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Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Aug 10, 2021

Formula One calendar a 'game of chess' due to COVID-19

Formula One should emerge from the August break with a clearer calendar for the rest of the season but there are still plenty of possible scenarios due to COVID-19 and shifting circumstances, according to McLaren Racing boss Zak Brown.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 10, 2021

Flying the Olympic flag, Paris looks beyond COVID-19 for 2024 Games

Officials are hoping to make the sporting spectacle open to the masses after the pandemic-hit Tokyo Games was held behind closed doors.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Aug 10, 2021

Surviving the atomic bomb, only to live a life of regret

Miyako Yano was absent from school the day Hiroshima was bombed. Decades later, she was reunited with her deceased friends in a school register.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Aug 10, 2021

Memories of a parent and a Hiroshima hometown, preserved in photographs

Okiharu Terao survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima — but had lost his father, a keen photographer, earlier in the war.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 10, 2021

Beverage-makers target high-end spirits for post-pandemic growth

Drink companies are seeking M&A opportunities because sales of higher-priced drinks are expected to grow more than moderately priced beverages in the next five years.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Aug 10, 2021

Unearthing the story of an uncle's prewar past in Hiroshima

Masakatsu Takeyari hopes newly unearthed remains of the location where his uncle's military unit was based will be fully utilized for education and commemoration.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 10, 2021

China air travel marks biggest drop since start of pandemic

A surge in COVID-19 cases has dealt a fresh blow to tourism on the mainland during the peak summer holiday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 10, 2021

How sustainable are the world's sovereign wealth funds?

The world's biggest funds are making only patchy progress in adapting investment plans to account for environmental, social and governance factors.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 10, 2021

New technologies demand new thinking about power and strategy

As the world enters the fourth industrial revolution and Society 5.0 emerges, we need a more fulsome understanding of technology.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 10, 2021

Cryptocurrency regulator says easing of restrictions in Japan must wait

While the FSA chief is open-minded about the potential benefits that crypto-assets possess as a quick way to send cash, in Japan they are mainly being used for speculation and investment.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 10, 2021

A money-loser, yet a medal-winner: The dichotomy of hosting the Games

Hosting an Olympic Games is an economic disaster, even in nonpandemic times. After more than a century and over 50 installments, there are enough case studies to conclude that the home nation is invariably the biggest loser from the world’s largest sporting event.
U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision will further burnish his climate credentials, deepening his record of fostering conservation and zero-emission energy.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 4, 2025

Biden to ban new oil drilling over vast stretch of U.S. Atlantic and Pacific waters

The move represents a sweeping effort to permanently protect coastal waters from fossil fuel development and the risk of oil spills.
DOPS Director Dr. Jim Tucker (back row, from left), David Acunzo, Marina Weiler, Philip Cozzolino (front row, from left) Marieta Pehlivanova and Elliot Gish, pose for a photo on the campus of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, on July 15. Is reincarnation real? Is communication from the "beyond” possible? A small set of academics are trying to find out, case by case.
WORLD / Society
Jan 4, 2025

Do you believe in life after death? These scientists study it.

Is reincarnation real? Is communication from the “beyond” possible? A small set of academics are trying to find out, case by case.
Recovering Ukrainian soldiers pray at the Holy Cell of Saints Archangels Falakrou in Mount Athos, Greece
WORLD
Jan 4, 2025

Wounded Ukrainian soldiers find solace in Greek monasteries

They arrived with marks of war — one with a head scar, another with both legs amputated above the knee, and some with invisible mental wounds.
Tomiko Itooka died of old age in a nursing home for the elderly in the city of Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture.
JAPAN / Society
Jan 5, 2025

Tomiko Itooka, the world's oldest person, dies at 116

Itooka was born on May 23, 1908, in the commercial hub of Osaka — four months before the Ford Model T automobile was launched in the United States.
Former Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, leader of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, speaks during a news conference in Ise, Mie Prefecture, on Saturday.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 4, 2025

CDP chief Noda rejects grand coalition with LDP

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who serves concurrently as LDP president, said Wednesday that there "should be an option to form" such a tie-up.
Head of Peoples Party (OEVP) and Chancellor Karl Nehammer addresses reporters during a presentation of his party's election platform in Vienna in September.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 5, 2025

Austria's chancellor to step down after coalition talks collapse

The move by conservative Chancellor Karl Nehammer comes after breaking off coalition talks with the Social Democrats over disagreements on key issues.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy leaves after a trilateral meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at the Elysee Palace in Paris last month.
WORLD
Jan 5, 2025

Zelenskyy reports heavy Russian and North Korean troop losses in Kursk

The Ukrainian leader said the Russian army had lost up to a battalion of North Korean infantry soldiers and Russian paratroops in recent days.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken answers a question from the audience at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on Dec. 18.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 5, 2025

Blinken wades into political crisis with stop in South Korea

The top U.S. diplomat will seek delicately to encourage continuity with the policies, but not tactics, of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol.
Kei Nishikori hits a return to China's Shang Juncheng during their semifinal match at the Hong Kong Open on Saturday.
TENNIS
Jan 5, 2025

Resurgent Nishikori reaches first ATP final in six years

A wildcard at the tournament, Nishikori beat third-seeded Russian Karen Khachanov, Britain's Cam Norrie and Denis Shapovalov on the way to the last four.
U.S. Steel's Edgar Thomson Steel Works in Braddock, Pennsylvania, in December 2019. The Biden administration blocked the $14 billion takeover of U.S. Steel by Nippon Steel on Friday, citing grounds that the sale posed a threat to national security.
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Jan 5, 2025

Biden’s decision on Nippon Steel deal followed divide in his orbit

The split was emblematic of so many shifts in U.S. policy — including of Biden’s pledge to build trust with allies and the race against China.
Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike on houses, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Gaza City, in the Gaza Strip, on Saturday.
WORLD
Jan 5, 2025

Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza Strip as new ceasefire talks begin

A renewed push is underway to reach a ceasefire and return Israeli hostages before Donald Trump returns to the U.S. Presidency.
Hideki Matsuyama hits a shot from the rough during the third round of The Sentry golf tournament in Kapalua, Hawaii, on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS / Golf
Jan 5, 2025

Hideki Matsuyama holds one-shot edge on Collin Morikawa at The Sentry

Matsuyama, who was the second-round leader, couldn't shake Morikawa, who also shot 62 in the PGA Tour season opener at The Plantation Course in Kapalua, Hawaii.
A woman in her 60s talks about her son who became addicted to online gambling and committed a crime through an illegal part-time job.
JAPAN / Society
Jan 5, 2025

Online gambling addiction becoming serious issue in Japan

The number of consultation requests received by one aid group has surged 11-fold in five years.
An Israeli soldier sits atop a tank as it drives into the U.N.-patrolled buffer zone in the Golan Heights, near the Druze village of Majdal Shams, on Dec. 13.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 5, 2025

U.S. plans $8 billion arms sale to Israel

Some of the munitions deliveries could be furnished through current U.S. stock, while the majority would take up to several years to deliver.
A screen shot taken from Ann Telnaes' substack of the rough version of a cartoon she says she drew for The Washington Post that was rejected by the paper's editorial page editor
WORLD / Politics
Jan 5, 2025

Cartoonist quits Washington Post over rejected sketch mocking owner and Trump

The cartoon depicts Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos and other media and tech moguls kneeling and holding up bags of money before a massive Trump.
Haneda Airport security staff arrested over theft
Tokyo police have arrested a 21-year-old security inspector at Haneda Airport after he allegedly stole cash from a passenger during a baggage inspection.
Japan's elderly population down at around 36.2 million
The estimated number of people age 65 or older in Japan stands at 36.19 million as of Monday, accounting for record 29.4% of the country's total population, according to the internal affairs ministry.
SDF spots China’s biggest aircraft carrier for first time
The Fujian aircraft carrier is seen in Shanghai in May 2024 as it leaves for its first sea trial.
White House threatens broad crackdown on liberal groups
FBI Director Kash Patel (right) listens to senior White House adviser Stephen Miller speak in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Monday.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Japanese athletes inspired by raucous home fans at World Athletics Championships
Fans cheer on the home favorites during the women's marathon at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Sunday.
Pole vault rivals in awe after Duplantis has another historic night in Tokyo
Sweden's Armand Duplantis competes in the men's pole fault final during the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium in Tokyo on Monday.
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.
Tara Davis-Woodhall leaps to gold and finds redemption at world championships
Tara Davis-Woodhall celebrates after winning the women's long jump final at the World Athletics Championships at Tokyo's National Stadium on Sunday night.
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.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Sumadori Bar on Shibuya Ward's main Center Gai street targets young customers who prefer low-alcohol drinks or abstain altogether.
Rethinking that second drink: Japan’s Gen Z gets ‘sober curious’
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