser broke his own shot put world record three times.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 5, 2021
Japanese wrestler Risako Kawai follows up sister's gold with one of her own
Risako Kawai took gold Thursday by beating Belarus's Iryna Kurachkina 5-0 in the women's 57 kg freestyle wrestling final.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 5, 2021
U.S. approves potential sale of howitzers to Taiwan: Pentagon
The U.S. State Department approved the potential sale of 40 155mm M109A6 Medium Self-Propelled Howitzer artillery systems to Taiwan in a deal valued at up to $750 million, the Pentagon said.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 5, 2021
Japan comes up short in women's table tennis team final as China's dominance continues
China has yet to be defeated in either the men's or women's team event since it was first introduced at the 2008 Beijing Games.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 5, 2021
Women's Olympic soccer final moved to later time to avoid daytime heat
The game had been due to kick off at 11 a.m. on Friday but both teams complained because of the high temperatures expected in Tokyo.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 5, 2021
'Queens of kata' vying for gold as they kick off karate's Olympics debut
At the conclusion of the elimination rounds, it seemed clear the contest for the gold medal would be — as widely expected — between Japan's Kiyou Shimizu and Spain's Sandra Sanchez.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 5, 2021
Rakuten soars after winning contract for next-generation network
The e-commerce behemoth shook up Japan's wireless market in 2020, and now they'll sell the know-how overseas.
JAPAN
Aug 5, 2021
Olympic-medal chomp grosses out Japan and riles Toyota
'It is unfortunate that he was unable to feel respect and admiration for the athlete,' Toyota said in a statement.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 5, 2021
Kevin Durant powers Team USA to win over Australia in semifinal
The win was a measure of revenge against a team that had upset the United States in an exhibition game in Las Vegas last month.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Aug 5, 2021
In pictures: Day 12 of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
For the female athletes of Japan, this was an especially triumphant day that included golds for skateboarders and wrestlers, as well as upward movement from women's sport climbers and basketball team.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 5, 2021
Simone Biles thanks Japanese gym that helped her regain her form
Biles spent several days out of the spotlight at the training facilities of Juntendo University where she was able to overcome the disorientation she was experiencing while performing.
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 area 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’

Longform

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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