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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Regional voices: Chubu
Dec 18, 2020

Musical improvisation: Karaoke venues find new uses for their multimedia spaces

Firms have seen sales fall by as much as 40% amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but have also been able to tap into new demand.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Dec 18, 2020

Carp's Ryosuke Kikuchi captures eighth straight Golden Glove

Kikuchi's award capped off a historic season in which the second baseman did not commit a single error for the Central League side.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hokkaido
Dec 18, 2020

Hokkaido fishing villages face tough decision over nuclear disposal sites

While a traditional industry is slowly dying out, some see a nuclear site as bringing valuable income, while others feel very differently.
BUSINESS
Dec 18, 2020

Wall Street’s prediction of ¥100 to the dollar catching on at Japan banks

The yen at u00a5100 to the dollar is a tough call for Japan's banks, mainly because it's the point where domestic exporters start losing money.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 18, 2020

While we're waiting for electric cars to fully charge, how about hybrids?

Investors have run up the stock prices of electric car companies and their valuations far higher than the businesses really warrant.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 18, 2020

Biden should look to Obama's Asia-Pacific trade strategies

As president-elect Joe Biden prepares for his inauguration, the international community is anticipating how the incoming administration will approach free trade.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA
Dec 18, 2020

Social slam dunk: Washington Wizards scoring high with Japanese media strategy

The club has capitalized on Rui Hachimura's first season with localized content that has generated enthusiasm in Japan and drawn praise from NBA officials.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 18, 2020

Denmark toughens rape law to include sex without explicit consent

In order to bring a rape charge, the law previously required proof of violence, threat or evidence that the victim was unable to fend off the assault.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Dec 18, 2020

Paris 2024 chief says breakdancing included to reach out to youth

The inclusion of breakdancing at the 2024 Olympics may been surprising but organizers were drawn to the sport's potential to attract a younger fan base and grow the Olympic audience in the internet age, Paris Games chief Tony Estanguet said.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on Tuesday. Trump's latest comments suggest he is running out of patience with Russian President Vladimir Putin after having openly expressed admiration for him in the past.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 9, 2025

Trump slams Putin again as he backs more weapons for Ukraine

U.S. President Donald Trump said he’s also looking "very strongly” at a bill introduced in the Senate that would impose severe sanctions on Russia.
U.S. President Donald Trump (center) with Secretary of State Marco Rubio (left) and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the White House on Tuesday
BUSINESS / Markets
Jul 9, 2025

Trump vows no tariff extension and hardens threats on copper and drugs

The U.S. president stresses he would not offer additional extensions on country-specific levies set to now hit in early August.
Emperor Naruhito delivers a keynote speech via video at the Seventh Special Thematic Session on Water and Disasters held at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jul 9, 2025

Emperor gives video speech at U.N. event on water and disasters

He urged people "to take new action" to tackle water-related issues around the world.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (left) and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi embrace at the G20 Leaders' Summit In Rio De Janeiro in 2024.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 9, 2025

Brazil’s Lula hosts Modi in bid to turn India into a major trade partner

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is desperate to finally crack the code on a relationship that has never fully taken off thanks to a litany of incompatibilities.
Two specimens of the Japanese beetle have been detected for the first time in France.
ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife
Jul 9, 2025

France worries about Japanese beetles after finding two

The insects threaten plum trees, apple trees, vines, corn, soy, green beans and asparagus, among other cultivated plants.
Carlos Alcaraz celebrates after winning his Wimbledon quarterfinal match against Cameron Norrie on Tuesday in London.
TENNIS
Jul 9, 2025

Alcaraz and Sabalenka take contrasting routes into Wimbledon semis

The Spanish second seed dropped four sets in a series of scrappy displays during his run to the last eight, but was at his best on Tuesday.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi (center) during a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington on Tuesday. Bondi had assured Fox News she had a client list of financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on her desk in remarks endorsed by the White House.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 9, 2025

Trump faces MAGA meltdown over Epstein reversal

The shutting down of conspiracy theories surrounding a purported client list of the notorious sex offender has sparked backlash from the U.S. president's support base.
Political parties have pledged to reduce social security premiums and raise salaries for medical and nursing care workers in their campaigning for the upcoming Upper House election.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 9, 2025

Premiums and wages at heart of social security debate ahead of Upper House vote

Social security premiums in Japan grew from ¥26.7 trillion in fiscal 2000 to ¥40.7 trillion in fiscal 2022.
Merchant ships in the southern Red Sea. The resumption of attacks by Houthi militants could once again deter more owners and crews against going through the Red Sea.
WORLD
Jul 9, 2025

Two killed in Houthi attack on cargo ship in Red Sea

The return of Houthi attacks could once again deter more ship owners and crews against going through the Red Sea to cut shipping time.
Japan defender Kota Takai (left) challenges Indonesia's Marselino Ferdinan during a World Cup qualifying match in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on June 10.
SOCCER
Jul 9, 2025

Tottenham signs Japan defender Takai from Kawasaki Frontale

Takai, a product of Frontale's youth academy, has made four appearances for Japan's national team.
Emperor Naruhito (left) visits a special education school in Iruma, Saitama Prefecture, in May and looks at a student attending to a customer at a cafe inside the school.
JAPAN / Society
Jul 9, 2025

Boosting support for parents of children with disabilities in Japan

Businesses and local governments are taking steps to support parents after care programs for their disabled children are discontinued at a certain age.
A law enforcement member works in recovery operations following flooding on the Guadalupe River in Hunt, Texas, on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 9, 2025

Misinformation from left and right sows confusion amid Texas floods

Liberals baselessly blamed staffing cuts at U.S. weather agencies for flawed warning systems while conservatives ramped up conspiracy theories.
The Transportation Security Administration’s reversal on removing shoes ends a policy that has been for nearly two decades one of the most visible — and criticized — features of the post-9/11 heightened U.S. airport security system.
WORLD
Jul 9, 2025

U.S. travelers can keep shoes on at airport security, TSA says

The reversal ends a policy that has been for nearly two decades one of the most visible features of the post-9/11 heightened U.S. airport security system.
Chelsea's Joao Pedro (left) after scoring his club's first goal of its Club World Cup semifinal win over Fluminense on Tuesday in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
SOCCER
Jul 9, 2025

Joao Pedro brace sends Chelsea into Club World Cup final

The Brazilian striker dominated his former club Fluminense as Chelsea set up a showdown with either Real Madrid or Paris Saint-Germain in the final.
Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako pay tribute at a memorial to commemorate Japanese nationals who died while being detained in Mongolia after the end of World War II, in Dambadarjaa, on the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar, on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jul 9, 2025

Emperor and empress mourn Japanese who died in Mongolia

It is the first time that a Japanese emperor has mourned at a site where Japanese people were detained abroad, according to the Imperial Household Agency.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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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