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JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Apr 4, 2020

Navigating the murky waters of social media in a pandemic

The frequent occurrence of disasters in Japan has ensured that netizens are constantly on the lookout for online hoaxes. Following any large earthquake or typhoon, social media is typically flooded with all kinds of misleading posts and doctored images. Some are posted in a deliberate attempt to stoke...
JAPAN
Apr 4, 2020

Japanese officials say Tokyo is at risk of an 'overshoot,' but what exactly does that mean?

Health ministry officials are using the term to refer to an explosive spike in coronavirus infections.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Apr 4, 2020

Who suffers the most from the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics?

Media outlets have long been trying to figure out what cancellation or postponement of the games would mean to Japan economically. They now have a much better idea.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Apr 4, 2020

In Tokyo, self-isolation doesn’t mean you can’t eat well

Self-isolating doesn't have to mean you can't eat well. It also doesn't mean you can't eat food prepared by your favorite restaurants. In fact, if we want to see those restaurants back in action once the worst is over, it is essential that we keep up our patronage, to carry them through this crunch time.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Apr 4, 2020

‘What is Japanese Cinema?’ review: A deft and engaging history of Japanese film

This book is healthily nonjudgmental concerning which films are “good” and which are not. Instead it steps back — far back — to gaze carefully at and analyze the bigger picture: the role that cinema has played in reflecting and altering Japanese consciousness and Japanese reality over the span of a century.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Food Sustainability in Japan
Apr 4, 2020

Breaking ground: Young farmers embrace urban agriculture in Tokyo

Kei Kawana’s kingdom is Neighbor’s Farm, a 2,000-square-meter plot overlooked by the Tama Monorail, which regularly zips by overhead. This March, she celebrated her first year of agricultural activity, the culmination of many years of patient work, planning and wading through bureaucracy.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / Kateigaho International Japan Edition
Apr 4, 2020

Creative women find harmony in Hayama: A haven between hills and ocean

Hayama, a coastal town on the northwest corner of the Miura Peninsula in Kanagawa Prefecture, is a place that draws people to a more old-fashioned, natural way of life, including poet and Japanese culture expert Chieko Hirota.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 4, 2020

How to design a lockdown

Governments must consider the psychological impact of COVID-19 containment measures.
Japan Times
CULTURE / CULTURE SMASH
Apr 4, 2020

Anime cons ‘will never be the same’ after the coronavirus

The spread of COVID-19 has caused many large-scale events to be cancelled, including a lot of anime fan conventions. The question now is, will these events survive to cosplay another day?
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Apr 4, 2020

Japan Times 1945: U.S. forces launch Okinawa invasion

The enemy forces landed in an area extending from the neighborhood of Kitadani to the vicinity of Cape Zampa in the southwestern part of the main island of Okinawa at about 10 a.m. on April 1 and are now continuously reinforcing their troops.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Apr 4, 2020

Defining masculinity in a brave new world of despair

Dad works in a bank. “For a man, work is everything” — that’s his motto. It was his father’s before him. Unquestioned and undoubted, it entered his bloodstream.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Food Sustainability in Japan
Apr 4, 2020

Bio Labo House: Miica Fran’s experimental zero-waste kitchen

Food creator Miica Fran is on a mission to save the planet through her “special healing power” of salvaging and savoring vegetables.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Apr 4, 2020

The eternal search for a pack of face masks

Middle-aged man (speaking Japanese): Masuku arimasuka? (Do you have any face masks?)
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Apr 4, 2020

C.W. Nicol, a committed environmentalist with deep humanity

Author and environmentalist C.W. Nicol died on Friday after being diagnosed with cancer in 2016. As a long-standing contributor to The Japan Times, we asked his equally long-standing editor, Andrew Kershaw, to write a few words in memory of the award-winning conservationist
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 4, 2020

Not made in China is global tech's next big trend

Three years ago, manufacturing gadgets in China was a given. That’s changed fundamentally in the era of trade wars and coronavirus.
Japan Times
CARTOONS / DAHL'S JAPAN
Apr 4, 2020

Hachiko Distancing

COMMENTARY / World
Apr 4, 2020

A vision of post-pandemic New York

Once this is over, the city will be younger, cheaper, poorer and segregated in a new way.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 4, 2020

How contagious are asymptomatic carriers?

Researchers are still trying to understand why COVID-19 is deadly for some and invisible in others.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 4, 2020

Americans warned to leave Japan or risk long stay as virus cases surge

The U.S. Embassy in Tokyo issued a warning to American citizens Friday that said those with plans to return should do so now or risk being stuck here for an "indefinite period."
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 4, 2020

Modi’s call to switch off lights en masse to prompt blackouts in India

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for Indians to switch off their lights Sunday evening for nine minutes and instead use candles to "challenge the darkness” of the coronavirus outbreak will mean blackouts for some citizens as utilities take steps to safeguard their equipment.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 4, 2020

Coronavirus upends global food supply chains in latest economic shock

In the fertile Satara district in western India, farmers are putting their cattle on an unorthodox diet: Some feed iceberg lettuce to buffalo. Others feed strawberries to cows.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 4, 2020

IMF sees coronavirus-induced global downturn 'way worse' than financial crisis

Speaking at a rare joint news conference with the leader of the WHO, the IMF managing director called on advanced economies to step up their efforts to help emerging markets and developing countries.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Apr 4, 2020

Former French sports minister says staging Tour de France as planned would be 'crime against humanity'

Allowing the Tour de France to go ahead as scheduled despite the COVID-19 pandemic would be "madness" and a "crime against humanity," former French sports minister David Douillet said.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Apr 4, 2020

NPB has to be flexible in approach to opening day

Former NPB Commissioner Ryozo Kato used to joke that Japanese baseball was similar to a large boat in the middle of the ocean.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 4, 2020

Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro isolated and weakened by coronavirus denial

At a tense Cabinet meeting on Saturday in the Brazilian president's official residence, Jair Bolsonaro found himself isolated.

Longform

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