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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 24, 2020

China and Japan race to dominate the future of high-speed rail

Japan and China are racing to build a new type of ultrafast, levitating train, seeking to demonstrate their mastery over a technology with big export potential.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 24, 2020

Which of these faces is real?

Computers are getting ever better at generating realistic, entirely imaginary people. But the flaws are all ours.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Nov 24, 2020

A few tips on what to focus on in the final stretch leading to the JLPT

If you haven't started recapping for the Japanese-Language Proficiency Test yet, consider this your warning.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 24, 2020

It was just him and his smiley face. He’s charged with illegal assembly.

A civil rights activist in Singapore faces the charges for holding up a cardboard sign with a smiley face on it near a police station in March.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
Nov 24, 2020

We won't force you to learn 'yogi naku,' but you can't help doing so anyway

Ano suigai de ōku no katagata ga hinan-seikatsu o yogi naku saremashita.
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Nov 24, 2020

Let's discuss what banks are doing with our personal data

A Bloomberg piece looks at Mizuho's new business, which leads to a discussion on what companies can do with your personal data.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 24, 2020

World economy risks buckling into 2021 despite vaccine nearing

Economists say it wouldn't take much for the U.S., euro area and Japan to each contract again either this quarter or next.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health / FOCUS
Nov 24, 2020

Decades of work, and half a dose of fortune, drove Oxford vaccine success

The Oxford vaccinologists were exhilarated on Monday when drugmaker AstraZeneca, with whom they developed the shot, announced that it could be around 90% effective.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Nov 23, 2020

Cheap, spacious, crowd-free: Rural Japan is having a moment with the foreign community

Laura Blackhall took a risk purchasing an empty house in the Ibaraki countryside. Amid and following a pandemic, though, it's a choice that just might pay off.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Nov 23, 2020

Raise a glass in memory of Tokyo's messier tourist traps

Robot Restaurant and MariCar (or Street Kart or whatever you want to call it) were problematic tourist experiences, sure. That doesn't mean they weren't bold.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Nov 23, 2020

Fujitsu Frontiers secure eighth straight trip to Japan X Bowl

The Frontiers sealed a 34-3 victory Sunday over the Elecom Kobe Finies in their regular-season finale.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 23, 2020

Hawks still in a class of their own

The team has dominated Japanese baseball — the Climax Series and Japan Series in particular — for almost a decade.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers a speech at an event in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, on Friday afternoon.
BUSINESS
Jul 26, 2025

Ishiba rules out joint document on U.S. tariffs as deal's details trickle out

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has faced criticism from the opposition as numerous details about the agreement remain unclear.
Athletics designated hitter Nick Kurtz celebrates after hitting his fourth home run of the game on Friday in Houston.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 26, 2025

Nick Kurtz ties MLB record with four homers as A's pound Astros

Kurtz, who was 6-for-6 in the game, tallied 19 total bases, also equaling an MLB record.
Chinese Premier Li Qiang speaks during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Saturday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 26, 2025

Chinese Premier Li Qiang takes aim at AI ‘monopoly’ as U.S. effort quickens

China will spearhead the creation of an international organization to jointly develop AI, the country’s No. 2 official said.
People vote in a recall election, at a polling station in Taipei on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 26, 2025

Taiwan votes in high-stakes recall election

The high-stakes recall election to oust Kuomintang lawmakers could give President Lai Ching-te's Democratic Progressive Party control of parliament.
Investigators examine the area outside a sushi restaurant on Friday where an employee said he had stabbed to death a coworker in Tokyo's Toshima Ward.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 26, 2025

Sushi restaurant worker arrested over killing of colleague in Tokyo

Masahito Ishioka has admitted to killing Tomoyuki Iwata, 32, saying that he lost his temper after his relationship with the victim soured, informed sources said.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Philippine leader Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Jul 26, 2025

Trump tariffs leave costly China supply question unanswered

The U.S. president has threatened to rocket rates up to 40% for products deemed to be transshipped, or re-routed, through Southeast Asia.
Indian assistant language teachers pose for a photo with Japanese Ambassador Keiichi Ono (center) at the Japanese Embassy in New Delhi on Friday.
JAPAN
Jul 26, 2025

Japan to regularly accept assistant language teachers from India

This marks the first regular dispatch of assistant language teachers from India under a government initiative to promote exchanges at the regional level.
Personal Information Protection Commission Chairman Satoru Tezuka in Tokyo on July 15
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 26, 2025

Privacy safeguards needed to help fuel AI growth in Japan, panel chair says

A law revision was postponed during this year's ordinary parliamentary session amid strong opposition from business circles toward a system involving fines.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after arriving at Prestwick Airport, near Glasgow, Scotland, on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 26, 2025

Trump's distraction methods fall flat against Epstein uproar

The Republican's well-worn methods of changing the subject when a tough topic stings politically are not working.
Kuomintang lawmaker Hsu Chiao-hsin celebrates after the results of the recall election in Taipei on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 27, 2025

Taiwan opposition defeats recall and keeps legislative control

Voters overwhelmingly rejected an attempt to recall 24 Kuomintang lawmakers.
Cambodian soldiers ride in a truck equipped with a Russian-made BM-21 rocket launcher in the country's northern Oddar Meanchey province, which borders Thailand, on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 27, 2025

Thai-Cambodia border shelling continues despite Trump's ceasefire call

Cambodia and Thailand each said the other had launched artillery attacks across contested border areas early Sunday, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump said the leaders of both countries had agreed to work on a ceasefire.
McLaren's Lando Norris drives during the qualifying session for the Belgian Grand Prix on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Jul 27, 2025

Norris takes pole for all-McLaren front row in Belgium

The Briton blasted around the long Spa-Francorchamps circuit in a best time of one minute, 40.562 seconds on Saturday, just ahead of his teammate.
Slovenian rider Tadej Pogacar celebrates on the podium as the overall leader of the Tour de France on Saturday in Jura.
MORE SPORTS / Cycling
Jul 27, 2025

One of the hardest Tours, Pogacar says, as he moves to brink of fourth win

The defending champion leads Jonas Vingegaard by 4:24 in the general classification heading into Stage 21, which will feature a spectacular finale in Paris.
Palestinians carry parcels of donated food while others hurry toward a distribution point northwest of Gaza City, in the Gaza Strip, as humanitarian aid arrives on June 16.
WORLD
Jul 27, 2025

Israel declares Gaza fighting pause amid deepening hunger crisis

The Israeli military also said it had begun air-dropping food into the territory and angrily rejected allegations it was using starvation as a weapon against Palestinian civilians.
People detained by U.S. immigration forces are seen behind fences at the Desert View Annex at an ICE detention facility in Adelanto, California, on July 10.
WORLD / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Jul 27, 2025

Most ICE detainees have no criminal history as detention reaches record levels

Private prison corporations are set to benefit from the Trump administration's unprecedented deportation drive.

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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