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Japan Times
United Kingdom report 2021
Dec 17, 2021

Fragomen: The world’s immigration partner

As the global business environment evolves, immigration has become more complex. Individuals seeking new international opportunities and companies looking to explore new markets need assistance in navigating rules and regulations, which means rising demand for immigration services.
Japan Times
United Kingdom report 2021
Dec 17, 2021

Ecovis APO delivers expert solutions to British and international firms in Japan

The Japanese market offers high-quality services, a loyal customer base and strong local partnerships for foreign companies seeking to do business in the world’s third-largest economy.
Japan Times
United Kingdom report 2021
Dec 17, 2021

Unleash potential

RGF Professional Recruitment Japan and RGF Executive Search Japan, members of the Recruit global family, operate as two complementary service brands delivering comprehensive, highly effective recruitment and executive search solutions.
Japan Times
LIFE / EVENTS AND INFORMATION
Dec 17, 2021

Groups raise money for Greek wildfire relief

The Japan-Greece Society, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary next year, has partnered with the city of Misato, Saitama Prefecture, and the Japanese participants of the Spartathlon ultramarathon to help raise relief money for Greece.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 16, 2021

Reddit jumps on IPO bandwagon with confidential filing

The San Francisco-based company reported $100 million in advertising revenue in the second quarter, an almost threefold jump from the same period last year.
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Dec 16, 2021

Terunofuji's rise was among defining moments of eventful year in sumo

The past 12 months have been extremely challenging both inside and outside the ring, but sumo's highest highs and lowest lows of 2021 all occurred on the clay.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 16, 2021

Refugees lack COVID-19 shots because drugmakers fear lawsuits

Legal concerns add new hurdles to fighting the virus since unvaccinated people offer an ideal environment for it to mutate and threaten hard-won immunity around the world.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Dec 16, 2021

‘A nightmare’: Kentucky tornado victims sort through rubble

Residents of Princeton, Kentucky., sifted through debris for salvageable items and cherished belongings after a tornado destroyed dozens of homes on Dec. 10.
MORE SPORTS
Dec 16, 2021

Kazuto Ioka shifts focus to title defense after unification bout scrapped

Kazuto Ioka will defend his WBO super flyweight belt against Ryoji Fukunaga on New Year's Eve, a bout that will replace a planned fight against Jerwin Ancajas of the Philippines, organizers said Thursday.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Dec 16, 2021

No. 4 Karolina Pliskova withdraws from Australian Open due to injury

World No. 4 Karolina Pliskova has withdrawn from next month's Australian Open with a hand injury that she sustained in training, she said Thursday in a statement released by tournament organizers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 16, 2021

Gaming controllers hit bumps on way to U.S. consumers

The global supply chain breakdown during the pandemic has overwhelmed ports and left manufacturers, retailers, railroads and truckers scrambling to get goods to shelves.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Dec 16, 2021

Max Verstappen comfortable with status as world champion

'It doesn't matter what they try to do,' Verstappen said. 'We won it on track, when there was a green light and we passed them on the track.
Flowers are laid in front of a Japanese school in Shenzhen last Friday. A Japanese boy who was on his way to the school was fatally stabbed last week.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 25, 2024

Expat safety seen as a must for Japanese firms to keep doing business in China

Business leaders have underlined the duty of a host country to foreign firms in the wake of a fatal stabbing of a Japanese schoolboy in Shenzhen.
The Nintendo Museum opens to the public on Oct. 2, but unlike the company's all-ages games, the new attraction may be geared more toward older rather than younger gamers.
LIFE / Travel
Sep 25, 2024

A first look inside the new Nintendo Museum

Set to open on Oct. 2, the gaming giant's newest foray into real-world experiences shows flashes of the same creativity that made the company what it is today.
Ageuma Shinji, a Shinto ritual, is held at Tado Shrine in Mie Prefecture in May 2018. On Tuesday, prefectural police referred 12 individuals to prosecutors over allegations of animal abuse in connection with the treatment of horses during the centuries-old annual event.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 25, 2024

12 referred to prosecutors over alleged horse abuse during Shinto ritual

The 12 allegedly forced horses to climb up a steep hill during the Ageuma Shinji ritual in May 2023 and committed violent acts against the animals.
Japan's allies are hoping for a leader who will continue the effective foreign policies established by Shinzo Abe while the nation's enemies are looking for inexperience and chaos within the Liberal Democratic Party.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 25, 2024

The LDP election through the eyes of allies, 'frenemies' and foes

Allies hope for a Japanese leader who will continue Shinzo Abe's effective foreign policies, while enemies seek inexperience and chaos within the LDP.
Shigeru Ishiba speaks at a campaign meeting on Sept. 12 in Tokyo in the lead-up to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election scheduled for Friday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 24, 2024

Japan’s next leader will be different — and flawed

While nine LDP lawmakers are contesting the race to become the country’s next leader, the field has narrowed to just three.
Italian former prime minister and economist Mario Draghi (left) and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen take part in a joint news conference about the future of European competitiveness at the EU headquarters in Brussels on Sept. 9.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 25, 2024

Draghi warns Europe — and Japan — about the failure to innovate

The warning could not be clearer. Europe faces “an existential crisis.” “Over time, we will inexorably become less prosperous, less equal, less secure and, as a result, less free to choose our destiny.” Moreover, “without action, we will have to either compromise our welfare, our environment...
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks during a news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin on Aug. 28. The visit was part of efforts aimed at resetting British relations with the European Union, especially on defense and trade.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 3, 2024

Yes, let’s reverse Brexit (a bit) for Gen Z

Youth mobility isn’t just for privileged graduates seeking experience, CV points or language skills; it can also help fill labor shortages in the U.K.
Naomi Osaka during her second-round match at the U.S. Open last month
TENNIS
Sep 25, 2024

Patrick Mouratoglou courtside as Osaka wins Beijing opener

Osaka said earlier this month she was splitting with coach Wim Fissette and there has been speculation she had hired Serena Williams' former coach.
Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), speaks during an interview in New York on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 25, 2024

UNRWA fears new 'tragedy' as Lebanon violence adds strain

Faced with mounting Israeli strikes, the UNRWA has paused some operations in Lebanon as it converts its schools into shelters for hundreds of displaced people.
Digital minister Taro Kono, who is contesting the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election, shows a board saying "accomplishment of reformation" during a debate in Tokyo on Sept. 14.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 25, 2024

How Taro Kono lost his mojo

Recent polls have shown the digital minister trailing behind his eight other rivals in the Liberal Democratic Party presidential race.
The Japanese word for cooked rice, "gohan," is the same word used for meals in general.
LIFE / Language / Vocabulary Boost
Sep 25, 2024

Some idioms and terms pertaining to Japan's favorite grain

When one kind of food is so essential to the diet of an entire culture, it's bound to affect the language.
A farmer harvests rice in a paddy field in Tamba-Sasayama, Hyogo Prefecture, last month.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Sep 25, 2024

In need of rice and some Japanese words that describe necessity

When does something go from being a "want" to a "need"? A few grammar structures can give the listener a sense of how urgent a situation is becoming.
Set in a village in the Swiss Alps, Vincenzo Bellini’s opera “La Sonnambula” centers on an orphan named Amina who is unknowingly frightening the locals with her nightly sleepwalking, and they believe there is a ghost among them.
CULTURE / Stage
Sep 26, 2024

'La Sonnambula' offers a modern take on a dubious happy ending

Director Barbara Lluch scrutinizes gender expectations and patriarchal societies that thrive on polarizing views in her production of Vincenzo Bellini’s opera.
A small-time online hustler (Masaki Suda) moves to the countryside after a big score but soon finds his enemies closing in in “Cloud.”
CULTURE / Film
Sep 26, 2024

‘Cloud’: Dangers of the internet deliver full-throttle action

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's masterful psychological thriller features the director's signature creepy vibe as well as blazing guns and falling bodies.
A husband and wife living in domestic bliss — in space — are not quite as perfect as they seem in “Previously Saved Version.”
CULTURE / Film
Sep 26, 2024

‘Previously Saved Version’: An intriguing premise gets lost in space

Kei Ishikawa’s psychodrama about an affluent couple that has left a supposedly uninhabitable Earth is attractive to look at but never more than mildly engaging.
Japan to experience blood moon lunar eclipse on Monday
A blood moon is seen during a partial eclipse in the sky over Lake George near Canberra on March 14.
‘Confugenics’ and East Asia's demographic crisis
East Asia’s fertility plunge is driven not just by financial costs but by perfectionist cultural expectations that burden parents with intense educational and social demands.
Japan prince comes of age as succession crisis looms
Prince Hisahito concludes his elaborate "kakan no gi" coming-of-age ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Saturday.
Ishiba to quit as prime minister amid LDP discontent
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announces his decision to step down, at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Sunday.
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.
In rural Hokkaido, the stops and starts of tourism revival on full display
Redevelopment plans for Kawayu Onsen have hit some snags — an example of how bringing tourists back to declining rural communities is far from easy work.
London’s calling and sumo’s top division — along with Hello Kitty — are ready to answer
Yokozuna Hoshoryu and Hello Kitty, an ambassador for sumo's upcoming tour to London, at Tokyo's Kokugikan on Tuesday
Resonac creates 27-member consortium to pursue advanced chip developments
Representatives from member companies of JOINT3, a consortium working together on semiconductor-related developments announced by Resonac, pose for a photo in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Haru Nemuri’s radical new album refuses easy listening
Musician Haruna Kimishima, better known as Haru Nemuri, confronts Japan’s politics, nationalism and censorship on her recent output.
Overseas sluggers step up to bat in small-town Hokkaido
The Betsukai Pilot Spirits welcomed new players (left to right) Yuta Yamanaka, Roman Guthrie, Scott Bellina and Leo Jiminian this year, pictured here with Yassir Lachkar of the Ishikari Red Phoenix.

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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We are pleased to announce the winners of the 6th annual Sustainable Japan Award.
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