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Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 29, 2022

Five African countries. Six coups. Why now?

While a number of nations have recently experienced military takeovers — most plagued by insecurity, poor governance and frustrated youth — there's no one-size-fits-all explanation.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 29, 2022

As a Supreme Court justice pondered retirement, Biden bet on a hands-off strategy

The president believed pressuring Stephen Breyer, the court's oldest justice, to retire might backfire. A chorus of liberals took a different approach.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 29, 2022

Japan weighs deploying U.S. spy drones to MSDF base in Kyushu

Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said that the government was considering the temporary deployment of U.S. MQ-9 unmanned surveillance aircraft to an SDF base for the first time.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jan 29, 2022

49ers' Jimmy Garoppolo buoyed by support of teammates as NFC title game approaches

49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo has faced no shortage of doubters this season, but has the team one win away from the Super Bowl.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 29, 2022

Biden considers Judge J. Michelle Childs for Supreme Court nomination

Other names expected to be on Biden's list include Ketanji Brown Jackson, a federal judge; Leondra Kruger, of the California Supreme Court; and Sherrilyn Ifill, a civil rights lawyer.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 29, 2022

Mao’s favored ‘red flag’ car seeks a new audience in Japan

China FAW Group Co., the carmaker whose luxury Hongqi model was used to transport Chairman Mao Zedong, has opened its first showroom in the country.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 29, 2022

U.S. House to take up bill on China competition and chips industry

The White House is pushing Congress to approve funding to subsidize chip production in the U.S., as shortages of the components have increased supply chain bottlenecks.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 29, 2022

Senior U.S. official to visit Lithuania in show of support over Chinese 'coercion'

U.S. Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment Jose Fernandez will visit Vilnius and Brussels to discuss efforts to counter economic 'coercion.'
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 29, 2022

Russian industry targeted, not consumers, if Biden export curbs imposed

The measures would narrow the scope of potential curbs on imports to Russia that had previously been described as disrupting Russia's economy more broadly.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Jan 29, 2022

NFT fashion collaborations: Virtual fashion, real demand

Consumers experiment with an NFT project that taps into Harajuku nostalgia from the 1990s.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jan 29, 2022

‘Bad Mode’ delivers some of the best songs of Hikaru Utada’s career

Hikaru Utada's eighth full-length album is full of introspection, with the artist working on their personal growth and coming away with a better sense of self.
Japan Times
CARTOONS / DAHL'S JAPAN
Jan 29, 2022

Roger Dahl on Kishida's bid to close the wage gap

Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Jan 29, 2022

Yu Shibuya: ‘Creating something from nothing requires a huge effort’

Yu Shibuya made the decision early on in his life to “rescue” modern Japanese culture from crass commercialism. He chose the theater as his weapon.
Jannik Sinner has been cleared to continue competing despite failing two doping tests this year.
TENNIS
Aug 22, 2024

Tennis players decry double standards after Jannik Sinner avoids doping ban

Some players have suggested that the Italian received preferential treatment.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an independent candidate for president, at Nassau County State Supreme Court in Mineola, New York, on Wednesday
WORLD / Politics
Aug 22, 2024

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to end his presidential campaign

Kennedy’s departure from the race would be the end of one of the more bizarre and surprisingly durable third-party presidential bids in modern American history.
Japan coach Futoshi Ikeda consoles Fuka Nagano after their quarterfinal loss against the United States at the Paris Olympics on Aug. 3.
SOCCER
Aug 22, 2024

Nadeshiko Japan parts ways with coach Futoshi Ikeda

The 53-year-old led Nadeshiko Japan to the last eight at the Women's World Cup last year, but the team was unable to improve on that showing in Paris earlier this month.
An employee pulls a trolley containing boxes of LD Ultra-Slim cigarettes ready for shipping at the Japan Tobacco cigarette plant in the town of Senta in Serbia. JT Group is buying U.S. discount cigarette-maker Vector Group.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 22, 2024

JT Group plans to buy U.S. cigarette-maker Vector for ¥348.6 billion

The move will address a loss of anticipated growth due to Russia's war in Ukraine, and will boost Japan Tobacco's U.S. market share from 2.3% to about 8%.
Even when ships are docked, members of the Japan Coast Guard work on shifts on board. As such, the JCG is considering rehiring retired servicemen to allow crews to take sufficient holidays on land.
JAPAN
Aug 22, 2024

Japan Coast Guard promoting work style reform

The move comes as the agency grapples with a declining number of applicants as well as its rising turnover rate.
The introduction of a two-tier pricing system which charges foreign tourists more than local residents is being considered at Himeji Castle in Hyogo Prefecture.
JAPAN
Aug 22, 2024

More Japan tourist hot spots consider two-tier pricing system

However, experts have warned that the system may lead to discrimination if it is not carefully thought out.
Bo Nix will be the first rookie to start the season opener for the Broncos since John Elway in 1983.
MORE SPORTS / Football
Aug 22, 2024

Broncos to open season with rookie Bo Nix as starting quarterback

The first-round draft pick will become the first rookie to start a season opener for Denver since Hall of Famer John Elway in 1983.
Shoppers outside a Sephora store in Vancouver on Aug. 15
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 22, 2024

LVMH’s Sephora cuts around 10% of staff in China as its woes deepen

While Sephora has expanded to some 300 stores since entering China in 2005, the country is increasingly difficult for higher-end retailers to navigate.
A Rapidus factory construction site in Chitose, Hokkaido, on July 24. The plan to ramp up renewable energy usage in the region to 60% by 2030 is part of a larger concept known as “Hokkaido Valley.”
JAPAN / Society / Regional Voices: Hokkaido
Aug 26, 2024

Hokkaido more plugged in to renewable energy than rest of Japan

The local government aims to raise its share of renewable energy to 60% from the current 40%, but Hokkaido's grid needs to be upgraded first.
In an image provided by federal agencies, a colorized electron microscope image shows avian influenza grown in cultured cells. The virus is poised to become a permanent presence in cattle, raising the odds of an eventual outbreak among people.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 22, 2024

How U.S. farms could start a bird flu pandemic

The longer the virus circulates in cattle, the more chances it has to acquire the mutations necessary to set off an influenza pandemic.
Jannik Sinner chases a shot during his match against Frances Tiafoe during the Cincinnati Open final on Monday.
TENNIS
Aug 22, 2024

Jannik Sinner hopes to tune out noise after avoiding doping ban

Sinner tested positive for clostebol at Indian Wells in March with low quantities of the banned substance found in his system again after another test days later.
Work to extract nuclear fuel debris from the No. 2 reactor of the meltdown-stricken Fukushima No. 1 plant has been halted.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Aug 22, 2024

Tepco halts Fukushima nuclear fuel debris removal work

The suspension follows the discovery of an error in procedures to install equipment to extract the debris during preparatory work.
Tomoaki Kobayakawa, president of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (left), hands a set of documents to Kashiwazaki Mayor Masahiro Sakurai during their meeting in the city in Niigata Prefecture on Thursday.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Aug 22, 2024

Kashiwazaki mayor willing to OK restart of nuclear reactor

The willingness emerged after the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant's operator shortened the time frame for the possible decommissioning of other reactors in the complex.
University students in Varanasi, India, protest against a recent rape and murder of a doctor in West Bengal. Despite some improvements in legislation following high-profile cases, such as the 2012 gang rape, violence against women has worsened, with recorded rapes increasing.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 22, 2024

Protests won’t change India's attitude toward rape

Despite some improvements in legislation following high-profile cases, such as the 2012 gang rape, violence against women has worsened, with recorded rapes increasing.
The real barrier to any reasonable peace settlement in the ongoing war is Russian President Vladimir Putin, who remains committed to ensuring that a free and democratic Ukraine does not survive — and he has a long track record of violating treaties.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 22, 2024

How NATO can help end the Ukraine war

Even if Russia and Ukraine reached a peace deal, Vladimir Putin would readily abandon it and re-invade Ukraine at the first opportunity.
Surrounded by Chinese bases, a tiny Philippine island stands firm
A Philippine Navy sailor looks at a China Coast Guard vessel just off the coast of Pag-asa Island in the disputed South China Sea last month.
Anger in Japan after Instagrammer drinks burial site offering
Foreign tourists visit a park near the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in August.
Tamagotchi hatches 100 million shipments worldwide thanks to ’90s nostalgia
The latest version of Tamagotchi, called Tamagotchi Paradise, is awarded the best digital toy at Tokyo Toy Show on Aug. 28.
Bangladesh is a South Asian time bomb
Many Bangladeshis hoped that the overthrow of long-time leader Sheikh Hasina last year would revitalize the country’s democracy after an authoritarian lurch under the “iron lady.” Instead it has led to proliferating human-rights abuses, intensifying repression and widespread Islamist violence.
Musk voices support for anti-immigration rally in Japan
Elon Musk has voiced support for anti-immigration protest in Japan, where a "Japanese First" party saw gains in recent elections.
Xi — joined by Kim and Putin — delivers stark warning at military parade
Chinese leader Xi Jinping walks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un before a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Beijing on Wednesday.
Tamagotchi hatches 100 million shipments worldwide thanks to ’90s nostalgia
The latest version of Tamagotchi, called Tamagotchi Paradise, is awarded the best digital toy at Tokyo Toy Show on Aug. 28.
Why Stalin didn’t invade Hokkaido still largely unknown, 80 years after WWII
During a survey to collect the remains of victims from the Taito Maru, one of the vessels involved in the Three Ships Incident, a metal helmet was found near the stern of the vessel on Aug. 5, 1984, at Rumoi Port. No human remains were discovered.
More sweltering days forecast for September after hottest summer on record
By the end of August, 8,341 people had been transported by ambulance for heatstroke in Tokyo alone.
Surrounded by Chinese bases, a tiny Philippine island stands firm
A Philippine Navy sailor looks at a China Coast Guard vessel just off the coast of Pag-asa Island in the disputed South China Sea last month.

Podcast

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

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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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