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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 9, 2020

Australia and Japan edge toward an alliance

On Nov. 17, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison became the first foreign leader to visit Japan since Yoshihide Suga assumed the prime ministership.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 9, 2020

How to vaccinate a nation of skeptics against COVID-19

How to convince people to actually take the shot. Achieving herd immunity may mean at least 80% of people will need the vaccine.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 9, 2020

Getting NATO back on track

Biden could start this process of reconciliation between France and Germany — and, more importantly, between the U.S. and its NATO partners — by canceling Trump's planned troop withdrawal.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 9, 2020

Prime Minister Suga makes a $708 billion bet on political survival

The government's fiscal response to the pandemic already dwarfs measures taken after the global financial crisis, as well as the earthquake and tsunami of 2011.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Dec 9, 2020

I achieved my wildest dreams. Then depression hit.

I’d spent my life training for the Olympics, but I wasn’t prepared for what came next.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 9, 2020

National strike intensifies protests against new India farm laws

Tens of thousands of farmers across India took to the streets Tuesday during a nationwide strike demanding the scrapping of new agricultural laws, intensifying an almost fortnight long standoff with the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 9, 2020

Many countries to miss Paris climate plan deadline due to COVID-19 delays, U.N. says

The U.N. Development Programme supports 115 of the 197 countries that signed the 2015 Paris deal through its 'Climate Promise' program which includes many of the world's poorest nations.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League
Dec 9, 2020

B. League's Storks and Robots punished over quarantine violations

The Nishinomiya Storks and Ibaraki Robots were censured by the B. League last Friday for letting their import players join team practices before their 14-day quarantine periods had ended.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 9, 2020

JUSLP offers future leaders insights on U.S. elections

The Japan-U.S. Leadership Program (JUSLP) of The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs offered a seminar series on the U.S. electoral process and the impact of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory on the Indo-Pacific region and U.S.-Japan relations. JUSLP is co-organized...
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 9, 2020

Talk of a 'no deal' Brexit grows as deadline looms

The U.K.'s transition period ends on Dec. 31, and if by then there is no agreement to protect trade from tariffs and quotas, businesses on both sides would be hit hard.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 9, 2020

Testing times: More work needed on AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine trials

A Lancet study gave few extra clues about why efficacy was 62% for trial participants given two full doses, but 90% for a smaller subgroup given a half, then a full dose.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 8, 2020

Zombie companies feed off the living

Like their namesakes, zombies feed off the living. They are companies that should close their doors but don't, cannibalizing healthy businesses, depriving them of customers and income.
The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 15, 2025

23-year sentence sought for senior member of 'Luffy' crime ring

"The cases have led to many copycat crimes, and the defendant should be punished severely," prosecutors stressed.
A freezer at a Japanese Red Cross Society blood center in Tokyo's Koto Ward lost power around 10:30 p.m. on May 11, rendering around 13,700 units of fresh frozen plasma blood unusable.
JAPAN
Jul 15, 2025

Freezer glitch affects blood products at Red Cross center in Tokyo

The incident did not affect deliveries of blood products to medical institutions, and the affected units will be used as materials for other products.
Tokyo stocks are underperforming shares in other large markets globally.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jul 15, 2025

Tokyo stocks hit by a perfect storm of tariffs, politics and budget worries

The Nikkei 225 is down about 6% from its peak, hit in July 2024.
Shahbaz Ali, a ride-hailing motorcycle driver who earns $8 on a good day, transports a passenger through the busy streets of Karachi, Pakistan, on June 26.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Jul 15, 2025

When it’s this hot, ‘We are enduring, not living’

In Karachi, 17 million residents endure overlapping crises of toxic air, flooding, poor waste disposal and climate change.
Hiroe Kawashimo enjoys regular walks in the city of Hiroshima.
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Jul 28, 2025

Woman with disabilities from atomic bombing recalls mother's dedication

The daughter of a woman exposed to radiation from the Hiroshima atomic bombing has been frail since childhood and constantly in and out of hospitals.
Firefighters work to tackle a wildfire spread at Les Pennes-Mirabeau, near Marseille, southern France, on July 8
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change / EXPLAINER
Jul 15, 2025

How climate change is fueling wildfires in Europe

Wildfires have burnt 227,000 hectares of land since the beginning of the year — more than double the average for this time of year over the past two decades.
The Sanseito party, led by Sohei Kamiya, is surging in the polls with anti-immigration talk, but its rise is likely just a short-lived protest vote rather than the start of lasting right-wing populism.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 15, 2025

Japan’s right-wing fringe is no MAGA or reform movement

The Sanseito party is surging in polls with anti-immigration talk, but its rise is likely just a short-lived protest vote rather than the start of lasting right-wing populism.
Then-Prime Minister Fumio Kishida holds a news conference in Tokyo in December 2023 where he addressed the political fundraising scandal and announced plans to replace several implicated ministers.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 15, 2025

Cost of living trumps corruption as Japan heads to the polls

A recent NHK poll asked that question to prospective voters, and the majority answered “measures to deal with rising prices” and “social security and the declining birthrate.”
Palestinians wait to receive food from a charity kitchen in Gaza on Monday
WORLD
Jul 15, 2025

Amid heated debate, no real plan for Israel's 'humanitarian city' in Gaza

Planning was in a very initial phase only, one source said, and the goal was to help Palestinians who do not want to live under Hamas rule.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a Victory Day parade in Moscow in May. Despite U.S. President Donald Trump's threat of tariffs, Putin believes Russia's economy and its military are strong enough to weather any new Western measures over the war in Ukraine.
WORLD / FOCUS
Jul 15, 2025

Putin, unfazed by Trump, will fight on and could take more of Ukraine

Three Russian sources familiar with top-level Kremlin thinking said the Russian leader will not stop the war under pressure from the West.
Mahatma Gandhi led the Indian independence movement with an unshakable faith in nonviolence that arguably dovetailed with Zen philosophy in some respects.
JAPAN / History / The Living Past
Jul 19, 2025

Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolence — and Zen?

The Indian nationalist’s beliefs hewed close to certain aspects of Zen thought, particularly his fearlessness in the face of death.
A serviceman of the 57th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces works with an Mk 19 U.S.-made automatic grenade launcher near the front-line town of Vovchansk in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, on March 13.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 16, 2025

Europeans open to buying U.S. arms for Ukraine under Trump plan but need details

Much of the plan remains undisclosed, including the amounts and precise types of weapons to be provided, how quickly they would be supplied and how they would be paid for.
The IPC Container Terminal at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta in April last year
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 16, 2025

Trump says Indonesia goods to face 19% tariff under new pact

Indonesia also agreed to purchase $15 billion in U.S. energy, $4.5 billion worth of agricultural products and 50 Boeing jets, many of them 777’s.
Members of Syria's security forces drive through the predominantly Druze city of Sweida on Tuesday.
WORLD
Jul 16, 2025

Israel carries out several airstrikes in Syria and Lebanon

Israel’s government said it was acting in defense of the Druze community, a minority group the Jewish state has pledged to protect.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s regime is supplying up to 40% of Russia’s ammunition, along with other military equipment, for Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine, according to Ukraine's intelligence service.
WORLD
Jul 13, 2025

Ukraine spy chief says 40% of Russian ammunition is North Korean

Kim Jong Un’s regime is also sending other weapons to Russia, including ballistic missiles and artillery systems.
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
By Christoph Sponsel

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