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Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 28, 2022

Japan to avoid capping defense spending next year

The budget outline, which serves as a guideline for ministries in submitting spending requests for next fiscal year, will be approved by Cabinet on Friday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 28, 2022

Property crisis traps China into a market paradox

The effort to halt the spread of mortgage boycotts risks fueling the behavior officials are trying to prevent.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 28, 2022

Taiwan had no greater champion than Shinzo Abe

Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's mark on contemporary Japan-Taiwan relations will have lasting consequences.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 28, 2022

Nissan profits plunged almost 60% in first quarter amid Shanghai lockdown and chip shortage

The firm said it was facing a range of headwinds.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Jul 28, 2022

'A new chapter of my life began': A child of Japan's 'baby hatch' speaks out

Koichi Miyatsu was only a toddler when he was placed in the hatch at a hospital in Kumamoto, where children can be left anonymously by desperate family members.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jul 28, 2022

Esports players with impairments continue to break down barriers

Naoya Kitamura, who has microphthalmos and has been blind since birth, says esports can help change the perception that people with disabilities 'just need assistance.'
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jul 28, 2022

Victims rights advocate Sheldon Kennedy calls for top Hockey Canada officials to resign

Former NHL player and victims rights advocate Sheldon Kennedy on Tuesday called for the resignation of Hockey Canada's leadership team in the wake of sexual assault allegations involving two national junior teams.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 28, 2022

Panasonic posts 39% drop in first quarter operating profit, missing estimate

The group maintained its full-year operating forecast of u00a5360 billion for the year to March 31.
BUSINESS
Jul 28, 2022

KDDI’s network outage rekindles calls for stronger emergency systems

To prevent a situation where people are unable to use their cellphones for an extended period of time, there is an urgent need to consider a system enabling 'cross-carrier roaming.'
JAPAN / Science & Health / EXPLAINER
Jul 28, 2022

Everything you need to know about BA.5, the dominant strain spreading across Japan

Amid a seventh wave of infections, daily case numbers have been reaching unprecedented highs, with the nation logging 969,000 cases over the seven-day span to Sunday.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 8, 2024

LDP to revise rules to ban traditional factions

The draft revisions include tougher penalties for political funds control law violations.
A Chinese coast guard ship sails during a military drill near Fuzhou, Fujian Province, near the Taiwan-controlled Matsu Islands, in April 2023.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 8, 2024

China steps up gray-zone warfare to exhaust Taiwan, defense report says

China is said to be utilizing tactics like balloons, drones and civilian boats to saturate areas around the island.
Boeing has faced a series of quality control issues, most recently in a hair-raising incident in January when a door-sized panel blew off the fuselage of a Boeing 737 Max 9.
JAPAN
Mar 8, 2024

Wheel falls off Boeing passenger jet heading to Japan from U.S.

United Airlines said there were 249 people on board the Osaka-bound jet.
Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama waves during his first day of a teaching session at the Kalachakra Ground in the village of Bodhgaya, in the Indian state of Bihar, in December 2022.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 8, 2024

Will reincarnation or realpolitik determine the Dalai Lama's successor?

Esoteric questions of rebirth rarely have political consequences, but many fear the search for the next Dalai Lama could inflame regional rivalries.
Swedish soldiers take part in the changing of the guard ceremony at the Royal Palace in Stockholm on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 8, 2024

Sweden’s NATO accession unlocks defense options to fend off Russia

Becoming a full member removes any ambiguity about whether the alliance would defend Sweden in the event of an attack, and vice versa.
TENNIS
Mar 8, 2024

Naomi Osaka off to winning start at Indian Wells

Osaka joked about heading back to her hotel to change her infant daughter's diapers after the match.
Masaya Shibasaki, 26, an employee of EXEO Group, reacts as he tries the Osaka Heart Cool-developed VR electrical device Perionoid, which simulates menstrual pain, on Thursday.
JAPAN
Mar 8, 2024

Japanese male office workers experience simulated menstrual pain

Companies are required to offer menstrual leave, but the time off doesn't have to be paid and around half of female workers never take it.
JAPAN
Mar 8, 2024

U.S. asks Japan to lift ban on Osprey flights

The tilt-rotor aircraft was grounded after one of them crashed into the sea off Yakushima, Kagoshima, in November, killing all eight U.S. airmen on board.
Akira Toriyama
CULTURE
Mar 8, 2024

'Dragon Ball' creator Akira Toriyama dies at 68

A post announcing his death said Toriyama was “working on many projects” and that “there was so much more that he wanted to accomplish.”
Demonstrators hold a banner as they take part in a march to call for gender equality and protest against gender discrimination as part of an International Women’s Day march in Tokyo in 2021.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Mar 8, 2024

Recognizing the vocabulary surrounding International Women’s Day

Many of the terms describing issues women are facing in Japan have a string of complex kanji. Knowing the basics can go a long way in aiding understanding.
Japan's economy stumbled into a recession in the October-December quarter last year on weak domestic demand, preliminary estimates have shown.
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 8, 2024

Japan household spending logs biggest drop in 35 months in January

Household spending in January decreased by 6.3% from a year earlier and was down for the 11th straight month.
Nikon's acquisition of RED, a favorite in Hollywood, promises to propel the Japanese firm into the world of cinema.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 8, 2024

Nikon to buy U.S. cinema camera maker RED

The acquisition of RED, a favorite in Hollywood, promises to propel the Japanese firm into the world of cinema.
Iwate Gov. Takuya Tasso speaks during an interview in February in the city of Morioka.
JAPAN / Society
Mar 8, 2024

13 years after 3/11, Iwate looks to make best use of new infrastructure

The governor of Iwate also called on the central government to continue necessary reconstruction projects while listening to people in the affected areas.
Kathy Matsui in 2019
BUSINESS
Mar 8, 2024

Ex-Goldman executive Kathy Matsui says womenomics needs work

Matsui said the effort to increase women in leadership positions is "a matter of trial and error to find the best fit” for companies.
New series "Shogun" focuses on power struggles during Japan's samurai era, with warlord Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada) finding himself in danger of being bested — and perhaps beheaded — by rival Lord Ishido and his allies.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming
Mar 9, 2024

New ‘Shogun’ series is a cut above the original

From the 1980 original to ‘Last Samurai’ to now, Hollywood is getting better at depicting Japan.

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Koichi Tagawa’s diary entry from Aug. 9, 1945, describes the day of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
The horrors of Nagasaki, in first person