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Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 11, 2022

Pfizer starts making vaccine that targets both omicron and the original COVID virus

While research continues, Pfizer will evaluate the new hybrid shot against one specific to omicron and determine which should move forward by March, the firm's CEO has said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 11, 2022

Hong Kong’s brain drain worsens as expats and locals flee the city

Both the city's strict COVID-19 polices and the imposition of the national security law have prompted a population outflow that looks set to intensify in 2022.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 11, 2022

U.S. and Russia still far apart on Ukraine after Geneva talks

Russia and the U.S. gave no sign of narrowing their differences on Ukraine and wider European security in talks, as Moscow repeated demands that Washington says it cannot accept.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 11, 2022

Pacific may be most likely to see 'strategic surprise,' U.S. policymaker says

The comments by U.S. Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt Campbell were apparently in reference to possible Chinese ambitions to establish Pacific-island bases.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 11, 2022

Harmful soot unchecked as Big Oil battles EPA over testing

The delay in addressing so-called condensable fine particulate matter emissions means the pollutant is being released by scores of facilities across the U.S. unchecked.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 11, 2022

Omicron pushes Hong Kong’s import supply chain to brink of collapse

A slashing of flights that bring everything from Australian cherries to wagyu beef into the financial hub is set to raise costs and boost inflation
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health / ANALYSIS
Jan 10, 2022

Pandemic fatigue makes the case for boosters a harder sell

Disease experts say that rapidly shifting public health messaging in the face of a quickly mutating virus has bred confusion and mistrust over the benefit of boosters.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jan 10, 2022

As pandemic bites, U.S. cities use data to fight race and income gaps

Economic fallout from COVID-19, coupled with demands for racial justice, have piled new pressures on U.S. city governments.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jan 10, 2022

Auction of Muslim women on Indian app shows tech weaponized for abuse

The fake auctions are just the latest examples of how technology is being used to put women at risk through online abuse, theft of privacy or sexual exploitation.
JAPAN
Jan 10, 2022

Despite COVID-19 impact, Coming of Age Day ceremonies go ahead in Japan

While many coming-of-age ceremonies were canceled or hosted online, tens of thousands of young men and women gathered in Yokohama to celebrate the once-in-a-lifetime occasion.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 10, 2022

The selective Sovietization of American capitalism

The soft budget constraints that socialist state-owned enterprises used to enjoy turned out to be one of the main reasons why Soviet-bloc economies failed.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 10, 2022

Unvaccinated creating another kind of COVID-19 victim

People who make choices that are likely to harm others, such as refusing vaccinations, and have been warned of the consequences of those choices must take responsibility for them.
A mock-up of Toyota's next-generation Li-ion batteries for battery electric vehicles
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 6, 2024

Japan to provide new subsidies for domestic EV battery output

Handing out more subsidies will help expand the country's production capacity for storage batteries by around 50%.
The Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo. The BOJ was seen as having contributed to the global market meltdown in early August after its 0.25% hike.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 6, 2024

BOJ’s hiking pace may be faster than expected, ex-official says

While almost no economists expect the BOJ to adjust its benchmark rate on Sept. 20, many BOJ watchers expect another rate hike by January.
Shuzo Fukushi, who heads Rice Meister Kojimachi in Tokyo, shows a bag of Calrose mixed with domestic rice at his store on Thursday.
JAPAN / Society
Sep 6, 2024

Demand for Calrose rice rises amid Japanese rice shortage

The California rice is a medium-grain variety cheaper than the Japanese short-grain cultivar, but with a similar taste.
Sumitomo Chemical President Keiichi Iwata
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 6, 2024

Sumitomo Chemical sells hybrid bond at widest spread this year

Sumitomo Chemical priced ¥100 billion of hybrid debt at 280 basis points over Japanese government bonds.
The oceanographic research vessel Mirai passes through the Diomede Islands, located at the center of the Bering Strait, on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Sep 6, 2024

Japanese research vessel Mirai enters Arctic ocean

Mirai is on a month-long voyage to study environmental changes in the Arctic, which is believed to be warming faster than anywhere else on Earth.
Rakesh Tomar (right), an activist and founder of Hindu right-wing group Rudra Sena, speaks to people in Dehradun, the capital of the Indian state of Uttarakhand, on Aug. 6.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 6, 2024

India's far-right Hindus seek to drive Muslims out of 'holy land'

Much of the hatred last year was fueled by "love-jihad" conspiracies, claiming predatory Muslim men wanted to seduce Hindu women to convert them.
Bangladeshi military personnel stand guard at an empty police station in Dhaka on Aug. 9. The U.S. and Western nations have sacrificed democracy for geopolitics, evident in Bangladesh’s chaos and violence after the prime minister was recently forced from power.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 6, 2024

The Western world's stealthy assault on democracy

Elections alone — even if competitive — do not guarantee popular empowerment or adherence to constitutional rules, especially when the military holds decisive power.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his wife, Yuko, are welcomed upon their arrival at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, South Korea, on Friday.
EDITORIALS
Sep 6, 2024

Never take Japan-South Korea relations for granted

The two leader’s final meeting is both an opportunity to review recent achievements and to underscore the centrality of the Japan-South Korean partnership.
The world’s largest system of hydroelectric power has been on standby since late 2022, when droughts drained the reservoirs that feed it. China's torrential downpours of the past few months are switching that immense machine back on.
COMMENTARY
Sep 6, 2024

A flood of hydro is washing coal from China's grid

The world’s largest hydroelectric system, located in China, has been dormant since late 2022 due to droughts, but recent heavy rains are now reviving its operations.
Predicting the winner of the 2024 presidential race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris remains exceptionally challenging as the the current landscape is highly fluid.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 6, 2024

Election predictions are too noisy to tell if Trump or Harris will win

There’s a lot of campaigning to go, a lot of events that could turn the election into a landslide for either candidate.
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan head Kenta Izumi announces he will run for reelection as party leader in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 6, 2024

Views on interparty cooperation set CDP leader candidates apart

Kenta Izumi, Yukio Edano and Yoshihiko Noda have all outlined different ideas on working with the Japanese Communist Party and Nippon Ishin no Kai.
The closed Dinh Vu port in Hai Phong, Vietnam, as Super Typhoon Yagi approached the Southeast Asian country.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 6, 2024

Super Typhoon Yagi threatens southern China and Vietnam

Yagi killed at least 13 people in the Philippines earlier this week.
Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki speaks during a news conference in the prefectural government office in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Friday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 6, 2024

Okinawa governor condemns alleged sexual assault by U.S. Marine

The governor said that the prefecture will lodge a protest with the Japanese and U.S. governments over the case.
Former Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda's remarks on Friday suggest the central bank has a long way to go since its latest rate hike took the key rate to just 0.25%.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 6, 2024

Kuroda indicates that BOJ is still a long way from neutral rate

A nominal neutral rate could be less than 2%, the former central bank governor told the Bund Summit in Shanghai via video link.
Former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi declares his candidacy in the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 6, 2024

Shinjiro Koizumi promises immediate snap election if elected LDP president

The former environment minister said he will turn to the electorate to allow voters to judge his plan to transform Japan.

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