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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 6, 2021

For a post-nationalist Biden

Economic globalization is no longer compatible with the political balkanization that hypernationalism underpins.
Japan Times
PARALYMPICS
Jan 6, 2021

Yasuhiro Jimbo works to foster students' resilience and para sports passion

The former wheelchair basketball star who represented Japan is bringing his inspiring message to schools in hope of creating a more inclusive society.
MORE SPORTS
Jan 6, 2021

Hakone ekiden's stubborn crowds cause for Olympic concern

The 2021 Tokyo-Hakone Round-Trip College Ekiden Race concluded as a last-mile thriller between the eventual winner Komazawa University and runner-up Soka University.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jan 6, 2021

North Korea's Kim admits economic missteps as rare party congress opens

The strongman refrained from mentioning his country's nuclear program in an opening speech, but said the economic strategy unveiled in 2016 'fell extremely short' of its goals.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 6, 2021

Japan chip sector boosted by report TSMC to build Tokyo facility

The two sides will soon sign a memorandum of understanding and form a 50-50 joint venture for the project, Taiwan media reported.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 6, 2021

Democrat Warnock beats Loeffler in Georgia Senate race

Turnout in rural, overwhelmingly white counties where Republicans needed a strong showing has been lagging without Trump on the ballot.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Beyond COVID-19
Jan 6, 2021

A global recovery’s leading variables

Questions remain whether the EU and the U.S. will enact recovery programs of the magnitude needed to restore the global economy, and if the developing world will get the support it needs.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Beyond COVID-19
Jan 6, 2021

The post-truth pandemic

Scientific “facts,” even when generated and published in good faith, immediately are run through an ideological meat grinder and beaten into a political mold.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 6, 2021

Bangladesh’s dangerous Islamist appeasement and what it portends

Left unchecked and periodically molly-coddled, Bangladesh's Islamist parties could spell havoc for its democracy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 6, 2021

NYSE just gave China Inc. one more reason to leave

The New York Stock Exchange said late Monday that it no longer intends to move forward with the delisting of China's three state-owned telecom operators.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 6, 2021

What sovereignty means today?

The U.K.'s sovereignty has been regained. What exactly is this sovereignty? And precisely who has taken back control?
JAPAN / Explainer
Jan 6, 2021

Legal revisions would add weight to Japan's COVID-19 response

Levying fines on businesses if they don't shut down or reduce their hours of operation runs the risk of a political backlash against the government.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 6, 2021

Australia’s influence in Pacific Islands grows as China’s wanes

As Beijing has pulled back from the strategic region amid the pandemic, Canberra has stepped up support for vaccinations in the countries there.
Manny Pacquiao trains at Wild Card Boxing in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
MORE SPORTS / Boxing
Jun 26, 2025

Manny Pacquiao 'hungry' to fight again after four years away from boxing

The 46-year-old Filipino boxing icon will face World Boxing Council champion Mario Barrios in Las Vegas on July 19.
The leading cause of workers experiencing work-related mental health issues was power harassment, or an abuse of authority from superiors, which accounted for 224 cases.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Jun 26, 2025

Work-related mental health cases hit record high in Japan

The leading cause of such cases was power harassment, or an abuse of authority from superiors.
It is believed that Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings cannot reactivate the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant's No. 7 reactor until August 2029, when an antiterror measure is scheduled to be in place.
JAPAN
Jun 26, 2025

Tepco changes Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear reactor restart plan

The firm has decided to put the No. 6 reactor back online ahead of the No. 7 unit, which is ready to be restarted.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said at a news conference Monday that there are "various arguments from the viewpoint of international law" regarding U.S. strikes on nuclear facilities in Iran.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 26, 2025

U.S. strikes against Iran create dilemma for Japan

After criticizing Israel's attacks on Iran, Japan would have been accused of adopting a double standard if it did not decry the U.S.' actions.
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani arrives for a news conference at Astoria Park in New York on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jun 26, 2025

Wealthy fear ‘hot commie summer’ after Democrat outsider wins mayoral primary

Voters across racially and economically diverse neighborhoods embraced Zohran Mamdani, shocking the Democratic establishment.
Apartment rents in the capital climbed 1.3% from a year earlier in April and May for the largest gains since 1994, government data shows.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 26, 2025

Tokyo rents rising at fastest pace in 30 years backs case for BOJ rate hikes

Bigger outlays for accommodation are likely to further fuel a change in inflation expectations and behavior among households of all sizes.
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Axiom-4 crew of four astronauts lifts off from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A on a mission to the International Space Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida on Wednesday.
WORLD
Jun 26, 2025

India, Poland and Hungary astronauts launch for first space station mission

The four-member crew was carried aloft on a towering SpaceX launch vehicle consisting of a Crew Dragon capsule perched atop a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket.
Japanese automakers make 3.3 million cars in the U.S. a year, far more than the 1.37 million that they ship there, Japan's chief trade negotiator Ryosei Akazawa says.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 26, 2025

Japan can’t accept 25% car tariffs, Akazawa reiterates

Japanese automakers make roughly 3.3 million cars in the U.S. a year, far more than the 1.37 million that they ship there, the negotiator said.
Angels starter Yusei Kikuchi pitches against the Red Sox in Anaheim, California, on Wednesday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jun 26, 2025

Yusei Kikuchi fans 12 to help Angels complete sweep of Red Sox

The Angels won for the fourth time in their past five games.
Softbank has invested $15 million in a startup's climate monitoring stations that are designed to capture real-time data on wildfires, flooding and greenhouse gases.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 26, 2025

SoftBank backs startup building giant floating climate stations

The massive, bullet-shaped helium balloons will monitor climate data and bring connectivity to hard-to-reach areas.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the 2025 NATO Summit in The Hague on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 26, 2025

NATO spending deal creates new standard — for Indo-Pacific allies

NATO members agreed on a spending target of 5% of GDP by 2035, enabling the U.S. to shift its focus to the region as it zeros in on containing China.
Britain's Competition and Markets Authority spent years setting up a regime to intervene in the operations of tech giants such as Google, only for the Labour government to say its need to grow the economy meant tough regulation was now out.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 26, 2025

U.K. politics blunts antitrust action against Google

Britain's Competition and Markets Authority spent years setting up a regime to intervene in tech giants' operations, only for the Labour government to say tough regulation was out.
Foreign investors bought a net ¥88.4 billion of Japanese equities in the week that ended on June 20, data has shown.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jun 26, 2025

Foreign buying of Japanese stocks marks 12-week streak, TSE data shows

According to data, foreign investors bought ¥88.4 billion of Japanese equities in the week that ended on June 20.
Urawa's Yusuke Matsuo (right) and Monterrey's Ricardo Chavez vie for the ball during their match at the Club World Cup in Pasadena, California, on Wednesday.
SOCCER
Jun 26, 2025

Urawa allows three first-half goals in loss to Monterrey at Club World Cup

The J. League team lost all three of its matches at the Club World Cup.
Power supply shortages may occur even if nuclear power reactors and aging thermal power plants are rebuilt, an industry organization warns.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 26, 2025

Japan's power demand may grow by up to 40% by 2050

A report warned that supply shortages may occur even if nuclear power reactors and aging thermal power plants are rebuilt.

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"Shake hands with Lima-chan," a statue that shares the name of the Peruvian capital looks in the direction of Peru, where a sister statue, "Sakura-chan," is located. Erected in Yokohama's Rinko Park in 1999, it commemorates Peruvian-Japanese friendship.
The journey of Peru’s Nikkei: Finding identity in Japan