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Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 17, 2023

Vietnam president quits as Communist Party intensifies graft crackdown

Vietnam has been rife with speculation he would be removed following January's dismissal of two deputy prime ministers who served under him.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 17, 2023

Kishida and Yoon call for improved bilateral relations

Kishida said in his written message that relations between Japan and South Korea need to be brought back to normalcy and promoted further.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Jan 17, 2023

Andy Murray turns back the clock to win five-set epic

Murray will play the winner of Australia's Thanasi Kokkinakis and Italian veteran Fabio Fognini for a place in the third round.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 17, 2023

With Kishida criticism, Suga steps back onto Japan's political stage

The former prime minister broke his monthslong silence to express his discontent with Kishida's decision to remain as an LDP faction leader.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 17, 2023

Boston startup raises $40 million to develop new low-carbon cement technology

The cement industry makes as much as 8% of the world's emissions — meeting global climate goals would require reducing that to zero.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 17, 2023

Climate activists say Big Oil is taking cycling fans for a ride

Sports sponsorships have emerged as a major battleground in the push to ban fossil fuel companies from advertising their brands.
JAPAN
Jan 17, 2023

COVID-19 tracker: Tokyo reports 11,120 new cases, 28 deaths

On Monday, the daily number of new cases across Japan came to 52,622, down by about 40,000 from a week earlier.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 17, 2023

Japan’s largest trade union head says 2023 is pivotal for wages

Trade union leader has stressed the importance of moving toward continued wage growth in the face of rapid inflation and economic stagnation.
The byzantine process for converting a foreign driver’s license into a Japanese one entails mountains of paperwork and significant stamina — unless you're a lucky license holder from a country or region where these requirements are waived.
COMMUNITY / Issues / Longform
Oct 22, 2025

Driving in Japan isn’t hard. Getting the license is.

From the desperate and defeated to the blissful and breezy, readers share their experiences of getting a driver’s license in Japan.
Dennis Kwok, then a pro-democracy lawmaker, answers questions from the media outside the High Court in Hong Kong on Oct. 31, 2019.
JAPAN
Jul 20, 2023

Hong Kong police target more family members of wanted democracy activists

The pair, former lawmaker Dennis Kwok and unionist Mung Siu-tat, are among eight exiled activists sought by authorities for alleged violations of the National Security Law.
Rengo President Tomoko Yoshino speaks at a news conference on Thursday. She said the union is looking to make wage hikes a normal occurrence.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 23, 2025

Japan’s unions seek minimum 5% wage hike in upcoming pay talks

Sanae Takaichi’s tenure and the central bank's policy path could be affected if Japan can’t keep up its wage-hike momentum.
JAPAN
Jul 14, 2023

Iconic dragon painting at Sensoji Temple peels off ceiling

Visitors to Tokyo's Sensoji Temple were left in shock as an iconic dragon painting on the ceiling of the main hall peeled off and was left hanging above their heads.
An oil refinery in Russia. Oil prices jumped around 5% to a two-week high after the U.S. imposed sanctions on major Russian suppliers Rosneft and Lukoil.
BUSINESS
Oct 24, 2025

Oil surges 5% after U.S. sanctions Russian firms Rosneft and Lukoil

The U.S. said it was prepared to take further action as it called on Moscow to agree immediately to a ceasefire in Ukraine.
Japan's consumer prices rose 3.3% year-on-year in June, with the pace of inflation accelerating from the 3.2% recorded in May.
BUSINESS
Jul 21, 2023

Japan's price growth accelerates ahead of BOJ inflation update

Prices excluding those for fresh food gained 3.3% from a year ago, accelerating a little from the rise in May as energy prices were less of a drag on inflation.
After an escalation in trade tensions had called into question the meeting, the White House confirmed on  Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping next week.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 24, 2025

Trump to meet Xi in South Korea as part of Asia swing

Trump will also meet Japan's new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo on Tuesday and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in Busan on Wednesday.
In Japan, 35% of students graduate with a degree in the STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and math — compared with 38% in the U.S., 42% in South Korea and Germany and 45% in Britain.
JAPAN / Society
Jul 21, 2023

Japan to give ¥300 billion to universities expanding science education

As the country's R&D status continues to drop, the ministry’s new program aims to fund schools pivoting toward STEM subjects.
U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly suggested he could order the U.S. military to escalate attacks by hitting cartel infrastructure on land in Venezuela.
WORLD
Oct 24, 2025

Trump says U.S. eyeing land strikes next after drug boat attacks

Trump's statement was the clearest indication yet that he’s preparing to broaden strikes in his campaign to stop the flow of drugs into the U.S. from Venezuela.
Tokyo Gendai is described by fair organizers Art Assembly as Tokyo Bay’s first international contemporary art fair in 30 years.
CULTURE / Art
Jul 22, 2023

Can a new art fair finally put Tokyo on the map?

Tokyo Gendai puts on a good event but still needs to change Japanese opinions on contemporary art.
JAPAN / Explainer
Jul 21, 2023

Bike, scooter, taxi? Here are your options for nonrail transit in Japan

Here's a rundown on your options and how best to utilize them — whether your a tourist or long-time resident.
The demolition of the East Wing of the White House on Thursday
WORLD
Oct 24, 2025

Trump completes demolition of White House East Wing

The wrecking work will make way for the U.S. president’s $300 million ballroom.
SOCCER / Women's World cup
Jul 21, 2023

Nadeshiko Japan's Women's World Cup glory now distant memory

Japan begins its latest World Cup campaign against Zambia on Saturday, but is ranked 11th now and no longer among the favorites.
Workers in Okinawa oxidize a pool of indigo dye, one of many regional textile craft traditions examined in Charlotte Linton's new book.
CULTURE / Books
Oct 24, 2025

New book scrutinizes sustainability of traditional Japanese textiles

In “Dyeing with the Earth,” an Oxford research fellow examines how Japan’s age-old textile traditions sometimes run counter to modern ideas of eco-friendly processes.
JAPAN
Jul 21, 2023

Japan top court sends back reemployment pay case

In the lawsuit, the male plaintiffs have demanded that their employer pay the difference between what they were paid before and after the retirement age.
Workers at a coca plantation in Colombia. Experts say the U.S. strikes on narcotics traffickers are having no real impact on Latin America's drug trade.
WORLD / Crime & Legal / EXPLAINER
Oct 24, 2025

Are U.S. strikes hurting Latin America's drug trade?

In short, no.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 21, 2023

Crime ring suspect served fresh warrant over Chiba robbery

The case is part of a spate of robberies across Japan allegedly committed by a group whose ringleaders are believed to have recruited people through social media posts.
An unexploded missile fired by an Israeli aircraft lies among rubble in the northern Gaza Strip.
WORLD
Oct 24, 2025

Clearing Gaza's surface of bombs will take up to 30 years, aid group says

"If you're looking at a full clearance, it's never happening, it's subterranean. We will find it for generations to come," said Nick Orr of Humanity & Inclusion, however.
Clothes displayed at Shein’s headquarters in Singapore
BUSINESS
Jul 21, 2023

Fast fashion report cards show what’s really in your clothes

Consumers’ drive for quantity over quality is transforming the world’s textile industry, sparking an almost doubling in global fiber production over the past two decades.
Palestinians seek aid supplies from the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the central Gaza Strip in August. U.N. and aid groups have questioned the neutrality of the foundation.
WORLD
Oct 24, 2025

U.S. mulls Gaza aid plan that would replace controversial GHF aid operation

Washington is seeking to facilitate having more deliveries of assistance in the Palestinian enclave under a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Longform

The byzantine process for converting a foreign driver’s license into a Japanese one entails mountains of paperwork and significant stamina — unless you're a lucky license holder from a country or region where these requirements are waived.
Driving in Japan isn’t hard. Getting the license is.