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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jan 9, 2021

North Korea's Kim greets Biden era with plan to upgrade nuclear capabilities

Kim vows to bolster arsenal — including via new weapons tests — but leaves door open to diplomacy with the United States.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 9, 2021

Traditional bars in the firing line of Japan's second COVID-19 emergency

With losses already built up and footfall down as people work from home, owners of Japan's traditional izakaya are being forced into crushing choices.
JAPAN
Jan 9, 2021

Japan to tighten border measures with new rules for returning citizens

The change to the travel policy is part of the government's new measures in response to a surge in coronavirus cases across the country and around the world.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jan 9, 2021

Beloved Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda dies at 93

Lasorda spent more than 70 years in the Dodgers organization.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jan 9, 2021

Facebook and Twitter crackdown around U.S. Capitol siege is too little, too late

For weeks, content on big tech platforms Facebook, Twitter and YouTube as well as upstart fringe social networks foretold the storming of the U.S Capitol.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 9, 2021

Simon & Schuster cancels plans for Josh Hawley’s book

Simon & Schuster said Thursday that it would cancel the publication of an upcoming book by Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, one of several members of Congress who tried to overturn the results of the presidential election.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA
Jan 9, 2021

Two Americas: Lebron James speaks out about violence at U.S. Capitol

Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James blamed this week's mob violence at the U.S. Capitol on President Donald Trump and questioned what would have happened had the rioters been Black.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 9, 2021

Democrats poised to act against Trump if he doesn’t resign

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that Democrats 'will preserve every option” to force Trump from office, either through the 25th Amendment or impeachment.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 9, 2021

Pelosi pressed Pentagon on checks to prevent Trump from starting conflict

But short of the cabinet invoking the 25th Amendment or impeaching and convicting the president, it would be unconstitutional to defy legal orders from the commander in chief, experts note.
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te has repeatedly said only Taiwan's people can decide their future as the island faces stepped-up military and political pressure from China, including war games.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 24, 2025

China says Taiwan president spreading 'heresy' with sovereignty speech

China's Taiwan Affairs Office said Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te had intentionally distorted history to promote his Taiwan independence agenda.
According to the education ministry survey for fiscal 2024, the English proficiency of public junior high school and senior high school students in Japan continues to improve.
JAPAN
Jun 24, 2025

Japanese students' English proficiency keeps improving

The city of Saitama marked the highest figure for junior high school third graders with Grade 3 or higher Eiken levels, at 89.2%.
Protesters hold portraits of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei along with Pakistani, Palestinian and Iranian flags during a demonstration against the U.S. and Israel in Karachi, Pakistan, on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 24, 2025

Pakistan condemns U.S. strikes in Iran while embracing Trump

Pakistan’s response to the Iran crisis suggests a calibrated approach as the government seeks closer political and economic ties with the Trump administration.
Born in April 2023, Grape and Acai are an inseparable duo that prefer a gentle lifestyle.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Jun 24, 2025

Fine feline twosome on the hunt for a forever home

Acai and Grape are an inseparable pair that are sure to bring a touch of sweetness to a peaceful household.
A draft interim report calls on social media service providers to introduce voluntary regulations designed to suspend monetization in the event of a disaster, to curb the spread of disinformation.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 24, 2025

Japan aims to regulate social media monetization in disasters

The report calls on social media service providers to suspend monetization in the event of a disaster, to curb the spread of disinformation.
Tokio Marine has made a string of big acquisitions in the U.S. in recent years to make up for limited growth prospects at home.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 24, 2025

Tokio Marine hunts for deals abroad and sees room for growth in U.S.

The insurer has the capacity for more deals overseas after generating record profits by selling shareholdings worth tens of billions of dollars.
A customer picks up a bag of government-stockpiled rice sold at a convenience store in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Jun 24, 2025

Price of rice in Japan falls below ¥4,000 per 5 kilograms

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba had aimed to push down rice prices to the ¥3,000-¥4,000 range by as early as mid-June.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's grandson Hassan Khomeini stands next to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during the 36th anniversary of the death of the leader of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, at Khomeini's shrine in southern Tehran on June 4.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 24, 2025

Search for successor to Iran's Khamenei hastens as tensions erupt into conflict

Israel attacked Iran and threatened to assassinate its veteran leader.
Japan has already told the EU that the Japanese eel is at no risk of extinction due to international trade.
JAPAN
Jun 24, 2025

Japan opposes EU moves toward eel trade regulation under CITES

Japan plans to collaborate with countries including China and South Korea to urge signatories to reject the proposal.
President of World Athletics Sebastian Coe speaks in Oslo on June 12.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Jun 24, 2025

It will be 'big and punchy': Athletics chief Coe looks to future

The World Championships arrive in September in Tokyo, and Coe describes them as "a massive moment."
The Finance Ministry will trim the volume of 20-, 30- and 40-year bonds sold in regular auctions by a combined ¥3.2 trillion ($21.7 billion) through the end of March 2026.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 24, 2025

Japan approves plan to cut super-long bond sales by $22 billion

The changes come after an imbalance between supply and demand for long tenors in Japan’s government bond market led to surges in yields to record highs.
A large banner against Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on the ground in St. Mark's Square, ahead of the expected wedding of Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, in Venice, Italy, on Monday
BUSINESS
Jun 24, 2025

Jeff Bezos's gala wedding in Venice draws criticism from locals and activists

Some Venetians see the celebration as the latest sign of the brash commodification of a beautiful but fragile city long overrun with tourism and depopulating.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte addresses a press conference a day prior to a meeting of The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in The Hague on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 24, 2025

Flatterer-in-chief: How NATO's Rutte worked to win over Trump

Diplomats say Rutte is one of only a handful of European leaders Trump willingly picks up the phone to and that the two text each other.
Since its introduction in 1985, Sega's UFO Catcher machine has come to define crane games in Japan.
LIFE / Digital
Jun 24, 2025

King of Japan’s arcades, Sega’s UFO Catcher turns 40

Where would Japan’s arcades be without the rows and rows of crane games that Sega’s influential machine helped popularize?
Lakers forward LeBron James controls the ball against the Timberwolves in Los Angeles on April 30.
BASKETBALL / NBA
Jun 24, 2025

NBA's James feels great after first workout since knee injury

The player has a Sunday deadline to opt into a $52.2 million player contract option for next season with the Lakers.
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
By Christoph Sponsel

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