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BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 4, 2021

SoftBank built a $5 billion stake in pharma giant Roche

Roche's diagnostics unit reacted swiftly to the pandemic, and now sales are boosted by its COVID-19 testing business.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 4, 2021

MUFG staff to set ‘personal rhythms’ with hybrid work model

At the pandemic's peak, around 98% worked remotely — now MUFG employees in Europe, the Middle East and Africa can decide how they want to work.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2021

The future will be weirder than we think

The future may become unthinkably weird and that weirdness will likely come sooner than we think.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2021

A big step forward for global tax justice

Europe must demonstrate that multilateral action can deliver for all if every country invests in it. And the new global tax agreement does just that.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2021

U.S.-China talks: Salvaging a relationship

The slogan when U.S.-China relations were first restored was “Friendship first, competition second.” Now, no one speaks about friendship. It is competition first, last and in between.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2021

China’s unavoidable financial rise

Many economists in the West did not see China's massive growth coming, and its influence is now becoming impossible to ignore.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 4, 2021

Double lives: The Olympians who divide their time between work and sport

'You cannot be riding a horse and thinking, what's happening with a trade in the office,' says equestrian Jose Maria Larocca, also one of the world's most influential oil traders.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 4, 2021

Japan’s post-Olympics stock bounce depends on controlling COVID-19

The Nikkei usually rises when Japan hauls in gold medals, but all bets are off during the pandemic.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 4, 2021

Storied stadium lends sumo flavor to Tokyo's Olympic boxing

Boxing bouts are taking place at the legendary Kokugikan Arena, a 7,300 seat stadium described by Olympic organizers as the 'spiritual home' of sumo.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 4, 2021

American Sydney McLaughlin breaks world record to win women's 400 hurdles

The 21-year-old stuttered on the penultimate barrier but surged down the home stretch to power across the line in a record 51.46 seconds.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 4, 2021

Kim Jong Un’s head bandage is added to list of health mysteries

Images of the North Korean leader at events in late July showed a bandage and later a dark greenish spot on the back of his head.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 4, 2021

Sweden and Canada ask for women's gold medal soccer match to be moved to avoid heat

Trackside temperatures at the athletics stadium hit 40 degrees earlier this week, and with the women's medal game due to take place at 11 a.m., both sides have expressed concerns.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 4, 2021

'Constantly pursued': Ukraine's LGBT activists attacked online and in the street

Campaigners said abuse and violence could be increasing partly because of the growing visibility of the nation's LGBT community.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Aug 4, 2021

In pictures: Day 11 of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

This was the day that Simone Biles returned to the gymnastics floor to compete on the balance bar and IOC ordered a probe intou00a0the case of Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya,
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump appears remotely for a sentencing hearing in front of New York State Judge Juan Merchan in the criminal case in which he was convicted in 2024 on charges involving hush money paid to a porn star, at New York Criminal Court in Manhattan on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 11, 2025

A sentence with no penalty assures Trump will take office as a felon

Justice Juan Merchan gave Donald Trump a symbolic punishment. The judge said that leniency was due the office of the president, not the man who will soon hold the title.
Burned-out homes reduced to rubble by the Eaton Fire are seen in Altadena, California, on Friday.
WORLD
Jan 11, 2025

Los Angeles faces more wildfire evacuations even as fierce winds ease

Fierce winds that have supercharged wildfires sweeping parts of Los Angeles eased Friday, but the largest blaze shifted direction, triggering new evacuation orders.
Head of Presidential Security Service, Park Chong-jun, is surrounded by media in the National Office of Investigation in Seoul on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 11, 2025

President Yoon’s security chief quits as new arrest bid looms

It’s not immediately clear if the vice chief who will take over will cooperate with a probe team’s warrant execution for Yoon.
Then-U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping shake hands ahead of their bilateral meeting during the Group of 20 leaders summit in Osaka in June 2019.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 11, 2025

China's Xi to send top-level envoy to Trump's inauguration, report says

Beijing has told Trump’s transition team that the official would attend instead of Xi, whom Trump had invited to attend.
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva speaks during a meeting in Washington on Friday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 11, 2025

IMF chief sees steady world growth in 2025, continuing disinflation

Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said the U.S. economy was doing "quite a bit better" than expected, although there was uncertainty around Donald Trump's trade policies.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gestures to supporters after he was sworn in for a third six-year term, in Caracas on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 11, 2025

Venezuela's Maduro sworn in as opponents decry 'coup' and U.S. hikes bounty

The United States increased to $25 million a reward for information leading to the arrest of President Nicolas Maduro or Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello,
U.S. Army soldiers with the NATO multinational battle group on the territory of Bulgaria stand in formation with a U.S. flag and an armored vehicle during a visit by NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte at the Novo Selo military ground near Mokren, Bulgaria, on Dec. 19.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jan 11, 2025

NATO won't back Trump's new defense spending target but will raise its sights

A new target is likely to be agreed at a NATO summit in June, but the key questions are what that new target will be and whether it will be enough to satisfy Trump.
A demonstrator holds a banner with the image of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in Tijuana, Mexico, on Dec. 18.
ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability / ANALYSIS
Jan 11, 2025

Politics, not climate, to drive sustainable finance trends in 2025

The return of Donald Trump as U.S. president heralds more regional divergence on everything from fund flows to legal cases and market regulations.
Mark Zuckerberg, then chief executive of Facebook, appears at a joint U.S. Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington in April 2018.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 11, 2025

Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s sprint to remake Meta for the Trump era

The highly unusual overhaul of the firm's speech policies came after the Meta CEO visited U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in November.
The record high reflected strong corporate demand for working capital amid rising raw materials prices and the yen's weakening, as well as brisk capital investment mainly by large companies.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 11, 2025

Japan bank lending hits record high at end of 2024

Outstanding bank lending in Japan stood at a record high of ¥605.8 trillion at the end of 2024, up 4.4% from a year before, according to industry data.
A Syrian fighter with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham patrols the gate as men wait outside a reconciliation center in Damascus on Dec. 30.
WORLD
Jan 11, 2025

Western powers warn Syria over foreign jihadis in army

HTS and allied groups have hundreds of foreign fighters in their ranks, many of them followers of hard-line interpretations of Islam.
Naoya Inoue will fight Kim Ye-joon on Jan. 24 after his original opponent, Sam Goodman, withdrew from the bout due to injury.
MORE SPORTS / Boxing
Jan 11, 2025

Inoue to fight Kim after Goodman pulls out with injury

The 32-year-old Kim, ranked No. 11 by the WBO, has 21 wins and two defeats with 13 knockouts and two draws.
Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson drops back to pass during a game against the Giants on Dec. 15.
MORE SPORTS / Football
Jan 11, 2025

Ravens QB Lamar Jackson leads NFL All-Pro team selections

Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen trailed Jackson with 18 first-place votes, with Cincinnati Bengals QB Joe Burrow nabbing two.
Dana White, the CEO of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, speaks during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 18.
MORE SPORTS
Jan 11, 2025

UFC seeks more than $1 billion a year in next TV rights deal

The UFC’s deal with Walt Disney Co.’s ESPN expires at the end of 2025, and the two sides are entering an exclusive negotiating window later this month.
Dodgers star Mookie Betts is interfered with by Yankees fans during Game 4 of the World Series on Oct. 29.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jan 11, 2025

Two fans who grabbed Mookie Betts in World Series banned by MLB

Both men were ejected from the stadium and had their tickets revoked for Game 5 after interfering with Betts.

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