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Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Nov 1, 2020

‘Hydrogen wars’ pit Europe against China for $700 billion business

Governments, energy giants, automobile companies and lobbying groups say hydrogen use is pivotal for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 1, 2020

Carlos Ghosn escape accomplices set for Japan pickup ‘in days,’ U.S. says

Japanese officials will travel to the U.S. in “the coming days” to retrieve the two Americans accused of helping Ghosn escape Tokyo.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 1, 2020

Photo essay: This is Halloween ... in Tokyo 2020

Despite officials' pleas to stay home, crowds of revelers — with and without masks — converge for a costume street party in Shibuya.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Nov 1, 2020

Whether it's Biden or Trump, allies fret being forgotten amid U.S. turmoil

No matter who emerges as the victor in Tuesday's U.S. presidential election, one thing is clear: The winner's focus will turn immediately to domestic issues.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 1, 2020

Stanford statistical model estimates 700 COVID-19 deaths from Trump rallies

A White House spokesperson dismissed the study as 'a politically driven model based on flawed assumptions and meant to shame Trump supporters.”
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 1, 2020

Malaysia’s once-peripheral king emerges as major political force

For Malaysia, where one coalition ruled for six straight decades until the 2018 election, it's relatively new for the monarch to play such a prominent role in politics.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 1, 2020

Seven pro-democracy lawmakers arrested in Hong Kong

Seven pro-democratic lawmakers were arrested in Hong Kong on Sunday on charges related to obstructing a legislative council meeting in May, they said on Facebook, a move that comes after Beijing passed a contentious security law in June.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Nov 1, 2020

As election looms, U.S. authorities seek to separate bluster from threats

Law enforcement, which has warned of potential violence around the Nov. 3 vote, must prepare for a range of potential threats, officials say.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 1, 2020

A frazzled world holds its breath while the U.S. chooses its leader

The world is on tenterhooks waiting to see whether the United States will choose to stay on its current rocky course.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 1, 2020

Europe’s pandemic woes multiply with leaders drifting to lockdowns

A one-month stay-at-home policy for all of England will take effect Thursday, with waivers for schools, universities and essential stores.
Katsutoshi Takegami, 77, in his storehouse attic where he discovered his father's Unit 1644 documents
JAPAN / History
Aug 13, 2025

Hidden rosters and the legacy of Japan’s germ warfare

In a dusty box, a Nagano man finds proof his father served in Nanjing, China, with Unit 1644, part of Japan’s covert biological weapons network during World War II.
Shinto priests holding traditional umbrellas walk to the main shrine for a ritual to cleanse themselves during the annual Spring Festival at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo in April 2016.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 13, 2025

Dispelling the myth of Yasukuni Shrine

The shrine has been a lightning rod — especially as it has been used by some of Japan's neighbors as a convenient means to shift attention away from their domestic issues.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's political survival likely hinges on whether a leadership race will take place within the Liberal Democratic Party following its decision to have its election committee canvass the opinions of party members and prefectural chapters on the subject.
JAPAN / Politics / EXPLAINER
Aug 13, 2025

Will Ishiba's critics be able to garner enough support for a leadership race?

The only way to remove an LDP president from office — other than a resignation — is to invoke the recall clause and hold a leadership race.
Russian traditional nesting dolls with images of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as U.S. President Donald Trump. Ukrainian and European leaders worry that the hastily arranged Alaska meeting between the two leaders risks playing into Russia’s hands.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 13, 2025

Putin is about to outplay Trump again in Alaska

Trump isn’t wrong to try sitting down with U.S. foes and rivals, even where more conventional leaders would avoid the risk. But hastily arranged encounters rarely result as hoped.
The government is considering requiring handheld fans to be recycled, in the wake of a host of fires caused by rechargeable electric devices during disposal work.
JAPAN
Aug 13, 2025

Japan may make recycling handheld fans mandatory

The consideration comes in the wake of a host of fires caused by rechargeable electric devices during disposal work.
The Trump administration’s push for a lunar nuclear reactor by 2030 highlights both the technological ambition and the steep challenges facing small modular reactors, which remain slow to deploy even on Earth.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 13, 2025

The real nuclear moonshot is here on Earth

Developing extraterrestrial nuclear power is a worthy research project. If we are to someday establish permanent settlements on the moon, they will require a lot of energy.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
WORLD
Aug 13, 2025

India set to allow its private firms to mine and import uranium to help nuclear expansion

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government plans to expand nuclear power production capacity by 12 times by 2047.
A worker at Stetman LLC repairs a damaged Starlink terminal in an undisclosed location in Ukraine on July 14.
WORLD
Aug 13, 2025

Starlink techies keep Musk’s network running, even in a war

Despite his on-and-off feud with Trump and the subsequent exile from the White House, Musk remains a central figure in the war.
Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike in north Gaza on Tuesday
WORLD
Aug 14, 2025

Israel pounds Gaza City, with 123 dead in last 24 hours

The 24-hour death toll was the worst in a week and added to the massive fatalities from the nearly two-year war.
Filmmakers interview the general manager of a Bald Men's club for an upcoming Flix Oven documentary that will be available via the streaming platform Samansa.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming
Aug 14, 2025

Samansa bets on commuter cinema

As attention spans get shorter, a Japanese startup is banking on short films as easily digestible entertainment.
Aid workers move bags of yellow lentils at an aid operation in Mekele, Ethiopia.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 14, 2025

U.S. court lets Trump block billions of dollars in foreign aid

The ruling is a big win for Trump’s efforts to dissolve USAID and withhold funding from programs that have fallen out of favor with his administration.
Modeled on a real-life World World II figure, Yutaka Takenouchi plays the captain of a “lucky” Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer in “Yukikaze.”
CULTURE / Film
Aug 14, 2025

‘Yukikaze’ turns fabled warship into floating snoozefest

The story of a “lucky” Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer that survived World War II is given a lightly fictionalized treatment in Toshihisa Yamada's first feature.
Media tycoon Jimmy Lai, founder of Apple Daily
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Aug 14, 2025

Hong Kong court to hear closing arguments in mogul Jimmy Lai's trial

The 77-year-old founder of the Apple Daily newspaper is charged with foreign collusion under Hong Kong's national security law.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba enters the Prime Minister's Office on Tuesday. Ishiba plans to launch a new economic initiative to strengthen ties with India, the Middle East and Africa at an event near Tokyo next week.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 14, 2025

Ishiba to launch new regional economic initiative

The initiative is aimed at helping Japanese companies expand operations in India, the Middle East and Africa.
French President Emmanuel Macron (left) and others attend a video conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to discuss the ongoing war in Ukraine, at Fort de Bregancon in Bormes-les-Mimosas, France, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 14, 2025

Trump threatens 'severe consequences' if Putin blocks Ukraine peace

The U.S. president did not specify what the consequences could be, but he has warned of economic sanctions if his meeting with Putin proves fruitless.
Autumn to be cut short as harsh winter arrives suddenly
A short-lived autumn is expected this year, with temperatures staying unseasonably high through October before plunging in late November, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
JICA scraps Africa ‘hometown’ agreement after migration mixup
The “Africa Hometown Initiative,” announced by the Japan International Cooperation Agency at an African development conference in Yokohama in August, sought to foster exchanges that would help bridge four municipalities in Japan with four countries in Africa.
Tim Cook arrives in Tokyo as Apple prepares to reopen Ginza store
Apple is reopening its redesigned store in Ginza, Tokyo, on Friday. The location holds special importance for the company — it was its first overseas store, which originally opened in 2003.
Taiwan isn’t as susceptible to invasion as one would think
Soldiers participate in a military exercise in Miaoli County, Taiwan, in July 2022. While China may desire to unify the island, military, geographic, political and economic factors make a successful invasion unlikely.
Japanese corporate boards have changed dramatically in recent years
Most Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Section companies have independent directors now.
As Japan keeps buying gas, Aboriginal Australians pay the price
Paulina “Jedda” Puruntatameri with Antonia Burke and Tiwi fisher Clinton offshore of Melville Island, one of the Tiwi Islands, in Australia's Northern Territory. Together with other Tiwi, Jedda has been campaigning for years to stop Australian company Santos and its backers, including Japanese investors, from drilling for natural gas at the Barossa gas field.
Who’s who in the LDP presidential race?
(Clockwise from top left) Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi; former foreign minister Toshimitsu Motegi; Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Shinjiro Koizumi; former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi; and former minister of state for economic security Sanae Takaichi
Tax-advantaged investments no lost cause for U.S. residents of Japan
While some American taxpayers assume they are ineligible to participate in Japan’s tax-deferred savings schemes, certified public accountant Rick Gundlach says that this is no longer the case.
Aichi Triennale’s message from the world: Free Palestine
“Between Currents and Bloom,” an eye-popping crocheted seascape by Indonesian artist Mulyana, dazzles with Instagram-ready cuteness while recalling a vibrant ocean now threatened by warming seas.

Podcast

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

Longform

"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
By Christoph Sponsel

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