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Japan Times
CARTOONS / DAHL'S JAPAN
Oct 10, 2020

Roger Dahl on Suga's snap election concerns

Japan Times
CARTOONS / ZERO GRAVITY
Oct 10, 2020

Roger Dahl on a dog day afternoon

Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 10, 2020

Nearly one-third of COVID-19 patients in study had altered mental state

Some who have had the virus have found themselves unable to manage daily activities like cooking or paying bills.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 10, 2020

A coronavirus vaccine is coming, so who gets it first?

While many people will want to be protected against COVID-19, nations will need to decide who needs prioritizing for vaccination.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 10, 2020

Japan may need to consider compiling third extra budget, senior LDP lawmaker says

Japan may need to consider compiling another extra budget to help its economy if the current reserve fund is not enough to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, a senior Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 10, 2020

North Korea holds rare predawn military parade, Seoul says

North Korea held a military parade early Saturday to mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of its ruling Workers' Party in a rare predawn event, South Korea's military said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 10, 2020

As virus surges in Europe, resistance to new restrictions also grows

Still reeling from the toll of nationwide lockdowns, government officials are finding that the public might not be so compliant the second time around.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 10, 2020

Savings rate in Japan hits 20-year high as cash handouts get banked

Japan’s savings rate rose to its highest level in two decades, as anxiety over the pandemic and the economic outlook appeared to encourage people to pocket cash handouts from the government instead of spending them.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 10, 2020

Disney says it had to work with Chinese government on ‘Mulan’

Walt Disney Co. defended its cooperation with government entities accused of human-rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region, saying the company had to work with the government in order to make films there.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 10, 2020

China's Xi says intends to deepen relations with North Korea

In a congratulatory message to Kim Jong Un for the founding anniversary of North Korea's ruling party, Chinese President Xi Jinping said he intends to deepen relations with Pyongyang, North Korean state media reported Saturday.
“Sympathy Tower Tokyo” is centered around Sara Machina, a star architect designing a new experimental prison in central Tokyo.
CULTURE / Books
Aug 30, 2025

ChatGPT controversy is the least interesting part of 'Sympathy Tower Tokyo'

In Rie Qudan’s futuristic Tokyo, AI and architects take on the prison system.
Phillies designated hitter Kyle Schwarber hits a two-run home run against the Braves during the fourth inning in Philadelphia on Thursday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 29, 2025

Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber blasts 4 home runs in win over Braves

Schwarber is the 21st player in big league history to hit four home runs in a game.
A group of Ground Self-Defense Force service members discuss drone operations and capabilities at a joint static display during the Orient Shield 24 opening ceremony at the Yausubetsu Training Area in Hokkaido in July last year.
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2025

Japan looks to build drone ‘shield’ in record defense budget request

The Defense Ministry is seeking a budget exceeding ¥8.8 trillion that includes a ¥128.7 billion plan to build a multilayered coastal defense system.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba addresses a ministerial meeting on nuclear power policy held at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2025

Japan to give aid to more municipalities near nuclear plants

The move will make around 150 municipalities in 22 prefectures eligible for the aid.
The number of children on nursery waiting lists decreased to a record low as of April 1, reflecting a decrease in births.
JAPAN / Society
Aug 29, 2025

Kids on nursery waiting lists down for eighth year amid falling births

As of April this year, there were 2,254 children on waiting lists, down from a high of 26,081 in 2017.
Japan's World War II surrender documents went on display at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration in Washington on Thursday.
JAPAN / History
Aug 29, 2025

Instrument of Japan's World War II surrender on display in U.S.

It will be on display until Oct. 1 as part of a special exhibition to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the war.
Japan on Friday announced that it will deploy for the first time its domestically made, extended-range Type-12 surface-to-ship missiles in March next year.
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2025

With eye on China, Japan to deploy longer-range missiles for first time

Japan will send its extended-range Type-12 missiles to a GSDF base in Kumamoto Prefecture from next March and to another base in Shizuoka Prefecture in fiscal 2027.
The Lhasa River, a major tributary of the Yarlung Zangbo River, flows near the southern part of the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. China’s new megadam project could become a geopolitical and ecological time bomb. Getty Images
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 29, 2025

The global perils of China’s new ‘superdam’ project

One might have expected the revelation of China's huge dam project to set off alarm bells worldwide. Instead, the reaction has been muted.
China’s demographic spiral is now resembling that of ancient Rome, where changing social norms and drastic population-control measures led to falling birth rates and irreversible decline.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 9, 2025

What ancient Rome can teach China about demographic collapse

China’s situation, however, is particularly perilous. Unless it is reversed, a demographic decline of this magnitude could recall the collapse of the Roman Empire.
Security camera footage shows a person who appears to be Masashi Tanimoto on Aug. 20, the day when a woman was murdered in Kobe.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 29, 2025

Kobe murder suspect targeted victim because she was his ‘type’

Masashi Tanimoto, 35, had also allegedly followed a different woman home prior to last week’s incident.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba meet in Tokyo on Aug. 23, before Lee traveled to Washington for a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump.
EDITORIALS
Aug 29, 2025

Lee Jae Myung had a very good week

Lee said that he had read the “Art of the Deal” — Trump’s ghost-written magnum opus — before their meeting and reportedly got advice on handling the U.S. leader from Ishiba.
A McDonald’s Japan Pokemon card promotion triggered scalper frenzy, upset children and forced the company to rethink its Happy Set campaigns.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 28, 2025

McDonald’s 'Pokemon' frenzy shows the collecting boom’s dark side

After a "Pokemon" trading card promotion went disastrously wrong, it’s been rebuked by the Consumer Affairs Agency and is rethinking future campaigns.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba during a joint news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2025

At Tokyo summit, India and Japan outline path forward for the coming decade

The leaders of the two countries outlined multiple areas of cooperation, including tech, the environment and health.
Hawaii kicker Kansei Matsuzawa celebrates after making the game-winning field goal against Stanford in Honolulu on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS / Football
Aug 29, 2025

Hawaii kicker Kansei Matsuzawa walks unique path in college football

The Chiba native picked up the sport just over five years ago as a 20-year-old, learning to kick through YouTube.
Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Hiroshi Moriyama speaks to reporters on Friday at party headquarters.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Aug 29, 2025

Pressure builds on LDP's Moriyama to take the fall for election drubbing

It is customary in Japan for a party's secretary-general to quit after a poor showing at the polls.
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.
Woman in Japan arrested for keeping daughter's body in freezer for 20 years
Police have arrested a 75-year-old woman after she allegedly confessed to keeping her adult daughter's body in a freezer for 20 years.
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.
India aims to challenge global shipbuilding giants
Cargo ships are docked in Navi Mumbai, India, in February. Only 5% of India's exports and imports are carried on Indian-flagged ships.
Japan might be spared Trump's 100% tariffs on pharmaceuticals
U.S. President Donald Trump is rolling out a number of new tariffs on Oct. 1.
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
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