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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 25, 2022

China’s Xi holds rare meeting with U.N. human rights official

Beijing is willing to discuss rights issues and cooperate with all parties on the basis of mutual respect, Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a video call.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
May 25, 2022

Johnson must bear responsibility for U.K. party scandal, probe finds

The revelations in a report on the issue have the potential to undermine Prime Minister Boris Johnson, both within his ruling Tory party and especially among the wider electorate.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 25, 2022

Japan’s new ‘green economy’ bond may fund nuclear projects

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida last week proposed a 'green economy transformation bond” to raise as much as u00a520 trillion to help meet climate goals.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
May 25, 2022

Why isn’t new technology making us more productive?

The growth in productivity since the pandemic hit now stands at about 1% annually, in line with the meager rate since 2010 — and far below the last stretch of robust improvement.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 25, 2022

Do algorithms help to reduce crime?

Algorithms use patterns in data to predict future behavior, including that of criminals, making them ideal for helping law-enforcement agencies fight crime.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 25, 2022

The left and right’s terrible ideas for fixing the internet

The leading ideas from lawmakers are variously unworkable, unconstitutional, irrelevant and unserious, and many of them betraying a profound ignorance about how the internet actually works.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 25, 2022

Europe’s soft-power problem

What is most off-putting is the way that Europeans tend to universalize their own experience, often assuming that what is right for them is right for others.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 25, 2022

Monkeypox isn’t looking like a COVID-sized threat

It's still early, but contact-tracing efforts and analysis of the virus's genome offer hope that this outbreak can be contained.
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
May 25, 2022

Terunofuji making most of what may be limited time as yokozuna

The 30-year-old's expected brief span as grand champion won't detract from what he has achieved to date, and purely in terms of silverware he has already outclassed many of his predecessors.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 25, 2022

Ukraine's embattled farmers running on empty as world faces food crisis

The total area planted with grain this spring is already expected to be up to 30% smaller than last year because of the fighting, and yields could drop too if farmers don't get fuel.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
May 25, 2022

As U.S. economy's exceptionalism fades, so does the dollar

A resilient U.S. economy and adverse geopolitics had provided ideal conditions for dollar outperformance, but those are now giving way.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 25, 2022

Insurance is Russian oil's Achilles' heel

Insurers from Europe and the United States, which dominate the international marine market, are curtailing coverage for Russian oil tankers, industry sources say.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 25, 2022

How not to respond to a global food crisis

Curbing exports of wheat, maize and other staples only drives up prices for those who can least afford it.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 25, 2022

China's Gen Z has the power to make or break western brands

The 270-million-strong cohort born since the mid-1990s is already flexing their power: They have the fastest spending growth out of any generation in China.
For the first time in four years, Japan saw the number of corporate bankruptcies exceed 700 in April, Tokyo Shoko Research said Friday.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 11, 2024

Japan corporate bankruptcies rise 28.3% in April

The number of bankruptcies is expected to rise as companies face increased pressure from higher borrowing costs.
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko in Moscow on April 11.
WORLD
May 11, 2024

Satellite images reveal where Russian nukes could be stored in Belarus

A New York Times analysis shows security upgrades unique to Russian nuclear storage facilities at a Cold War-era munitions depot.
Philippine and U.S. Marines watch as a projectile hits a target at sea during a live-fire exercise against an imaginary "invasion" force as part of the annual joint military drills, on a strip of sand dunes in Laoag on Luzon island's northwest coast, on May 6.
ASIA PACIFIC
May 11, 2024

U.S. builds web of arms, ships and bases in the Pacific to deter China

With missiles, submarines and alliances, the Biden administration has built a presence in the region to rein in Beijing’s expansionist goals.
Ryoken Hirayama, 25, is escorted by police as he leacves the Osaki police station in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on April 22. Hirayama is the first of six people arrested in connection with the murder of a Tokyo couple in Tochigi Prefecture to be charged with murder.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 11, 2024

Suspect, 25, first to be hit with murder charge over bodies found in Tochigi

A total of six people have been arrested over the incident, but the man, Ryoken Hirayama, is the first to be charged with murder.
Princess Aiko visits an exhibition featuring Japanese literature from the Heian period held at the National Archives of Japan in Tokyo on Saturday.
JAPAN
May 12, 2024

Princess Aiko visits Heian literature exhibition

It was the first time for the 22-year-old princess, the only child of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, to perform official duties alone.
TSMC’s factory in Kikuyo, Kumamoto Prefecture
BUSINESS
May 12, 2024

Kumamoto Prefecture wants to host TSMC’s third Japan plant

Kumamoto hopes enough chip-related companies will settle in the prefecture to create something akin to Taiwan’s Hsinchu Science Park.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Saturday addresses a rally in Tokyo seeking the immediate return of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago.
JAPAN / Politics
May 12, 2024

Kishida again vows to strive for summit with North Korea

Prime Minister Kishida also said that establishing fruitful relations between Japan and North Korea would be in the interest of both countries.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visits a child care support facility in Hiezu, Tottori Prefecture, in July.
JAPAN / Society
May 12, 2024

Government plans nationwide database to enhance child care support

Child care support measures and ways to apply for them differ according to each municipality.
Hanagasa Ondo folk song performers from Yamagata Prefecture take part in the Japan Parade held in Manhattan on Saturday.
JAPAN
May 12, 2024

New York hosts a Japan Parade

About 100 groups took part in the event where parade-watchers were able to enjoy traditional Japanese culture and food.
Special fraud cases in Tokyo in which stolen money was sent via online banking services grew some fivefold from the previous year in 2023.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 12, 2024

Money stolen via online transfers up fivefold in Tokyo

Since many people use online banking services on a daily basis, the number of fraud cases involving such services is expected to grow.
A government white paper on small and medium enterprises said more than 60% of such firms plan to raise wages this year.
BUSINESS
May 12, 2024

Japan small firms raising wages amid labor shortages, government paper says

The white paper also pointed out that the labor productivity of Japan is lower than that of other members in the OECD.
A woman speaks of her experience of being sent to Macau by an overseas prostitution broker during an interview in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on April 8.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 12, 2024

Three men rearrested over brokering of overseas prostitution

The men sent between 200 and 300 Japanese women to brothels in the United States, Canada and Australia over three years, bringing in roughly ¥200 million.
Smoke billows from an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip on Sunday.
WORLD
May 12, 2024

Fighting rages across Gaza as U.N. chief urges 'immediate cease-fire'

Correspondents and witnesses and said Israeli air strikes pounded parts of northern, central and southern Gaza during the night and into Sunday morning.
Nemo representing Switzerland appears on stage after winning the Grand Final of the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, on Saturday.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
May 12, 2024

Switzerland's Nemo wins Eurovision Song Contest

Twenty-four-year-old Nemo's "The Code" won the highest score from nations' juries, and enough of the popular votes to get 591 points.
Military paramedics treat a wounded Ukrainian service member, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the town of Vovchansk in Kharkiv region of Ukraine on Sunday.
WORLD
May 12, 2024

Ukraine's military chief warns of difficult situation in Kharkiv region

Ukraine is currently on the defensive against Russia, which has a significant advantage in manpower and munitions.
Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years
The Agency for Cultural Affairs is recommending replacing the government’s long-standing Kunrei system with more widely used Hepburn-style spellings.
JR East cancels luxury train run over crew's boozing
East Japan Railway said Thursday that it will cancel one trip of a luxury overnight sleeper service, which was originally scheduled to depart from Ueno Station in Tokyo on Aug. 30, after crew members were found to have been drinking alcohol on duty.
Women-only communities flourish in China
Chen Yani (right), nicknamed "Keke," eats lunch with friends and guests in a female co-living space she founded called "Keke's Imaginative Space" in Hangzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, on July 14.
Demystifying the manufacturing success of China
China’s massive scale, strong education system and competitive local governance have enabled it to reach the technological frontier and dominate high-tech manufacturing despite its low per capita gross domestic product.
Infectious diseases to watch for in Japan this summer amid surge of cases
An illustration of a colony of the Bordetella pertussis bacterium that causes pertussis, or whooping cough. As of Aug. 10, there were 64,467 cases reported this year, according to the latest data from the Japan Institute for Health Security.
Alicia Keys closed Summer Sonic, but J-pop owned it
Summer Sonic’s 2025 lineup demonstrated its strength, showcasing the latest in J-pop, including “new kawaii” act Fruits Zipper.
Is the LDP’s catch-all approach to politics still effective?
Former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi visits Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15. Political commentator Toru Hashimoto has suggested that Takaichi ought to lead a group of like-minded hawkish politicians out of the Liberal Democratic Party and form their own party.
Fingers sore from too much phone time? You might have ‘sumaho yubi.’
A catch-all term for tendonitis and arthritis caused by excessive smartphone use, 'sumaho yubi' may be difficult to treat for gadget-crazy Japan.
As farm minister, Koizumi is held ‘hostage’ by Ishiba
Farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi (center) attends a Lower House session on Aug. 1. Locking Koizumi into the Cabinet is Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s way of turning a potential rival into a team player, according to one expert.
Big burgers and bigger ambitions for Japan's Burger King
Kazuhiro Nomura, president of BK Japan Holdings, which operates Burger King in Japan

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past
By Alex K.T. Martin

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