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CARTOONS / ZERO GRAVITY
Sep 5, 2020

Roger Dahl on rock paper scissors

Japan Times
CARTOONS / DAHL'S JAPAN
Sep 5, 2020

Roger Dahl on Shinzo Abe's legacy

Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Sep 5, 2020

Japan looks to AI as coronavirus challenges quality control mantra

A rethink of the factory floor has been prompted by COVID-19, leading to an increased use of robots in manufacturing.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 5, 2020

Images suggest North Korea may be preparing launch of submarine missile

Satellite imagery of a North Korean shipyard on Friday shows activity suggestive of preparations for a test of a medium-range submarine-launched ballistic missile, a U.S. think tank reported on Friday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 5, 2020

Boris Johnson’s party wonders if he’s losing his grip

After months of policy blunders and with the economy deep in recession, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson needed a new enforcer to help him rescue a leadership in trouble. So he called the future king.
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JAPAN
Sep 5, 2020

Tokyo reports 181 new coronavirus cases, up 45 from Friday

Tokyo reported 181 new coronavirus cases Saturday, up by about a third from a day earlier.
JAPAN
Sep 5, 2020

Suga signals his focus as PM would be on protecting jobs, but rules out sales tax cut

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Saturday the next prime minister must continue to protect companies and jobs, mainly through payouts and loans, to cushion the economic blow from the coronavirus pandemic.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 5, 2020

Nippon Ishin no Kai sees an ally in Suga in LDP leadership race

Close ties are likely to bode well for Osaka's efforts to ensure central government financing in next year's fiscal budget for the 2025 Expo.
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JAPAN
Sep 5, 2020

Tokyo's Toyosu fish market, the world's largest, taking outsized hit from pandemic

Businesses had hoped for more activity after the end of the state of emergency in late May, but big events have remained on hold and restaurants are struggling.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 5, 2020

Why Facebook’s blocking of new U.S. political ads may fall short

Political ads on Facebook are just one piece of content; political misinformation also flourishes in messages that people post and in discussions in private groups.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 5, 2020

Carlos Ghosn's accused escape plotters can be extradited to Japan, U.S. judge says

A U.S. judge on Friday ruled two Massachusetts men can be extradited to Japan to face charges that they helped smuggle former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn out of the country while he was awaiting trial on financial crimes.
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WORLD / Society / ANALYSIS
Sep 5, 2020

Surge of white nationalism in U.S. echoes historical pattern, scholars say

The first Black woman is on a major party presidential ticket, Americans of all races are showing their support for the Black Lives Matter movement and at the same time white nationalists are ramping up recruiting efforts and public activism.
The Cabinet Office is looking to survey private-sector initiatives aimed at preventing loneliness and isolation among seniors.
JAPAN / Society
Sep 23, 2025

Japan to study corporate efforts to prevent post-retirement loneliness

The government plans to collect and analyze how corporations support employees building relationships before retirement, then promote models that prove effective nationwide.
The candidates for the Liberal Democratic Party leadership race at a joint news conference on Tuesday
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 23, 2025

LDP candidates focus on reform as presidential vote approaches

Losing two national elections in the past year has made reform a top concern for the party.
Demonstrators protest at the port of Mutsu-Ogawara in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, in March 1997, as a British freighter arrives with processed nuclear waste, whose fissile elements can be 
fabricated into new nuclear mixed-oxide fuel.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 23, 2025

Could pacifist Japan ever arm itself with nuclear weapons?

It has always been a question of having the will to act and the belief that the U.S. nuclear deterrence commitment to Japan was beyond question.
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.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 23, 2025

Taiwan isn’t as susceptible to invasion as one would think

The island’s coastline is remarkably unsuited for amphibious operations and an invasion would demand a fleet comparable in size to that used by the Allies on D-Day.
Residents cross a flooded road leading to their houses on the outskirts of Dadu, Sindh province, Pakistan, on Sept. 15.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 23, 2025

Record floods threaten Pakistan's food security, factories and fiscal plans

Monsoon rains, amplified by dam releases from India, have submerged large swathes of Punjab and Sindh — the country's two most populous and economically vital provinces.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office on Aug. 22, where he showed off a photo from his meeting earlier that month with Russian President Vladimir Putin at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 23, 2025

Donald Trump and Russia's 'useful idiot'

Putin is employing two Soviet-era tactics: enlisting “useful idiots” in the cause and employing “salami tactics” to achieve his ends.
Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya makes a speech at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Monday.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 23, 2025

Japan's recognition of Palestine state is a matter of 'when,' Iwaya says

The foreign minister says Japan will continue to play a realistic and proactive role toward achieving a two-state solution for Palestine and Israel.
Protesters wave a Hong Kong flag and a sign during a demonstration against the city’s deteriorating freedoms outside the Chinese Embassy in London in July 2020.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 23, 2025

Britain must keep its promise to Hong Kongers

The U.K. has a moral obligation and an economic interest in safeguarding the path to citizenship for migrants from the territory it formerly ruled.
A U.S. Secret Service agent near a security checkpoint outside the United Nations headquarters in New York on Monday.
WORLD
Sep 23, 2025

Secret Service breaks up ‘imminent’ telecom threat in New York

Agents discovered more than 300 SIM card servers and 100,000 SIM cards at several locations within a 35-mile radius of New York City.
Han Hak-ja, the leader of the Unification Church, arrives at a court to attend a hearing to review her arrest warrant requested by special prosecutors in Seoul on Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 23, 2025

Japanese victims react to Unification Church head's arrest in South Korea

A lawyer group has urged Japan's parliament to set up an independent third-party panel to thoroughly investigate the Unification Church's ties with Japanese politicians.
A logistics center near Tianjin Port, in northern China. The country's economy is expected to grow 4.9% this year before slowing to 4.4% in 2026.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 23, 2025

Full impact of U.S. tariff shock yet to come as growth holds up, OECD says

In its latest Economic Outlook Interim Report, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said the full impact of U.S. tariff hikes was still unfolding.
A flowering canola crop grows in the Canadian prairies, with smoky air from forest fires to the north obscuring the morning sun, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change / FOCUS
Sep 23, 2025

The unexpected upside of Canada's wildfires 

Canada is the world's largest producer of canola, growing 21 million acres in a band along the country's vast northern forests.
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech to the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 24, 2025

'You're going to hell': Trump attacks U.N. and Europe in scathing speech

U.S. President Donald Trump warned that migration is sending Western nations "to hell" and dismissed climate change as a "con job" in wide-ranging speech.
Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks as he meets with U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines during the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 24, 2025

Trump says Ukraine can win back all territory, in sudden shift

The suggestion that Kyiv could win marks an extraordinary shift after months of saying Ukraine would likely have to cede land to its larger neighbor.
A United Nations rights office report states that Russia "has subjected Ukrainian civilian detainees to consistent patterns of serious violations" of international law since its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 24, 2025

U.N. slams 'systematic' Russian torture of Ukraine civilians

U.N. investigators interviewed 216 civilians released from detention in the occupied territories, and 92% "gave consistent and detailed accounts" of torture or ill-treatment.

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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