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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 24, 2021
China blasts NBC for using ‘incomplete’ map on Olympic broadcast
The condemnation came a day after an announcer for public broadcaster NHK raised eyebrows by referring to the Taiwanese team as 'Taiwan' rather than 'Chinese Taipei.'
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 24, 2021
China orders Tencent to give up exclusive music rights
The penalty on Asia's most valuable corporation is indicative of Beijing's escalating campaign against home-grown tech giants.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 24, 2021
Biden eyes former Japan envoy Caroline Kennedy as U.S. ambassador to Australia
Kennedy threw her support behind Biden's 2020 presidential bid, writing that the former vice president was more prepared for the job than his rivals.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 24, 2021
Algerian judoka Fethi Nourine suspended and sent home for withdrawing to avoid Israeli
Nourine's withdrawal was 'in total opposition to the philosophy of the International Judo Federation,' the federation said.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 24, 2021
Syrian 12-year-old table tennis player, Tokyo Games' youngest competitor, exits in first round
The youngest Olympian since 11-year-old Spanish rower Carlos Front in 1992. Zaza was born in Hama, Syria, to an athletic family and started playing table tennis at the age of 5.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 24, 2021
China's Yang Qian wins first gold medal of Tokyo Olympics
The silver went to Russian shooter Anastasiia Galashina and the bronze medal went to Switzerland's Nina Christen.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 24, 2021
U.S. lawmakers urge IOC to delay or move China's 2022 Winter Olympics
A group of U.S. lawmakers called on the body to postpone the Beijing Games and relocate the event unless China ends its alleged genocide against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 24, 2021
Biden team has no immediate plan to sanction China over hacks
Some in the U.S. administration cite concern that sanctions wouldn't be as effective as other approaches in deterring future cyberattacks by China.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 24, 2021
G20 fails to agree on climate goals in communique
The failure to agree to common language ahead of that gathering is likely to be seen as a setback to hopes of securing a meaningful accord at a key gathering in Scotland.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 24, 2021
South Korean TV network apologizes over Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony broadcast
Broadcaster MBC used images of pizza to describe Italy, upheaval for Haiti and Chernobyl for Ukraine when athletes from those countries entered the stadium for the opening ceremony.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 24, 2021
Andorra, then Yemen: Japan's alphabet gives unique order to opening ceremony parade
Unlike previous Olympics held in Japan, where athletes marched into the stadium in the English order of their names, Tokyo 2020 followed Japan's writing system.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 24, 2021
Mask-shy Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan rain on COVID-compliant opening parade
The sight marked an awkward contrast with other national teams who covered their faces in line with COVID-19 protocols.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 24, 2021
German cyclist, Dutch rower out of Olympics after positive COVID-19 test
German cyclist Simon Geschke has withdrawn from Saturday's Tokyo Olympics road race after testing positive for COVID-19, his team said Friday.
MULTIMEDIA
Jul 24, 2021
In pictures: Opening Ceremony of 2020 Tokyo Olympics
The opening ceremony of the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics has a year late, plagued by last-minute embarrassments and went over schedule on the actual night, but for many, it was worth the wait.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 23, 2021
China’s Xi makes first official visit to Tibet as tensions rise on Indian border
Xi told officials at a meeting last year to 'actively guide Tibetan Buddhism to adapt to socialist society, and promote the Sinofication of Tibetan Buddhism.”
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Jul 23, 2021
The 2020 Olympic Games: The long wait is finally over
While the COVID-19 has crushed Japan's Olympic ambitions, the Tokyo Games can still be used to celebrate the extraordinary accomplishments of the competitors.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 23, 2021
China cryptocurrency miners plot next moves to evade crackdown
Cryptocurrency diehards are betting they can continue to thrive under Communist Party oversight by shifting into lesser-known tokens.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 23, 2021
China weighs unprecedented penalty for Didi after U.S. IPO
Regulators see the ride-hailing giant's decision to go public despite pushback from the Cyberspace Administration of China as a challenge to Beijing's authority.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 22, 2021
Absent crowds, Tokyo Olympics have a shot at being green
Without the traveling crowds to feed, house and entertain, the Games' carbon footprint will be cut by 12% to about 2.4 million tons of carbon dioxide, organizers said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 22, 2021
China opposes studying lab leak in any new virus origins probe
China pushed back against the World Health Organization’s call for another probe into the coronavirus’s origins that includes examining whether it leaked from a lab, saying there’s no evidence for the theory and it defies common sense.
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’

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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