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Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 4, 2020

At the end of a chaotic campaign, an Election Day that defied the worst fears

There were glitches and partisan skirmishes as voters went to the polls, but for the most part the system held up.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 4, 2020

Don’t invoke Bush v. Gore to challenge 2020 voting

A note to Republicans and Democrats alike: Bush v. Gore does not draw into legal doubt the right of local authorities to decide how to conduct their elections.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 4, 2020

Updating democracy: The younger generation is losing faith in the system

'Capitalism' and 'socialism' describe the once emerging industrial world, so we need the same inventiveness to describe the digital world that has replaced it.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 4, 2020

With Trump still in charge until at least January, virus experts fear the worst

Trump has largely shuttered the White House task force and doubled down on anti-science language, telling voters that the U.S. is 'rounding the corner” in the pandemic.
BUSINESS
Nov 4, 2020

As Japan moves to revive its countryside, pandemic drives many out of cities

In September, 30,644 people moved out of Tokyo, up 12.5% year-on-year, while the number moving in fell 11.7% to 27,006, data showed.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Nov 4, 2020

The choice between Biden’s America and Trump’s

How a divided nation decides on a leader to represent it.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Nov 4, 2020

China’s race for COVID-19 vaccine raises safety questions

Process has been unhindered by common scientific setbacks being reported by Western rivals, raising questions about how stringently they are vetting potential issues.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 4, 2020

Xi says economy can double as China lays out ambitious plans

Chinese President Xi Jinping said the economy can double in size by 2035 and the country can reach high-income status in the next five years as the Communist Party outlined ambitious plans for the nation’s future.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 4, 2020

Bad blood: Why France-Turkey cartoon row could leave lasting impact

Slights and barbs have marred relations between France's Emmanuel Macron and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan for years, but the row over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad has dragged them to a new low which could have more lasting consequences.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 4, 2020

China envisions a new Hong Kong, firmly under its control

Hainan province, an island the size of Maryland in the South China Sea, has been envisioned as a free-trade port and international commercial hub.
The Jianxiawo Lithium mine in Yichun, Jiangxi province, China
BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 11, 2025

Lithium market erupts as CATL shuts one of world’s biggest mines

Tianqi Lithium jumped as much as 19% in Hong Kong, while Ganfeng Lithium Group surged 21%, and Australian miners rallied.
Wind turbines beyond an array of solar panels on the hillside in the Canical district of Madeira, Portugal, on Feb. 9, 2023. Renewables are now among the cheapest forms of electricity, especially after an energy crunch and the Ukraine war bolstered gas, oil and coal.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
Aug 11, 2025

Hedge funds flip on green energy and start betting against oil

The outlook for solar and wind stocks is starting to improve.
Komeito leader Tetsuo Saito speaks to reporters in Tokyo after Upper House election voting finished on July 20.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 11, 2025

Komeito struggling after crushing Upper House election defeat

Some have been calling on Komeito to withdraw from costly races in constituencies and put resources into proportional representation.
Visitors have their photo taken by a portrait of President Xi Jinping at the Military Museum in Beijing on Oct. 20, 2023. The Chinese leader’s crackdown on military corruption reveals how deep his concerns run, not only about battlefield readiness, but about political survival, as well.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 11, 2025

Xi looks to tighten grip after scandals shake China’s military elite

Outwardly, China’s military has never been stronger. Its naval ships venture farther across the oceans. Its nuclear force grows by about 100 warheads every year. Its military flights around Taiwan are increasingly frequent and intimidating. Every few months, China unveils new weapons, like a prototype...
Grant Forrest, seen in 2024, won a Scottish Championship event on Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeen, Scotland, on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Golf
Aug 11, 2025

Donald Trump praises Grant Forrest for 'brilliant' win on Trump-owned course

Trump, who recently spent five days in Scotland, playing golf and sealing a major trade deal with the European Union, was among the first to congratulate Forrest on his victory
Andrew Bosworth, Meta’s chief technology officer; Bob McGrew, an adviser at Thinking Machines Lab and OpenAI’s former chief research officer; Shyam Sankar, Palantir’s chief technology officer; and Kevin Weil, OpenAI’s chief product officer at a military ceremony in Arlington, Va., in June 2025. The four current and former executives were pronounced lieutenant colonels in a new unit, Detachment 201, which will advise the Army on new technologies for potential combat.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 11, 2025

Silicon Valley is in its ‘hard tech’ era

Instead of the tap-to-pay apps of a decade ago like Clinkle and Bump, young companies are now making unmanned aerial drones stocked with AI-guided Barracuda cruise missiles.
Australia's Charlotte Caslick (left) has been ruled out of the upcoming Women's Rugby World Cup due to an ankle injury.
MORE SPORTS / Rugby
Aug 11, 2025

Australia loses Charlotte Caslick ahead of Women's Rugby World Cup

Caslick, who was named sevens World Player of the Year in 2016, damaged her ankle against New Zealand last month but was included in Jo Yapp's Australia squad last week.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin during a joint news conference in Helsinki in 2018. For Putin, the upcoming summit with Trump is an opportunity not just to end the Ukraine war on his terms, but to split apart the Western security alliance.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 11, 2025

In a Trump-Putin summit, Ukraine fears losing say over its future

Kyiv's worry for the past six months has been that U.S. President Donald Trump’s image of a "peace accord” is a deal struck directly between him and Russia.
Visitors to the Osaka Expo line up for pavilions on Friday.
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2025

Osaka Expo ticket sales exceed break-even point

Before the opening, ticket sales were sluggish and there were concerns that the Expo would end in the red.
A terrace of a shopping mall overlooking the central business district of Beijing on Monday. An extension of a trade truce between Washington and Beijing buys crucial time for the autumn surge of imports for the Christmas season, including electronics, apparel and toys, at lower tariff rates.
BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 12, 2025

U.S. and China extend tariff truce by 90 days, staving off surge in duties

The timing of the extension buys crucial time for the seasonal autumn surge of imports for the Christmas season at lower tariff rates.
A sapper in the Ukrainian Armed Forces blows up an explosive device during a training session in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, on Saturday
WORLD / Politics
Aug 12, 2025

Europe races to try to influence U.S. position ahead of Trump-Putin talks

Kyiv and its EU allies fear that Trump, keen to claim credit for peace and lucrative deals with Moscow, could cut a one-sided deal with Putin.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the press about deploying federal law enforcement agents in Washington to bolster the local police presence, as U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth looks on, in the Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 12, 2025

Trump takes over D.C. police and deploys national guard in Washington

The move bypassed the city's elected leaders and was emblematic of a second-term that has seen him wield executive authority in ways with little precedent in modern U.S. history.
Stocks in Tokyo rallied on Tuesday despite months of uncertainty and general economic concerns.
BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 12, 2025

Japan's Nikkei 225 hits record high on tariff and rate optimism

Shares rise after some good news on the trade front and a long weekend.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (right) speaks alongside U.S. President Donald Trump about investing in America, at the White House in Washington on April 30.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 12, 2025

Trump opens door to sales of version of Nvidia's next-gen AI chips in China

The chip will be a less-powerful version of the Blackwell.
Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan Asim Munir (second from left) during his visit at the Tilla Field Firing Ranges to witness the Exercise Hammer Strike, a high-intensity field training exercise conducted by the Pakistan Army's Mangla Strike Corps, in Mangla, Pakistan, on May 1
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 12, 2025

India decries 'saber rattling' after Pakistan army chief's reported nuclear remarks

Indian media reports quoted Pakistan's Field Marshal Asim Munir as saying: "We are a nuclear nation. If we think we are going down, we'll take half the world down with us."

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