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JAPAN / Explainer
Feb 2, 2021

Leading world in hospital bed availability, Japan still taxed by COVID-19

Despite a relatively low number of cases, prefectures currently under a state of emergency are seeing about 70% of their hospital beds for virus patients occupied.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 2, 2021

Japan urged to link up private and public testing to better grasp pandemic's extent

The recommendation, included in a health ministry report, calls for the government to vet testing companies and merge their figures with those compiled by public clinics.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 2, 2021

Now they tell us: Austerity is out in a low-interest rate world

It is no coincidence that there have been waves of populism across the Western world in the wake of the global financial crisis — and the imposition of the austerity orthodoxy.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 2, 2021

Mitch McConnell calls Marjorie Taylor Greene a 'cancer' on GOP

Mitch McConnell, the top Senate Republican, said on Monday that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's embrace of conspiracy theories was a "cancer" on their party, as House Democrats moved to strip her of committee assignments.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 2, 2021

Ocasio-Cortez recalls Jan. 6 attack, wanting Republicans held to account

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez described being terrified for her life during the storming of the U.S. Capitol in an emotional broadcast on Monday night, doubling down on calls for Republican politicians to be held accountable.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 2, 2021

Wuhan or Wu-Tang? Canadian diplomat's T-shirt logo angers China

Canada said it regretted a "misunderstanding" after China lodged a formal complaint over a diplomat's order of a custom T-shirt displaying the word Wuhan, the city where the COVID-19 pandemic first emerged, over the emblem of hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 2, 2021

The Myanmar coup’s dangerous aftershocks

Although the army has declared a state of emergency for a year, past history in Myanmar with such declarations could easily suggest that the state of emergency could go on for many years.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 2, 2021

Study shows COVID-19 variant spreading in Britain could become resistant to vaccines

Experiments in test tubes suggest that some of its mutations allow the coronavirus to hold onto cells more tightly.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 2, 2021

Japan should restart Go To Travel campaign in March, senior LDP official says

The remarks by Hiroshige Seko, Upper House secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party, come even after a study last month indicated the campaign may have spread the coronavirus.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 2, 2021

China’s top diplomat warns Biden not to touch internal affairs

In China's most high-profile remarks to a U.S. audience since Biden's Jan. 20 inauguration, Yang Jiechi says Washington must not cross Beijing's 'red line.'
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 2, 2021

Hong Kong threatens to knock down doors to force COVID-19 tests

Government targeting those who don't respond to authorities conducting mandatory-testing blitzes as the city tries to end a persistent winter wave of coronavirus cases.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Feb 2, 2021

Not just Navalny: economic pain also behind Russian protests

The trigger for some of the biggest protests to sweep Russia in years was the arrest of opposition politician and Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who was detained on his return to the country last month after surviving poisoning by a nerve agent.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk attend a news conference in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on May 30.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 5, 2025

Will ex-aide Musk leave a stink in the White House?

U.S. President Donald Trump's sweeping domestic policy bill has careened into an Elon Musk-shaped brick wall, complicating its passage into law.
A fine of up to ¥30 million will be imposed on companies that dismiss or take disciplinary action against whistleblowers under the revised law.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 5, 2025

Japan enacts bill to penalize revenge against whistleblowers

Under the revised law, individuals who discipline whistleblowers will be subject to a prison term of up to six months or a fine of up to ¥300,000.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping
WORLD / Politics
Jun 5, 2025

Trump’s late-night lament over Xi deepens impasse in trade fight

Exactly what the Chinese are asking the White House to relinquish in order to secure a phone call with their leader remains unclear.
Intermediary support is crucial for drug availability in Japan, where more than 50 therapies have been identified as needed but unavailable to patients.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 5, 2025

Itochu working to support overseas pharma firms to fill Japan's drug gaps

Two units of the trading house will assist with everything from early-stage consulting, regulatory advice and clinical testing support to post-launch distribution.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander shoots during practice in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on Wednesday.
BASKETBALL / NBA
Jun 5, 2025

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander focused on capping historic season with NBA title

Gilgeous-Alexander delivered a spectacular regular season that saw him supplant Nuggets star Nikola Jokic as the NBA MVP.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un greets the Russian Security Council head Sergei Shoigu in Pyongyang on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 5, 2025

North Korea's Kim vows 'unconditional support' for Russia's war in Ukraine

The two sides agreed to "continue to dynamically expand" relations, North Korea's state news agency reported.
Astroscale Holdings executives attend the company’s listing ceremony at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in June 2024.
BUSINESS
Jun 5, 2025

Space-debris firm that saw shares surge 62% on IPO loses half its value

Excitement over Astroscale Holdings was riding high, but it's now the worst performer among Tokyo’s 10 biggest listings in the past year.
A tax-free shop in Kyoto in April 2024. Last week, members of a Liberal Democratic Party study group drafted a proposal seeking to scrap the country's tax-free shopping system altogether.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Jun 5, 2025

Japan eyes tougher rules for foreign residents and tax hike for tourists

Ideas range from stricter driver's license tests for foreign nationals to increasing taxes on foreign visitors.
Harvey Weinstein, accused of three sex crimes, appears for his retrial at the State Supreme Court in Manhattan on May 9.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 5, 2025

'No means no,' prosecutor tells jurors as Harvey Weinstein trial wraps

The cinema magnate's retrial follows the overturning of his 2020 convictions on rape and sexual assault charges by an appeals court.
Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph speaks during a rally held by U.S. President Donald Trump (right) at U.S. Steel Corporation-Irvin Works in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, on May 30.
MORE SPORTS / Football
Jun 5, 2025

Steelers respond to fans after QB Mason Rudolph attends Trump rally

The team reminded fans that the opinions of individual players "do not necessarily represent the view of the entire Pittsburgh Steelers organization."
Malware used by Chinese state-backed hacking groups was on the systems of a U.S. telecommunications firm for seven months starting in the summer of 2023, investigators claim.
WORLD
Jun 5, 2025

Chinese hacked U.S. telecom a year before known wireless breaches

The hack raises questions about when Chinese intruders established a foothold in the American communications industry.
The National Police Agency headquarters in Tokyo
JAPAN
Jun 5, 2025

Child abuse cases hit record high in Japan in 2024

The number of victims rose by 285 from the previous year to 2,700.
Kosei Tanaka speaks during a news conference to announce his retirement in Nagoya on Wednesday.
MORE SPORTS / Boxing
Jun 5, 2025

Four-division world champion Kosei Tanaka retires at 29 due to eye injuries

Tanaka is the fastest boxer to earn belts at four different weights.
Japan's top tariff negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, left Tokyo for Washington on Thursday for the fifth round of trade negotiations with the United States.
BUSINESS
Jun 5, 2025

Japan to continue to seek tariff removal in latest negotiations ahead of G7

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and U.S. President Donald Trump are expected to meet on the sidelines of the summit, with anticipation mounting for a trade deal announcement.
Oilers center Leon Draisaitl celebrates after scoring the game-winning goal in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final in Edmonton, Alberta, on Wednesday.
MORE SPORTS / Ice Hockey
Jun 5, 2025

Leon Draisaitl scores in overtime to lift Oilers in Game 1 of Stanley Cup Final

Draisaitl's NHL record-tying third overtime goal of the playoffs gave the Oilers a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven championship series.
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.
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.
Boom in business class travel from Japan fuels airlines profits
A business class suite of an Airbus SE A350-1000 aircraft operated by Japan Airlines is seen during a media preview at the company's hangar at Tokyo's Haneda Airport in January last year.
The Japanese face and body patches that have had the world wondering
Japan's Mebuki Suzuki in action with Uganda's Oscar Chelimo in the men's 10,000 meter final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Sept. 14
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.
How Yuki Joseph Nakajima turned failures into breakout success at Tokyo worlds
Yuki Joseph Nakajima after finishing sixth in the men's 400-meter final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Thursday.
Robot tour guides in Tokyo offer way for those with disabilities to work
Tours are being offered in Tokyo using a shoulder-mounted robot equipped with a camera, speaker and microphone. The robot twitches its wing-like arms, which it can fold together as if in prayer when visiting a temple.
World Athletics stars relish Tokyo atmosphere after COVID-hit Olympics
Organizers of the World Athletics Championships said over 500,000 tickets had been sold and that they are expecting to end the event in front of large crowds this weekend.

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
By Christoph Sponsel

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