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PRESS / Events
Dec 1, 2021

“Tackling social exclusion through soccer” with Naofumi Suzuki

The Japan Times Cube Inc. (representative director: Minako Suematsu) launched Roundtable by The Japan Times, a series of talk events broadcasted in Japan.
Japan Times
ESG CONSORTIUM
Dec 1, 2021

Papermaker Oji forms solutions to environmental, social needs

The 2021 U.N. climate summit, COP26, closed with nations that are accelerating their measures against climate change announcing new and renewed targets for reducing emissions. Such measures ought to differ from country to country, industry to industry and company to company. The global community should...
Japan Times
PARALYMPICS
Dec 1, 2021

Paris hoping to sell record 3 million tickets for 2024 Paralympics

Should all the tickets on sale for the 2024 Paralympics be purchased, Paris will break the record set by London 2012 when 2.7 million tickets were sold.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 1, 2021

Officials offer vaccine reassurance as WHO advises against travel bans

The WHO warned against blanket travel bans while the head of drugmaker Moderna said existing COVID-19 vaccines would be less effective against the omicron variant.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 30, 2021

Omicron is the price we pay for vaccine inequality

Amsterdam's main airport went into lockdown recently after 61 passengers on two flights from southern Africa tested positive for the new virus. Japan, Hong Kong and Israel have also reported cases.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 30, 2021

U.S. warns Russia of 'serious consequences' for any new Ukraine aggression

Two Russian troop build-ups this year on Ukraine's borders have alarmed the West. In May, Russian troops there numbered 100,000, the largest since Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 30, 2021

SoftBank-backed Snapdeal targets $250 Million IPO in 2022

The e-commerce startup co-founded by Wharton alumnus Kunal Bahl in 2010 focuses on the less-affluent and less tech-savvy bulk of the population living outside India's biggest cities.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 30, 2021

Taiwanese tycoon speaks out against independence after fines in China

Chinese officials and media made it clear that his companies were penalized because of donations to Taiwan's ruling party.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 30, 2021

Center-left Kishida endorses bold moves in security realm

It's unlikely Kishida will usher in drastic changes that have not already been gestating inside the LDP and Defense Ministry, but it will be important to see which items gain top priority.
JAPAN
Nov 30, 2021

Japan confirms first case of omicron coronavirus variant

Genomic screening had detected the variant in a male Namibian diplomat in his 30s who had landed in Tokyo on Sunday traveling from from Namibia.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 30, 2021

Barbados ditches Britain's Queen Elizabeth to become a republic

The birth of the republic severs almost all of the colonial bonds that have tied the island to England, but some also wonder what this transition actually means.
Japan Times
Figure Skating
Nov 30, 2021

Doubts emerge over Grand Prix final after Japan shuts borders

Both the Japan Skating Federation and the Japan Sports Agency said they did not know what the rules would be for foreigners scheduled to compete in the Dec. 9-12 event in Osaka.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 30, 2021

Why we shouldn't write off omicron cases as ‘mild’

The omicron variant has been reported as causing only mild illness, but this needs to be interpreted with caution as it may not reflect the variants severity across a broad range of people.
Commuters at Tokyo Station in July. In Tokyo, cases of mycoplasma pneumonia, characterized by prolonged cough and fever, rose to a record high of 2.96 per medical facility in the fourth week of September.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 8, 2024

Mycoplasma pneumonia cases reach record high in late September

The disease, which commonly affects children and is usually accompanied by a fever and cough, typically surges in the transition from fall to winter.
Japan saw the highest number of bankruptcies since 2013 in the six months through September.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 8, 2024

Japan records highest number of bankruptcies in a decade as costs rise

The bankruptcies partly reflect the impact of higher prices, while a record 163 firms cited labor shortages as a reason for their struggles.
A bill to grant compensation to victims of forced sterilization clears the Lower House on Monday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 8, 2024

Parliament clears bill to compensate all victims of forced sterilization

With the latest legislation, all victims — whether or not they are plaintiffs in related lawsuits — will be compensated, paving the way for resolution.
Japan's real wages fell in August year-on-year after turning positive for the previous two months for the first time in more than two years.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 8, 2024

Real wages in Japan drop in August after two months of gains

Analysts say that real-wage growth could turn positive again in September, in part due to the reintroduction of electricity bill subsidies.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has floated an idea of creating an Asian version of the NATO security framework.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 8, 2024

Ishiba's 'Asian NATO' dead on arrival as new PM set for diplomatic debut

Many Asian countries maintain delicate ties with China, making the creation of any defense group aimed at countering Beijing's influence difficult.
South Africa's Kurt-Lee Arendse scores in a Rugby World Cup quarterfinal match against France in Saint-Denis, France, on Oct. 15, 2023.
MORE SPORTS / Rugby
Oct 8, 2024

Springbok Arendse signs for Japan's Dynaboars

The 28-year-old former Sevens flyer joins the Dynaboars on sabbatical from the Pretoria-based Bulls.
Maritime Self-Defense Force's submarines docked at U.S. Navy's Yokosuka base in Kanagawa Prefecture
JAPAN
Oct 8, 2024

MSDF overpaid ¥81 million for submarine battery charging, sources say

Contract documents did not spell out the amount of power needed for a full charge, resulting in 15 cases in which batteries were not properly charged.
Sapporo City Board of Education officials apologize on Tuesday over a case in which an elementary school boy was sexually assaulted by a junior high school boy.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 8, 2024

Sapporo school boy sexually assaulted by junior high student: panel report

The offending student previously went to the same elementary school as the victim, and the two were members of the same youth sports team.
A screen shows the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, U.S. physicist John J. Hopfield and Canadian-British computer scientist and cognitive psychologist Geoffrey E. Hinton, during the announcement at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Tuesday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 8, 2024

Pair win physics Nobel for machine learning breakthroughs

The two used tools from physics to develop methods that became the foundation of today’s powerful machine learning, the Nobel Foundation said.
Iwao Hakamata, together with his sister Hideko, speaks to his supporters on Sept. 29 in the city of Shizuoka after the Shizuoka District Court handed down a not-guilty verdict in a retrial of a 1966 quadruple murder case against him.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 8, 2024

Ex-boxer Iwao Hakamata finally exonerated over 1966 murder case

Prosecutors have decided not to appeal against the Shizuoka District Court's not-guilty verdict at the end of a rare retrial, his lawyers said.
The Sega Corp. and Atlus Co. booth at the Tokyo Game Show in Chiba last month featured a sneak peak at Metaphor: ReFantazio.
LIFE / Digital
Oct 8, 2024

Man behind Persona games flips to fantasy in latest release

Though new to the realm of fantasy, game designer Katsura Hashino and his team were driven by the challenge of simply seeing if they could pull it off.
Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan during a news conference in parliament on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 8, 2024

Retiring former PM Kan calls for another change of government in Japan

"I feel that I did everything I could do," Kan said of his 44-year political career since he was first elected to the Lower House in 1980.
Gen Nakatani (center), who was named defense minister last week, attends an extraordinary session of the Lower House at parliament in Tokyo on Oct. 1.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 9, 2024

U.S. and Japan defense chiefs agree to beef up Nansei Islands presence

Two controversial proposals put by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba — an Asian version of NATO or revising the U.S.-Japan Status of Forces Agreement — were not discussed.
Smoke billows over Beirut's southern suburbs after a strike, amid the ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Sin El Fil, Lebanon, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Oct 9, 2024

Israel says it has killed Hezbollah leader's successors

Hezbollah is reeling after a spate of senior commanders have been killed in Israeli airstrikes.
Jets coach Robert Saleh during his team's loss to the Vikings on Sunday in London.
MORE SPORTS / Football
Oct 9, 2024

Jets fire head coach Robert Saleh after 2-3 start

Defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich will be the interim head coach for the remainder of the season, according to team owner Woody Johnson.
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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