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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 26, 2022

Bank of Japan debated chance of inflation pickup toward 2% as price hikes broaden

Many board members, however, stressed the need to maintain ultraloose monetary policy to support a fragile economy facing fresh risks.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 26, 2022

Samurai bond sales rise from record low as BOJ holds down yields

Samurai bond issuance is rebounding from a record low as selling debt in yen for foreign issuers turned more favorable.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 26, 2022

China’s COVID-19 blame game fizzles over infection-by-mail theory

The abrupt reversal in tone shows the pressures China faces in managing the official narrative as they look to contain omicron outbreaks while also hosting a successful Winter Olympics.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB
Jan 26, 2022

David Ortiz elected to Baseball Hall of Fame on first ballot

Ortiz was a 10-time All-Star with the Boston Red Sox. He compiled 541 homers and 1,768 RBIs in 20 seasons with the Minnesota Twins (1997-2002) and Boston (2003-16).
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 26, 2022

Japan leads pack as Twitter sees record number of government demands to remove content

The platform said governments made 43,387 legal demands for the removal of content from 196,878 accounts over a six-month period.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 26, 2022

Nvidia quietly prepares to abandon $40 billion bid for SoftBank's Arm

The purchase — poised to become the biggest chip deal ever when it was announced in 2020 — has drawn a fierce backlash from regulators and the chip industry.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 26, 2022

Pfizer and BioNTech launch trial of omicron-targeted COVID-19 vaccine

The companies plan to test the immune response generated by the omicron-based vaccine both as a three-shot regimen in unvaccinated people and as a booster shot.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Jan 26, 2022

Winter Olympics to test China’s commitments to climate change

Beyond just proving that it can host a green event, China is also under pressure to show that it's able to employ technologies that can have a lasting impact beyond the Games.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 26, 2022

As West warns of Russian attack, Ukraine sends different message

Some analysts say Ukraine's posture of playing down the threat is to prevent panic, while others say it reflects the country's uneasy acceptance that conflict with Russia is nothing new.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 25, 2022

Indonesia and Singapore sign extradition, airspace and defense agreements

The issue of extradition has long been a frustration for Indonesia because of concerns about the difficulty of bringing some fugitives accused of embezzling large sums to justice.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Jan 25, 2022

War may loom, but are there off-ramps?

U.S. President Joe Biden's administration and NATO are expected to respond, in writing, to Russia's far-reaching demands in the next several days in an effort to maintain diplomatic talks.
JAPAN
Jan 25, 2022

Japan moves to focus resources on severe COVID-19 patients

Young, low-risk patients will no longer need a doctor's diagnosis to confirm an infection as fears grow over the strain the omicron variant is putting on Japan's health care system.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 25, 2022

North Korea launches apparent cruise missiles in latest weapons test

The tests of what appeared to be two cruise missiles were the isolated country's fifth show of force this year.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 25, 2022

Japan needs 'smart' economic security

The Japanese government and firms are very aware of the risks they face by being too reliant on overseas markets.
Demonstrators with a stylized painting depicting Telegram's founder, Pavel Durov, protest against the blocking of the popular messaging app in Russia, during a May Day rally in Saint Petersburg on in May 2018.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 25, 2024

Telegram messaging app CEO Durov arrested in France, reports say

Pavel Durov, the Russian-French billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at Bourget Airport outside Paris on Saturday evening, TF1 TV and BFM TV said, citing unidentified sources.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is scheduled to meet with senior U.S. official Jake Sullivan this week in the first visit by an American national security adviser to China since 2016.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 25, 2024

China says will voice 'serious concerns' on Taiwan and security in U.S. talks

This will be the first visit by a U.S. national security adviser to China since 2016, although other senior officials have visited over the past two years.
Former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks to reporters in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 25, 2024

Once allies, Ishiba, Kono and Koizumi set to battle for LDP president votes

The three, dubbed the "Koishikawa coalition" after kanji characters from each of their last names, will jostle for party member support in the Sept. 27 election.
Britain's Lucy Shuker competes at a tournament in Eastbourne, England, in 2022.
PARALYMPICS
Aug 25, 2024

Paralympian Lucy Shuker indebted to wheelchair tennis for giving her some 'joy'

Just 21 years old when she suffered the life-changing injury, Shuker, now 44, has become one of the finest doubles players in the world.
U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris arrives onstage Thursday to speak on the fourth and final day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. 
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 25, 2024

Kamala Harris charts her vision for the United States

Harris’ speech capped a week featuring the Democratic Party’s brightest stars, showcasing a broad, diverse and inclusive party.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris meets with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a summit seeking peace in Ukraine, in Stansstad, Switzerland, on June 15.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 25, 2024

Kamala Harris must correct America's Ukraine policy

The war in Ukraine could be a boon for Harris, but she must correct Biden’s mistakes and provide the additional resources Ukraine needs to defeat Russia.
Rudy Garcia-Tolson (left) at the London Paralympics in September 2012. The American swimmer got a tattoo of the Olympic rings after first competing at the 2004 Athens Paralympics.
PARALYMPICS
Aug 25, 2024

Paralympics will drop ban on Olympic rings tattoos

Days before the start of the Paralympics, the IPC has suddenly, and without obvious explanation, reversed course on a rule that had banned tattoos of the Olympic rings.
The central monitoring room of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 9
JAPAN / Society
Aug 25, 2024

Tepco completes fourth round of fiscal '24 treated water release

Since discharges began in August last year, the company has released 62,400 metric tons of the treated water over a total of eight rounds.
Shigeru Ishiba
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 25, 2024

Ishiba adjusts remark about scandal-hit LDP lawmakers

Ishiba said that the LDP Election Strategy Committee should deliberate on whether lawmakers linked to the scandal deserve to be the party's official candidates.
A Philippine's military-chartered boat sails past a China Coast Guard ship during a resupply mission for the BRP Sierra Madre, in the Second Thomas Shoal in the disputed South China Sea, on Nov. 10.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 25, 2024

Philippines accuses Chinese vessels of blocking South China Sea supply mission, ramming its ship

The Philippines says Chinese vessels made "aggressive and dangerous" maneuvers including ramming the ship and using water cannons.
Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and other officials attended a joint news conference at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development Ministerial Meeting in Tokyo on Sunday.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2024

TICAD ministerial meeting adopts first joint statement

TICAD attendees agreed that reforming the U.N. Security Council is "indispensable for redressing historical injustices against Africa."
Smoke billows from an area targeted by an Israeli airstrike between the southern Lebanese border villages of Zibqin and Yater on Sunday.
WORLD
Aug 26, 2024

Middle East on edge after Israel bombs Lebanon in preemptive strike

Israeli officials said they had precise intelligence Hezbollah was about to fire missiles at northern Israel and aim drones at a key intelligence center.
Apple TV+ series “Pachinko” follows four generations of a Korean immigrant family as they move through the 20th century.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming
Aug 26, 2024

Masterful and stirring, ‘Pachinko’ returns with more depth

The immersive historical drama is collaborative art at its very best — instead of offering tidy answers, it asks the most profound questions of our times.
South Korean flags in Mokpo, South Korea, on Aug. 16
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 26, 2024

South Korea sees U.S. by its side regardless of who is in White House

North Korea, meanwhile, sees U.S. policy toward it as remaining hostile regardless of who is in the White House.
Rohingya refugees gather to mark the seventh anniversary of their fleeing from neighboring Myanmar to escape a military crackdown in 2017, during heavy monsoon rains in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 26, 2024

Rohingya demand end to violence on seventh anniversary of flight from Myanmar

More than a million Rohingya live in squalid camps in southern Bangladesh with little prospect of returning home.
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.

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