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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 4, 2021

ASEAN appoints Brunei diplomat as envoy to Myanmar

Foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have appointed Brunei's second minister for foreign affairs, Erywan Yusof, as special envoy to Myanmar, the group said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 4, 2021

Sweden's Madelene Sagstrom takes one-shot lead as women's golf tees off

Japanese golfers Nasa Hataoka and Mone Inami both shot opening-round 70s to sit four shots off the pace.
OLYMPICS
Aug 4, 2021

Japan wins two more medals in skateboarding as Sakura Yosozumi takes gold

The park event made its debut at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics following last week's street competition and turned out to be another sport dominated by Japanese teenagers.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 4, 2021

How social media magnified the controversy over Daiki Hashimoto's all-around gold

The furor surrounding Hashimoto's first-place finish in the men's all-around competition last week stood out for the response it provoked from gymnastics officials.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 4, 2021

SoftBank built a $5 billion stake in pharma giant Roche

Roche's diagnostics unit reacted swiftly to the pandemic, and now sales are boosted by its COVID-19 testing business.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 4, 2021

MUFG staff to set ‘personal rhythms’ with hybrid work model

At the pandemic's peak, around 98% worked remotely — now MUFG employees in Europe, the Middle East and Africa can decide how they want to work.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2021

The future will be weirder than we think

The future may become unthinkably weird and that weirdness will likely come sooner than we think.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2021

A big step forward for global tax justice

Europe must demonstrate that multilateral action can deliver for all if every country invests in it. And the new global tax agreement does just that.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2021

U.S.-China talks: Salvaging a relationship

The slogan when U.S.-China relations were first restored was “Friendship first, competition second.” Now, no one speaks about friendship. It is competition first, last and in between.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2021

China’s unavoidable financial rise

Many economists in the West did not see China's massive growth coming, and its influence is now becoming impossible to ignore.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 4, 2021

Double lives: The Olympians who divide their time between work and sport

'You cannot be riding a horse and thinking, what's happening with a trade in the office,' says equestrian Jose Maria Larocca, also one of the world's most influential oil traders.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 4, 2021

Japan’s post-Olympics stock bounce depends on controlling COVID-19

The Nikkei usually rises when Japan hauls in gold medals, but all bets are off during the pandemic.
On Dec. 31, rock duo B’z appeared on NHK's year-end "Kohaku Uta Gassen" music extravaganza for the first time in a career spanning more than three decades.
CULTURE / Music / Sound Off
Jan 10, 2025

An explosive B’z set on ‘Kohaku’ hints at a strategy to win over viewers

Japan’s best selling act delivered one of the biggest moments of the year-end music blowout and reinforced the importance of catering to a more middle-aged market.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (left) and Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim during a joint news conference at the Malaysian prime minister's office in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on Friday
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 10, 2025

In Kuala Lumpur, Ishiba vows to promote security cooperation with Malaysia

Leaders also agreed to deepen cooperation in the maritime field, cybersecurity and the economy.
Kaz Shiomi is looking forward to the Osaka Expo this year, which will be held from April 13 to Oct. 13.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Jan 10, 2025

Kaz Shiomi: ‘I want to show people … how to color outside the lines’

Producing toys under her kiko+ & gg* brand, the business owner hopes to encourage children to find their own unique paths in life.
Incoming Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya arrives at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Nov. 11 after lawmakers voted in parliament to reappoint Shigeru Ishiba as the country's prime minister.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 11, 2025

Japan foreign minister to attend Trump Jan. 20 inauguration

Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya would be the first Japanese Cabinet member to attend the swearing-in of a U.S. president.
Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya visits the Saint Michael's Cathedral, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv in November.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 11, 2025

Top Japanese diplomat to visit Seoul to shore up ties amid political chaos

Iwaya, who will be the first Japanese foreign minister to visit Seoul in seven years, will meet with his South Korean counterpart Cho Tae-yul and Acting President Choi Sang-mok.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump appears remotely for a sentencing hearing in front of New York State Judge Juan Merchan in the criminal case in which he was convicted in 2024 on charges involving hush money paid to a porn star, at New York Criminal Court in Manhattan on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 11, 2025

A sentence with no penalty assures Trump will take office as a felon

Justice Juan Merchan gave Donald Trump a symbolic punishment. The judge said that leniency was due the office of the president, not the man who will soon hold the title.
Burned-out homes reduced to rubble by the Eaton Fire are seen in Altadena, California, on Friday.
WORLD
Jan 11, 2025

Los Angeles faces more wildfire evacuations even as fierce winds ease

Fierce winds that have supercharged wildfires sweeping parts of Los Angeles eased Friday, but the largest blaze shifted direction, triggering new evacuation orders.
Head of Presidential Security Service, Park Chong-jun, is surrounded by media in the National Office of Investigation in Seoul on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 11, 2025

President Yoon’s security chief quits as new arrest bid looms

It’s not immediately clear if the vice chief who will take over will cooperate with a probe team’s warrant execution for Yoon.
Then-U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping shake hands ahead of their bilateral meeting during the Group of 20 leaders summit in Osaka in June 2019.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 11, 2025

China's Xi to send top-level envoy to Trump's inauguration, report says

Beijing has told Trump’s transition team that the official would attend instead of Xi, whom Trump had invited to attend.
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva speaks during a meeting in Washington on Friday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 11, 2025

IMF chief sees steady world growth in 2025, continuing disinflation

Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said the U.S. economy was doing "quite a bit better" than expected, although there was uncertainty around Donald Trump's trade policies.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gestures to supporters after he was sworn in for a third six-year term, in Caracas on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 11, 2025

Venezuela's Maduro sworn in as opponents decry 'coup' and U.S. hikes bounty

The United States increased to $25 million a reward for information leading to the arrest of President Nicolas Maduro or Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello,
U.S. Army soldiers with the NATO multinational battle group on the territory of Bulgaria stand in formation with a U.S. flag and an armored vehicle during a visit by NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte at the Novo Selo military ground near Mokren, Bulgaria, on Dec. 19.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jan 11, 2025

NATO won't back Trump's new defense spending target but will raise its sights

A new target is likely to be agreed at a NATO summit in June, but the key questions are what that new target will be and whether it will be enough to satisfy Trump.
A demonstrator holds a banner with the image of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in Tijuana, Mexico, on Dec. 18.
ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability / ANALYSIS
Jan 11, 2025

Politics, not climate, to drive sustainable finance trends in 2025

The return of Donald Trump as U.S. president heralds more regional divergence on everything from fund flows to legal cases and market regulations.
Mark Zuckerberg, then chief executive of Facebook, appears at a joint U.S. Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington in April 2018.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 11, 2025

Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s sprint to remake Meta for the Trump era

The highly unusual overhaul of the firm's speech policies came after the Meta CEO visited U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in November.
The record high reflected strong corporate demand for working capital amid rising raw materials prices and the yen's weakening, as well as brisk capital investment mainly by large companies.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 11, 2025

Japan bank lending hits record high at end of 2024

Outstanding bank lending in Japan stood at a record high of ¥605.8 trillion at the end of 2024, up 4.4% from a year before, according to industry data.

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