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Japan Times
PRESS / Services
Feb 15, 2021

ジャパンタイムズ　デジタルサブスクリプションが進化
新プランの登場と新たな機能を追加します

株式会社ジャパンタイムズ（本社：東京都千代田区、代表取締役会長兼社長：末松弥奈子）は、2021年2月15日よりジャパンタイムズが提供するデジタルサクスクリプションに新プランが登場すると同時に新たな機能を追加します。新プランは「プレミアム」と「スタンダード」の2種類、...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 15, 2021

Japan’s double-digit expansion signals resilience in economy

Gross domestic product grew an annualized 12.7% from the prior quarter in the three months through December, the Cabinet Office reported Monday.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 15, 2021

Yoshiro Mori's replacement as Tokyo 2020 president could be chosen this week

Tokyo 2020 organizers have to pick a new president with just five months left to prepare for the games amid the COVID-19 pandemic
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 15, 2021

Treetop sensors help Indonesia eavesdrop on forests to curb illegal logging

Clipped onto a rope, climbing high up in a tree swaying in gusts of wind, Topher White finally reaches the roof of the rainforest and opens a laptop to run checks on a machine he built to transmit 24-hour live sound from the surrounding forest.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 15, 2021

Australia’s ‘rebel reverend’ goes viral with barbed liberal messages

Since 2013, the Rev. Rod Bower has used a small billboard outside the Gosford Anglican Church for pithy messages that merge theology with liberal politics.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Feb 15, 2021

Injured Novak Djokovic accepts risks of playing through pain at Australian Open

Novak Djokovic says it's a 'gamble' to continue playing at the Australian Open and that his abdominal injury could have an impact on the rest of his season.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Regional voices: Chubu
Feb 15, 2021

Empty stores and offices on the rise in Nagoya

Nagoya's central district is seeing more empty stores and offices as the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in teleworking and almost no inbound tourists.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 15, 2021

Suu Kyi detention extended to Wednesday as security forces deployed to cities

Police opened fire Sunday at a power plant in northern Myanmar to disperse protesters during a ninth day of demonstrations against the military's Feb. 1 coup.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 15, 2021

U.K. firms find Brexit reality involves more red tape and less control

With the country now out of the European Union, companies that trade with the continent are contending with expensive disruptions to their businesses.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 15, 2021

Bitcoin’s epic run is winning more attention on Wall Street

A week after Tesla announced its $1.5 billion investment in Bitcoin, the digital asset is continuing to make inroads into traditional finance.
Japan Times
Special Supplements
Feb 15, 2021

Toyama's rich industrial culture marked by innovation, flexibility and change

The circular rings found in cut tree trunks are said to age a tree and tell its story. A visit to the Uozu Buried Forest Museum in Uozu, Toyama Prefecture, also reveals how surprisingly adaptable nature can be. The museum, through its exhibits and housing the impressive, preserved remains of cedar trees...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 15, 2021

New Zealand gets pandemic reality check as Auckland locked down

The country hasn't had to impose any restrictions since August last year when a community outbreak pushed Auckland into a three-week lockdown.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 15, 2021

Need an app? This Japanese startup has a platform for that

The glaring need for creators has fueled investor expectations for local startup Yappli Inc., which designs off-the-shelf apps.
Rescue workers at the site of a Russian missile attack in Kyiv on Sunday.
WORLD
May 27, 2025

Ukraine confirms China gives supplies to Russian military factories

China has forged even closer trade and other economic relations with Russia since Moscow sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in February 2022.
Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani scores in the fifth inning against the Guardians in Cleveland, Ohio, on Monday.
BASEBALL / MLB
May 27, 2025

Ohtani sets tone with leadoff homer in Dodgers' win over Guardians

Ohtani took over the MLB lead with 19 home runs by sending Gavin Williams' fastball into the stands in right field.
Participants crouch and take cover inside the Toei Subway Higashi-Nakano Station as part of a civil protection drill simulating the launch of a ballistic missile, held on Jan. 15 in Tokyo's Nakano Ward.
JAPAN / FOCUS
May 27, 2025

Hurdles remain for securing missile shelters in Japan

Government carries out first large-scale survey to identify more potential evacuation sites.
Sales of luxury properties in Tokyo, like Azabudai Hills’ Aman Residences, have pushed up average real estate prices in the capital.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 27, 2025

Luxury Tokyo penthouse sold for over $65 million in new record

Home prices in Tokyo have been on a broad upward trend, driven by rising construction costs and a limited supply of new buildings.
Brazil coach Carlo Ancelotti during a news conference in Rio de Janeiro on Monday
SOCCER
May 27, 2025

Ancelotti pledges to make struggling Brazil 'champion again'

The former Real Madrid manager is the first non-Brazilian in six decades to coach the record five-time World Cup winners.
New buyers are entering the market for Japanese government bonds and amplifying volatility, said Dai-ichi Life CEO Tetsuya Kikuta in an interview.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 27, 2025

Dai-Ichi Life sees falling volatility in JGB market

New buyers are entering the market for Japanese government bonds and amplifying volatility, Chief Executive Officer Tetsuya Kikuta said in an interview.
Mika Sasaki (center) checks a scene of her film "Bougainvillea no Yume" ("Bougainvillea Dream") while shooting it in Kolkata, India, in February.
JAPAN
May 27, 2025

Japanese student in India reflects on her grandfather while filming World War II movie

The filmmaker's late grandfather is believed to have survived one of the fiercest battles during the war in India, though he never spoke of it.
Honduran Foreign Minister Eduardo Enrique Reina (left) and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi before their meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on May 14
BUSINESS / Economy
May 27, 2025

Developing nations face 'tidal wave' of China debt, report finds

The poorest 75 countries are set to make "record high debt repayments" to China in 2025 of a combined $22 billion.
Israelis gather with flags by Damascus Gate, which leads to Jerusalem's Old City, as they mark Jerusalem Day on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
May 27, 2025

Far-right Israelis confront Palestinians and other Israelis in chaotic march

The large rally in Jerusalem marked Israel's capture of the city's east in the 1967 war.
Under the "digital address" system launched by Japan Post, users can input seven-digit combinations of numbers and letters on online shopping and other websites, and their addresses will automatically appear on the sites.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 27, 2025

Japan Post launches 'digital address' system

Under the system, users can input seven-digit codes on online shopping websites, and their addresses will automatically appear on the sites.
Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda speaks during a conference hosted by the bank's Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies in Tokyo on Tuesday. Ueda gave the yen a boost by clearly indicating his intention to continue raising the benchmark interest rate if the economy improves as expected.
BUSINESS / Economy
May 27, 2025

Yen rises as Ueda indicates BOJ is still eyeing more rate hikes

The yen rose as high as 142.12 against the dollar immediately after Ueda's remarks.
PRESS
May 28, 2025

The Japan Times Destination Restaurants が 今年の受賞レストランを発表

Destination Restaurants
Osaka Prefectural Police have arrested two men for allegedly stealing a safe containing roughly ¥100 million ($702,500) from the home of a company president last year.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 27, 2025

Osaka police arrest two men in ¥100 million home burglary

Investigators believe the suspects may have had advance knowledge of both the cash and the location of a spare key inside the home for the safe they stole.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi says the government will take the lead in reusing soil removed during decontamination work at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
JAPAN
May 27, 2025

Soil from Fukushima radiation decontamination to be reused in Tokyo

The soil will be reused within the grounds of central government agencies and the prime minister's office, in hope of promoting its reuse throughout the country.
Al-Nassr's Cristiano Ronaldo scores against Al-Khaleej in Riyadh on Wednesday
SOCCER
May 27, 2025

Ronaldo says Al-Nassr chapter is 'over'

The 40-year-old Portuguese forward's contract with the Saudi club ends this summer.
40 years after Plaza Accord, Japan still at mercy of forex swings
The Plaza Hotel in New York, where finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the Group of Five countries met and struck the Plaza Accord on Sept. 22, 1985.
As Japan keeps buying gas, Aboriginal Australians pay the price
Paulina “Jedda” Puruntatameri with Antonia Burke and Tiwi fisher Clinton offshore of Melville Island, one of the Tiwi Islands, in Australia's Northern Territory. Together with other Tiwi, Jedda has been campaigning for years to stop Australian company Santos and its backers, including Japanese investors, from drilling for natural gas at the Barossa gas field.
South Korea’s baby bust threatens its demographic future
Marriage is rapidly declining in South Korea as rising education and career aspirations collide with traditional gender norms.
Abuse of 'zombie cigarettes' among Okinawa youths raises alarm
A street in Naha in August. In entertainment districts in southern Okinawa, a drug known as "laughing gas vape" is being abused at nightclubs and bar. Now, some establishments have put up warning notices.
German companies choosing Japan as Asia manufacturing hub: survey
Japan has many positive qualities for German companies, but the market does face some challenges, such as talent acquisition and retention, particularly as demand for skilled workers grows, a survey by the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan showed.
Who’s who in the LDP presidential race?
(Clockwise from top left) Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi; former foreign minister Toshimitsu Motegi; Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Shinjiro Koizumi; former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi; and former minister of state for economic security Sanae Takaichi
Aichi Triennale’s message from the world: Free Palestine
“Between Currents and Bloom,” an eye-popping crocheted seascape by Indonesian artist Mulyana, dazzles with Instagram-ready cuteness while recalling a vibrant ocean now threatened by warming seas.
Twice-a-year injection could make HIV prevention easier, developer argues
Jared Baeten, Gilead Sciences' senior vice president and virology therapeutic area head, hopes regulatory approval elsewhere for lenacapavir as a preexposure prophylaxis — for reducing the risk of contracting HIV — could lead to real discussions toward ending HIV in Japan.
Behold the glory of Japan’s fruit boxes
Otherwise common sights in Japan's supermarkets, the country's fruit and veggie boxes can hide surprising symbols of local pride.
YouTuber Gigguk shifts from talking anime to making anime
The process of making “Baan” was personal and enlightening for Maneetapho, who spent years talking about anime on his YouTube channel and podcast before making the jump to becoming an anime creator himself.

Podcast

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

Longform

"Shake hands with Lima-chan," a statue that shares the name of the Peruvian capital looks in the direction of Peru, where a sister statue, "Sakura-chan," is located. Erected in Yokohama's Rinko Park in 1999, it commemorates Peruvian-Japanese friendship.
The journey of Peru’s Nikkei: Finding identity in Japan
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