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JAPAN / Politics
Dec 6, 2021

In speech, Kishida lays out bold plans for health, economic and defense policies

The prime minister introduced an array of specifics, including details about booster shots, tax credits and national security.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 6, 2021

SoftBank slumps 9% after week of bad portfolio news

Shares fell to u00a55,057 — the biggest intraday drop since March 2020 and part of its worst annual decline since 2006.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 6, 2021

Bob Dole, old soldier and stalwart of the U.S. Senate, dies at 98

A Republican, Dole was one of the most durable political figures in the last decades of the last century.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 6, 2021

1MDB prison threat hangs over Najib Razak’s Malaysian resurgence

Sentenced to 12 years in a case involving around $10 million deposited in his personal accounts, elections are his way to stay out of jail.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 6, 2021

Ride-hailing giant Didi sends warning to China investors who thought the worst was over

The company's shares plunged 22% on Friday, showing how perilous betting on Chinese equities remains a year into Chinese President Xi Jinping's campaign to remake the tech sector.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 6, 2021

Toshiba walked away from potential buyout talks and Brookfield offer

The company's decision to instead split itself in three has widened the gulf between the conglomerate and a number of its hedge fund investors.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Dec 6, 2021

Lions end weeks of agony with last-second triumph over Vikings

The Detroit Lions are winless no more after beating the Minnesota Vikings 29-27 on Sunday to end weeks of agony and ridicule.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 6, 2021

How a vaccine side effect database sowed doubt in vaccinations

Public health communication is one of the greatest challenges of the pandemic. Too little information can lead to falsehoods, while too much can also create confusion.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 6, 2021

Poll finds 89% in Japan back Kishida’s ban on new foreign arrivals

The Yomiuri poll also found support for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party up slightly at 41%.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Dec 6, 2021

Lewis Hamilton wins chaotic race to tie Max Verstappen atop Formula One standings

Extraordinary, and at times angry, radio exchanges between race director Michael Masi and the top two teams filled the airwaves.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 6, 2021

Traders dump ASEAN stocks on fears omicron will hammer region

The region is also threatened by concern over slowing growth in China and the prospect that the U.S. Federal Reserve will raise interest rates sooner than earlier anticipated.
Dec 6, 2021

Curcumin prodrug CMG has beneficial effects on a mouse model of multiple sclerosis by modulating the gut flora

Curcumin well-known as “a major component of curry” is a polyphenol derived from turmeric, Curcuma longa. The Department of Microbiology, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine (Professor Ikuo Tsunoda), demonstrated the benefits of curcumin monoglucuronide (CMG) treatment in an autoimmune model of...
Mobile phone numbers with a 060 prefix could be available as soon as December.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 3, 2024

Japan considers new 060 mobile number prefix as 070 runs low

Numbers starting with 060 could be available as early as December, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
Analysts say Warren Buffett may be looking to buy Japanese financial firms and shipping companies.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 3, 2024

Buffett may target Japan banks or insurers for next purchase, analysts say

The billionaire’s company this week mandated banks to manage a yen bond sale in the global market, in a sign he may increase holdings in Japan.
A standard Chocozap location is small and unmanned, which has made it easy for Rizap to add locations amid a chronic labor shortage.
BUSINESS
Oct 20, 2024

Gyms in Japan offer laundry, karaoke and hair-removal machines

Chocozap's oddball gyms were created as an experiment during the coronavirus pandemic.
At France's Kura Master competition, top honors went to "Shirayuki Daiginjo Itami Morohaku" (left) and "Araroka Matsufuji."
LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 3, 2024

Award ceremony for Japanese alcohol held in Paris

1,223 sake products and 197 shōchū and awamori products were put up for the competition.
For years, Seven & I has faced calls from investors to focus more on its convenience-store business.
BUSINESS
Oct 3, 2024

7-Eleven owner seeking to sell off part of stake in banking unit

The sale of part of its stake in Seven Bank would intend to show Seven & I Holdings is willing to focus more on its core 7-Eleven business.
A survey found that 18.6% of people who changed careers in their 20s and 17.3% of those in their 40s used resignation agencies.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2024

One in 6 workers in Japan use resignation agencies to change jobs

As to why they let an agency handle their resignation, 40.7% said it was because they were stopped from quitting, or thought they would be stopped, by their employer.
Starbucks has 10 support centers around the world where agronomists work with farmers on research and best practices.
BUSINESS
Oct 3, 2024

Starbucks buys research farms as climate change threatens coffee supply

Bolstering the coffee industry’s climate resilience has taken on fresh urgency this year.
Bourgeois is perhaps best known among the general public for her giant steel spider sculptures, particularly in Tokyo, where a nearly 10-meter tall bronze cast of the original spider has loomed over the walkway in Roppongi Hills since 2003.
CULTURE / Art
Oct 4, 2024

Japan’s biggest Louise Bourgeois exhibit yet leans into ambivalence

At Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum, a large-scale retrospective of the visionary artist emphasizes her complex feelings toward femininity, memory, parenthood and the human body.
Palestinians inspect the site of Israeli strikes on houses in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 4, 2024

Gaza and a cease-fire slip out of focus as Lebanon conflict rages

With attention swinging to Lebanon, the war in Gaza risks being prolonged.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav has repeatedly stressed that Israel must take the fight to Lebanon.
WORLD
Oct 4, 2024

Israel's hawkish Yoav Gallant is driving the war in Lebanon

Officials in Israel like Yoav Gallant have called to push the Lebanese militant group away from their shared border to allow displaced people to return.
Smoke rises over Beirut amid the ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Sin El Fil, Lebanon.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2024

Two Japanese nationals flee Lebanon on chartered ship

The Japanese government aided the evacuation following an escalation of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
A section of forest in part of the Natura 2000 nature protection areas in Kirkkonummi, Finland, in July 2021.
WORLD
Oct 4, 2024

Europe’s global green ambitions push too hard once again

Europe forged an aggressive timetable three years ago to curb global deforestation, but it proved too much for some.
Port workers from the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) participate in a strike at the Virginia International Gateway in Portsmouth, Virginia, on Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Oct 4, 2024

U.S. port workers, operators reach deal to end East Coast strike

A tentative agreement for a wage hike of around 62% over six years will immediately end a crippling three-day strike.
An electronic ticker at the Tokyo Stock Exchange
BUSINESS
Oct 4, 2024

More stocks trade below book value in Japan despite reforms

About 38% of Topix 500 companies were trading below book value as of the end of September.
Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum holds her first news conference at the National Palace, in Mexico City, Mexico, on Wednesday.
WORLD
Oct 4, 2024

Mexico's first woman president announces reforms to battle gender discrimination

The reforms seek to guarantee freedom from violence and to require gender parity in government cabinets at the state and federal levels.
Japan's cutting-edge railgun successfully strikes target vessel
The Defense Ministry’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) conducted a ship-board railgun shooting test from June to early July this year with the support of the Maritime Self-Defense Force.
Thousands without power in Tokyo as heavy rain batters Kanto region
Heavy rain hit Tokyo and surrounding areas Thursday afternoon, causing thousands to lose power, prompting flood warnings, grounding flights and causing transportation issues.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
JAL reprimand over drunken pilots adds to airline’s woes
Japan Airlines President Mitsuko Tottori (right) bows in apology Wednesday in Tokyo over the company's pilots causing flight delays due to drinking alcohol.
‘Fairytale’ Shirakawago ranked one of the world’s most beautiful villages
Forbes and Unforgettable Travel Company have ranked Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture as Asia's most beautiful village.
‘Fairytale’ Shirakawago ranked one of the world’s most beautiful villages
Forbes and Unforgettable Travel Company have ranked Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture as Asia's most beautiful village.
Aging Japan’s centenarian population nears 100,000
Shigeko Kagawa, Japan's oldest person at 114, in Yamatokoriyama, Nara Prefecture, on July 30
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.
Shizuoka farmers fight to preserve sustainable tea method that’s steeped in tradition
As of August 2024, the number of confirmed chagusaba farmers had fallen to 302, just over half the 582 reported in 2015, according to the Shizuoka Chagusaba Farming Method Promotion Council.

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

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Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight
By Mai Yoshikawa

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

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