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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 9, 2021
Taiwan outlines plans to counter China’s ‘gray zone threats’
The biennial military strategy report cited warplane incursions, speedboats ramming coast guard vessels and 'cognitive warfare.”
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Sep 24, 2021
Taiwan’s trade deal application sets up showdown with China
Taiwan's request to join the TPP, coming just days after China's submitted its own bid, presents the member nations with a difficult choice: admit one, both or neither?
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Aug 26, 2021
Delta deepens global supply-chain challenges, disrupting shipping and hiking prices
Manufacturers reeling from shortages of key components and higher raw material and energy costs are also being forced into bidding wars to get space on cargo vessels.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2021
Japan and Taiwan ruling parties to hold security talks Friday
The talks are the latest sign of a more coordinated response among democratic governments concerned about China's increasingly assertive actions.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 26, 2021
Medics see complacency behind Taiwan's unusually deadly COVID-19 wave
The self-ruled island once went 200 days without a case in the community, but wasn't prepare for what came next.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 21, 2021
Taiwan angers China with first Europe office using its name
Lithuania has backed Taiwan before, donating COVID-19 vaccines and supporting participation in the World Health Assembly.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 19, 2020
Taiwan shuts pro-China TV channel in battle over press freedom
Taiwan’s broadcast regulator has ordered the closure of one of the island’s most ardently pro-China cable news networks following a monthslong battle over journalistic standards and freedom of the press.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 13, 2020
Trump’s Taiwan and Hong Kong support poses early test for Biden
Biden faces a tough choice on China: Restore the status quo and face accusations of weakness, or continue Trump's provocations and risk undercutting cooperation with Beijing.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 29, 2020
Record 200 days with no local coronavirus cases makes Taiwan envy of world
Taiwan holds the world's best virus record by far and reached the new landmark on Thursday, even as the pathogen explodes anew in Europe and the U.S.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 13, 2020
Tsai's election victory set to bolster Taiwan's buoyant markets
A winning run for Taiwan's financial markets is set to be reinforced by Saturday's landslide election victory for President Tsai Ing-wen.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 11, 2019
Hong Kong unrest gives Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen a timely boost
Heading into 2019, Tsai Ing-wen looked at risk of becoming Taiwan's first one-term president. Then came the unrest in Hong Kong.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
May 19, 2019
Royalty feud threatens to tear apart FamilyMart's profitable joint venture in China
FamilyMart, the most successful Japanese convenience store chain in China, is embroiled in a royalty payments fight between its Japanese and Chinese joint-venture partners that could change how much money each side makes or scuttle the partnership entirely.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 3, 2017
Founder of TSMC, Apple's top chip supplier, to hand over reins in June
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. founder and Chairman Morris Chang will retire next June, handing the helm of the world's largest producer of made-to-order microchips to the company's two co-chief executives.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Yen rebounds strongly after first slide past ¥160 since 1990
The yen dropped to ¥160.245 per dollar on Monday before heading into the other direction to ¥155.01 amid speculation of an intervention by Japanese currency authorities.
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.
Golden Week crowds greeted with high temperatures as holiday period kicks off
The departure lobby for domestic flights is crowded with travelers at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Saturday, the first day of this year's Golden Week holidays.
India seen overtaking Japan in nominal GDP in 2025
The skyline of central Mumbai's financial district
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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