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JAPAN
Oct 29, 2020

South Korea expresses 'serious concern' over any radioactive water dump

The view was expressed during meetings between Japanese and South Korean officials, the first since Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga took office.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 29, 2020

Does America still interfere in foreign elections?

Americans have been understandablyalarmed about foreign electoral interference. But the practice is not new; in fact, the U.S. was for a long time its leading exponent.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 29, 2020

Can China’s COVID-19 recovery continue?

Unlike previous recoveries, fixed asset investment in the private sphere is rising while growing at a slower pace in the public sector.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Oct 29, 2020

Following the crowd, Suga makes a bold climate pledge

Genuine, sustainable progress depends on changing economic incentives for energy production and use.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 29, 2020

Japan's Shionogi readies COVID-19 vaccine for December trial

The firm plans to put its vaccine candidate into Phase 1 clinical trials in December and shift into Phase 2 by January.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 29, 2020

Too hard to vote? Fired-up Black Americans are doing it anyway.

In the historically Black neighborhoods of Waco, Texas, the usual get-out-the-vote activities in this U.S. presidential election year were upended by the pandemic.
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Oct 29, 2020

Designing a vision for Japan's green recovery

The time has come for the nation to show a clear stance on nuclear energy while assessing its possible value.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Oct 29, 2020

Vaccines, not spy planes: U.S. misfires in Indonesia

Not only has the United States not promised to help with vaccine supplies, it also shocked Indonesia officials by asking to land its spy planes in the country.
"Japan is our neighbor across the sea as well as an indispensable partner in our economic development,” South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said in a speech commemorating the end of Japanese colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 15, 2025

South Korea’s Lee calls Japan indispensable partner before visit

The South Korean president has spoken harshly of Japan in the past, declaring in 2016 that "Japan is an enemy country.”
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass poses for pictures with Olympic and Paralympic athletes and other officials in front of of the Los Angeles Coliseum on May 8.
OLYMPICS
Aug 15, 2025

Los Angeles Olympics to sell naming rights to venues in first

In a statement released on Thursday, LA28 organizers said the "landmark change" will apply to featured venues in support of the "largest commercial revenue raise in sports."
Criminals started hijacking online brokerage accounts in Japan and using them to drive up penny stocks around the world earlier this year.
BUSINESS
Aug 15, 2025

Japan brokers seek to identify hackers after fraud surges

Criminals started hijacking online brokerage accounts in Japan and using them to drive up penny stocks around the world earlier this year.
The Tokyo Stock Exchange. Analysts say some cash-rich, big tech firms in Japan have failed to respond to the TSE’s yearslong campaign to improve valuations and capital efficiency.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 15, 2025

Investors seek bigger payouts from Japanese tech firms’ cash hoard

Growth companies that had been getting a free pass amid the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s yearslong campaign to improve valuations and capital efficiency are now facing closer scrutiny.
Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
JAPAN / History / Longform
Aug 15, 2025

The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers

An decades-long effort to recover the remains of those who died during World War II, most of them abroad, may be entering its final phase.
The Rausu mountain range at Hokkaido's Shiretoko National Park. A man in his 20s who went missing after being attacked by a bear while hiking on Mount Rausu has been found dead.
JAPAN
Aug 15, 2025

Hiker missing in Hokkaido after bear attack found dead

The man, in his 20s, went missing after a brown bear attacked him while he was descending a mountain in eastern Hokkaido on Thursday.
People flee from a village after renewed fighting between Myanmar's military and an ethnic minority armed group, in Pauktaw Township in western Rakhine State in November 2023.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 15, 2025

Desperate Myanmar villagers scavenge for food as hunger bites

As the military fights an ethnic armed group, it has blockaded Rakhine State — throttling supplies to its estimated population of 2.5 million.
People watch a cockfight in Bulacan province, north of Manila. Cockfighting has long been a national obsession in the Philippines, tracing its lineage to well before the first Spanish arrived in the 1500s.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Aug 15, 2025

Online cockfighting thrives in Philippines despite ban and murders

Authorities estimate cockfight bettors are fueling an industry that generates millions of dollars in revenue each week.
The HMS Prince of Wales arrives at the Port of Darwin, Australia, in July during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2025.
EDITORIALS
Aug 15, 2025

Operation Highmast reinforces claims that ‘security is indivisible’

European governments recognize that developments in the Indo-Pacific have a profound impact on their national interests.
Lawmakers from both chambers of Japan's parliament who are members of a league of parliamentarians promoting Yasukuni Shrine visits walk inside the shrine in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN
Aug 15, 2025

Cabinet ministers Koizumi and Kato visit Yasukuni Shrine

The visits marked the sixth consecutive year a Cabinet minister has visited the war-related shrine on the anniversary.
The highly venomous lionfish with its long spotted fins can measure up to around 26 centimeters.
ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife
Aug 15, 2025

With waters at 32 C, Mediterranean tropicalization shifts into high gear

Encouraged by increasingly warm waters, hundreds of species native to the Red Sea have moved into the eastern Mediterranean, disrupting ecosystems.
The Japan Boxing Commission's safety protocols have been thrust into the spotlight following the deaths of Shigetoshi Kotari and Hiromasa Urakawa, who suffered fatal brain injuries while fighting on the same card on Aug. 2.
MORE SPORTS / Boxing
Aug 15, 2025

Recent deaths of Japanese boxers underline importance of emergency action plans

Such plans are crucial to minimize delays and increase a fighter’s chances of survival after sustaining a serious injury in the ring.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba lays a flower during the memorial service at the Nippon Budokan on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 15, 2025

As Japan marks 80 years since WWII surrender, Ishiba expresses remorse

The prime minister’s reflections about the war stood in contrast to those of his recent predecessors.
Louis Rees-Zammit participates in training camp with the Jaguars in Jacksonville, Florida, on July 24.
MORE SPORTS / Rugby
Aug 15, 2025

Wales' Louis Rees-Zammit returns to rugby after NFL dream ends

English Premiership side Bristol said Thursday that Rees-Zammit was joining with "immediate effect" ahead of the new league season.
Michael Phelps poses at Champions Park in Paris during the 2024 Paris Games.
MORE SPORTS / Football
Aug 15, 2025

Michael Phelps makes a splash with Ravens' swimming lessons

Phelps happily jumped into the pool this week with the Ravens, working on skills such as holding their breath underwater, kicking their feet and floating on their backs.

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