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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 22, 2021

Canberra's enthusiasm for conflict with Beijing should be concerning

The French claimed the Australian decision to renege on the submarine deal was a betrayal. But the decision, which was motivated by fears of China becoming an equal, was very Australian.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 22, 2021

At Oval Office meeting, Boris Johnson's Brexit promise of U.S. trade deal fades from view

Despite having talked up a deal with Washington as a major prize of his campaign to leave the EU, the British prime minister himself has since tried to downplay expectations of progress.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 22, 2021

SoftBank to be ‘more cautious’ with investments in China, CEO says

The Japanese group's stock came under pressure in recent weeks as a widening crackdown by Beijing regulators on China's tech sector battered the value of some of its biggest holdings.
CULTURE / Music / Sound Off
Sep 22, 2021

How do you deflect a controversy? Keigo Oyamada blames the media.

Musician Keigo Oyamada cries foul over how he was portrayed in a pair of magazine articles that ended up causing him a job at the Tokyo Olympics.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 22, 2021

Justin Trudeau's longevity as Canadian leader unclear after bid for majority fails

Insiders said Trudeau and his inner circle had failed to realize the people they would need to run the campaign were exhausted after 15 months fighting COVID-19.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech / FOCUS
Sep 22, 2021

China's high-tech push seeks to reassert global factory dominance

Beijing's pivot puts the focus on advanced manufacturing, rather than the services sector, to steer the world's second-largest economy past the so-called 'middle income trap.'
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 22, 2021

Russia was behind Litvinenko assassination, European court finds

The European Court of Human Rights found that Moscow was responsible for the assassination of ex-KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned with a rare radioactive substance.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Sep 22, 2021

Overseas Uyghurs struggle to locate relatives in Xinjiang prisons

Rights groups and U.N. experts estimate more than 1 million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities were interned in a network of camps since 2016.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 22, 2021

Hong Kong quietly widens national security law with subtle shift

City authorities have begun using the phrase 'contrary to the interests of national security” in recent weeks to define new red lines in the entertainment industry and the tax code.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 22, 2021

Chinese hackers target Indian agency and media company, report says

The agency, the Unique Identification Authority of India, holds the private biometric information of more than 1 billion Indian citizens.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 22, 2021

Shallow 6.0-magnitude earthquake rattles southeast Australia

The tremor was one of the country's biggest quakes on record, causing damage to buildings in Melbourne, its second-largest city. and sending tremors throughout neighboring states.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / THE LIVING PAST
Sep 22, 2021

The first chapter in a long tale of Japanese romance

From the coupling of gods to form Japan to a female samurai dying on the battlefield, stories of love have always been intertwined with history.
Hirofumi Yoshimura at a news conference in Kita-ku, Osaka, on Sunday
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 1, 2024

Nippon Ishin elects Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura as new leader

Hirofumi Yoshimura succeeds current Nippon Ishin no Kai leader Nobuyuki Baba, who decided to step down after the Lower House election.
Takashi Inoguchi
JAPAN
Dec 1, 2024

Victims of fire at LDP lawmaker's home identified

The cause of the fire has not been determined, but the possibility of a crime is low, and it is suspected to be accidental, according to the police.
The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo is a popular place to foster curiosity in the natural sciences.
JAPAN / Science & Health / Longform
Dec 2, 2024

Can Japan's scientific community rebound from a Nobel nosedive?

Shrinking funding and limited support spark fears for the country's scientific prowess moving forward.
Member of French far-right party Rassemblement National (RN) Marine Le Pen (center) talks to the media next to party member Louis Aliot after a hearing in her trial on suspicion of embezzlement of European public funds, in Paris on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 2, 2024

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen has never been so powerful in France

Marine Le Pen is now the ultimate power broker in Paris.
INC-5 Chair Luis Vayas Valdivieso (on screen) speaks during an open plenary session during the fifth session of the U.N. Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution (INC-5) in Busan, South Korea, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 2, 2024

Countries fail to reach agreement in U.N. plastic talks

Countries remained far apart on the basic scope of a treaty and could agree only to postpone key decisions and resume talks at a later date.
Carlos Tavares, Chief Executive Officer of Stellantis, speaks at the Paris Automotive Summit during the Paris Auto Show on Oct. 15.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 2, 2024

Stellantis CEO Tavares quits and hands over to interim committee

The company said in a statement that a new CEO will be named in the first half of 2025, with an interim committee headed by Chairman John Elkann taking the reins for now.
Thousands of people gather for a third night of protests against the government's decision to shelve European Union membership talks until 2028, near the parliament building in Tbilisi on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 2, 2024

Tens of thousands rally in Georgia as new election calls are rebuffed

Georgia has been rocked by turmoil since the governing Georgian Dream party claimed victory in Oct. 26 parliamentary polls.
U.S. President Joe Biden, accompanied by Hunter Biden and Beau Jr., walks out of a bookstore in downtown Nantucket, Massachusetts, on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 2, 2024

Biden backtracks, pardoning son Hunter in final weeks of presidency

The White House had said repeatedly that Biden would not pardon or commute the sentences of his son, a recovering drug addict who became a target of Republicans.
Makoto Nakae, a researcher of swallowtail butterflies
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Dec 9, 2024

New museum set to bring butterflies of the world to Fukushima

The collection includes Japan’s only display of an extinct butterfly species native to South America.
Although years have passed since the dramatic arrest and ouster of former Chairman Carlos Ghosn, Nissan remains mired in management upheaval.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 2, 2024

Nissan shares up after news that chief financial officer will step down

The stock gained as much as 1% in early morning trading, though the shares are still down almost 35% this year.
A sign at the entrance to the Vauxhall van factory in Luton, England, on Nov. 27. Stellantis plans to close the factory, and has made efforts to pin the blame on the government's mandate for more electric vehicle sales.
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 2, 2024

The EV transition is leaving the U.K. auto industry behind

The country wants to be a leader in EVs but has lagged others in establishing the necessary plants and battery factories.
The logo of the Adani Group on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, on Nov. 21
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 2, 2024

Bangladesh wants to renegotiate Adani power deal unless court cancels

Adani Group founder Gautam Adani is already facing allegations by U.S. authorities that he was part of a $265 million bribery scheme in India.
A tank, left behind by Syrian regime forces, is seen on the road leading to the town of Khan Sheikhun, in Idlib province, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 2, 2024

Syria's embattled Assad seeks to shore up support after Aleppo loss

For the first time since the civil war started more than a decade ago, the country's second city is out of control of Syrian regime forces, observers said.
Ken Kutaragi, the creator of Sony's PlayStation, speaks at the annual Tokyo Game Show in the city of Chiba in September.
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 2, 2024

Father of PlayStation says 'everyone told us we would fail'

With revolutionary 3D graphics and titles like "Tomb Raider" and "Metal Gear Solid," the device first hit shelves on Dec. 3, 1994.
Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter, Princess Aiko, wave to members of the public for the Emperor's 64th birthday at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Feb. 23. The imperial family will greet the public at the palace on Jan. 2.
JAPAN
Dec 2, 2024

Imperial family New Year's event to be held for first time in two years

Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and other imperial family members will greet the general public.
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.
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.
‘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.
Aging Japan’s centenarian population nears 100,000
Shigeko Kagawa, Japan's oldest person at 114, in Yamatokoriyama, Nara Prefecture, on July 30
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.
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.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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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
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