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Greg Torode
For Greg Torode's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Mar 3, 2022
Ukraine crisis threatens China's discreet pipeline in military technology
The Ukraine-China relationship has been under increased pressure, but the current war could sever a link that helped Beijing modernize its army.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 25, 2022
China steps in to steer Hong Kong's COVID-19 crisis as risks loom
Hong Kong has stepped up anti-coronavirus measures, including plans for mass testing buttressed by equipment, testing vehicles and personnel from the mainland.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Jan 11, 2022
'Colonial wine from new, authoritarian bottles': Hong Kong retools sedition law
The Hong Kong government is expanding its use of a long-dormant sedition law in what some lawyers and democracy advocates say is intensifying a squeeze on press freedom.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 31, 2021
Chinese bishops and priests brief Hong Kong clerics on Xi's view of religion
The meeting has been described as Beijing's most assertive move yet in its attempts to influence Hong Kong's diocese, which is answerable to the Vatican.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Nov 4, 2021
Hong Kong's top court rules against government move to broaden riot prosecutions
The five-judge panel unanimously rejected an earlier ruling that people could be criminally liable for rioting or illegal assembly without being physically present.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 19, 2021
Court rulings under new law free Hong Kong police to probe older offenses
When Beijing's national security law was passed, senior Chinese and Hong Kong officials repeatedly stressed that it would not be retroactively applied.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 26, 2021
Hong Kong's former chief judge says upholding rule of law is not political
The city's judges symbolize a core condition of its return to Chinese rule: the right to a fair trial and equality under the law, administered by an independent judiciary.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 11, 2021
China's attacks on 'foreign forces' threaten Hong Kong's global standing, top U.S. envoy says
The comments come as other envoys, business people and activists have spoken about the chilling effect on their relationships and connections across China's most international city.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 27, 2021
Hong Kong security chief threatens Jimmy Lai's bankers with jail if they deal in his accounts
Observers said the action extended the tightening national security apparatus into elite tiers of the banking system for the first time.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 31, 2020
Nuns arrested as Beijing turns up heat on Catholic Church in Hong Kong
The Catholic Church in Hong Kong is coming under mounting pressure as China moves to extinguish opposition voices in the city under a new national security law.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 2, 2019
Hong Kong leader says she would 'quit' if she could, fears ability to resolve crisis 'very limited'
Embattled Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said she has caused "unforgivable havoc" by igniting the political crisis engulfing the city and would quit if she had a choice, according to an audio recording of remarks she made last week to a group of businesspeople.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 31, 2019
China rejected Hong Kong plan to appease protesters, sources say
Earlier this summer, Carrie Lam, the chief executive of Hong Kong, submitted a report to Beijing that assessed protesters' five key demands and found that withdrawing a contentious extradition bill could help defuse the mounting political crisis in the territory.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 2, 2019
Thousands of Hong Kong civil servants rally peacefully behind protesters as wave of demonstrations looms
Thousands of Hong Kong civil servants rallied on Friday night to support protesters and urge authorities to rebuild confidence in the government as escalating protests rock the Asian financial hub.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Jul 11, 2019
Hong Kong chief executive's departure seen as just a matter of time
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam's apologies and explanations about a doomed extradition bill have failed to quell political tension, and her departure is now seen by many in the Chinese-ruled city as merely a matter of time in a drawn-out, long goodbye.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 9, 2019
Chinese military signals it will keep Hong Kong-based troops in barracks amid protests
The Chinese military commander responsible for Hong Kong has assured a Pentagon official that Chinese troops will not interfere in the city's affairs — an apparent signal that they will stay in their barracks amid renewed political upheaval.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Jun 16, 2019
How Hong Kong protests and Beijing pressure forced Carrie Lam to cave on extradition bill
With an escalating U.S. trade war, a faltering economy and tensions in the South China Sea vexing her bosses in Beijing, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam appeared in no mood to compromise on a planned extradition law at recent meetings, according to foreign envoys and business people who met with her.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
May 7, 2019
China's furtive fleet of nuclear missile-laden submarines tests the Pentagon
Recent visitors to the bay surrounding a submarine base on the southern coast of China's Hainan Island describe a curious nocturnal phenomenon. Powerful spotlights are sometimes trained directly on the ocean frontages of neighboring hotels at night, making visibility out to sea virtually impossible. Some of the lights are mounted on land and others on passing naval patrol boats.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Sep 14, 2018
Taiwan courts security ties with bigger friends such as Japan, India as Beijing snatches allies
As Beijing intensifies its effort to further isolate Taiwan diplomatically, Taipei is actively but discreetly broadening security ties with regional powers beyond its long-standing relationship with the United States.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
May 25, 2018
Subi Reef, built up by Chinese, appears nearly ready to host first troops based in heart of South China Sea
At first glance from above it looks like any clean and neatly planned small town, complete with sports grounds, neat roads and large civic buildings.
WORLD
May 25, 2018
Chinese claims in South China Sea overlap with Vietnam's oil projects
Some oil blocks off Vietnam's sprawling coastline fall within an area of the South China Sea demarcated by China's "nine-dash line," the basis for Beijing's controversial claims to most of the resource-rich waterway.
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
Raising kids in Japan as a single parent? It takes a village.
Making things work as a foreign, single mother in Japan isn't easy, but these tips and tricks can help you through the hardest parts.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
In Japan, regional revitalization fails to halt population decline
Sakiyama elementary school in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, in March .Over the past decade, the government has directed efforts toward policies designed to give young people incentives to base themselves in rural areas.
Putin’s war will soon reach Russians’ tax bills
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting in St. Petersburg on Friday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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