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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 14, 2021

Singapore releases citizen who spied for China in the U.S.

Dickson Yeo was arrested in Singapore in December last year and later detained under security laws for acting as a paid agent of a foreign state.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 14, 2021

Vaccine sites to open in U.K. stadiums as omicron cases rise

The move comes after news that the variant accounts for 20% of confirmed COVID-19 cases in England, with around 200,000 daily infections.
BUSINESS
Dec 14, 2021

Kishida floats buyback regulations, spooking Japanese stocks

Share buybacks surged in Japan under the Abe administration, who implemented a corporate governance code for companies to make them more responsive to shareholders.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 14, 2021

HSBC says clients must have plan to exit coal by end of 2023

Built on earlier promises to phase out coal, the policy would stay in line with the science of climate change and be reviewed annually.
JAPAN
Dec 14, 2021

Citing local needs, Kishida defends use of coupons in financial aid plan

One estimate has shown that administrative costs for the central government would more than triple to u00a596.7 billion if coupons are included in the handouts to young people.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 14, 2021

South Korea has long wanted nuclear submarines. A new reactor could open a door.

The reactor project comes amid fears of an arms race in the Indo-Pacific region, driven by the conflict between China and the United States.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 14, 2021

Why Filipino voters are backing another member of the Marcos clan

In the Philippines' strangely frugal electoral system, all Marcos Jr. needs to do to become the next president is to secure the largest share of votes.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 14, 2021

It will take more than a summit to protect democracy

Democracy is slow and deliberative, process oriented and, as a result, capable of manipulation by special interests.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 14, 2021

Moderna to produce millions of mRNA vaccines in Australia

The deal underscores efforts by governments around the world to build up local production and prepare for future pandemic threats.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 14, 2021

Top U.S. diplomat rallies Asian allies in face of 'aggressive' China

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Washington doesn't want conflict in Asia, and would ensure competition with China doesn't veer into a 'catastrophic” war.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 14, 2021

Amazon rethinks warehouse cell phone ban in wake of tornado

For years, Amazon prohibited employees from having their phones on warehouse floors and required them to leave them in their vehicles or in lockers near break rooms.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 14, 2021

California rocks solar industry with rollback plan on incentives

The changes are intended to prod customers to install batteries that can store energy along with solar arrays to help the state deal with electricity shortages in the evening.
People chant slogans as they participate in a protest marking one month since the rape and murder of a trainee medic at a government-run hospital, in Kolkata, India, on Sept. 8.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Sep 27, 2024

India cuts target for fast-track sex crime courts as states fall short

India's strained judicial system has a backlog of tens of millions of cases.
Families of people killed by the eruption of Mount Ontake 10 years ago offer prayers in Otaki, Nagano Prefecture, on Friday.
JAPAN / Society
Sep 27, 2024

Victims of Mount Ontake eruption remembered 10 years on

Silent prayers were offered at 11:52 a.m., the time when the country's worst volcanic disaster in the postwar era occurred on Sept. 27, 2014.
Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani and his teammates celebrate after the club clinched the National League West with a 7-2 victory over the Padres at Dodger Stadium on Thursday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 27, 2024

Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers top Padres to seal NL West title

Will Smith had a game-tying two-run homer and Mookie Betts added a two-run single in the seventh for the Dodgers.
A Toyota Rav-4 Prime charges at an electric vehicle charging station in New York on Sept. 3. Toyota's sales fell again in August after declines in Japan and China put an end to a short-lived recovery.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 27, 2024

Toyota production falls on vehicle safety scandals and U.S. recalls

Global output, including that of subsidiaries Daihatsu Motor and Hino Motors, dropped in August by 12.6% from a year earlier
Tetsuya Ike, a farmer in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, examines a site where his greenhouse farm used to be before it was washed away by last week's torrential rain.
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2024

Farmers struggle to rebuild after devastating rains in Wajima

Fields that had recently begun to recover from the damage caused by the Jan. 1 quake have been submerged by torrential downpours.
Former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba waves after he was elected as the new head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party during a leadership vote on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 27, 2024

Fifth time's a charm: Shigeru Ishiba set to be Japan PM after LDP poll win

Ishiba, who has also served as party secretary-general, won the LDP presidential election on Friday, defeating economic security minister Sanae Takaichi in a runoff vote.
A 13-year-old junior high school student receives a vaccine for the human papillomavirus at a hospital in Tokyo in 2022.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Sep 27, 2024

Deadline approaches for free HPV vaccine 'catch-up' campaign

The government's free vaccination program requires the first dose to be administered by the end of September to complete the three-dose series before the campaign ends.
Ten elementary and junior high schools in the city of Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, reopened Thursday after closing temporarily as a result of record rainfall in the northern part of the Noto Peninsula over the weekend.
JAPAN / Society
Sep 27, 2024

Schools in Ishikawa Prefecture reopen after heavy rain

Ten elementary and junior high schools in the city of Wajima have reopened but two others remain closed after being flooded during last weekend's record downpour.
A Japanese Self-Defense Force jet was forced to fire flares recently as a warning to Russian aircraft that violated the country's airspace, highlighting how both China and Russia tried to test Japan’s leadership during a period of political transition.
EDITORIALS
Sep 27, 2024

China tests Japan. Are its new leaders ready?

Most of China's moves require considerable planning. That means that the signals they sent were anticipated and approved by political decision-makers.
Myanmar's then-state counselor, Aung San Suu Kyi, meets with Fumio Kishida, Japan's then-foreign minister, for talks in Tokyo in November 2016.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 27, 2024

Kishida’s failure to support democracy in Myanmar

Kishida's lack of engagement with Myanmar's pro-democracy movement shows he prioritized economic relations over democratic values.
The tech platforms contributing to social instability should financially support independent journalism as a way to combat misinformation and promote a healthier society.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 27, 2024

How independent journalism can save society from the effects of Big Tech

Independent journalism is critical in verifying facts, exposing corruption, addressing societal issues and contrasting it all with the negative impacts of Big Tech.
A Tokyo Electric Power Company employee uses a Geiger counter to check for radiation near storage tanks holding contaminated water at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in the towns of Okuma and Futaba in January 2020.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 27, 2024

Tepco's Fukushima decommissioning effort is challenging — but making progress

Tepco believes that diligent monitoring by it and the IAEA over the past year supports the conclusion that water discharges from the Fukushima No. 1 plant are safe.
The world's multilateral development banks must shift to a growth-focused approach that stabilizes economies without forcing them to cut essential public spending.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 27, 2024

The world needs bigger and better financial firefighters

The world's multilateral development banks must shift to a growth-focused approach that stabilizes economies without forcing them to cut essential public spending.
The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Waesche and crew transit the San Francisco Bay en route to Base Alameda, California, on Aug. 11 following a 120-day Indo-Pacific patrol.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 27, 2024

U.S. Coast Guard advising Manila as it seeks bigger Indo-Pacific footprint

It has also been assisting Manila in its missions to resupply the Philippine garrison at Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea, the agency's Pacific area chief says.
A Russian Yars intercontinental ballistic missile system drives past an honor guard during a military parade on Victory Day in Red Square in central Moscow on May 9.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 27, 2024

Putin draws a nuclear red line for the West

Experts are debating how seriously to take Putin's new nuclear doctrine.

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