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Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 20, 2021

Russian election shows declining support for Putin’s party

The weekend's elections came amid a harsh crackdown on dissent by the Kremlin and murmurings of popular discontent.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LEARNING CURVE
Sep 20, 2021

New job? Be sure to read the fine print

Foreign teachers of English in Japan are good at sharing cautionary tales on messenger boards, but the best thing you can do to avoid any pitfalls is read your contract.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Sep 20, 2021

You never know who you’ll run into at the public bath

Your local tattooed thugs, the old woman who is just a little bit too much in your business, who else will you meet at the neighborhood bathhouse?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Sep 20, 2021

Claude the dog wants to join you on your daily walk

Claude had a late start getting to know people, but now he loves walks and the dog run. He just needs the right pal to join him.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / The Big Questions
Sep 20, 2021

Goldman partner Ben Ferguson in it for long term

Name: Ben Ferguson
Japan Times
Vietnam report 2021
Sep 20, 2021

The most popular FDI destination in the ASEAN region

For the past years, Japan and Vietnam have dramatically strengthened economic, political and social ties based on our Extensive Strategic Partnership for Peace and Prosperity in Asia.
Japan Times
Vietnam report 2021
Sep 20, 2021

JTI in Vietnam: Contributing to long-term and sustainable economic growth

“Japanese companies have taken a farsighted and methodical approach in terms of their investments in the Vietnamese market,” said Corrado Mautone, general manager of Japan Tobacco International in Vietnam (JTI Vietnam).
Japan Times
Vietnam report 2021
Sep 20, 2021

HCMUT: Excellence in entrepreneurship, training, research and innovation

Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT) is one of the top two technical universities in Vietnam that have excelled in all major fields of engineering since 1957.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FOCUS
Sep 19, 2021

Home COVID-19 care surged as Japan's hospitals filled up, but treatment options were limited

Providing at-home treatment for coronavirus patients presents an entirely different dilemma for the nation's already exhausted medical personnel.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 19, 2021

COVID-19 was expected to spur a remote-work revolution in Japan. What happened?

A lack of digital infrastructure and an archaic corporate culture that values long working hours and face-to-face meetings is slowing down the nation's push toward working remotely.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 19, 2021

LDP contender Sanae Takaichi says she'd accept U.S. intermediate-range missiles

The former internal affairs minister and China hawk was the party's sole presidential candidate to back the idea, calling such a move “absolutely necessary.'
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 19, 2021

Phenom Yoshinobu Yamamoto a man on a mission as Orix chases PL title

In the 23-year-old ace, who continues to dominate NPB pitching across all metrics, the club has another real chance at winning the Pacific League pennant for the first time as the Buffaloes.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 19, 2021

The scientist and the AI-assisted, remote-control killing machine

Israeli agents had wanted to kill Iran's top nuclear scientist for years. Then they came up with a way to do it with no operatives present.
BUSINESS
Sep 19, 2021

Candidates to lead Japan say fiscal reconstruction target may have to be postponed

All four contenders in the LDP's presidential election said the government's goal may have to be delayed to prioritize resuscitating an economy ravaged by the pandemic.
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te delivers a speech in the Marshall Islands' parliament in Majuro on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 3, 2024

Taiwan's Lai kicks off Marshall Islands visit as China fumes

The trip follows a stopover in the U.S. during which he discussed "China's military threats" toward Taiwan with former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump says he will "block" a planned takeover of U.S. Steel by Nippon Steel.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 3, 2024

Trump says will 'block' Nippon Steel from taking over U.S. Steel

Days after the U.S. election last month, Nippon Steel said it expected to close its takeover of the company before the end of the year.
Kim Seongmin, president of Free North Korea Radio, edits content for the station at his home on Ganghwa Island, west of Seoul, on Nov. 21. Kim has cancer and was recently told that he has months to live.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 3, 2024

A North Korean voice that Kim Jong Un would like to silence

North Korean defectors have been infiltrating the North with outside media for two decades, through balloons floated across the border or radio broadcasts.
An image of active and defunct satellites in low Earth Orbit is seen on a Digantara terminal in Bengaluru, India, on Nov. 22.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 3, 2024

Global push for cooperation as space traffic crowds Earth's orbit

A United Nations panel on space traffic coordination called for a shared database of orbital objects as well as an international framework to track and manage them.
President Joe Biden walks with his son Hunter and his family through Nantucket, Massachusetts, on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 3, 2024

Biden's Hunter pardon riles Democrats who defended U.S. justice system

Biden had previously pledged not to intervene in the two criminal convictions against his son.
A giant TV screen shows news footage of military drills conducted in the Taiwan Strait and areas to the north, south and east of Taiwan, by the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, in Beijing on Oct. 14.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 3, 2024

Taiwan watching Chinese carrier movements as drills could start over weekend

Beijing could launch large-scale drills to coincide with Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te's trip to the Pacific this week that includes visits to Hawaii and Guam.
The U.N. General Assembly adopted by a majority vote a Japan-led resolution calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons at its plenary meeting Monday.
JAPAN
Dec 3, 2024

U.N. General Assembly adopts Japan-led antinuclear resolution

This is the 31st consecutive year for the assembly to adopt such a resolution.
A Tokyo couple allegedly used credit cards obtained fraudulently using other people's IDs to buy smartphones, luxury clothing and expensive liquor, according to the police.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 3, 2024

Tokyo couple held for fraud allegedly bought and resold 200 smartphones

Takaaki Saito, 32, and Chiharu Saito, 33, are accused of exploiting multiple stolen identities to obtain credit cards to make the purchases.
Police officers enforce electric scooter traffic regulations in Chuo Ward, Osaka, in July.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 3, 2024

Luup CEO blames repeat offenders for high e-scooter traffic violations

According to the National Police Agency, there were 25,156 e-scooter traffic violation cases in the year after e-scooter regulations were relaxed.
Jetstar Japan has been ordered to pay back wages to two cabin crew members for the periods they were suspended.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 3, 2024

Jetstar Japan loses lawsuit over disciplinary action against cabin crew

The Tokyo District Court ruled that the airline's suspension of two cabin crew members in relation to a pay dispute in 2022 was unjustified.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has, in rapid-fire fashion, named a spate of ideological warriors, conspiracy theorists and now even family members to senior government positions.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Dec 3, 2024

Trump doubles down on defiance after collapse of Matt Gaetz selection

Trump, in rapid-fire fashion, has kept naming more ideological warriors, conspiracy theorists and now even family members to senior government positions.
Donna Nelson says her life was turned upside down when she learned that the man she was falling for had tricked her into smuggling 2 kilograms of methamphetamine into Japan.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 3, 2024

Australian says romance scam tricked her into smuggling drugs into Japan

Donna Nelson says her life was turned upside down when she learned that the man she was falling for had tricked her into smuggling drugs.
A fossil footprint in northern Kenya hypothesized to have been created by a Homo erectus individual, is seen in this photograph released on Nov. 28.
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 3, 2024

Fossil footprints in Kenya show two ancient human species coexisted

The fossils provide the first evidence that Paranthropus boisei and Homo erectus shared the same landscape, literally crossing paths.
Hibiya Park in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Saturday. Warm weather has delayed the country's autumn foliage season — when tourists flock to see leaves turn vibrant reds and yellows.
JAPAN
Dec 3, 2024

Japan witnesses warmest fall on record

Between September and November, the temperature was 1.97 degrees Celsius higher than usual, delaying the country's popular displays of seasonal foliage.
Is America ready for Japanese-style 7-Elevens?
Convenience stores are a fixture of Japanese life and 7-Eleven, a chain that began in the U.S. in 1927, opened its first store in Japan in 1974 — and then became wholly Japanese-owned in 2005 through parent company Seven & I Holdings.
Japan's cutting-edge railgun successfully strikes target vessel
The Defense Ministry’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) conducted a ship-board railgun shooting test from June to early July this year with the support of the Maritime Self-Defense Force.
‘Fairytale’ Shirakawago ranked one of the world’s most beautiful villages
Forbes and Unforgettable Travel Company have ranked Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture as Asia's most beautiful village.
People rush to make furusato nozei donations ahead of tighter rules
A booth from the town of Betsukai in Hokkaido at an Amazon Japan furusato nо̄zei promotion event, on Sept. 5 in Tokyo's Minato Ward.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Strikes on Qatar and Poland shake U.S. sway among friend and foe
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Museum of the Bible in Washington on Sept. 8. Israeli strikes in Qatar and Russian drone incursions into Poland have challenged the U.S. leaders claims of global respect.
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.
An aesthetic escape to Hakone’s art-drenched hills
Between traditional examples of fine art and sleek, modern exhibitions that blend with nature, Hakone offers a unique escape from Tokyo's urban sprawl.
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.

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