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Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Jan 27, 2021

We don’t need another war on terror

Prosecute the Capitol rioters. But new antiterrorism laws could end up targeting people of color.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jan 27, 2021

Top global traders work to ease seafarer crisis due to coronavirus

Shipping industry officials say many sailors are at breaking point, and many have been at sea for longer than an 11-month limit laid out in a maritime labor convention.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jan 27, 2021

IOC's Dick Pound wants to examine reasons for public apathy toward staging Tokyo Olympics

He said the decision on whether the games go ahead this summer must be made by May at the latest and stressed that another delay was not possible.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 27, 2021

Short sellers crushed like never before as retail army charges in

Following a more than 350% surge this year alone, one hedge fund has already endured big losses on its bearish bet against the consumer electronics firm Gamestop.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 27, 2021

U.S. Senate Republicans unite behind failed effort to challenge Trump impeachment trial

There is a debate among scholars over whether the Senate can hold a trial for Trump now that he has left office.
OLYMPICS
Jan 27, 2021

New Zealand Olympic Committee head believes some athletes could skip Tokyo Games

Some New Zealand athletes may choose to skip the Tokyo Games this year due to health concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic, Radio New Zealand quoted Kereyn Smith, the head of the country's Olympic committee (NZOC), as saying on Wednesday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 27, 2021

Hong Kong’s first COVID-19 lockdown exposes deep-rooted inequality

Hong Kong has long been one of the most unequal places on Earth, a city where luxury malls sit shoulder-to-shoulder with overcrowded tenements.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 27, 2021

Indian farmers clash with police in Delhi as protests mount

The escalation of the farmers' protest adds to Modi's challenges amid efforts to reverse a contraction in Asia's third-largest economy due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 27, 2021

Biden and Putin agree to extend New START nuclear treaty

White House officials said Biden also confronted the Kremlin leader over the poisoning of an opposition activist and a hacking of government and private computer networks in the U.S.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 27, 2021

U.S. watchdog to probe whether DOJ helped Trump effort to overturn election

The inquiry adds to the increasing scrutiny on Trump's attempts to wield the power of the Justice Department to advance his false claims about the election.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 27, 2021

Janet Yellen makes history again as first female chief of U.S. Treasury

The Senate voted an overwhelming 84-15 to confirm Janet Yellen as the first woman to lead the U.S. Treasury earlier this week, setting her quickly to work with Congress on coronavirus relief, reviewing U.S. sanctions policy and strengthening financial regulation.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 27, 2021

China overtook U.S. in foreign direct investment, U.N. agency says

China overtook the U.S. as the largest recipient of foreign direct investment in 2020, a year in which overall global flows cratered by 42% as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, a United Nations trade agency said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 27, 2021

EU set to shut door on Japan travelers amid coronavirus surge

An update to the bloc's recommended travel 'white list” will continue to exclude the U.S. and all but seven other nations.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba attends a Liberal Democratic Party executive meeting in Tokyo on Monday.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 10, 2025

As election looms, Ishiba pledges ¥1 quadrillion GDP by 2040

Ahead of the Upper House election, the prime minister has unveiled the ambitious target, along with raising the average income by at least half.
Agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks in a news conference after a Cabinet meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 10, 2025

Japan to release extra 200,000 tons of stockpiled rice as prices fall

The average price of a 5-kilogram bag of rice at supermarkets in the week through June 1 was ¥4,223, down ¥37 from the previous week.
A worker cleans the floor next of a BYD dealership in Sandton, South Africa, on June 5.
BUSINESS / Tech / FOCUS
Jun 10, 2025

Why China's auto and tech giants threaten Tesla’s self-driving future

More Chinese auto and tech companies are offering affordable electric vehicles with advanced technology for a relative pittance.
The new basic plan for promoting disaster prevention measures is expected to call for intensive efforts to develop evacuation shelters and stockpile emergency supplies to prevent earthquake-related deaths from indirect causes.
JAPAN
Jun 10, 2025

Japan plans to target 80% reduction of likely megaquake death toll in 10 years

The target will be included in a new basic plan for promoting disaster prevention measures, which is expected to be adopted in early July.
People carry relief supplies from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a private U.S.-backed aid group that has bypassed the longstanding U.N.-led system in the territory, as displaced Palestinians return from an aid distribution center in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 10, 2025

Palestinians' dangerous ordeal to reach Israeli-approved aid

Gunfire and a desperate crowd of hungry people make reaching aid points a life-threatening ordeal that may ultimately be an exercise in futility.
Members of law enforcement detain people as protests against federal immigration sweeps continue, in downtown Los Angeles, on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 10, 2025

Unrestrained Trump turns to military in second-term power play

Trump’s moves to deploy troops to Los Angeles and hold a parade on the Army’s 250th birthday fulfills his goal of using the military for a show of power.
Emergency specialists working at the crash site of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane near the city of Aktau, Kazakhstan, in December last year.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 10, 2025

Expanding missile threats and airspace closures are straining airlines

The aviation industry, which prides itself on its safety performance, is investing more in data and security planning.
Supporters of the Alternative for Germany party (AfD) wave flags as they take part in an AfD campaign rally in Hohenschoenhausen, Berlin, in February.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 10, 2025

Germany's far-right AfD harbors growing number of extremists: spy agency

The domestic spy agency also reported a surge in overall crime motivated by right-wing extremism.
Police officers stand as children are evacuated from the school, following a deadly school shooting in Graz, Austria, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 10, 2025

Gunman kills at least nine in attack on Austrian secondary school

Police did not publicly identify the killer, but Austrian media cited unconfirmed reports saying he was a former pupil.
The Port of Los Angeles, in San Pedro, California. The World Bank stopped short of forecasting a recession, but said global economic growth this year would be its weakest outside of a recession since 2008.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 10, 2025

World Bank slashes global growth forecast as trade tensions bite

The bank stopped short of forecasting a recession, but said global economic growth this year would be its weakest outside of a recession since 2008.
South Korean musical "Maybe Happy Ending" won big at the 78th Tony Awards in New York on June 8. From left: Hunter Arnold, Dez Duron, Marcus Choi, Hue Park, Helen J. Shen, Darren Criss, Will Aronson and Jeffrey Richards.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Jun 11, 2025

South Korean musical 'Maybe Happy Ending' tops Broadway's Tony Awards

The awards celebrated Broadway's biggest year since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020.
BTS member RM (left) plays saxophone while V looks on while holding flowers at an outdoor facility in Chuncheon on Tuesday.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Jun 11, 2025

Two BTS megastars released from South Korea military

As the members of one of the world's biggest pop groups complete their military service obligations, fans hope for a new album.
U.S. Marines who were placed in an alert status over the weekend rehearse nonlethal tactics in the greater Los Angeles area.
WORLD
Jun 11, 2025

Downtown Los Angeles under curfew as Newsom warns of Trump overreach

"California may be first — but it clearly won’t end here. Other states are next,” Newsom said. "Democracy is under assault right before our eyes."
Firefighters work at the site of a Russian drone strike in Kyiv on Tuesday.
WORLD
Jun 11, 2025

Russia launches one of war's largest air attacks on Kyiv

The overnight strikes were part of what Moscow says is retaliation for attacks by Ukrainian forces on Russia.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick speaks to members of the media at Lancaster House in London on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 11, 2025

U.S. and China officials agree on plan to ramp down trade tensions

Officials on both sides expressed optimism but the framework must now be approved by leaders in Washington and Beijing.
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
Who’s who in the LDP presidential race?
(From 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, speaking at events in Tokyo.
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.

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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