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Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Jul 28, 2021
In pictures: Day 4 of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
The Japanese women's team celebrates their win over the U.S. during the Tokyo Olympic softball gold medal game in Yokohama on Tuesday. | REUTERS
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 27, 2021
With 'King' Kohei gone, royal rumble set for all-around crown
With 'King' Kohei Uchimura having stepped down there will be a new Olympic all-around men's gymnastics champion crowned at the Tokyo Games on Wednesday.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 27, 2021
Day 4 recap: Osaka exits Games as Tokyo hits record coronavirus cases
The exits by the Japanese tennis superstar and a top U.S. gymnast coincided with a record number of coronavirus cases in the host city on Tuesday.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 27, 2021
U.S. Olympic gymnast Simone Biles out of team event, can still get medal
The International Gymnastics Federation confirmed she would play no further part in the team event
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 27, 2021
Japan's Mikiko Ando takes bronze in women's weightlifting
Andoh finished behind Taiwan's Kuo Hsing-Chun, who won the gold medal in the women's 59-kg weightlifting event at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 27, 2021
Chloe Dygert seeks cycling gold 10 months after horror crash
Had it not been for her horrific crash at the world championships at Imola 10 months ago, the obvious question ahead of Wednesday's women's Olympic cycling time trial would have been who will come second behind American Chloe Dygert.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 27, 2021
Japan women shock undefeated U.S. in Olympic 3x3 basketball pool round
The U.S. team, which has already secured its spot in the semifinals on Wednesday, is packed with WNBA players.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 27, 2021
Transgender canoeing judge champions daughter's fight for gender equality
Kimberley Daniels worries she may steal the spotlight herself with the attention she is drawing as an openly transgender Olympic judge.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 27, 2021
Australian women shine again in the pool at Tokyo Games
Britain enjoyed a one-two success in the men's 200m freestyle on Tuesday, while Russian swimmers ended U.S. dominance in the 100m backstroke and Kaylee McKeown gave Australia's women more Olympic gold to celebrate at the Tokyo pool.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 27, 2021
Tropical Storm Nepartak lurks off Japan's coast as Olympic events roll on
The storm remained a threat to the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday, despite not battering the host city with devastating winds and rain as initially feared.
MULTIMEDIA
Jul 27, 2021
In pictures: Day 3 of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Japan's Mima Ito and Jun Mizutani pump their fists during the mixed doubles Olympic gold-medal match on Monday in Tokyo. | REUTERS
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 26, 2021
Day 3 recap: Japan scoops up more golds as locals warm to the Games
Japan struck more gold on Monday as sentiment toward the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics appeared to shift, and local fans defied organizers to grab a glimpse of the Games.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 26, 2021
U.S. softball team stages comeback win over Japan
The United States beat Japan 2-1 to end round-robin play on Monday but their failure to record a hit against a third-string pitcher until the sixth inning highlights the challenge they face when the sides meet again in the gold-medal match-up.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 26, 2021
'Sooo sick': Japan skate champ wins fans as TV commentator
Ryo Sejiri, a TV commentator for NHK, was in his element, giving the kind of move-by-move analysis that's all too common in sports, but with his distinctive flair.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 26, 2021
Norwegian triathlon champion Kristian Blummenfelt says Japan not hot enough
The athlete coped with the heat and humidity to forge clear in the last km of the 10-kilometer run course to take gold — Norway's first Olympic medal in the sport.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 26, 2021
China overhauls private education sector ‘hijacked by capital’
The country's education technology sector is worth $100 billion, but Beijing's reforms will drastically change the business model.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional voices: Chubu
Jul 26, 2021
Tent saunas in the Gifu mountains a hot ticket
The service is being offered at a quiet place along the river so that visitors can enjoy the area's clear, cold snowmelt water.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Jul 26, 2021
Fukushima's chance to reap the benefits of the Olympics look bleak
While food from the prefecture is being served in the athletes village, the opportunity to welcome tourists and spectators has disappeared.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 26, 2021
Ecstatic coach of Australia's Ariarne Titmus goes viral with medal-worthy celebrations
Coach Dean Boxall leaped in the air, tore off his mask and screamed ecstatically, headbanging with his surfer-like hair tumbling around him.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 26, 2021
TSMC weighs Germany and Japan plants to diversify supply chain
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is in the early stages of considering a new chipmaking plant in Germany, Chairman Mark Liu told shareholders on Monday.
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’

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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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