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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 20, 2021

Xi’s celebrity crackdown no match for Universal Studios in China

A commentary published widely in state-run media last month warned against 'fan culture” and 'worshiping Western culture.”
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 20, 2021

Taiwan threatens to take China to WTO in new spat over fruit

Taiwan threatened to take China to the World Trade Organization on Sunday after Beijing said it would suspend sugar apple and wax apple imports from the island on pest concerns, in the latest spat between the two over fruit.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 20, 2021

Migrants collecting food try to evade law enforcement at U.S.-Mexico border

More than 12,000 migrants, identified by officials on both sides as mostly Haitian, have been gathering in recent days, awaiting immigration processing.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 20, 2021

Vaccine debate and climate goals top a scaled-back U.N. summit

The U.N. wants diplomats to have the face-to-face time they need to address crisis issues, but they don't want to be remembered for hosting a superspreader event.
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.
The advent of “relationship bots” will change the world’s oldest profession, but the need for human connection will persist.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 1, 2024

AI will transform sex work but not intimacy

There is already at least one relationship bot called Replika and more will surely follow. And they will only get better.
The challenge for African governments and communities is how to harness this wave of youthful talent — with all their innovation, resilience and determination — rather than lose them to developed economies.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 29, 2024

Africa must act to stem its youth brain drain

African governments must harness youthful talent or risk losing it to developed economies.
Funai Electric Chairperson Yoshiaki Harada holds a news conference in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on Monday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 3, 2024

Funai's chairman files for its court-led rehabilitation

The court decision came after one of the company's directors filed a "quasi-voluntary bankruptcy" petition in late October.
Iraqi military equipment is transported towards the border with Syria on Monday.
WORLD
Dec 3, 2024

Iraqi fighters head to Syria to battle rebels but Lebanon's Hezbollah stays out, sources say

Syria's civil war had been frozen since 2020, with Assad in control of most territory and all major cities.
The yen carry trade is expected to ramp up next year, driven by wide gaps in interest rates, higher government borrowing in the U.S. and low volatility in currency markets, analysts say.
BUSINESS / Markets
Dec 3, 2024

Yen carry trade that rattled markets shows signs of a comeback

Japanese retail investors as well as leveraged funds and asset managers outside the country are estimated to have boosted bearish wagers on the yen in November.
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.

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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