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COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Jan 21, 2021

How Japan can help the U.K. meet its China challenge

With London and Tokyo sharing a view on the impact of Beijing's rise, now is the time for a bilateral policy dialogue to further align their diplomatic, economic and security interests.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Jan 21, 2021

Asia wonders: Can a Biden-led U.S. return to form?

The newly minted U.S. leader is looking to reassure a world wary of capricious American foreign policy during the Trump administration.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 21, 2021

From day one, Biden moves to undo Trump’s legacy

Biden took a series of executive actions on issues including immigration and criminal justice. He also moved to rejoin the Paris climate accord.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 21, 2021

Wanted: Communist Party leadership to keep Vietnam in sweet spot amid U.S.-China tensions

Vietnam's ruling Communist Party gathers for a congress next week that will help shape the country's global role for the next five years, selecting new leaders and setting policy as tensions bubble with Beijing and Joe Biden settles in at the White House.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 21, 2021

Vietnam steps up 'chilling' crackdown on dissent ahead of key Communist Party congress

The country has seen a record number of political prisoners, longer jail terms, and increased harassment of activists in recent years.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 21, 2021

BOJ keeps policy steady as virus bites, anticipating brighter fiscal 2021

The bank concluded that weaker growth at the end of the current fiscal year and a stimulus package announced last month will result in a stronger rebound in the year starting April.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 21, 2021

Vaccines become latest front line in China's campaign to win hearts of Taiwanese

China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, is making the free-of-charge offer at a time when the democratic island has yet to begin vaccinations of its own.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 21, 2021

'No plan, no Q, nothing': QAnon followers reel as Biden inaugurated

In one Telegram channel with more than 18,400 members, QAnon believers were split between those still urging others to 'trust the plan' and those saying they felt betrayed.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets with Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, the sole survivor of the crash of Air India Flight 171, at a hospital in Ahmedabad, India, on Friday in this image taken from a video.
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Jun 14, 2025

Is seat 11A the safest on a plane? Not really, experts say

Experts say it is not so straightforward because aircraft vary widely in seat configurations, crashes are unique and survival often hinges on an interplay of factors.
Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander drives to the hoop during the third quarter of Oklahoma City's Game 4 win over the Pacers on Friday in Indianapolis.
BASKETBALL / NBA
Jun 14, 2025

Thunder rally to beat Pacers and level NBA Finals at 2-2

Frustrated for much of the game by Indiana's relentless defense, NBA MVP Gilgeous-Alexander found a way to fight through and dominated the fourth quarter.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a payload of Starlink satellites lifts off from the U.S. Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 14, 2025

White House reviews SpaceX contracts as Trump-Musk feud simmers

The administration ordered the agencies to scrutinize Musk’s contracts to ready possible retaliation against the businessman and his companies, sources said.
Police clash with protesters who had shut down Highway 101 in Los Angeles on June 8. Misleading photographs, videos and text have spread widely on social media as protests against immigrant raids have unfolded in Los Angeles, rehashing old conspiracy theories.
WORLD
Jun 14, 2025

U.S. adversaries fuel disinformation about LA protests

The findings from researchers illustrate how foreign adversaries of the United States are exploiting deep divisions in American society as a tactic of information warfare.
People protest as a guest arrives to a private dinner with U.S. President Donald Trump and buyers of his cryptocurrency tokens at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, on May 22.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 14, 2025

Trump reports tens of millions in income from crypto ventures

The U.S. leader's first financial of his second term showed income from various assets, including Trump's properties in Florida.
A woman walks with a sign depicting Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as people gather for a protest against Israel's wave of strikes on Iran in central Tehran on Friday.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jun 14, 2025

Israel's attacks on Iran hint at a bigger goal: regime change

The moves appear aimed at diminishing Iran's credibility both at home and among its allies in the region — factors that could destabilize the Iranian leadership, experts said.
Sam Burns lines up a putt on the seventh green during the second round of the U.S. Open on Friday in Oakmont, Pennsylvania.
MORE SPORTS / Golf
Jun 14, 2025

Sam Burns shoots 65 to lead demanding U.S. Open

Burns had six birdies, one bogey and a key par save on his final hole to wrap up the low round.
Reports about fraudulent online rice shops to consumer affairs centers around the country spiked to 335 cases in April and May alone.
JAPAN
Jun 14, 2025

Reports of online rice scams surging in Japan

Reports about fraudulent online rice shops to consumer affairs centers around the country spiked to 335 cases in April and May alone, as much as is normally seen in a year.
An Upper House plenary session earlier this month. The Upper House election is likely to take place on July 20.
JAPAN
Jun 14, 2025

Upper House election likely to take place July 20

Whether the CDP will submit a no-confidence motion against the Ishiba Cabinet is set to be the main focus in the closing days of the current parliamentary session.
The wreckage of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner operated by Air India, which crashed on Thursday in Ahmedabad, India.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 14, 2025

India launches inspection of Boeing 787s after Air India crash

Authorities were looking at several aspects of the crash including issues linked to its engine thrust and why the landing gear remained open.
Missiles fired from Iran are pictured in the night sky over Jerusalem on Saturday.
WORLD
Jun 15, 2025

Israel and Iran strike at each other as Trump says conflict can be easily ended

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said Israel's attacks, which began on Friday, were aimed at sabotaging nuclear talks with the U.S.
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's economic revitalization minster, speaks to members of the media in Washington on Friday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 15, 2025

Japan and U.S. trade negotiators spoke again Saturday

Japan's top tariff negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick spoke by phone and explored the possibility of a trade deal.
Protesters hold a U.S. flag and placards as they take part in a nationwide "No Kings" rally against President Donald Trump's policies, in Louisville, Kentucky, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 15, 2025

Tens of thousands throng U.S. streets against 'king' Trump

Protest organizers expected rallies in all 50 U.S. states, calling them the largest since Trump returned to office in January.
A vehicle believed to belong the suspected gunman, who was impersonating law enforcement, is towed away from the home of the late State Rep. Melissa Hortman in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota on Saturday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 15, 2025

Authorities hunt suspect in deadly shooting of Minnesota Democratic lawmakers

The shootings by a gunman posing as a police officer killed a senior Democratic state assemblywoman and her husband and wounded a second lawmaker and his spouse.
Demonstrators deploy a giant banner reading "We the People," the first three words of the U.S. Constitution's preamble, during a "No Kings" rally in Los Angeles on Saturday, on the same day as President Donald Trump's military parade in Washington.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 15, 2025

As Trump celebrates army’s founding, his critics take to the streets

U.S. President Donald Trump held a military parade the same day that hundreds of protests took place, in what amounted to a split-screen show of force.
Mercedes driver George Russell during qualifying for the Canadian Grand Prix on Saturday in Montreal.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Jun 15, 2025

Russell grabs dazzling Canadian GP pole then jokes at Verstappen's expense

The 27-year-old British driver was delighted with what he described as "one of the most exhilarating laps of my life."

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"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.
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