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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 17, 2022

Nippon Steel to seek ¥2 trillion in state funds for 'net-zero' goal amid China rivalry

Chinese rivals, able to take advantage of massive funding from their own government, will be a greater threat to Japanese producers, the firm's managing executive officer warns.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 17, 2022

Hong Kong to mass test whole city for COVID, local media say

The citywide testing will begin in early March and be conducted once a week for three weeks, though Hong Kong and the mainland are still discussing details.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 17, 2022

Taiwan sees China's Xi as too focused on party reshuffle for any attack

The Taiwanese government has assessed the current risk of a Chinese attack to be low, regardless of what happens between Russia and Ukraine.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 17, 2022

‘The Takatsu River’: A homey hometown drama

Yoshinari Nishikori offers a relatively upbeat take on a well-worn story of a rural Japanese community in decline.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 17, 2022

‘Ribbon’: Non unmasks pandemic frustrations in her first feature

The former “Amachan” actor's film was inspired by the frustration and anger of young people whose lives have come to a standstill because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Feb 17, 2022

‘Woman Running in the Mountains’ carries on the literary legacy of Yuko Tsushima

Geraldine Harcourt's road to translating Yuko Tsushima's stories parallels the writer's artistic conceits: a fiercely independent woman determined to construct her own path.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 17, 2022

The Olympians caught up in the U.S.-China rivalry

American athletes of Chinese descent at the Games are targets of patriotic and even nationalistic sentiment from both countries: sometimes adoring, sometimes hostile.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 16, 2022

With indoor ski resorts and curling schools, China lifts Xi’s sports dream

China said it succeeded on a vow by Xi Jinping, the country's top leader, to nurture millions of winter sports enthusiasts. But will the interest last after the Winter Games end?
Japan Times
PODCAST / deep dive
Feb 16, 2022

Where the wild things grow — foraging in Japan

Winifred Bird is the author of 'Eating Wild Japan,' a book that goes deep into the foraging culture of Japan and contains essays on foraging, a selection of recipes and a guide to forageable plants.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 16, 2022

China and Russia have learned well from failed U.S. promises

To the West, Ukraine is a sovereign state that has the right to enter into a security alliance with anyone. In the eyes of Russia and China, this is hypocrisy based in historical amnesia.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 16, 2022

If a wife makes more than a husband, here are somethings to consider

When women experience career success, it can also jeopardize their relationships — a problem which men don't experience.
From left to right: Yudai Nagano, Takahiro Shikine, Kyosuke Matsuyama and Kazuki Iimura celebrate after winning in the Olympic men's foil team gold medal bout against Italy at the Grand Palais in Paris on Sunday.
OLYMPICS / Fencing
Aug 5, 2024

Japan wins historic gold in men's foil team event in Paris

It was Japan's fifth fencing medal in Paris, and its eighth medal overall in Olympic fencing.
Noah Lyles celebrates after winning gold in the men's 100-meter final at the Paris Olympics on Sunday.
OLYMPICS / Athletics
Aug 5, 2024

Showman Noah Lyles wins 100-meter gold by five thousandths of a second

Lyles had believed he had left it too late to catch the powerful Kishane Thompson, but he was soon confirmed as the winner in a personal best of 9.79 seconds.
American Scottie Scheffler celebrates after winning Olympic gold at Le Golf National in Guyancourt, France, on Sunday.
OLYMPICS / Golf
Aug 5, 2024

American Scheffler basks in national pride after Olympic golf triumph

Great Britain's Tommy Fleetwood took silver while former Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama won bronze for Japan.
Supporters of badmington gold medalists Wang Chi-Lin and Lee Yang at the victory ceremony on Sunday in Paris
OLYMPICS / Badminton
Aug 5, 2024

Taiwan cheers Olympics badminton triumph over China in politically charged contest

Wang Chi-Lin and Lee Yang of Taiwan, the reigning champions from the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, won a three-game thriller against China's Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang.
Palestinians work to extinguish a fire at the site of an Israeli strike on a tent camp for displaced people in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday.
WORLD
Aug 5, 2024

Israeli strikes Gaza schools and hospital compound after talks fail

Israel says Hamas regularly embeds in civilian institutions, using Gaza's population as human shields, which Hamas denies.
China's Pan Zhanle celebrates after winning Olympic gold and breaking a world record in the men's 100-meter freestyle final on July 31.
OLYMPICS
Aug 5, 2024

China shrugs off doping controversy to win 12 Olympic swimming medals

The team's haul — two gold, three silver and seven bronze — was an improvement on a Tokyo collection of nine.
A garment store is set ablaze in Dhaka on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 5, 2024

Bangladesh protesters demand prime minister resign as death toll rises

Demonstrations began over the reintroduction of a quota plan that reserved more than half of all government jobs for certain groups.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan during an interview in Lahore, Pakistan, on March 17, 2023
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 5, 2024

Pakistan former Prime Minister Khan calls for good relations with army

No Pakistani prime minister has completed a full five-year term in office, and most have served time in jail.
The United States' 64-year unbeaten run in the men's 4x100-meter medley ended on Sunday as China swept to a seismic win.
OLYMPICS / Swimming
Aug 5, 2024

U.S. swimming on top again, but alarm bells sounding with LA looming

From Michael Phelps to Johnny Weissmuller, the U.S. has rolled out Olympic champions like a gold medal assembly line. But that production slowed at the Paris Games.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro spoke last week following the presidential elections, saying that Mara Corina Machado and Edmundo Gonzlez should go to prison.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 5, 2024

Humiliated and furious, Maduro arrests 2,000 Venezuelans over protests

Pressure to share election results has mounted from even Nicolás Maduro’s closest allies abroad.
Israel's Iron Dome air defense system intercepts rockets over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel that were fired from southern Lebanon on Sunday, amid ongoing cross-border clashes between Israeli troops and Lebanon's Hezbollah fighters.
WORLD
Aug 5, 2024

Foreign nationals told to leave Lebanon as war fears surge

The nearly 10-month-old war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas has led to a violent fallout that has become routine around the region.
Demonstrators toss a trash bin during an anti-immigration protest in Rotherham, England, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 5, 2024

Britain's Starmer condemns 'far-right thuggery' as unrest flares again

The British PM said perpetrators would face the full force of the law after days of violent anti-immigration protests.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris during a campaign event in Atlanta on July 30
WORLD / Politics
Aug 5, 2024

Harris meets with possible running mates as VP decision nears

The meetings, which wrapped up Sunday, were part of Harris’ final stretch before selecting who will join her on the 2024 Democratic presidential ticket.
Hundreds gathered near Beirut's port on Sunday to mark four years since a catastrophic blast (pictured), one of history's biggest non-nuclear explosions, killed more than 220 people, injured at least 6,500 and devastated swaths of Lebanon's capital.
WORLD
Aug 5, 2024

Four years and no justice: Lebanon marks port blast anniversary

Nobody has been held responsible for the August 4, 2020 blast — one of history's biggest non-nuclear explosions.
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reviews an honor guard during her visit to Thailand, in Bangkok on April 26.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 5, 2024

Sheikh Hasina's record under fresh scrutiny as Bangladesh unrest deepens

Mass protests that began as student-led rallies against civil service job quotas have morphed into some of the worst unrest under the prime minister's 15-year tenure.
Japan eyes two types of 'hometown resident' registration
People buy groceries from a mobile supermarket in a rural area of Nagomi, Kumamoto Prefecture. The government is considering a new "hometown resident" registration system to help strengthen regional revitalization measures.
Ed Sheeran teams up with Tokyo’s Oedo Line
The “Oh! Ed! Collaboration Campaign,” launched on Tokyo's Keio Line to celebrate the Friday release of Ed Sheeran’s latest album, “Play,” includes a eight-car train dedicated to the pop star's music and trivia related to his career
Workers say corporate South Korea was warned about questionable U.S. visas before Hyundai raid
Activists holding signs that reads "No one is illegal!" protest against a huge immigration raid last week in the U.S. state of Georgia, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on Tuesday.
Three Japanese nationals among those detained by ICE at Hyundai plant in Georgia
Investigators from the U.S. Homeland Security Investigations at a factory being built by South Korea's Hyundai Motor in Georgia on Friday
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.
Shizuoka farmers fight to preserve sustainable tea method that’s steeped in tradition
As of August 2024, the number of confirmed chagusaba farmers had fallen to 302, just over half the 582 reported in 2015, according to the Shizuoka Chagusaba Farming Method Promotion Council.
Search is on for loopholes in Japan’s $550 billion investment pledge
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick argues that U.S. President Donald Trump has sole authority to invest Japan's promised $550 billion.
In rural Hokkaido, the stops and starts of tourism revival on full display
Redevelopment plans for Kawayu Onsen have hit some snags — an example of how bringing tourists back to declining rural communities is far from easy work.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight
By Mai Yoshikawa

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